Changes to pretext.scroll.pub

+ button Pretext (slow)

+ h2

+ span Document

+ button Run Full Pretext

+ id runFull

+ // Mock dictionary for immediate feedback

+ async function getWordDefinitions(word, dictionary, seenWords = new Set()) {

+ const subDefinitions = await getWordDefinitions(

+ defWord,

+ dictionary,

+ seenWords,

+ );

+ // Function to load dictionary from JSON file

+ async function loadDictionary() {

+ try {

+ const response = await fetch("dictionary.json");

+ if (!response.ok) {

+ console.warn("Failed to load dictionary.json.");

+ return null;

+ }

+ const dictionary = await response.json();

+ console.log("Dictionary loaded successfully from file.");

+ return dictionary;

+ } catch (error) {

+ console.warn("Error loading dictionary.json:", error);

+ return null;

+ }

+ }

+

+ async function getPretext(text, dictionary) {

+ const wordDefinitions = await getWordDefinitions(

+ normalizedWord,

+ dictionary,

+ );

+ const runFullButton = document.getElementById("runFull");

+ const loadingIndicator = document.createElement("div");

+

+ // Set up loading indicator

+ loadingIndicator.id = "loadingIndicator";

+ loadingIndicator.style.display = "none";

+ loadingIndicator.innerHTML = `

+

+

+ `;

+ document.body.appendChild(loadingIndicator);

+

+ // For immediate feedback while typing

+ const pretext = await getPretext(text, dummyDictionary);

+ // For full analysis with complete dictionary

+ async function runFullAnalysis() {

+ const text = textarea.value;

+

+ // Show loading indicator

+ loadingIndicator.style.display = "block";

+

+ try {

+ // Load dictionary (only when needed)

+ const fullDictionary = await loadDictionary();

+

+ // Use full dictionary if loaded, otherwise fallback to dummy

+ const dictionaryToUse = fullDictionary || dummyDictionary;

+

+ // Process with the selected dictionary

+ const pretext = await getPretext(text, dictionaryToUse);

+ pretextOutput.textContent = pretext;

+ parserCount.textContent = pretext.split("\n").length - 1;

+

+ // Show a message if we had to fall back

+ if (!fullDictionary) {

+ console.warn(

+ "Full dictionary could not be loaded. Using dummy dictionary instead.",

+ );

+ alert(

+ "Could not load the full dictionary. Results shown are using the limited dictionary.",

+ );

+ }

+ } catch (error) {

+ console.error("Error in full analysis:", error);

+ alert("An error occurred during processing. Please try again.");

+ } finally {

+ // Hide loading indicator

+ loadingIndicator.style.display = "none";

+ }

+ }

+

+ // Event listeners

+ runFullButton.addEventListener("click", runFullAnalysis);

+

+ // Initial analysis with dummy dictionary

+ // Mock dictionary for demonstration and fallback

+ const dummyDictionary = {

+ // Add more entries as needed

+ // Dictionary to be used (will be loaded from file or fallback to dummy)

+ let dictionary = dummyDictionary;

+ // Function to load dictionary from JSON file

+ "Failed to load dictionary.json. Using dummy dictionary instead.",

+ return false;

+ dictionary = await response.json();

+ console.log("Dictionary loaded successfully from file.");

+ return true;

+ console.warn("Error loading dictionary.json:", error);

+ console.warn("Using dummy dictionary instead.");

+ return false;

+ // Try to load dictionary from file

+ await loadDictionary();

+ // Mock dictionary for testing when file is unavailable

+ const mockDictionary = {

+ // Dictionary to be used (will be loaded from file or fallback to mock)

+ let dictionary = mockDictionary;

+

+ // Load dictionary from file

+ async function loadDictionary() {

+ try {

+ const response = await fetch("dictionary.json");

+ if (!response.ok) {

+ console.warn(

+ "Could not load dictionary.json, falling back to mock dictionary",

+ );

+ return mockDictionary;

+ }

+ const data = await response.json();

+ console.log("Dictionary loaded successfully");

+ return data;

+ } catch (error) {

+ console.error("Error loading dictionary:", error);

+ console.warn("Falling back to mock dictionary");

+ return mockDictionary;

+ }

+ }

+

+ // Removed: pretext.add(word);

+ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", async () => {

+ const dictionaryStatus =

+ document.getElementById("dictionaryStatus") ||

+ document.createElement("div"); // Create element if it doesn't exist

+

+ if (!document.getElementById("dictionaryStatus")) {

+ dictionaryStatus.id = "dictionaryStatus";

+ document.body.insertBefore(dictionaryStatus, pretextOutput);

+ }

+

+ // Load dictionary when page loads

+ try {

+ dictionary = await loadDictionary();

+ const dictionarySize = Object.keys(dictionary).length;

+ dictionaryStatus.textContent = `Dictionary loaded with ${dictionarySize} words`;

+ dictionaryStatus.style.color = "green";

+ } catch (error) {

+ dictionaryStatus.textContent =

+ "Using mock dictionary (dictionary.json not found)";

+ dictionaryStatus.style.color = "orange";

+ }

+

+ // Add a button to reload the dictionary

+ const reloadButton = document.createElement("button");

+ reloadButton.textContent = "Reload Dictionary";

+ reloadButton.addEventListener("click", async () => {

+ dictionaryStatus.textContent = "Loading dictionary...";

+ dictionaryStatus.style.color = "blue";

+ try {

+ dictionary = await loadDictionary();

+ const dictionarySize = Object.keys(dictionary).length;

+ dictionaryStatus.textContent = `Dictionary reloaded with ${dictionarySize} words`;

+ dictionaryStatus.style.color = "green";

+ updateAnalysis(); // Update the analysis with new dictionary

+ } catch (error) {

+ dictionaryStatus.textContent = "Error reloading dictionary";

+ dictionaryStatus.style.color = "red";

+ }

+ });

+ document.body.insertBefore(reloadButton, pretextOutput);

+ // pretext.add(word);

+ pretext.add(word);

+ const processedDefinitions = new Set(); // Track which words we've already processed

+ // Only process definitions if we haven't already processed this word

+ const normalizedWord = word

+ .toLowerCase()

+ .trim()

+ .replace(/[^a-z]/g, "");

+ if (!processedDefinitions.has(normalizedWord)) {

+ // Get definitions for this word

+ const wordDefinitions = await getWordDefinitions(normalizedWord);

+

+ // Add all definitions to processed set to avoid duplication

+ wordDefinitions.forEach((def) => {

+ const definedWord = def.split(" ")[0];

+ processedDefinitions.add(definedWord);

+ pretext.add(def);

+ });

+ }

+ {"anopheles":"A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.","uniclinal":"See Nonoclinal.","sarong":"A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India)","turcoman":"1. A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea. 2. A Turcoman carpet. Turcoman carpet or rug, a kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.","corrugator":"A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.","self-murder":"Suicide.","anacardium":"A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.","knurly":"Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.","pock":"A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.","neuroma":"A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.","hawser":"A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns. Note: Three hawsers twisted together make a cable; but it nautical usage the distinction between cable and hawser is often one of size rather than of manufacture. Hawser iron, a calking iron.","jolty":"That jolts; as, a jolty coach. [Colloq.]","proterandry":"The condition of being proterandrous.","leucic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.","petrescence":"The process of changing into stone; petrification.","bathos":"A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.","oblectation":"The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight. [R.] Feltham.","overtread":"To tread over or upon.","taeniada":"Same as Tænioidea.","fun":"Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. \"Oddity, frolic, and fun.\" Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.","mixer":"One who, or that which, mixes.","blazer":"One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. \"Blazers of crime.\" Spenser.","elegist":"A write of elegies. T. Warton.","conspirator":"One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31.","logicality":"Logicalness.","quinze":"A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.","wobble":"See Wabble.","dissimulate":"Feigning; simulating; pretending. [Obs.] Henryson.\n\nTo dissemble; to feign; to pretend.","hempen":"1. Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord. 2. Like hemp. \"Beat into a hempen state.\" Cook.","yahwe":"A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.","solisequious":"Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","saline":"1. Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic. 2. Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.\n\nA salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.\n\n1. (Chem.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. [Written also salin.] 2. (Med. Chem.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.","grumose":"Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.","stalagmite":"A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.","sex-":"A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.","tympanist":"One who beats a drum. [R.]","faquir":"See Fakir.","old-fashioned":"Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. \"Old-fashioned men of wit.\" Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.","rheumides":"The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.","inquisitorial":"1. Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. \"Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse.\" F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume. 2. Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. \"Inquisitorial robes.\" C. Buchanan.","pinacate bug":"Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.","athletism":"The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.","pyronomics":"The science of heat.","vague":"1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] \"To set upon the vague villains.\" Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats. 2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne. 3. Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. Some legend strange and value. Longfellow. Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac. Syn. -- Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.\n\nAn indefinite expanse. [R.] The gray vague of unsympathizing sea. Lowell.\n\nTo wander; to roam; to stray. [Obs.] \"[The soul] doth vague and wander.\" Holland.\n\nA wandering; a vagary. [Obs.] Holinshed.","advocacy":"The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.","manhead":"Manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.","birdcage":"A cage for confining birds.","reflectible":"Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.","enfect":"Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.","pyrothonide":"A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.","water feather-foil":"The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.","pastern":"1. The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse. Note: The upper bone, or phalanx, of the foot is called the great pastern bone; the second, the small pastern bone; and the third, in the hoof, the coffin bone. Pastern joint, the joint in the hoof of the horse, and allied animals, between the great and small pastern bones. 2. A shackle for horses while pasturing. Knight. 3. A patten. [Obs.] Dryden.","lenient":"1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- some \"Lenient of grief.\" Milton. Of relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic. Arbuthnot. Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. Pope. 2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.\n\nA lenitive; an emollient.","massage":"A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.","owler":"One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.","selenic":"Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.","outnoise":"To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. [R.] Fuller.","signification":"1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. A signification of being pleased. Landor. All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. 2. That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.","hover":"A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.\n\n1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight. Dryden. 2. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely. Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast. Milton. Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. Shak.","sopite":"To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet. [Obs.] The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies. Fuller.","underclothing":"Same as Underclothes.","mendicate":"To beg. [R.] Johnson.","overseer":"One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.","self-torture":"The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.","sunniness":"The quality or state of being sunny.","inalienably":"In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.","relaxative":"Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. A relaxant. B. Jonson.","cheap-jack":"A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.","stabler":"A stable keeper. De Foe.","iridoline":"A nitrogenous base C10H9N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine.","advertisement":"1. The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet. 2. Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak. 3. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.","eloper":"One who elopes.","revictual":"To victual again.","diphyodont":"Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont. -- n. An animal having two successive sets of teeth.","football":"An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller. 2. The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals. Arbuthnot.","hiems":"Winter. Shak.","suspection":"Suspicion. [Obs.]","manequin":"An artist's model of wood or other material.","plowboy":"A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.","mastiff":"A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries. Mastiff bat (Zoöl.) , any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles that of a mastiff.","displume":"To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.","post-disseizin":"A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.","alloxanate":"A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.","cat-rigged":"Rigged like a catboat.","deduce":"1. To lead forth. [A Latinism] He should hither deduce a colony. Selden. 2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.","alcoholometric":"Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.","antapoplectic":"Good against apoplexy. -- n. A medicine used against apoplexy.","imprudent":"Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru\"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn. -- Indiscreet; injudicious; incautious; ill-advised; unwise; heedless; careless; rash; negligent.","scaliola":"Same as Scagliola.","vinometer":"An instrument for determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.","forbearant":"Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.","forestay":"A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.","storehouse":"1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker. 2. A mass or quality laid up. [Obs.] Spenser.","baccarat":"A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.","slipperwort":"See Calceolaria.","hermit":"1. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot. Addison. 2. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. [Obs.] \"We rest your hermits.\" Shak. Hermit crab (Zoöl.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit thrush (Zoöl.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.","consequence":"1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton. 2. (Logic) A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. Coleridge. 4. Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction. It is a matter of small consequence. Shak. A sense of your own worth and consequence. Cowper. In consequence, hence; for this cause. -- In consequence of, by reason of; as the effect of. Syn. -- Effect; result; end. See Effect.","naiad":"1. (Myth.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain. 2. (Zoöl.) Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel. 3. (Zoöl) One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph. 4. (Bot.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceæ, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.","questorship":"The office, or the term of office, of a questor.","shallow-brained":"Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.","sahlite":"See Salite.","mistakingly":"Erroneously.","nitrate":"A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.","concent":"1. Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton. 2. Consistency; accordance. [Obs.] In concent to his own principles. Atterbury.","howsoever":"1. In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however. I am glad he's come, howsoever he comes. Shak. 2. Although; though; however. [Obs.] Shak.","temporizingly":"In a temporizing or yielding manner.","traditive":"Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [R.] Jer. Taylor. Suppose we on things traditive divide. Dryden.","diastolic":"Of or pertaining to diastole.","traditionally":"In a traditional manner.","chromophane":"A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.","electrolytical":"Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action. -- E*lec`tro*lyt\"ic*al*ly, adv.","tyfoon":"See Typhoon.","ambient":"Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. \"Ambient air.\" Milton. \"Ambient clouds.\" Pope.\n\nSomething that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.","disrealize":"To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.","bogus":"Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]\n\nA liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.","spinnerule":"One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.","defect":"1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies. 2. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay. Syn. -- Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See Fault.\n\nTo fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] \"Defected honor.\" Warner.\n\nTo injure; to damage. \"None can my life defect.\" [R.] Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).","enchorial":"Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.","solemnness":"The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship. [Written also solemness.]","trombone":"1. (Mus.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic. 2. (Zoöl.) The common European bittern.","brewer":"One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.","gummer":"A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.","fulmine":"To thunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.\n\nTo shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.","noctilucine":"Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.","copiousness":"The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.","entitative":"Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. Ellis. -- En\"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.","sunken":"Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.","fisetic":"Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.","boarder":"1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind. 2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten.","niobate":"Same as Columbate.","challengeable":"That may be challenged.","yelper":"An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The tattler. [Local, U. S.]","moonbeam":"A ray of light from the moon.","impleader":"One who prosecutes or sues another.","stelleridan":"A starfish, or brittle star.","zouave":"(a) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress. (b) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.","chatty":"Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu.\n\nA porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.","triens":"A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.","coarct":"1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] Ayliffe.","orthognathous":"Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to Ant: prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.","sometime":"1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. Did they not sometime cry \"All hail\" to me Shak. 2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak. 3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. \"Sometime he reckon shall.\" Chaucer.\n\nHaving been formerly; former; late; whilom. Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak. Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.","hederal":"Of or pertaining to ivy.","ginglymodi":"An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.","anthropical":"Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.","jurat":"1. A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England. Burrill. 2. (Law) The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed. Wharton. Bouvier.","pyrosulphuric":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also disulphuric acid) obtained by distillation of certain sulphates, as a colorless, thick, oily liquid, H2S2O7 resembling sulphuric acid. It is used in the solution of indigo, in the manufacture of alizarin, and in dehydration.","jihad":"A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief. [Their] courage in war . . . had not, like that of the Mohammedan dervishes of the Sudan, or of Mohammedans anywhere engaged in a jehad, a religious motive and the promise of future bliss behind it. James Bryce.","epitome":"1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. 2. A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden. Syn. -- Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.","charlatanism":"Charlatanry.","dispersed":"Scattered. -- Dis*pers\"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers\"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.","valorous":"Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val\"or*ous*ly, adv.","manichaeism":"The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichæans.","phyle":"A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.","assentator":"An obsequious; a flatterer. [R.]","exorcist":"1. One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism. Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists. Acts xix. 13. 2. A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.] Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. Shak.","grapplement":"A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.","sirvente":"A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.","orthographical":"1. Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic. 2. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to right lines or angles. Orthographic or Orthogonal, projection, that projection which is made by drawing lines, from every point to be projected, perpendicular to the plane of projection. Such a projection of the sphere represents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the line of sight.","epitrite":"A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable. Note: It is so called from being compounded of a spondee (which contains 4 times) with an iambus or a trochee (which contains 3 times). It is called 1st, 2d, 3d, or 4th epitrite according as the short syllable stands 1st, 2d, etc.","infra-red":"Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays less refrangible than the extreme red rays.","appropinquation":"A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.","unstring":"1. To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads. 2. To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow. 3. To relax the tension of; to loosen. \"His garland they unstring.\" Dryden. Used also figuratively; as, his nerves were unstrung by fear.","capsule":"1. (Bot.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. 2. (Chem.) (a) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. (b) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain. 3. (Med.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed. 4. (Anat.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ. 5. A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle, 6. A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. Atrabiliary capsule. See under Atrabiliary. -- Glisson's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.","minimus":"1. A being of the smallest size. [Obs.] Shak. 2. (Anat.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.","immusical":"Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.","trashiness":"The quality or state of being trashy.","angust":"Narrow; strait. [Obs.]","xenotime":"A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.","exportable":"Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.","train dispatcher":"An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.","stolid":"Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.","gadding":"Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.","ketone":"One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor. Note: The ketones are named by adding the suffix-one to the stems of the organic acids from which they are respectively derived; thus, acetic acid gives acetone; butyric acid, butyrone, etc.","monopathy":"Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path\"ic, a.","puberulent":"Very minutely downy.","instableness":"Instability; unstableness.","equivalue":"To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing. W. Taylor.","millefiore glass":"Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.","abstractedness":"The state of being abstracted; abstract character.","zylonite":"Celluloid.","benevolence":"1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity. Syn. -- Benevolence, Beneficence, Munificence. Benevolence marks a disposition made up of a choice and desire for the happiness of others. Beneficence marks the working of this disposition in dispensing good on a somewhat broad scale. Munificence shows the same disposition, but acting on a still broader scale, in conferring gifts and favors. These are not necessarily confined to objects of immediate utility. One may show his munificence in presents of pictures or jewelry, but this would not be beneficence. Benevolence of heart; beneficence of life; munificence in the encouragement of letters.","copyist":"A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.","fierasfer":"A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.","fog":"(a) A second growth of grass; aftergrass. (b) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell. Note: Sometimes called, in New England, old tore. In Scotland, fog is a general name for moss.\n\n(Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.\n\nTo practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. [Obs.] Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee Dryden.\n\n1. Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud. 2. A state of mental confusion. Fog alarm, Fog bell, Fog horn, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather. -- Fog bank, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. -- Fog ring, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.\n\nTo envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.\n\nTo show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.","mistrow":"To think wrongly. [Obs.]","hosteler":"1. The keeper of a hostel or inn. 2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.","gorcock":"The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse. [Prov. Eng.]","hydraulic":"Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock. Hydraulic accumulator, an accumulator for hydraulic machinery of any kind. See Accumulator, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a cataract. See Cataract, 3. -- Hydraulic cement, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water. -- Hydraulic elevator, a lift operated by the weight or pressure of water. -- Hydraulic jack. See under Jack. -- Hydraulic lime, quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing under water, etc. -- Hydraulic limestone, a limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic mining, a system of mining in which the force of a jet of water is used to wash down a bank of gold-bearing gravel or earth. [Pacific Coast] -- Hydraulic press, a hydrostatic press. See under Hydrostatic. -- Hydraulic propeller, a device for propelling ships by means of a stream of water ejected under water rearward from the ship. -- Hydraulic ram, a machine for raising water by means of the energy of the moving water of which a portion is to be raised. When the rush of water through the main pipe d shuts the valve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weight allows another rush through the main pipe, and so on alternately. -- Hydraulic valve. (Mach.) (a) A valve for regulating the distribution of water in the cylinders of hydraulic elevators, cranes, etc. (b) (Gas Works) An inverted cup with a partition dipping into water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.","holorhinal":"Having the nasal bones contiguous.","apothegmatical":"Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.","drasty":"Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] \"Drasty ryming.\" Chaucer.","-hood":"A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.","unpaganize":"To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. [R.] Cudworth.","humective":"Tending to moisten. [Obs.]","prelector":"A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.","revocability":"The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.","bibitory":"Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.","fellowship":"1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy. 3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. Shak. Fellowship in pain divides not smart. Milton. Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson. 4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. Chaucer. With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels. Spenser. 5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university. 6. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.\n\n(Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.\n\ncompanionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.","futurism":"A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).","nucule":"Same as Nutlet.","pityriasis":"A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles. Pityriasis versicolor Etym: [NL.] (Med.), a parasitic disease of the skin, characterized by the development of reddish or brownish patches.","jenkins":"name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] G. W. Curtis.","reciprocornous":"Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. [R.] Ash.","paranymph":"1. (Gr. Antiq.) (a) A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton. (b) The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom. 2. Hence: An ally; a supporter or abettor. Jer. Taylor.","subastral":"Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.","surrogation":"The act of substituting one person in the place of another. [R.] Killingbeck.","alvine":"Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.","desirably":"In a desirable manner.","evangelize":"To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations. Milton.\n\nTo preach the gospel.","bewail":"To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.\n\nTo express grief; to lament. Shak.","monovalent":"Having a valence of one; univalent. See Univalent.","felly":", adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.\n\nThe exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also felloe.] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. Shak.","podge":"1. A puddle; a plash. Skinner. 2. Porridge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","mustahfiz":"See Army organization, above.","inexorably":"In an inexorable manner; inflexibly. \"Inexorably firm.\" Thomson.","reduit":"A central or retired work within any other work.","skua":"Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.","misproud":"Viciously proud. [Obs.] Shak.","dey":"A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nThe governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.","civil service commission":"In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).","spermatooen":"A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to\"al, a. Owen.","destiny":"1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.","exposedness":"The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.","superannuate":"1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.\n\nTo last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants. [Obs.] Bacon.","neuraxis":"See Axis cylinder, under Axis.","stag-horned":"Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.","epidermic":"Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine (Med.), the application of medicine to the skin by friction.","aromatize":"To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.","rompingly":"In a romping manner.","kickable":"Capable or deserving of being kicked. \"A kickable boy.\" G. Eliot.","outcant":"To surpass in canting. Pope.","rifling":"(a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. (b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.","intendent":"See Intendant, n. [Obs.]","cell":"1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay. 2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. \"Cells or dependent priories.\" Milman. 3. Any small cavity, or hollow place. 4. (Arch.) (a) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. (b) Same as Cella. 5. (Elec.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. 6. (Biol.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. Note: All cells have their origin in the primary cell from which the organism was developed. In the lowest animal and vegetable forms, one single cell constitutes the complete individual, such being called unicelluter orgamisms. A typical cell is composed of a semifluid mass of protoplasm, more or less granular, generally containing in its center a nucleus which in turn frequently contains one or more nucleoli, the whole being surrounded by a thin membrane, the cell wall. In some cells, as in those of blood, in the amoeba, and in embryonic cells (both vegetable and animal), there is no restricting cell wall, while in some of the unicelluliar organisms the nucleus is wholly wanting. See Illust. of Bipolar. Air cell. See Air cell. -- Cell development (called also cell genesis, cell formation, and cytogenesis), the multiplication, of cells by a process of reproduction under the following common forms; segmentation or fission, gemmation or budding, karyokinesis, and endogenous multiplication. See Segmentation, Gemmation, etc. -- Cell theory. (Biol.) See Cellular theory, under Cellular.\n\nTo place or inclosed in a cell. \"Celled under ground.\" [R.] Warner.","inadequate":"Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. Dryden. -- In*ad\"e*quate*ly, adv. -- In*ad\"e*quate*ness, n.","cloyless":"That does not cloy. Shak.","store":"1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number. The ships are fraught with store of victuals. Bacon. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. Milton. 2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine. 3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies] 4. pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. \"I have better news in store for thee.\" Shak. -- Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] -- To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. -- To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance. Syn. -- Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. -- Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States. In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed. Milton.\n\nAccumulated; hoarded. Bacon.\n\n1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away. Dora stored what little she could save. Tennyson. 2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. Her mind with thousand virtues stored. Prior. Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. Denham. Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale. 3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.","gentisin":"A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.","brainsickly":"In a brainsick manner.","galliot":"See Galiot.","bleareyedness":"The state of being blear-eyed.","circumflexion":"1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.","resuscitable":"Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.","indolence":"1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. 2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in \"diligence,\" what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word \"indolence\"! This is from \"in\" and \"doleo,\" not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench.","creatic":"Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]","exurgent":"Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]","sennet":"A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage. [Obs.]\n\nThe barracuda.","eggnog":"A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.","meiocene":"See Miocene.","effund":"To pour out. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","quadrivalent":"Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.","pyro-":"Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.","septuple":"Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.\n\nTo multiply by seven; to make sevenfold. Sir J. Herschel.","oylet":"1. See Eyelet. 2. (Arch.) Same as Oillet.","enhearten":"To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.","disobediency":"Disobedience.","huttoning":"Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.","canaliculated":"Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.","empale":"To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.\n\n1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale. 3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body. 4. (Her.) Same as Impale.","lecythis":"A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceæ, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.","retex":"To annual, as orders. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.","penholder":"A handle for a pen.","adrian":"Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.","clinoid":"Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.","inscriptive":"Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.","pistolade":"A pistol shot.","cynarrhodium":"A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.","subpellucid":"Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.","antheriferous":"(a) Producing anthers, as plants. (b) Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. Gray.","peripatetic":"1. Walking about; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. \"The true peripatetic school.\" Howell.\n\n1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.","sortable":"1. Capable of being sorted. 2. Suitable; befitting; proper. [Obs.] con.","rhabdophora":"An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.","beechy":"Of or relating to beeches.","strockle":"A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]","palmatifid":"Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.","antherozoid":"One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.","uncreatedness":"The quality or state of being uncreated.","waterlandian":"One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.","haematozoon":"A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.: (a) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc. (b) The trematode, Bilharzia hæmatobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.","scringe":"To cringe. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]","chirurgeonly":"Surgically. [Obs.] Shak.","outline":"1. (a) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. (b) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. (c) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading. Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures. Dryden. 2. Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech. But that larger grief . . . Is given in outline and no more. Tennyson. Syn. -- Sketch; draught; delineation. See Sketch.\n\n1. To draw the outline of. 2. Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.","reintegration":"A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.","occultation":"1. (Astron.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries. 2. Fig.: The state of being occult. The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation. Jeffrey. Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.","counter-couchant":"Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.","cacodylic":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl. Cacodylic acid, a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, (CH3)2AsO.OH, obtained by the oxidation of cacodyl, and having the properties of an exceedingly stable acid; -- also called alkargen.","gairish":"Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.","mestling":"A kind of brass. See Maslin. [Obs.]","gambol":"A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden.\n\nTo dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.","fenks":"The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.","controverse":"Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] \"Controversed causes.\" Hooker.","crumpy":"Brittle; crisp. Wright.","weasel":"Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons. Malacca weasel, the rasse. -- Weasel coot, a female or young male of the smew; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel. Called also weasel duck. -- Weasel lemur, a short-tailed lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus). It is reddish brown above, grayish brown below, with the throat white.","enthronize":"To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.","elliptical":"1. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends. The planets move in elliptic orbits. Cheyne. 2. Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase. Elliptic chuck. See under Chuck. -- Elliptic compasses, an instrument arranged for drawing ellipses. -- Elliptic function. (Math.) See Function. -- Elliptic integral. (Math.) See Integral. -- Elliptic polarization. See under Polarization.","rhamphotheca":"The horny covering of the bill of birds.","tibio-":"A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.","mysterial":"Mysterious. [Obs.]","corbiestep":"One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.","digamma":"A letter ( Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W.","pig-headed":"Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig\"-head`ed*ness, n.","parka":"An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.","variformed":"Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.","attendement":"Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.","pivot":"1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns. 2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch. 3. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise. 4. (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man. Pivot bridge, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis. -- Pivot gun, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. -- Pivot tooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.\n\nTo place on a pivot. Clarke.","speculative":"1. Given to speculation; contemplative. The mind of man being by nature speculative. Hooker. 2. Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. Cudworth. 3. Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious. [R.] Bacon. 4. Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise. The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business. A. Smith. -- Spec\"u*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Spec\"u*la*tive*ness, n.","synecdoche":"A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain.","introduction":"1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium. 4. A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.","mazdean":"Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.","liftable":"Such as can be lifted.","etherization":"(a) The administration of ether to produce insensibility. (b) The state of the system under the influence of ether.","cyathophylloid":"Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidæ.\n\nA fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidæ; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.","tetanomotor":"An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.","preface":"1. Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise. Shak. Heaven's high behest no preface needs. Milton. 2. (R. C. Ch.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.), a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons. Syn. -- Introduction; preliminary; preamble; proem; prelude; prologue.\n\nTo introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.\n\nTo make a preface. Jer. Taylor.","turbulent":"1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Dryden. 3. Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting. Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes. Milton. Syn. -- Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; riotous; seditious; insubordinate; refractory; unquiet.","paleology":"The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archæology .","nigh":"1. Not distant or remote in place or time; near. The loud tumult shows the battle nigh. Prior. 2. Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. \"Nigh kinsmen.\" Knolles. Ye ... are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii. 13. Syn. -- Near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring.\n\n1. In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near. He was sick, nigh unto death. Phil. ii. 27. He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned. Milton. 2. Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.\n\nTo draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. iii. 2).\n\nNear to; not remote or distant from. \"was not this nigh shore\" Shak.","beauxite":"A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.\n\nSee Bauxite.","disorganization":"1. The act of disorganizing; destruction of system. 2. The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott.","holloa":"Same as Hollo.","spirograph":"An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.","komenic":"Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid. [Written also comenic.]","ironbark tree":"The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.","oxygenizable":"Oxidizable.","annex":"1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. \"He annexed a codicil to a will.\" Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He annexed a province to his kingdom. Johnson. 3. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt. Syn. -- To add; append; affix; unite; coalesce. See Add.\n\nTo join; to be united. Tooke.\n\nSomething annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.","accompaniment":"That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass. P. Cyc.","megatherium":"An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.","stainer":"1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.","slum":"1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. Dickens. 2. pl. (Mining) Same as Slimes.","penetrable":"Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. And pierce his only penetrable part. Dryden. I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats. Shak. -- Pen\"e*tra*ble*ness, n. -- Pen\"e*tra*bly, adv.","kimmerian":"See Cimmerian.","horribleness":"The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.","supplementation":"The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley.","polybasic":"Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.","corival":"A rival; a corrival.\n\nTo rival; to pretend to equal. Shak.","establisher":"One who establishes.","gallipoli oil":"An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.","procuress":"A female procurer, or pander.","bunsen cell":"A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup. BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER Bun\"sen's bat\"ter*y, Bun\"sen's burn`er. See under Battery, and Burner.","white-ear":"The wheatear.","recite":"1. To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant. 2. To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage. 3. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor. 4. (Law) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5. Syn. -- To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count.\n\nTo repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.\n\nA recital. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.","explate":"To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.","acroterial":"Pertaining to an acroterium; as, ornaments. P. Cyc.","upsilon":"The 20th letter (U, u) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.","febrifugal":"Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.","lieutenantry":"See Lieutenancy. [Obs.]","submentum":"The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.","mumblenews":"A talebearer. [Obs.]","trusty":"1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his aid. Spenser. 3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] Shak.","orthotropal":"Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous. Note: This word has also been used (but improperly) to describe any embryo whose radicle points towards, or is next to, the hilum.","phonograph":"1. A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography. 2. (Physics) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.","abscess":"A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.","supposition":"1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved. 2. That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.","torpid":"1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray. 2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.","varicotomy":"Excision of a varicosity.","illusory":"Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.","devout":"1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God. Rogers. 2. Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture. Milton. 3. Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare. The devout, devoutly religious persons, those who are sincerely pious. Syn. -- Holy; pure; religious; prayerful; pious; earnest; reverent; solemn; sincere.\n\n1. A devotee. [Obs.] Sheldon. 2. A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. [Obs.] Milton.","underminer":"One who undermines.","baldachin":"1. A rich brocade; baudekin. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's. 3. A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]","beta rays":"Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).","arterialize":"To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.","caltrap":"1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle. 2. (Mil.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.","russification":"The act or process of being Russified.","compressive":"Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.","gone":"p. p. of Go.","maffler":"A stammerer. [Obs.]","lumber state":"Maine; -- a nickname.","telephote":"A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.","prothonotary":"1. A chief notary or clerk. \" My private prothonotary.\" Herrick. 2. Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill. 3. A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States. 4. (R. C. Ch.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications. 5. (Gr. Ch.) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople. Prothonotary warbler (Zoöl.), a small American warbler (Protonotaria citrea). The general color is golden yellow, the back is olivaceous, the rump and tail are ash-color, several outer tail feathers are partly white.","cassareep":"A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.","numerically":"In a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.","mooner":"One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.","bluish":"Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins. \"Bluish mists.\" Dryden. -- Blu\"ish*ly, adv. -- Blu\"ish*ness, n.","caranx":"A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.","cisatlantic":"On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.","consolidant":"Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.","salt-green":"Sea-green in color. Shak.","minimum":"The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.","broadwise":"Breadthwise. [Archaic]","construct":"1. To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics. Syn. -- To build; erect; form; compile; make; fabricate; originate; invent.\n\nFormed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. Construct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.","infantine":"Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.","carpale":"One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.","coiner":"1. One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay. 2. An inventor or maker, as of words. Camden.","photo-epinasty":"A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light. Encyc. Brit.","defatigation":"Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.","inconsequentness":"Inconsequence.","rorid":"Dewy; bedewed. [R.] T. Granger.","baboonery":"Baboonish behavior. Marryat.","diarrheal":"Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.","manis":"A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.","doliolum":"A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.","lightroom":"A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.","supercretaceous":"Same as Supracretaceous.","bronzing":"1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson. 2. A material for bronzing.","convolvulus":"A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.","detachable":"That can be detached.","semolina":"The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.","heroic":"1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor. 2. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises. 3. (Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure. Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. -- Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry. -- Heroic treatment or remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter. Syn. -- Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.","pyaemic":"Of or pertaining to pyæmia; of the nature of pyæmia.","woolsey":"Linsey-woolsey.","polytungstic":"Containing several tungsten atoms or radicals; as, polytungstic acid. Polytungstic acid (Chem.), any one of several complex acids of tungsten containing more than one atom of tungsten.","theodicy":"1. A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil. 2. That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul. Krauth-Fleming.","expectative":"Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.\n\nSomething in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. Milman.","omniscious":"All-knowing. [Obs.] Hakewill.","shikaree":"A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]","evaporometer":"An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.","pleasing":"Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. \"Pleasing harmony.\" Shak. \"Pleasing features.\" Macaulay. -- Pleas\"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas\"ing*ness, n. Syn. -- Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See Pleasant.\n\nAn object of pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.","cizar":"To clip with scissors. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","inaffability":"Want of affability or sociability; reticence.","depolarizer":"A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.","anemonin":"An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.","fur":"1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser. 2. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs. 3. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament. 4. pl. Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.). Wrapped up in my furs. Lady M. W. Montagu. 5. Any coating considered as resembling fur; as: (a) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever. (b) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach. (c) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water. 6. (Her.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. See Tincture.\n\nOf or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade. Fur seal (Zoöl.) one of several species of seals of the genera Callorhinus and Arclocephalus, inhabiting the North Pacific and the Antarctic oceans. They have a coat of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) breeds in vast numbers on the Prybilov Islands, off the coast of Alaska; -- called also sea bear.\n\n1. To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. \"You fur your gloves with reason.\" Shak. 2. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue. 3. (Arch.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp. Gwill.","laelaps":"A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.","blazonment":"The act or blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.","grubble":"To feel or grope in the dark. [Obs.] Dryden.","raceabout":"A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.","unreverent":"Irreverent. [R.] Shak.","sapience":"The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.","understrapper":"A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.","amazon":"1. One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior. 2. A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago. 3. (Zoöl.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.","oolite":"A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.","overinform":"To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.","tripetaloid":"Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.","misbecome":"Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.","able-minded":"Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind\"ed*ness, n.","gestant":"Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] \"Clouds gestant with heat.\" Mrs. Browning.","perficient":"Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.\n\nOne who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity. [R.]","vomitory":"Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.\n\n1. An emetic; a vomit. Harvey. 2. Etym: [L. vomitorium.] (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater. Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon.","healthlessness":"The state of being health","partitive":"Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.\n\nA word expressing partition, or denoting a part.","foeticide":"Same as Feticide.","irrisible":"Not risible. [R.]","indies":"A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies. Our king has all the Indies in his arms. Shak.","crustaceousness":"The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.","freckledness":"The state of being freckled.","riddling":"Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. \"Riddling triplets.\" Tennyson. -- Rid\"dling, adv.","twaddle":"To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.\n\nSilly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.","balcony":"1. (Arch.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater. 2. A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships. Note: \"The accent has shifted from the second to the first syllable within these twenty years.\" Smart (1836).","universalism":"The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.","polymerization":"The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.","mallotus":"A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.","gallows":"1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses Shak. 2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] Shak. 3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised. 4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.] Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] -- Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. -- Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. -- Gallows, or Gallow tree, the gallows. At length him nailéd on a gallow tree. Spenser.","benumb":"To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.","almoner":"One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.","wonderly":"Wonderfully; wondrously. [Obs.] Chaucer.","wels":"The sheatfish; -- called also waller.","doretree":"A doorpost. [Obs.] \"As dead as a doretree.\" Piers Plowman.","quinia":"Quinine.","triandrian":"Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.","linnaean":"Of or pertaining to Linnæus, the celebrated Swedish botanist. Linnaean system (Bot.), the system in which the classes are founded mainly upon the stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system.","greasiness":"The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.","tom":"The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]","millboard":"A kind of stout pasteboard.","dipsomaniacal":"Of or pertaining to dipsomania.","fireworm":"The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.","lalo":"The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.","moder":"1. A mother. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. [Obs.]\n\nTo moderate. [Obs.]","mustee":"See Mestee.","concludent":"Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive. [Obs.] Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.","regratery":"The act or practice of regrating.","scare":"To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang] Syn. -- To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.\n\nFright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]","margined":"1. Having a margin. Hawthorne. 2. (Zoöl.) Bordered with a distinct line of color.","railingly":"With scoffing or insulting language.","innocency":"Innocence.","noun":"A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive. Note: By some grammarians the term noun is so used as to include adjectives, as being descriptive; but in general it is limited to substantives.","proceeder":"One who proceeds.","souari nut":"The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut. [Written also sawarra nut.]","subcorneous":"(a) Situated under a horny part or layer. (b) Partially horny.","beta":"The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, b. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. Beta (B, b) is used variously for classifying, as: (a) (Astron.) To designate some bright star, usually the second brightest, of a constellation, as, b Aurigæ. (b) (Chem.) To distinguish one of two or more isomers; also, to indicate the position of substituting atoms or groups in certain compounds; as, b-naphthol. With acids, it commonly indicates that the substituent is in union with the carbon atom next to that to which the carboxyl group is attached.","instrumentalness":"Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. [R.] Hammond.","sulcation":"A channel or furrow.","infucate":"To stain; to paint; to daub.","untrained":"1. Not trained. Shak. 2. Not trainable; indocile. [Obs.] Herbert.","unintelligence":"Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.","octant":"1. (Geom.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees. 2. (Astron. & Astrol.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees. 3. An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9Oº, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant. 4. (Math. & Crystallog.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coördinate planes.","cicisbeism":"The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.","revengeful":"Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious. -- Re*venge\"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*venge\"ful*ness, n.","foe":"See Fiend, and cf. Feud a quarrel. 1. One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36 2. An enemy in war; a hostile army. 3. One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill- wisher; as, a foe to religion. A foe to received doctrines. I. Watts\n\nTo treat as an enemy. [Obs.] Spenser.","enjoiner":"One who enjoins.","lecanomancy":"divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.","pathognomy":"Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.","allottee":"One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.","warehouse":"A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.\n\n1. To deposit or secure in a warehouse. 2. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.","communicant":"1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury. 2. One who communicates. Foxe.\n\nCommunicating. [R.] Coleridge.","midding":"Same as Midden.","misapply":"To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.","wlatsome":"Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [Obs.] Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God. Chaucer.","pinacoid":"A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.","weeping-ripe":"Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.","palaeographic":"See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc.","pithsome":"Pithy; robust. [R.] \"Pithsome health and vigor.\" R. D. Blackmore.","ready":"1. Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. \"When she redy was.\" Chaucer. 2. Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. \"Dinner was ready.\" Fielding. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Matt. xxii. 4. 3. Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts xxi. 13. If need be, I am ready to forego And quit. Milton. 4. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. \"Ready in devising expedients.\" Macaulay. Gurth, whose temper was ready, through surly. Sir W. Scott. 5. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy. \"The readiest way.\" Milton. A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found. Dryden. 6. On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive. My heart is ready to crack. Shak. 7. (Mil.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. \"[I] am all redy at your hest.\" Chaucer. -- Ready money, means of immediate payment; cash. \"'Tis all the ready money fate can give.\" Cowley. -- Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. -- To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness. Syn. -- Prompt; expeditious; speedy; unhesitating; dexterous; apt; skilful; handy; expert; facile; easy; opportune; fitted; prepared; disposed; willing; free; cheerful. See Prompt.\n\nIn a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay. We ourselves will go ready armed. Num. xxxii. 17.\n\nReady money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was supplied with the ready. [Slang] Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. Arbuthnot.\n\nTo dispose in order. [Obs.] Heywood.","dimerous":"Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind. Note: A dimerous flower has two sepals, two petals, two stamens, and two pistils.","chilostoma":"An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]","dizzy":"1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton. 2. Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay. 3. Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. \"The dizzy multitude.\" Milton.\n\nTo make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. Sir W. Scott.","tuille":"In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.","disentomb":"To take out from a tomb; a disinter.","dispensableness":"Quality of being dispensable.","scrolled":"Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.","main":"1. A hand or match at dice. Prior. Thackeray. 2. A stake played for at dice. [Obs.] Shak. 3. The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard. 4. A match at cockfighting. \"My lord would ride twenty miles . . . to see a main fought.\" Thackeray. 5. A main-hamper. [Obs.] Ainsworth.\n\n1. Strength; force; might; violent effort. [Obs., except in certain phrases.] There were in this battle of most might and main. R. of Gl. He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with importable main. Spenser. 2. The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing. [Obs., except in special uses.] Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters. Bacon. 3. Specifically: (a) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean. \"Struggling in the main.\" Dryden. (b) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland. \"Invaded the main of Spain.\" Bacon. (c) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main. Forcing main, the delivery pipe of a pump. -- For the main, or In the main, for the most part; in the greatest part. -- With might and main, or With all one's might and main, with all one's strength; with violent effort. With might and main they chased the murderous fox. Dryden.\n\n1. Very or extremely strong. [Obs.] That current with main fury ran. Daniel. 2. Vast; huge. [Obs.] \"The main abyss.\" Milton. 3. Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. [Obs.] \"It's a man untruth.\" Sir W. Scott. 4. Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc. Our main interest is to be happy as we can. Tillotson. 5. Important; necessary. [Obs.] That which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring. Milton. By main force, by mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to subdue insurrection by main force. That Maine which by main force Warwick did win. Shak. -- By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by main strength. -- Main beam (Steam Engine), working beam. -- Main boom (Naut.), the boom which extends the foot of the mainsail in a fore and aft vessel. -- Main brace. (a) (Mech.) The brace which resists the chief strain. Cf. Counter brace. (b) (Naut.) The brace attached to the main yard. -- Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working beam or side lever swings. -- Main chance. See under Chance. -- Main couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof. -- Main deck (Naut.), the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck. -- Main keel (Naut.), the principal or true keel of a vessel, as distinguished from the false keel. Syn. -- Principal; chief; leading; cardinal; capital.\n\nVery extremely; as, main heavy. \"I'm main dry.\" Foote. [Obs. or Low]","nearctic":"Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.","devastate":"To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.","rack":"Same as Arrack.\n\nThe neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.\n\nA wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.] Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.] -- To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] \"All goes to rack.\" Pepys.\n\nThin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. Shak. The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon. And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.\n\nTo fly, as vapor or broken clouds.\n\nTo amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. Fuller.\n\nA fast amble.\n\nTo draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner. Bacon. Rack vintage, wine cleansed and drawn from the lees. Cowell.\n\n1. An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. Specifically: (a) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. Macaulay. (b) An instrument for bending a bow. (c) A grate on which bacon is laid. (d) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. (e) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc. (f) (Naut.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot. (g) (Mining) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. (h) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. (i) A distaff. 2. (Mech.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. 3. That which is extorted; exaction. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys. Mangle rack. (Mach.) See under Mangle. n. -- Rack block. (Naut.) See def. 1 (f), above. -- Rack lashing, a lashing or binding where the rope is tightened, and held tight by the use of a small stick of wood twisted around. -- Rack rail (Railroads), a toothed rack, laid as a rail, to afford a hold for teeth on the driving wheel of locomotive for climbing steep gradients, as in ascending a mountain. -- Rack saw, a saw having wide teeth. -- Rack stick, the stick used in a rack lashing. -- To be on the rack, to suffer torture, physical or mental. -- To live at rack and manger, to live on the best at another's expense. [Colloq.] -- To put to the rack, to subject to torture; to torment. A fit of the stone puts a kingto the rack, and makes him as miserable as it does the meanest subject. Sir W. Temple.\n\n1. To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints. He was racked and miserably tormented. Pope. 2. To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair. Milton. 3. To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants. Spenser. They [landlords] rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof. Fuller. Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be racked even to the uttermost. Shak. 4. (Mining) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. 5. (Naut.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. To rack one's brains or wits, to exert them to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something. Syn. -- To torture; torment; rend; tear.","mooress":"A female Moor; a Moorish woman.","bibacious":"Addicted to drinking.","stochastic":"Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] Whitefoot.","palmette":"A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.","rantism":"Ranterism.","huck":"To higgle in trading. [Obs.] Holland.","ilmenite":"Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.","amplectant":"Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.","denitrify":"To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.","inhabitate":"To inhabit. [Obs.]","obumbrate":"To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] Howell.","wilfully":"See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.","turbant":"A turban. [Obs.] Milton. I see the Turk nodding with his turbant. Howell.","foreclose":"To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.","recrystallize":"To crystallize again. Henry.","fissipation":"Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.","goldfish":"(a) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope. (b) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.","deprivable":"Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.","ulmic":"Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.","unreverend":"1. Not reverend. 2. Disrespectful; irreverent. [Obs.] Shak.","bibliothecal":"Belonging to a library. Byrom.","preventative":"That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.","suprascalpular":"Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.","melligo":"Honeydew.","sonship":"The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation. Dr. H. More.","shipless":"Destitute of ships. Gray.","battledoor":"1. An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. 2. Etym: [OE. battleder.] A child's hornbook. [Obs.] Halliwell.","pacificable":"Placable. [R.] Bp. Hall.","sioux":"See Dakotas.","drubber":"One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.","egad":"An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.","stealthily":"In a stealthy manner.","boned":"1. Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak. 2. Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish. 3. Manured with bone; as, boned land.","unchurch":"1. To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate. Sir M. Hale. 2. To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church. South.","grouser":"(Dredging, Pile Driving, etc.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.","docimology":"A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.","hop":"1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden. 2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden. 3. To dance. Smollett.\n\n1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring. 2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step), and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.\n\n1. (Bot.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops). 2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste. 3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back. -- Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and T. procumbens). -- Hop flea (Zoöl.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops. -- Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris). -- Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop picker, one who picks hops. -- Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines. -- Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops. -- Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.\n\nTo impregnate with hops. Mortimer.\n\nTo gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]","myoepithelial":"1. (Biol.) Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; -- applied to structural elements in certain embryonic forms. 2. (Zoöl.) Having the characteristics of both muscle and epithelium; as, the myoepithelial cells of the hydra.","self-educated":"Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.","aspirator":"1. (Chem.) An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction. 2. (Med.) An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.","grete":"Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.","acritochromacy":"Color blindness; achromatopsy.","trifloral":"Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.","cuckoobud":"A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak.","virent":"Green; not withered. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","flutteringly":"In a fluttering manner.","odontiasis":"Cutting of the teeth; dentition.","tersulphuret":"A trisulphide. [R.]","disorganize":"To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).","hemself":"Themselves; -- used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.","agistment":"(a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.","self-examination":"An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.","desidiousness":"The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] N. Bacon.","fondon":"A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.","musketoon":"1. A short musket. 2. One who is armed with such a musket.","eulogistic":"Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse. -- Eu\"lo*gis\"tic*al*ly, adv.","meditatist":"One who is given to meditation.","bunk":"1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.] 2. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers. 3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]\n\nTo go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.","dispair":"To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.","packhouse":"Warehouse for storing goods.","volutation":"A rolling of a body; a wallowing. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","linget":"An ingot. [Written also lingot.]","steepish":"Somewhat steep. Carlyle.","mechanician":"One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.","plantain":"1. (Bot.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked. Plantain cutter, or Plantain eater (Zoöl.), any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagidæ, especially Musophaga violacea. See Turaco. They are allied to the cuckoos. -- Plantain squirrel (Zoöl.), a Java squirrel (Sciurus plantani) which feeds upon plantains. -- Plantain tree (Bot.), the treelike herb Musa paradisiaca. See def. 1 (above).\n\nAny plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world. Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. -- Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. -- Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. -- Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America. -- Water plantain, a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon.","mauve":"A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac. Mauve aniline (Chem.), a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal- tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, etc.","bemoan":"To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden. Syn. -- See Deplore.","pedestal":"1. (Arch.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Build him a pedestal, and say, \"Stand there!\" Cowper. 2. (a) (Railroad Cars) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box. (b) (Mach.) A pillow block; a low housing. (c) (Bridge Building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier. Pedestal coil (steam Heating), a group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, -- used in a radiator.","ypight":"See Pight.","outbuild":"To exceed in building, or in durability of building.","entoblast":"The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.","picktooth":"A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.","naperian":"Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms. NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS Na\"pi*er's bones`, Na\"pi*er's rods`. A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.","euchlorine":"A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.","hypozoic":"Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.","pern":"To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.\n\nThe honey buzzard.","prog":"1. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke. 2. To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson. 3. To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.]\n\n1. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning. 2. A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang] 3. A goal; progue. [Scot.]","pronucleus":"One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. Note: In the maturing of the ovum preparatory to impregnation, a part of the germinal vesicle (see Polar body, under Polar) becomes converted into a number of small vesicles, which aggregate themselves into a single clear nucleus. which travels towards the center of the egg and is called the female pronucleus. In impregnation, the spermatozoön which enters the egg soon loses its tail, while the head forms a nucleus, called the male pronucleus, which gradually travels towards the female pronucleus and eventually fuses with it, forming the first segmentation nucleus.","curvograph":"An arcograph.","phosphinic":"Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.","sursolid":"The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] Hutton.","clearwing":"A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.","zenith":"1. That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star. Milton. 2. hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star. Shak. This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Mrs. Barbauld. It was during those civil troubles . . . this aspiring family reached the zenith. Macaulay. Zenith distance. (Astron.) See under Distance. -- Zenith sector. (Astron.) See Sector, 3. -- Zenith telescope (Geodesy), a telescope specially designed for determining the latitude by means of any two stars which pass the meridian about the same time, and at nearly equal distances from the zenith, but on opposite sides of it. It turns both on a vertical and a horizontal axis, is provided with a graduated vertical semicircle, and a level for setting it to a given zenith distance, and with a micrometer for measuring the difference of the zenith distances of the two stars.","symptom":"1. (Med.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift. 2. A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue. Syn. -- Mark; note; sign; token; indication.","tribrach":"A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, mèlì\\'dcs.","blackberry":"The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.","megascope":"A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.","whistlewing":"The American golden-eye.","tug":"1. To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon. 2. To pull; to pluck. [Obs.] To ease the pain, His tugged cars suffered with a strain. Hudibras.\n\n1. To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. 2. To labor; to strive; to struggle. England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. Shak.\n\n1. A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort. At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls. Dryden. 2. A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 3. (Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat. 4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness. 5. (Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed. Tug iron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.","actinolitic":"Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.","swifter":"(a) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. (b) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. (c) The forward shroud of a lower mast.\n\nTo tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.","glycerol":"Same as Glycerin.","politicist":"A political writer. [R.]","counterpart":"1. A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale. 2. (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which suplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite. O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords. Dryden.","teleost":"One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.","heroical":"Heroic. [R.] Spectator. -- He*ro\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- He*ro\"ic*al*ness, n.","sizy":"Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.","stranger":"1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: -- (a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions. Shak. (b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. (c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden. 2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. Milton. 3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.\n\nTo estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.","ephor":"A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.","julaceous":"Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.","boots":"A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.","porphyraceous":"Porphyritic.","pothecary":"An apothecary. [Obs.]","chlorimetry":"See Chlorometry.","barbarousness":"The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.","agreeably":"1. In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. \"Agreeably entertained.\" Goldsmith. 2. In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley. 3. Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.","marble":"1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc. Note: Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented together. -- Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins, due to disseminated iron oxide. -- Shell marble contains fossil shells. -- Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal. 2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles. 3. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles. Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble- faced, marble-hearted.\n\n1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper. 2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.\n\nTo stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.","turriculated":"Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.","interjoin":"To join mutually; to unite. [R.] Shak.","ethnological":"Of or pertaining to ethnology.","chert":"An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.","saffron":"1. (Bot.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus. 2. The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine. 3. An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus. Bastard saffron, Dyer's saffron. (Bot.) See Safflower. -- Meadow saffron (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Colchichum autumnate) of Europe, resembling saffron. -- Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus).\n\nHaving the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.\n\nTo give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice. [Obs.] And in Latyn I speak a wordes few, To saffron with my predication. Chaucer.","provect":"Carried forward; advanced. [Obs.] \"Provect in years.\" Sir T. Flyot.","chemisette":"An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.","clubhand":"A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.","manageability":"The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.","infrugiferous":"Not bearing fruit; not fructiferous.","blote":"To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]","occursion":"A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] Boyle.","jumbler":"One who confuses things.","serjeantcy":"See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc. Serjeant-at-arms. See Sergeant- at-arms, under Sergeant.","tazel":"The teasel. [Obs.]","prevoyant":"Foreseeing; prescient. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.","tightly":"In a tight manner; closely; nearly.","anthropolatry":"Man worship.","diodon":"1. (Zoöl.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of whales.","campus":"The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.","cursed":"Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.","flibustier":"A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]","saw":"imp. of See.\n\n1. Something said; speech; discourse. [Obs.] \"To hearken all his sawe.\" Chaucer. 2. A saying; a proverb; a maxim. His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ. Shak. 3. Dictate; command; decree. [Obs.] [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw. Spenser.\n\nAn instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing. Note: Saw is frequently used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Band saw, Crosscut saw, etc. See under Band, Crosscut, etc. -- Circular saw, a disk of steel with saw teeth upon its periphery, and revolved on an arbor. -- Saw bench, a bench or table with a flat top for for sawing, especially with a circular saw which projects above the table. -- Saw file, a three-cornered file, such as is used for sharpening saw teeth. -- Saw frame, the frame or sash in a sawmill, in which the saw, or gang of saws, is held. -- Saw gate, a saw frame. -- Saw gin, the form of cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney, in which the cotton fibers are drawn, by the teeth, of a set of revolving circular saws, through a wire grating which is too fine for the seeds to pass. -- Saw grass (Bot.), any one of certain cyperaceous plants having the edges of the leaves set with minute sharp teeth, especially the Cladium effusum of the Southern United States. Cf. Razor grass, under Razor. -- Saw log, a log of suitable size for sawing into lumber. -- Saw mandrel, a mandrel on which a circular saw is fastened for running. -- Saw pit, a pit over which timbor is sawed by two men, one standing below the timber and the other above. Mortimer. -- Saw sharpener (Zoöl.), the great titmouse; -- so named from its harsh call note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Saw whetter (Zoöl.), the marsh titmouse (Parus palustris); -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scroll saw, a ribbon of steel with saw teeth upon one edge, stretched in a frame and adapted for sawing curved outlines; also, a machine in which such a saw is worked by foot or power.\n\n1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble. 2. To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel. 3. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.\n\n1. To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well. 2. To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast. 3. To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.","aloofness":"State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.","fubsy":"Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.","monopneumona":"A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. [Written also monopneumonia.]","ashweed":"Goutweed.","hague tribunal":"The permanent court of arbitration created by the \"International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.\", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court. On the failure of the parties to agree directly on the arbitrators, each chooses two arbitrators, an umpire is selected by them, by a third power, or by two powers selected by the parties.","mirza":"The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.","subsecutive":"Following in a train or succession. [R.]","legitimatize":"To legitimate.","ley":", & i. To lay; to wager. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nLaw. Abbott.\n\nSee Lye.\n\nGrass or meadow land; a lea.\n\nFallow; unseeded. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","stern-wheel":"Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.","calumbin":"A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root. [Written also colombin, and columbin]","unreeve":"To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.","cinemograph":"An integrating anemometer.","cynical":"1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. 2. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle. 3. Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics. 4. Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature. Note: In prose, cynical is used rather than cynic, in the senses 1 and 4. Cynic spasm (Med.), a convulsive contraction of the muscles of one side of the face, producing a sort of grin, suggesting certain movements in the upper lip of a dog.","executorship":"The office of an executor.","heteroptics":"False optics. Spectator.","singsong":"1. Bad singing or poetry. 2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.\n\nDrawling; monotonous.\n\nTo write poor poetry. [R.] Tennyson.","lignify":"To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.\n\nTo become wood.","monander":"One of the Monandria.","winkle":"(a) Any periwinkle. Holland. (b) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica). Note: These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking their blood. Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.","prophasis":"Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.","rushlike":"Resembling a rush; weak.","abusive":"1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller. 2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] \"The abusive prerogatives of his see.\" Hallam. 3. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. 4. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. \"An abusive lampoon.\" Johnson. 5. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] \"An abusive treaty.\" Bacon. Syn. -- Reproachful; scurrilous; opprobrious; insolent; insulting; injurious; offensive; reviling.","consultative":"Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. \"A consultative . . . power.\" Abp. Bramhall.","wagering":"Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. (Com.) See Wager policy, under Policy.","billbug":"A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.","slept":"imp. & p. p. of Sleep.","pilfer":"To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.\n\nTo take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.","coxcomb":"1. (a) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps. (b) The cap itself. 2. The top of the head, or the head itself. We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs. Beau & Fl. 3. A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope. 4. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.","fabrile":"Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.","backsight":"The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.","jairou":"The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.","opinionatist":"An opinionist. [Obs.]","preen":"A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.\n\n1. To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham. 2. To trim up, as trees. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","dermoneural":"Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.","vanillic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.","typification":"The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.","sea squirt":"An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.","weive":"See Waive. [Obs.] Gower.","creeks":"A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.","perameles":"Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.","beggarliness":"The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.","fop":"One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.","tapiser":"A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. [R.] Chaucer.","melliphagous":"See Meliphagous.","felony":"1. (Feudal Law) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill. 2. (O.Eng.Law) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt. 3. A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment. Note: Forfeiture for crime having been generally abolished in the United States, the term felony, in American law, has lost this point of distinction; and its meaning, where not fixed by statute, is somewhat vague and undefined; generally, however, it is used to denote an offense of a high grade, punishable either capitally or by a term of imprisonment. In Massachusetts, by statute, any crime punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison, and no other, is a felony; so in New York. the tendency now is to obliterate the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors; and this has been done partially in England, and completely in some of the States of the Union. The distinction is purely arbitrary, and its entire abolition is only a question of time. Note: There is no lawyer who would undertake to tell what a felony is, otherwise than by enumerating the various kinds of offenses which are so called. originally, the word felony had a meaning: it denoted all offenses the penalty of which included forfeiture of goods; but subsequent acts of Parliament have declared various offenses to be felonies, without enjoining that penalty, and have taken away the penalty from others, which continue, nevertheless, to be called felonies, insomuch that the acts so called have now no property whatever in common, save that of being unlawful and purnishable. J. S. Mill.\n\n. See under Compound, v. t.","lightly":"1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton. 2. Swiftly; nimbly; with agility. So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail. R. of Brunne. Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word. Tennyson. 3. Without deep impression. The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly received, were easily forgot. Prior. 4. In a small degree; slightly; not severely. At the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously afflict her. Is. ix. 1. 5. With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily. That lightly come, shall lightly go. Old Proverb. They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare it. Sir W. Scott. 6. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight. Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages. Jer. Taylor. 7. Commonly; usually. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher. The great thieves of a state are lightly the officers of the crown. B. Jonson. 8. Without dejection; cheerfully. \"Seeming to bear it lightly.\" Shak. 9. Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily. Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.]. 10. Not chastely; wantonly. Swift.","hydrosulphureted":"Combined with hydrogen sulphide.","prosoma":"The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.","longicornia":"A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.","unwormed":"Not wormed; not having had the worm, or lytta, under the tongue cut out; -- said of a dog.","skeletogenous":"Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.","blow-off":"1. A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj. as, a blow-off cock or pipe. 2. An outburst of temper or excitement. [Colloq.]","rente":"In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc.,, which represent government indebtedness.","fountain":"1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. Milton. Air fountain. See under Air. -- Fountain heead, primary source; original; first principle. Young. -- Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. -- Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. -- Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. -- Fountain pump. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. -- Fountain shell (Zoöl.), the large West Indian conch shell (Strombus gigas). -- Fountain of youth, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.","fatherlessness":"The state of being without a father.","iracund":"Irascible; choleric. \"Iracund people.\" Carlyle.","bepowder":"To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.","hippurite":"A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.","preferability":"The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness. J. S. Mill.","broom corn":"A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.","mesozoic":"Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.\n\nThe Mesozoic age or formation.","helcoplasty":"The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.","efflate":"To fill with breath; to puff up. Sir T. Herbert.","binoculate":"Having two eyes.","gerboa":"The jerboa.","tough-head":"The ruddy duck. [ Local U.S. ]","wardenship":"The office or jurisdiction of a warden.","wooer":"One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. \"A thriving wooer.\" Gibber.","dwelt":"of Dwell.","snot":"1. Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [Low] 2. A mean, insignificant fellow. [Low]\n\nTo blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.","ameliorator":"One who ameliorates.","corfute":"A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.","reissue":"To issue a second time.\n\nA second or repeated issue.","catholicon":"A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.","cancrinite":"A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.","lutose":"Covered with clay; miry.","putrify":"To putrefy.","odds":"1. Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. \"Preëminent by so much odds.\" Milton. \"The fearful odds of that unequal fray.\" Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s \"cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke. 2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. At odds, in dispute; at variance. \"These squires at odds did fall.\" Spenser. \"He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds.\" Shak. -- It is odds, it is probable. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. \"My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends.\" W. Irving.","footmark":"A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.","lauriol":"Spurge laurel. [Obs.] Chaucer.","seem":"To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. \"It now seemed probable.\" Macaulay. Thou picture of what thou seem'st. Shak. All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all. Milton. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov. xiv. 12. It seems, it appears; it is understood as true; it is said. A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his misstress on a great lake. Addison. Syn. -- To appear; look. -- Seem, Appear. To appear has reference to a thing's being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and usually implies an inference of our mind as to the probability of a thing's being so; as, a storm seems to be coming. \"The story appears to be true,\" means that the facts, as presented, go to show its truth; \"the story seems to be true,\" means that it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it is true. \"His first and principal care being to appear unto his people such as he would have them be, and to be such as he appeared.\" Sir P. Sidney. Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not \"seems.\" Shak.\n\nTo befit; to beseem. [Obs.] Spenser.","domiciliation":"The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.","cashierer":"One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] Burke. CASHIER'S CHECK Cash*ier's\" check. (Banking) A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.","hyalotype":"A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.","ruling":"1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing; prevalent.\n\n1. The act of one who rules; ruled lines. 2. (Law) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.","stipulator":"One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.","petuntse":"Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.","gairishly":"Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.","engregge":"To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. [Obs.] Chaucer.","unguiculate":"One of the Unguiculata.\n\n1. Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1. 2. (Bot.) Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.","alalia":"Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.","palpi":"pl. of Palpus. (Zoöl.) See Palpus.","bob-cherry":"A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.","philotechnical":"Fond of the arts. [R.]","flatour":"A flatterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.","platinous":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous chloride (PtCl2).","fen":"Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth. Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens. Fen boat, a boat of light draught used in marshes. -- Fen duck (Zoöl.), a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Fen fowl (Zoöl.), any water fowl that frequent fens. -- Fen goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose of Europe. [Prov. Eng.] -- Fen land, swamp land.","ichnoscopy":"The search for the traces of anything. [R.]","raftsman":"A man engaged in rafting.","ursa":"Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below. Ursa Major Etym: [L.], the Great Bear, one of the most conspicuous of the northern constellations. It is situated near the pole, and contains the stars which form the Dipper, or Charles's Wain, two of which are the Pointers, or stars which point towards the North Star. -- Ursa Minor Etym: [L.], the Little Bear, the constellation nearest the north pole. It contains the north star, or polestar, which is situated in the extremity of the tail.","presumption":"1. The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. 2. Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place. 3. That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive. \"In contradiction to these very plausible presumptions.\" De Quincey. 4. The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery. Thy son I killed for his presumption. Shak. I had the presumption to dedicate to you a very unfinished piece. Dryden. Conclusive presumption. See under Conclusive. -- Presumption of fact (Law), an argument of a fact from a fact; an inference as to the existence of one fact not certainly known, from the existence of some other fact known or proved, founded on a previous experience of their connection; supposition of the truth or real existence of something, without direct or positive proof of the fact, but grounded on circumstantial or probable evidence which entitles it to belief. Burrill. Best. Wharton. -- Presumption of law (Law), a postulate applied in advance to all cases of a particular class; e. g., the presumption of innocence and of regularity of records. Such a presumption is rebuttable or irrebuttable.","creese":"A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.","midday":"The middle part of the day; noon.\n\nOf or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.","impatience":"The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.","addle":"1. Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.] 2. Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.\n\nHaving lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.\n\nTo make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. \"Their eggs were addled.\" Cowper.\n\n1. To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] Forby. 2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.","bitumen process":"Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.","swagger":"1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield. 2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.\n\nTo bully. [R.] Swift.\n\nThe act or manner of a swaggerer. He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us. W. Irving.","alliterator":"One who alliterates.","param":"A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.","covetousness":"1. Strong desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat. Syn. -- Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.","ablegation":"The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","ichthyosaurus":"An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebræ, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oölitic, and Cretaceous formations.","maculated":"Having spots or blotches; maculate.","enteradenography":"A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.","repletory":"Repletive. [R.]","passingly":"Exceedingly. Wyclif.","severity":"The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: -- (a) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. \"Strict age, and sour severity.\" Milton. (b) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter. (c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war. (d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test. Confining myself to the severity of truth. Dryden.","shamrock":"A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. Note: The original plant was probably a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis Acetocella); but now the name is given to the white clover (Trifolium repens), and the black medic (Medicago lupulina).","mandioc":"See Manioc.","sacculo-utricular":"Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.","monochronic":"Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.","procure":"1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton. 2. To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause. By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson (More's Utopia) . Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak. 3. To solicit; to entreat. [Obs.] The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser. 4. To cause to come; to bring; to attract. [Obs.] What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak. 5. To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution. Syn. -- See Attain.\n\n1. To pimp. Shak. 2. To manage business for another in court. [Scot.]","mydatoxin":"A poisonous amido acid, C6H13NO2, separated by Brieger from decaying horseflesh. In physiological action, it is similar to curare.","plugging":"1. The act of stopping with a plug. 2. The material of which a plug or stopple is made.","heron":"Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons. Note: There are several common American species; as, the great blue heron (Ardea herodias); the little blue (A. coerulea); the green (A. virescens); the snowy (A. candidissima); the night heron or qua-bird (Nycticorax nycticorax). The plumed herons are called egrets. Heron's bill (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erodium; -- so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.","pilled":"Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [Obs.] \"Pilled beard.\" Chaucer.","derelict":"1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.\n\n(a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. (b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.","wych-hazel":"The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.","prosopalgia":"Facial neuralgia.","labyrinthal":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.","howadji":"1. A traveler. 2. A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.","logically":"In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.","favor":"1. Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. 2. The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52. 3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. Beg one favor at thy gracious hand. Shak. 4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift. 5. The object of regard; person or thing favored. All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor. Milton. 6. A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak. 7. Appearance; look; countenance; face. [Obs.] This boy is fair, of female favor. Shak. 8. (Law) Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor or for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. -- In favor of, upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. -- In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. -- To curry favor Etym: [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor, I will treat it here. Dryden. Syn. -- Kindness; countenance; patronage; support; lenity; grace; gift; present; benefit.\n\n1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. O happy youth! and favored of the skies. Pope. He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. 2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. Swift. 2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy. 3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. Spectator.","combined":"United closely; confederated; chemically united.","pantology":"A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.","hilted":"Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.","rightful":"1. Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause. 3. Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king. 4. Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority. Syn. -- Just; lawful; true; honest; equitable; proper.","puffing":"a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. (Zoöl.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff. -- Puffing pig (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.","deinoceras":"See Dinoceras.","whirl-blast":"A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.","bawsin":"1. A badger. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A large, unwieldy person. [Obs.] Nares.","gyneceum":"See Gynæceum.","metaphosphoric":"Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.","fridstol":"A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]","metropolitan":"1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. 2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. \"Bishops metropolitan.\" Sir T. More.\n\n1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. 2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop. 3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. Hook.","tenth":"1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others. 2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.\n\n1. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others. 2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided. 3. The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. Shak. 4. (Mus.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. 5. pl. (Eng. Law) (a) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. (b) (Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty. Burrill.","gemmeous":"Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems. Pennant.","temperer":"One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.","troop":"1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. That which should accompany old age --As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --I must not look to have. Shak. 2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay. 3. (Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery. 4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe. 5. (Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.\n\n1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. \"Armies . . . troop to their standard.\" Milton. 2. To march on; to go forward in haste. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.","cookroom":"A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.","oxyhaemoglobin":"See Hemoglobin.","antorgastic":"See Antiorgastic.","sworded":"Girded with a sword. Milton.","recitation":"1. The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond. 2. The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. 3. (Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.","relais":"A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.","trapstick":"A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.","non liquet":"It is not clear; -- a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.","similary":"Similar. [Obs.] Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.","supercilious":"Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil\"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil\"i*ous*ness, n.","myosis":"Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.","avengeance":"Vengeance. [Obs.]","scincoid":"Of or pertaining to the family Scincidæ, or skinks. -- n. A scincoidian.","anetic":"Soothing.","sinaic":"Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law. Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.","spanking breeze":"a strong breeze.","obligor":"The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone.","uropygium":"The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose.","anhang":"To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.","checkerboard":"A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.","epignathous":"Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.","halmas":"The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]","masseteric":"Of or pertaining to the masseter.","lifelong":"Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson.","ovalbumen":"The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.","subumbrella":"The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.","baksheesh":"Same as Backsheesh.","smitt":"Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodsward.","gall":"1. (Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. Lam. iii. 5. Comedy diverted without gall. Dryden. 4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.\n\nAn excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. Note: The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus Cynips, chiefly on an oak (Quercus infectoria or Lusitanica) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine. Gall insect (Zoöl.), any insect that produces galls. -- Gall midge (Zoöl.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls. -- Gall oak, the oak (Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce. -- Gall of glass, the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. Ure.-- Gall wasp. (Zoöl.) See Gallfly.\n\nTo impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. Ure.\n\n1. To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak. 2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. Shak. 3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison.\n\nTo scoff; to jeer. [R.] Shak.\n\nA wound in the skin made by rubbing.","cylinder":"1. (Geom.) (a) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular. (b) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length. 2. Any hollow body of cylindrical form, as: (a) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam. (b) The barrel of an air or other pump. (c) (Print.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press. (d) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver. 3. The revolving square prism carryng the cards in a Jacquard loom. Cylinder axis. (Anat.) SeeAxis cylinder, under Axis. -- Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See Glass. -- Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. -- Cylinder press. See Press.","wailer":"One who wails or laments.","revealable":"Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal\"a*ble*ness, n.","habitan":"Same as Habitant, 2. General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry. W. Irwing.","alnager":"A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.","quintile":"The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72º. Hutton.","woodchat":"(a) Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. (b) A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.","excrementitious":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.","tuxedo coat":"A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]","seedcake":"A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. Tusser.","laxness":"The state of being lax; laxity.","sickless":"Free from sickness. [R.] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.","vinum":"Wine, --chiefly used in Pharmacy in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium.","busily":"In a busy manner.","incontinent":"1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd. 2. (Med.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.\n\nOne who is unchaste. B. Jonson.\n\nIncontinently; instantly immediately. [Obs.] He says he will return incontinent. Shak.","surpliced":"Wearing a surplice.","dreary":"1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] \" Dreary shrieks.\" Spenser. 2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. \" Dreary shades.\" Dryden. \"The dreary ground.\" Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.","sotil":"Subtile. [Obs.]","piapec":"A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).","incipiency":"Beginning; commencement; incipient state.","inuloid":"A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.","sardius":"A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate. Ex. xxviii. 17.","shepherd":"1. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large. 2. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others. Shepherd bird (Zoöl.), the crested screamer. See Screamer. -- Shepherd dog (Zoöl.), a breed of dogs used largely for the herding and care of sheep. There are several kinds, as the collie, or Scotch shepherd dog, and the English shepherd dog. Called also shepherd's dog. -- Shepherd dog, a name of Pan. Keats. -- Shepherd kings, the chiefs of a nomadic people who invaded Egypt from the East in the traditional period, and conquered it, at least in part. They were expelled after about five hundred years, and attempts have been made to connect their expulsion with narrative in the book of Exodus. -- Shepherd's club (Bot.), the common mullein. See Mullein. -- Shepherd's crook, a long staff having the end curved so as to form a large hook, -- used by shepherds. -- Shepherd's needle (Bot.), the lady's comb. -- Shepherd's plaid, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern. -- Shephered spider (Zoöl.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. -- Shepherd's pouch, or Shepherd's purse (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing small white flowers and pouchlike pods. See Illust. of Silicle. -- Shepherd's rod, or Shepherd's staff (Bot.), the small teasel.\n\nTo tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd. [Poetic] White, fleecy clouds . . . Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind. Shelley.","bellwort":"A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.","tarantulated":"Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.","oxybenzene":"Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.","indirected":"Not directed; aimless. [Obs.]","acacin":"Gum arabic.","hieroglyphically":"In hieroglyphics.","oligochete":"Of or pertaining to the Oligochæta.","untrowable":"Incredible. [Obs.] \"Untrowable fairness.\" Wyclif.","ruthenium":"A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.","crossbow":"A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.","pseudography":"False writing; forgery.","excommunicant":"One who has been excommunicated.","spece":"Species; kind. [Obs.] Chaucer.","areometer":"An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer.","unpossible":"Impossible. [R.]","argillite":"Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit\"ic, a.","heliolater":"A worshiper of the sun.","sea snake":"Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.","silvas":"Vast woodland plains of South America.","snowberry":"A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.","partitionment":"The act of partitioning.","transumptive":"Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] \"A transumptive kind of speech.\" Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.","unseam":"To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open. Shak.","clam":"1. (Zoöl.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634). 2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps. 3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. Blood clam. See under Blood.\n\nTo clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.\n\nTo be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] Dryden\n\nClaminess; moisture. [R.] \"The clam of death.\" Carlyle.\n\nA crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.\n\nTo produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Nares.","sixty":"Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.\n\n1. The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.","trichiurus":"A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.","hesitate":"1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. Pope. 2. To stammer; to falter in speaking. Syn. -- To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter; stammer.\n\nTo utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner. [Poetic & R.] Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope.","principiate":"To begin; to initiate. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.","metol":"A whitish soluble powder used as a developer in photography. Chemically, it is the sulphate of methyl-p-amino-m-cresol.","semiamplexicaul":"Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.","jink":"1. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; --obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking. 2. (Card Playing) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.","photoglyphic":"Pertaining to the art of engraving by the action of light. [Written also photoglyptic.] Photoglyphic engraving, a process of etching on copper, steel, or zinc, by means of the action of light and certain chemicals, so that from the plate impressions may be taken. Sir D. Brewster.","receptibility":"1. The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness. 2. A receptible thing. [R.] Glanvill.","egotistically":"With egotism.","noursle":"To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.","impiteous":"Pitiless; cruel. [Obs.]","palo blanco":"(a) A western American hackberry (Celtis reticulata), having light- colored bark. (b) A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candida), the bark of which is used in tanning.","bourgeoisie":"The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.","fatidical":"Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. -- Fa*tid\"i*cal*ly, adv.","phanariot":"One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.","rubbly":"Relating to, or containing, rubble.","pertinacity":"The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency. Macaulay. Syn. -- See Obstinacy.","ashler":"1. (Masonry) (a) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight. (b) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.","frugally":"Thriftily; prudently.","merrily":"In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. Merrily sing, and sport, and play. Granville.","langteraloo":"An old game at cards. See Loo (a) Tatler.","petalism":"A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.","recompensive":"Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.","contemporariness":"Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.","adynamic":"1. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak. 2. (Physics) Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.","huia bird":"A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.","doublehearted":"Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.","peripateticism":"The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.","bunion":"Same as Bunyon.\n\nAn enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.","dear":"1. Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak. 2. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. 3. Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. \"Hear me, dear lady.\" Shak. Neither count I my life dear unto myself. Acts xx. 24. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson. 4. Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. (a) Of agreeable things and interests. [I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. Shak. His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall. Macaulay. (b) Of disagreeable things and antipathies. In our dear peril. Shak. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day. Shak.\n\nA dear one; lover; sweetheart. That kiss I carried from thee, dear. Shak.\n\nDearly; at a high price. If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear. Shak.\n\nTo endear. [Obs.] Shelton.","dere":"To hurt; to harm; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nHarm. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.","occultism":"A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.","ratite":"Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ. -- n. One of the Ratitæ.","ploughable":"Capable of being plowed; arable.","ichthyophagist":"One who eats, or subsists on, fish.","columba":"See Calumba.","thereout":"1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. [Obs.] Chaucer.","clash gear":"A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.","unkingship":"The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. [Obs.] Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.","cycloid":"A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane. Note: The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zoöl.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.\n\nOne of the Cycloidei.","catheterization":"The operation of introducing a catheter.","carvol":"One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.","idealism":"1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception of the ideal; imagery. 3. (Philos.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.","innocence":"1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. Shak. Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! Milton. 3. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown. 4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. Chaucer. Shak. Syn. -- Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity; sinlessness; guiltlessness.","leaved":"Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.","sleeve":"See Sleave, untwisted thread.\n\n1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer. 2. A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton. 3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts. (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes. Sleeve button, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff. -- Sleeve links, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband. -- To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times. -- To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.\n\nTo furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.","stewartry":"1. An overseer or superintendent. [R.] \"The stewartry of provisions.\" Tooke. 2. The office of a steward; stewardship. [R.] Byron. 3. In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.","aerugo":"The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.","asystolism":"The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.","exception":"1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. 2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions. Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cowper. Note: Often with to. That proud exception to all nature's laws. Pope. 3. (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill. 4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against. I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation]. Bentley. He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. Bacon. She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.","deliberate":"1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. \"These deliberate fools.\" Shak. 2. Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. Settled visage and deliberate word. Shak. 3. Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.\n\nTo weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.\n\nTo take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, concerning. The woman the deliberation is lost. Addison.","kefir grains":"Small hard yellowish aggregations found in the Caucasus region, and containing various yeasts and bacteria. They are used as a ferment in preparing kefir.","bromid paper":"A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.","madge":"(a) The barn owl. (b) The magpie.","preambulation":"1. A walking or going before; precedence. [R.] 2. A preamble. [Obs.] Chaucer.","arrow":"A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.","asphyxia":"Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.","nonunionist":"One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.","bestad":"Beset; put in peril. [Obs.] Chaucer.","shampooer":"One who shampoos.","disrudder":"To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.","sheal":"Same as Sheeling. [Scot.]\n\nTo put under a sheal or shelter. [Scot.]\n\nTo take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson. That's a shealed peascod. Shak.\n\nA shell or pod. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]","blockheadism":"That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.","charitableness":"The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.","scarceness":"The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier. Syn. -- Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.","llama":"A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.","disserve":"To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor.","ingenuously":"In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly. Being required to explane himself, he ingeniously confessed. Ludlow.","tree calf":"A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.","fecundity":"1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers. 2. The power of germinating; as in seeds. 3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.","collodium":"See Collodion.","sportule":"A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.","strook":"imp. of Strike. Dryden.\n\nA stroke. [Obs.] Chaucer.","discoidal":"Disk-shaped; discoid.","foldless":"Having no fold. Milman.","burler":"One who burls or dresses cloth.","padesoy":"See Paduasoy.","acarus":"A genus including many species of small mites.","tumultuarily":"In a tumultuary manner.","attagas":"A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.","backslide":"To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.","pirrie":"A rough gale of wind. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","paddlecock":"The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]","goodly":"Excellently. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. We have many goodly days to see. Shak. 2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. The goodliest man of men since born. Milton. 3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden.","significator":"One who, or that which, signifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.","granary":"A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.","lithargyrum":"Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.","among":"1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28. 3. Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action. What news among the merchants Shak. Human sacrifices were practiced among them. Hume. Divide that gold amongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison. Syn. -- Amidst; between. See Amidst, Between.","prescindent":"Cutting off; abstracting. [R.] Cheyne.","conduct":"1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct of armies is a prince's art. Waller. Attacked the Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson. 3. Convoy; escort; guard; guide. [Archaic] I will be your conduct. B. Jonson. In my conduct shall your ladies come. Shak. 4. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. [Obs.] Although thou been conduct of my chame. Shak. 5. The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior. All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury. Macaulay. What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden. 6. Plot; action; construction; manner of development. The book of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory. Syn. -- Behavior; deportment; demeanor; bearing; management; guidance. See Behavior.\n\n1. To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend. I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe. Milton. 2. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom. Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege. Prescott. 3. To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well. 4. (Physics) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc. 5. (Mus.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.\n\n1. To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry. 2. To conduct one's self; to behave. [U. S.]","husbandable":"Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.","naufrage":"Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] acon.","trierarch":"(a) The commander of a trireme. (b) At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.","-graph":"A suffix signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.","scrawl":"See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.\n\nTo draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.\n\nTo write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.\n\nUnskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.","bastardize":"1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone. 2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] Shak.","wattle":"1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson. 2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile. (b) Barbel of a fish. 4. (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark. (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna. Wattle turkey. (Zoöl.) Same as Brush turkey.\n\n1. To bind with twigs. 2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches. 3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.","curfew":"1. The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell. 2. A utensil for covering the fire. [Obs.] For pans, pots, curfews, counters and the like. Bacon.","chondro-":"A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.","mundanity":"Worldliness. [Obs.]","experimentist":"An experimenter.","lance":"1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. A braver soldier never couched lance. Shak. 2. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. 3. (Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. 4. (Mil.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. 5. (Pyrotech.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. -- Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance. -- Lance corporal, same as Lancepesade. -- Lance knight, a lansquenet. B. Jonson. -- Lance snake (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Stink-fire lance (Mil.), a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners. To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.\n\n1. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden. 2. To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. 3. To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.","postoral":"Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.","mis-":"A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.","heterostylism":"The condition of being heterostyled.","roinish":"See Roynish. [Obs.]","forlese":"To lose utterly. [Obs.] haucer.","canter":"1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. J. H. Walsh. 2. A rapid or easy passing over. A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. Sir J. Stephen.\n\nTo move in a canter.\n\nTo cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.\n\n1. One who cants or whines; a beggar. 2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.","pearlite":"A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.","auntre":"To venture; to dare. [Obs.] Chaucer.","message":"1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. Judg. iii. 20. 2. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message. Message shell. See Shell.\n\nTo bear as a message. [Obs.]\n\nA messenger. [Obs.] Chaucer.","unshout":"To recall what is done by shouting. [Obs.] Shak.","tinning":"1. The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like. 2. The covering or lining of tin thus put on.","chargeableness":"The quality of being chargeable or expensive. [Obs.] Whitelocke.","ray":"1. To array. [Obs.] Sir T. More. 2. To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] \"The fifth that did it ray.\" Spenser.\n\nArray; order; arrangement; dress. [Obs.] And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray. Spenser.\n\n1. One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays. 2. (Bot.) A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes. (b) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. 4. (Physics) (a) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray. (b) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light. 5. Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. All eyes direct their rays On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze. Pope. 6. (Geom.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray. Bundle of rays. (Geom.) See Pencil of rays, below. -- Extraordinary ray (Opt.), that one or two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which does not follow the ordinary law of refraction. -- Ordinary ray (Opt.) that one of the two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which follows the usual or ordinary law of refraction. -- Pencil of rays (Geom.), a definite system of rays. -- Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the electrical discharge. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radiographs, or sciagraphs. So called from the discoverer, W. C. Röntgen. -- X ray, the Röntgen ray; -- so called by its discoverer because of its enigmatical character, x being an algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity.\n\n1. To mark with long lines; to streak. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Etym: [From Ray, n.] To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.] Thompson.\n\nTo shine, as with rays. Mrs. Browning.\n\n(a) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc. (b) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate. Bishop ray, a yellow-spotted, long-tailed eagle ray (Stoasodon nàrinari) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. -- Butterfly ray, a short-tailed American sting ray (Pteroplatea Maclura), having very broad pectoral fins. -- Devil ray. See Sea Devil. -- Eagle ray, any large ray of the family Myliobatidæ, or Ætobatidæ. The common European species (Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller. -- Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo. -- Starry ray, a common European skate (Raia radiata). -- Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonidæ having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Called also stingaree.","epitheloid":"Epithelioid.","overhigh":"Too high.","aurigation":"The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.","yokemate":"Same as Yokefellow.","gobioid":"Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. -- n. A gobioid fish.","canonicity":"The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.","dilatation":"1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. [Obs.] \"What needeth greater dilatation\" Chaucer. 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al 3. (Anat.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.","inditement":"The act of inditing. Craig.","conge":"To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy. I have congeed with the duke, done my adieu with his nearest. Shak.\n\n1. The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal. Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her congé Thackeray. 2. The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy. The captain salutes you with congé profound. Swift. 3. (Arch.) An apophyge. Gwilt. Congé d'élire [F., leave to choose] (Eccl.), the sovereign's license or permission to a dean and chapter to choose as bishop the person nominated in the missive.","apophlegmatic":"Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n. An apohlegmatic medicine.","handspring":"A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.","monotonist":"One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced. Richardson.","judicature":"1. The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice. The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor. Bacon. 2. A court of justice; a judicatory. South. 3. The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court. Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce. Milton.","bettor":"One who bets; a better. Addison.","hydr-":". See under Hydro-.\n\n1. A combining form from Gr. Hydra). 2. (Chem.) A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone.","geometrical":"Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. Note: Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions or principles of geometry are made use of rather than those of algebra. Note: Geometrical is often used in a limited or strictly technical sense, as opposed to mechanical; thus, a construction or solution is geometrical which can be made by ruler and compasses, i. e., by means of right lines and circles. Every construction or solution which requires any other curve, or such motion of a line or circle as would generate any other curve, is not geometrical, but mechanical. By another distinction, a geometrical solution is one obtained by the rules of geometry, or processes of analysis, and hence is exact; while a mechanical solution is one obtained by trial, by actual measurements, with instruments, etc., and is only approximate and empirical. Geometrical curve. Same as Algebraic curve; -- so called because their different points may be constructed by the operations of elementary geometry. -- Geometric lathe, an instrument for engraving bank notes, etc., with complicated patterns of interlacing lines; -- called also cycloidal engine. -- Geometrical pace, a measure of five feet. -- Geometric pen, an instrument for drawing geometric curves, in which the movements of a pen or pencil attached to a revolving arm of ajustable length may be indefinitely varied by changing the toothed wheels which give motion to the arm. -- Geometrical plane (Persp.), the same as Ground plane . -- Geometrical progression, proportion, ratio. See under Progression, Proportion and Ratio. -- Geometrical radius, in gearing, the radius of the pitch circle of a cogwheel. Knight. -- Geometric spider (Zoöl.), one of many species of spiders, which spin a geometrical web. They mostly belong to Epeira and allied genera, as the garden spider. See Garden spider. -- Geometric square, a portable instrument in the form of a square frame for ascertaining distances and heights by measuring angles. -- Geometrical staircase, one in which the stairs are supported by the wall at one end only. -- Geometrical tracery, in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures.","carolinian":"A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.","beal":"A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]","yogism":"Yoga, or its practice.","adolescent":"Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.\n\nA youth.","glint":"A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] \"He saw a glint of light.\" Ramsay.\n\nTo glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.\n\nTo glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.","whereto":"1. To which; -- used relatively. \"Whereto we have already attained.\" Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.","cardiac":"1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach. 2. (Med.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.\n\nA medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.","clove":"imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.\n\nA cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.\n\nA very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.\n\n1. (Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. Lindley. 2. A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","errancy":"A wandering; state of being in error.","operous":"Operose. [Obs.] Holder. -- Op\"er*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]","olecranal":"Of or pertaining to the olecranon.","geometrically":"According to the rules or laws of geometry.","gladius":"The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.","palladic":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.","inhume":"1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope. 2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.","jehovist":"1. One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist. 2. The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist. The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. S. Davidson.\n\nThe author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.","tetradont":"See Tetrodont.","bean trefoil":"A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).","democratize":"To render democratic.","fosterage":"The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.","cantor":"A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.","jeoparder":"One who puts in jeopardy. [R.]","coaita":"The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.","reticulum":"(a) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach. (b) The neuroglia.","strigine":"Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.","vivandiere":"In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.","boltrope":"A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.","amateurship":"The quality or character of an amateur.","secreness":"Secrecy; privacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","suite":"1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5. 2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6. Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library. Boswell. 3. (Mus.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.","carbonic":"Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing carbon. It is formed in the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hance called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and mephilic air. Water will absorb its own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out. -- Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.","puzzel":"A harlot; a drab; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.","tammy":"1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. 2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.","naphew":"See Navew.","independency":"1. Independence. \"Give me,\" I cried (enough for me), \"My bread, and independency!\" Pope. 2. (Eccl.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents.","lepisma":"A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.","snigger":"See Snicker. Thackeray.\n\nSee Snicker. Dickens.","noisette":"A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.","camphorate":"To impregnate or treat with camphor.\n\nA salt of camphoric acid.\n\nCombined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.","cutlet":"A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.","syphilis":"The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.","primariness":"The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention. Norris.","annihilatory":"Annihilative.","unpracticable":"Impracticable; not feasible.","ferme":"Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. Spenser.","blacksmith":"1. A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell. 2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, or Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.","disclamation":"A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.","chaldaic":"Of or pertaining to Chaldes. -- n. The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.","micro-":"A combining form signifying: (a) Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A millionth part of; as, microfarad, microohm, micrometer.","ligneous":"Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody. It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.","myoma":"A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.","sparge":"To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.","opponent":"Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic. Pope.\n\n1. One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe. Macaulay. 2. One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it. How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator! Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Antagonist; opposer; foe. See Adversary.","totipalmi":"A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.","catachrestical":"Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fatched. -- Cat`a*chres\"tic*al*ly, adv. [A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking. Jer. Taylor.","anthrax vaccine":"A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.","wretchedness":"1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.] Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.","glover":"One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.","polynucleolar":"Having more than one nucleolus.","luwack":"See Paradoxure.","fumigant":"Fuming. [R.]","beastlike":"Like a beast.","characterless":"Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.","dodo":"A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.","honey-bag":"The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.","whirler":"One who, or that which, whirls.","babyhood":"The state or period of infancy.","recoil":"1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey. 2. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink. Shak. 3. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. [Obs.] \"To your bowers recoil.\" Spenser.\n\nTo draw or go back. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood. 2. The state or condition of having recoiled. The recoil from formalism is skepticism. F. W. Robertson. 3. Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged. Recoil dynamometer (Gunnery), an instrument for measuring the force of the recoil of a firearm. -- Recoil escapement See the Note under Escapement.","leporine":"Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.","standish":"A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.","bemaze":"To bewilder. Intellects bemazed in endless doubt. Cowper.","sagenite":"Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.","propense":"Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense\"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense\"ness, n.","shingler":"1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.","cornetcy":"The commission or rank of a cornet.","enguard":"To surround as with a guard. [Obs.] Shak.","toyman":"One who deals toys.","sib":"A blood relation. [Obs.] Nash.\n\nRelated by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. Chaucer. [He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial. Spenser.","ultion":"The act of taking vengeance; revenge. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","kitty":"1. A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat. 2. [Etym. uncertain.] (Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table. R. F. Foster.","hydropathy":"The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.","amphichroic":"Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.","chasuble":"The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]","curvilinead":"An instrument for drawing curved lines.","zoophytology":"The natural history zoöphytes.","vainly":"In a vain manner; in vain.","imperturbable":"Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.","duet":"A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.","snipefish":"(a) The bellows fish. (b) A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.","immatured":"Immature.","bothy":"A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]","redeposit":"To deposit again.","huffingly":"Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.] And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.","sectarianism":"The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.","endamageable":"Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [Obs.]","kistvaen":"A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.","sphenoethmoidal":"Sphenethmoid.","periphrastical":"Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.","callipee":"See Calipee.","coafforest":"To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.","comminatory":"Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.","sciatical":"Sciatic.","tramontana":"A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.","battue":"(a) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game. (b) The game itself. (c) The wanton slaughter of game. Howitt.","underreckon":"To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.","acetic":"(a) Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation. (b) Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.","trimetrical":"Same as Trimeter.","passim":"Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.","palaestric":"See Palestric.","handicraft":"1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. [R.] Dryden.","patripassian":"One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas\"sian*ism, n.","shufflecap":",.A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [R.] Arbuthnot.","bleacher":"One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.","tallower":"An animal which produces tallow.","atrophy":"A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.\n\nTo cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.\n\nTo waste away; to dwindle.","mulierose":"Fond of woman. [R.] Charles Reade.","pilose":"1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen. 2. (Zoöl.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down. 3. (Bot.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.","harness cask":"A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub. W. C. Russell.","trias":"The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.","harpy":"1. (Gr. Myth.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton. 2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus æruginosus). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaëtus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. Harpy bat (Zoöl.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.","tanager":"Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.","mauvaniline":"See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.","col":"- (with, together. See Com-.\n\nA short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.","taro":"A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.","shortly":"1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.","atmologic":"Of or pertaining to atmology. \"Atmological laws of heat.\" Whewell.","reprobationer":"One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.","sugary":"1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.","docquet":"See Docket.","room":"1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. Luke ii. 7. 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv. 8. 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. Shak. 4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak. 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. -- To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. -- To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak. Syn. -- Space; compass; scope; latitude.\n\nTo occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.\n\nSpacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place. Chaucer.","undertook":"imp. of Undertake.","moulinet":"1. The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like. 2. A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up. 3. In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weawon.","excarnation":"The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.","reassume":"To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump\"tion, n.","untidy":"1. Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] \"Untidy tales.\" Piers Plowman. 2. Not tidy or neat; slovenly. -- Un*ti\"di*ly, adv. -- Un*ti\"di*ness, n.","circumambulate":"To walk round about. -- Cir`cum*am`bu*la\"tion, n.","seethe":"To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.] Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38.\n\nTo be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil. 1 Sam. ii. 13. A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam. G. W. Cable.","tuitionary":"Of or pertaining to tuition.","famously":"In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.","obitual":"Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days. Smart.","diluvium":"A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice. Note: The accumulation of matter by the ordinary operation of water is termed alluvium.","slugging match":"(a) A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang] (b) A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [Slang, U. S.]","cimbrian":"Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. -- n. One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.","benthamic":"Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.","haliography":"Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.","sesquitertial":"Sesquitertian.","pert":"1. Open; evident; apert. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 2. Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. [Obs.] Shak. 3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. \"A very pert manner.\" Addison. The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. Cowper.\n\nTo behave with pertness. [Obs.] Gauden.","agnus":"Agnus Dei.","outskirt":"A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth. The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.","amphibious":"1. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants. 2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare. 3. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.","grounding":"The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.","talmudism":"The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.","sweeper":"One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.","omnipercipience":"Perception of everything.","tansy":"1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes. 2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] Pepys. Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.","unyoke":"1. To loose or free from a yoke. \"Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses.\" Shak. 2. To part; to disjoin; to disconnect. Shak.","intervenience":"Intervention; interposition. [R.]","assumably":"By way of assumption.","tyburn ticket":"A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.","contractibleness":"Contractibility.","asperne":"To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.","incomity":"Want of comity; incivility; rudeness. [R.]","compose":"1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat. 2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts. 3. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the \"Standard\" and \"Last Supper\". B. R. Haydon. 4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton. 5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed. Dryden. 6. (Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).\n\nTo come to terms. [Obs.] Shak.","defedation":"The act of making foul; pollution. [Obs.]","opiniated":"Opinionated. [Obs.]","vitta":"1. (Bot.) One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants. 2. (Zoöl.) A band, or stripe, of color.","questionability":"The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.","scrape":"1. To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface. 2. To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above). I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4. 3. To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborius effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together. The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller. 4. To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down. Macaulay. To scrape acquaintance, to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction. Farquhar. He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously. G. W. Cable.\n\n1. To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along. 2. To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich. \"[Spend] their scraping fathers' gold.\" Shak. 3. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument. 4. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.\n\n1. The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen. 2. A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment. H. Spencer. 3. A disagreable and embrassing predicament, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty. The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes. Bp. Warburton.","neckar nut":"See Nicker nut.","homoeomery":"Same as Homoeomeria. [Obs.] Cudworth.","aesthetical":"Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet\"ic*al*ly, adv.","furies":"See Fury, 3.","oratorian":"Oratorical. [Obs.] R. North.\n\nSee Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.","brandling":"Same as Branlin, fish and worm.","paraph":"A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery. Brande & C.\n\nTo add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.","plateau":"1. A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land. 2. An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.","prickleback":"The stickleback.","archonship":"The office of an archon. Mitford.","crossopterygii":"An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.","euhemerism":"The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.","demoniac":"1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter. Thackeray. 2. Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power. \"Demoniac frenzy.\" Milton.\n\n1. A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was sometimes cast into the fire. Bates. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.","connotative":"1. Implying something additional; illative. 2. (Log.) Implying an attribute. See Connote. Connotative term, one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute. J. S. Mill.","molesty":"Molestation. [Obs.] Chaucer.","yoit":"The European yellow-hammer. [Prov. Eng.]","disparager":"One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.","heartswelling":"Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. \"Heartswelling hate.\" Spenser.","hydrometallurgical":"Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores. -- Hy`dro*met`al*lur\"gic*al*ly, adv.","diarrhoetic":"Producing diarrhea, or a purging.","cosignificative":"Having the same signification. Cockerham.","metagenetic":"Of or pertaining to metagenesis.","splenial":"(a) Designating the splenial bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle. Splenial bone (Anat.), a thin splintlike bone on the inner side of the proximal portion of the mandible of many vertebrates.\n\nThe splenial bone.","auscultate":"To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.","companiable":"Companionable; sociable. [Obs.] Bacon.","sculler":"1. A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars. [R.] Dryden. 2. One who sculls.","packwax":"Same as Paxwax.","glutaconic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.","rose-water":"Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental. \"Rose-water philantropy.\" Carlyle.","sunburst":"A burst of sunlight.","birdseed":"Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds. BIRD'S-EYE Bird's\"-eye`, a. 1. Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, generalas, a bird's-eye view. 2. Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple. BIRD'S-EYE Bird's\"-eye`, n. (Bot.) A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc. BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE Bird's\"-eye` ma\"ple. See under Maple. BIRD'S-FOOT Bird's\"-foot`, n. (Bot.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain. (b) the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European. BIRD'S-MOUTH Bird's-mouth`, n. (Arch.) An interior acrow's-foot in the United States. BIRD'S NEST; BIRD'S-NEST Bird's\" nest`, or Bird's-nest, n. 1. The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. 2. (Cookery) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algæ. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass. See Illust. under Edible. 3. (Bot.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys. BIRD'S-NESTING Bird's-nest`ing, n. Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents. BIRD'S-TONGUE Bird's\"-tongue`, n. (Bot.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).","elliptic-lanceolate":"Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.","tenantless":"Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.","wayk":"Weak. [Obs.] Chaucer.","disappointed":"1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. 2. Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.] Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak.","plastic":"1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. Pope. 2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child. 3. Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. Lyell. -- Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form. -- Plastic exudation (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected. -- Plastic foods. (Physiol.) See the second Note under Food. -- Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force. -- Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body. a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]","firecracker":"See Cracker., n., 3.","redde":"obs. imp. of Read, or Rede. Chaucer.","praecommissure":"A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.","prudentialist":"One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. [R.] Coleridge.","orphanotrophism":"The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).","polyeidic":"Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.","mountance":"Amount; sum; quantity; extent. [Obs.] Chaucer.","drowsy":"1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. \"When I am drowsy.\" Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. Tennyson. 3. Dull; stupid. \" Drowsy reasoning.\" Atterbury. Syn. -- Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.","magbote":"Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. Spelman.\n\nSee Mægbote.","acarina":"The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.","alienist":"One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.","towboat":"1. A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat. 2. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.","heam":"The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.","viminal":"Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.","aiel":"See Ayle. [Obs.]","icy-pearled":"Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton. I'D I'd . A contraction from I would or I had.","versemonger":"A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.","owlery":"An abode or a haunt of owls.","mero":"Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me\"ro de lo al\"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me\"ro ca*brol\"la.","hibiscus":"A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.","tiddlywinks":"Same as Tiddledywinks. Kipling.","cephalanthium":"Same as Anthodium.","rhonchal":"Rhonchial.","gnome":"1. An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc. 2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance. 3. (Zoöl.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States. 4. Etym: [Gr. A brief reflection or maxim. Peacham.","fireball":"(a) (Mil.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen. (b) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.","grazier":"One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market. The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen. Stow.","mitosis":"See Karyokinesis.","sirdar":"A native chief in Hindostan; a headman. Malcom.","snet":"The fat of a deer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]\n\nThe clear of mucus; to blow. [Obs.] \"Snetting his nose.\" Holland.","ultime":"Ultimate; final. [Obs.] Bacon.","existent":"Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.","unconcludent":"Inconclusive. [Obs.] Locke. -- Un`con*clud\"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","penang nut":"The betel nut. Balfour (Cyc. of India).","enormous":"1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. \"Enormous bliss.\" Milton. \"This enormous state.\" Shak. \"The hoop's enormous size.\" Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton. 2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. That detestable profession of a life so enormous. Bale. Syn. -- Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous. -- Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. \"Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor.\" V. Knox. \"Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive.\" La Rochefoucauld (Trans).","monarchical":"Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar\"chic*al*ly, adv.","horrific":"Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.","mesosiderite":"See the Note under Meteorite.","tirralirra":"A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn. The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak. \"Tirralira, \" by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.","disrespective":"Showing want of respect; disrespectful. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","pearlins":"A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","instratified":"Interstratified.","platting":"Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.","tussal":"Pertaining to, or manifested by, cough.","inadherent":"1. Not adhering. 2. (Bot.) Free; not connected with the other organs.","plumbing":"1. The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. Gwilt. 2. The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.","fenny":"Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. \"Fenny snake.\" Shak.","crispness":"The state or quality of being crisp.","sutlership":"The condition or occupation of a sutler.","burniebee":"The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]","high steel":"Steel containing a high percentage of carbon; high-carbon steel.","variometer":"An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.","isochimal":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or making, isocheims; as, an isocheimal line; an isocheimal chart.","ichthyopterygia":"See Ichthyosauria.","clematis":"A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.","resoluble":"Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire. Boyle. -- Res\"o*lu*ble*ness, n.","tractable":"1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. --Tract\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tract\"a\/bly, adv.","future":"That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.\n\n1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. \"Lay the future open.\" Shak. 2. The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him. 3. (Gram.) A future tense. To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]","straught":"imp. & p. p. of Stretch.\n\nTo stretch; to make straight. [Written also straucht.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","skulker":"One who, or that which, skulks.","misfaith":"Want of faith; distrust. \"[Anger] born of your misfaith.\" Tennyson.","mummery":"1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton. 2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. Bacon.","englaimed":"Clammy. [Obs.]","saccharimetry":"The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.","scrimmage":"1. Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle. 2. (Football) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.","chaussure":"A foot covering of any kind.","welked":"See Whelked.","outsell":"1. To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than. 2. To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value. Fuller. Shak.","septal":"Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.","ynambu":"A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); -- called also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou.","langaha":"A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its hose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.","pardie":"Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath. [Written also pardee, pardieux, perdie, etc.] [Obs.] He was, parde, an old fellow of yours. Chaucer.","melodramatic":"Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat\"ic*al*ly, adv.","fatherland":"One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.","dambonite":"A white crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caotchouc.","io moth":"A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.","angola pea":"A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.","impoundage":"1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.","nitro-":"1. A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter. 2. (Chem.) A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene. Nitro group, the radical NO2; -- called also nitroxyl.","symmetrician":"Same as Symmetrian. [R.] Holinshed.","definable":"Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. -- De*fin\"a*bly, adv.","consubstantially":"In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.","definiteness":"The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.","dewret":"To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.","immaterialism":"1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible. 2. (Philos.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.","biennially":"Once in two years.","debutant":"A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.","knobby":"1. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More. 2. Irregular; stubborn in particulars. [Obs.] The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy. Howell. 3. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.","preadministration":"Previous administration. Bp. Pearson.","annihilate":"1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon. 2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. \"To annihilate the army.\" Macaulay. 3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.\n\nAnhilated. [Archaic] Swift.","palmetto":"A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops, or Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage. Royal palmetto, the West Indian Sabal umbraculifera, the trunk of which, when hollowed, is used for water pipes, etc. The leaves are used for thatching, and for making hats, ropes, etc. -- Saw palmetto, Sabal serrulata, a native of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. The nearly impassable jungle which it forms is called palmetto scrub.","zygospore":"(a) Same as Zygosperm. (b) A spore formed by the union of several zoöspores; -- called also zygozoöspore.","bitternut":"The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.","cotton seed":"The seed of the cotton plant.","placentalia":"A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.","affreight":"To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.","lingel":"1. A shoemaker's thread. [Obs.] 2. A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts. Crabb.","gelid":"Cold; very cold; frozen. \"Gelid founts.\" Thompson.","disimprovement":"Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.","frolicly":"In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","coagency":"Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.","mesel":"A leper. [Obs.]","nakoo":"The gavial. [Written also nako.]","scotist":"A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.","henrietta cloth":"A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.","serrated":"1. Notched on the edge, like a saw. 2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves. Doubly serrate, having small serratures upon the large ones, as the leaves of the elm. -- Serrate-ciliate, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on the serratures; -- said of a leaf. -- Serrate-dentate, having the serratures toothed.","anhima":"A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.","basic":"1. (Chem.) (a) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. (b) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt. (c) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper. 2. (Min.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.","white fly":"Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.","heteromera":"A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.","breathless":"1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron. 3. Dead; as, a breathless body.","refractometer":"A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.","comet-seeker":"A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.","agroupment":"See Aggroupment.","gregge":"To make heavy; to increase. [Obs.] Wyclif.","endorhizal":"Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.","rateable":"See Ratable.","ventriloquism":"The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.","irredeemable":"Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem\"a*ble*ness, adv.","inequivalve":"Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.","mobile":"1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. \"Fixed or else mobile.\" Skelton. 2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily. 3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne. 4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features. 5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.\n\nThe mob; the populace. [Obs.] \"The unthinking mobile.\" South.","lignose":"Ligneous. [R.] Evelyn.\n\n1. (Bot.) See Lignin. 2. (Chem.) An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.","vermiform":"Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum. Vermiform appendix (Anat.), a slender blind process of the cæcum in man and some other animals; -- called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.","incanting":"Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.","shine":"1. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine. Shak. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist. 2 Cor. iv. 6. Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. Denham. 2. To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver. 3. To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. \"So proud she shined in her princely state.\" Spenser. Once brightest shined this child of heat and air. Pope. 4. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation. Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable. Swift. To make, or cause, the face to shine upon, to be propitious to; to be gracious to. Num. vi. 25.\n\n1. To cause to shine, as a light. [Obs.] He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues, upon men equally. Bacon. 2. To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them. [U. S.] Bartlett.\n\n1. The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen. Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine. Milton. Fair opening to some court's propitious shine. Pope. The distant shine of the celestial city. Hawthorne. 2. Sunshine; fair weather. Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine. Dryden. 3. A liking for a person; a fancy. [Slang, U.S.] 4. Caper; antic; row. [Slang] To cut up shines, to play pranks. [Slang, U.S.]\n\nShining; sheen. [Obs.] Spenser.","pistillody":"The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.","dimensive":"Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.","monandrian":"Same as Monandrous.","muticous":"Without a point or pointed process; blunt.","barehead":"Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.","cheep":"To chirp, as a young bird.\n\nTo give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.\n\nA chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mousse.","revealment":"Act of revealing. [R.]","towards":"1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deut. xxviii. 54. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv. 16. 3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom. 4. Near; about; approaching to. I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift.\n\nNear; at hand; in state of preparation. Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward Shak. We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. Shak.\n\nSee Toward.","corybantic":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.","heptagynous":"Having seven pistils.","deutoplastic":"Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.","whitethorn":"The hawthorn.","backboard":"1. A board which supports the back wen one is sitting; Note: specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat. 2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. 3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. 4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson. 5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray.","southerliness":"The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.","phraseology":"1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. [R.] Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.","coneine":"See Conine.","caparro":"A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.","voluntariness":"The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.","jagannath":"A particular form of Vishnu, or of Krishna, whose chief idol and worship are at Puri, in Orissa. The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul. The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings. Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car. It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.","tymp":"A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.","semiconscious":"Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.","ocra":"See Okra.","impolicy":"The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.","vermicide":"A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. Pereira.","gastronomist":"A gastromomer.","since":"1. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. We since become the slaves to one man's lust. B. Jonson. 2. In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago. w many ages since has Virgil writ Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney. 3. When or that. [Obs.] Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field Shak.\n\nFrom the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object. The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. Gen. xxx. 30. I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients. Dryden.\n\nSeeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that. Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon. Shak. Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed. Granville. Syn. -- Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See Because.","methaemoglobin":"A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.","resplendishant":"Resplendent; brilliant. [R. & Obs.] Fabyan.","fitz":"A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.","bargainor":"One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.","impetration":"1. The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty. [Obs.] In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses. Barrow. 2. (Old Eng. Law) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.","manducate":"To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","scene":"1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. 2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes. 3. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak. 4. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurence, exhibition, or action. \"In Troy, there lies the scene.\" Shak. The world is a vast scene of strife. J. M. Mason. 5. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view. Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! Addison. 6. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. Dryden. 7. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display. Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait De Quincey. Behind the scenes, behind the scenery of a theater; out of the view of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence, conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to public view.\n\nTo exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.","reincorporate":"To incorporate again.","behappen":"To happen to. [Obs.]","analepsy":"(a) Recovery of strength after sickness. (b) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.","counterprove":"To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.","beaupere":"1. A father. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. A companion. [Obs.] Spenser.","sliness":"See Slyness.","stycerin":"A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; - - called also phenyl glycerin.","exordial":"Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory. The exordial paragraph of the second epistle. I. Taylor.","erythraean":"Red in color. \"The erythrean main.\" Milton.","medal":"A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.\n\nTo honor or reward with a medal. \"Medaled by the king.\" Thackeray.","pineaster":"See Pinaster.","grudgeful":"Full of grudge; envious. \"Grudgeful discontent.\" Spenser.","laryngologist":"One who applies himself to laryngology.","seabeach":"A beach lying along the sea. \"The bleak seabeach.\" Longfellow.","vanquisher":"One who, or that which, vanquishes. Milton.","sphenogram":"A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.","doughty":"Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley. Note: Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque.","display":"1. To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser. 2. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line. Farrow. 3. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke. 4. To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. Proudly displaying the insignia of their order. Prescott. 5. (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type. 6. To discover; to descry. [Obs.] And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers. Chapman. Syn. -- To exhibit; show; manifest; spread out; parade; expand; flaunt.\n\nTo make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. Shak.\n\n1. An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench. 2. Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade. He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade. Byron.","misgovernance":"Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","mahdism":"Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah\"dist (#), n. Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed. E. N. Bennett.","ind":"India. [Poetical] Shak. Milton.","outjuggle":"To surpass in juggling.","thymene":"A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.","em-":"A prefix. See En-.","solenacean":"Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidæ.","shanghai":"To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also shanghae.] [Slang, U.S.]\n\nA large and tall breed of domestic fowl.","youl":"To yell; to yowl. [Obs.] Chaucer.","trash":"1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor. 2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. B. Edwards. 3. A worthless person. [R.] Shak. 4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. Markham. Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.\n\n1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards. 2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.] 3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] Beau. & Fl.\n\nTo follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan (1607).","phlegmatic":"1. Watery. [Obs.] \"Aqueous and phlegmatic.\" Sir I. Newton. 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. 3. Generating or causing phlegm. \"Cold and phlegmatic habitations.\" Sir T. Browne. 4. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. Addison. Phlegmatic temperament (Old Physiol.), lymphatic temperament. See under Lymphatic.","blancmange":"A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.","intendant":"One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.\n\nAttentive. [Obs.]","halves":"pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. To go halves. See under Go.","gemitores":"A division of birds including the true pigeons.","englishry":"1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.","dismayedness":"A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.","stewpot":"A pot used for stewing.","sottish":"Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift. Syn. -- Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate. -- Sot\"tish*ly, adv. -- Sot\"tish*ness, n.","spicknel":"An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort. [Written also spignel.]","hierocracy":"Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.","monomane":"A monomaniac. [R.]","ungovernable":"Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov\"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.","incongruence":"Want of congruence; incongruity. Boyle.","rubbidge":"Rubbish. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","nimble":"Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned, nimble-winged, etc. Nimble Will (Bot.), a slender, branching, American grass (Muhlenbergia diffusa), of some repute for grazing purposes in the Mississippi valley. Syn. -- Agile; quick; active; brisk; lively; prompt.","conscionableness":"The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.","terza rima":"A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.","digladiation":"Act of digladiating. [Obs.] \"Sore digladiations and contest.\" Evelyn.","anachronism":"A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.","ax":"A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle. Note: The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge. Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; ax-shaped; axlike. Note: This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe, etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its exclusion here. Note: \"The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has of late become prevalent.\" New English Dict. (Murray).\n\nTo ask; to inquire or inquire of. Note: This word is from Saxon, and is as old as the English language. Formerly it was in good use, but now is regarded as a vulgarism. It is still dialectic in England, and is sometimes heard among the uneducated in the United States. \"And Pilate axide him, Art thou king of Jewis\" \"Or if he axea fish.\" Wyclif. 'bdThe king axed after your Grace's welfare.\" Pegge.","epidermeous":"Epidermal. [R.]","anthropophagous":"Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.","lucimeter":"an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.","smartness":"The quality or state of being smart.","seeth":"imp. of Seethe. Chaucer.","digitate":"To point out as with the finger. [R.] Robinson (Eudoxa).\n\nHaving several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig\"i*tate*ly, adv.","streaminess":"The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.","cultrivorous":"Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison.","depurgatory":"Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","concaveness":"Hollowness; concavity.","underniceness":"A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.","misframe":"To frame wrongly.","drier":"1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth. 2. (Paint.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.\n\nof Dry, a.","lammergeir":"A very large vulture (Gypaëtus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full- grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Written also lammergeyer.]","overwork":"1. To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse. 2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. My days with toil are overwrought. Longfellow. 3. To decorate all over.\n\nTo work too much, or beyond one's strength.\n\nWork in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.","cudbear":"1. A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. Ure. 2. (Bot.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.","evangely":"Evangel. [Obs.] The sacred pledge of Christ's evangely. Spenser.","suicidical":"Suicidal. [Obs.]","matanza":"A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. [Western U. S.]","awhape":"To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [Obs.] Spenser.","semicope":"A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.","gravery":"The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.","plesh":"A pool; a plash. [Obs.] Spenser.","supposal":"The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.","veney":"A bout; a thrust; a venew. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes. Shak.","hippocrepian":"One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.","aard-vark":"An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.","dogday":"One of the dog days. Dogday cicada (Zoöl.), a large American cicada (C. pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer.","cinch":"1. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.] 2. A tight grip. [Colloq.]","lurch":"To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.\n\n1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. 2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. Denham. But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. Hudibras.\n\n1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. South. 2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.] And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. Shak.\n\nA sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.\n\nTo roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.\n\n1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange. 2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shak.","sonorous":"1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. 2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice. 3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous. 4. Impressive in sound; high-sounding. The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. Addison. There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. E. Everett. 5. (Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep- toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. Sonorous figures (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures. -- Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion. -- So*no\"rous*ly, adv. -- So*no\"rous*ness, n.","onionskin":"A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.","sithens":"Since. See Sith, and Sithen. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","tentaculite":"Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.","feltry":"See Felt, n. [Obs.]","sequacity":"Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon.","columbary":"A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.","adscript":"Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.\n\nOne held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft.","conspectus":"A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.","cam":"1. (Med.) (a) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. (b) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. (c) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which its acts. Note: Cams are much used in machinery involving complicated, and irregular movements, as in the sewing machine, pin machine, etc. 2. A ridge or mound of earth. [Prow. Eng.] Wright. Cam wheel (Mach.), a wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.\n\nCrooked. [Obs.]","lucerne":"See Lucern, the plant.","mandate":"1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. Dryden. 2. (Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. 3. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.","pleomorphous":"Having the property of pleomorphism.","inviolateness":"The state of being inviolate.","rhemish":"Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France. Rhemish Testament, the English version of the New Testament used by Roman Catholics. See Douay Bible.","omphalo-":"A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the umbilicus, or navel.","exsiccant":"Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up. -- n. (Med.) An exsiccant medicine.","drawbore":"A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.\n\n1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. 2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.","batman":"A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.\n\nA man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.","ingravidate":"To impregnate. [Obs.] Fuller.","illuminative":"Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. \"Illuminative reading.\" Carlyle.","paraxial":"On either side of the axis of the skeleton.","concoctive":"Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong.","stonecray":"A distemper in hawks.","isthmus":"A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc. Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.","traveled":"Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.] The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.","devilkin":"A little devil; a devilet.","imparalleled":"Unparalleled. [Obs.]","glamour":"1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. 2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson. 3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black. 4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.","water chestnut":"The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.","reformative":"Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.","argentite":"Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.","birthright":"Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.","perfunctoriness":"The quality or state of being perfunctory.","sybarite":"A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.","trustful":"1. Full of trust; trusting. 2. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- Trust\"ful*ly,adv. -- Trust\"ful*ness, n.","ornament":"That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Pet. iii. 4. Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments. Tennyson.\n\nTo adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city. Syn. -- See Adorn.","gordiacea":"A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.","scratchweed":"Cleavers.","achromatically":"In an achromatic manner.","cautionary":"1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals. 2. Given as a pledge or as security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet. 3. Wary; cautious. [Obs.] Bacon.","tuesday":"The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.","ate":"the preterit of Eat.\n\nThe goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.","exacerbate":"To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.","zwinglian":"Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements. -- n. A follower of Zwingli.","ens":"1. (Metaph.) Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings. 2. (Chem.) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence. [Obs.]","aponeurosis":"Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.","onomasticon":"A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.","contest":"1. To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell. 2. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground. 3. (Law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. (Polit.) (a) To strive to be elected. (b) To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend.\n\nTo engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with. The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with in, when there are hopes of victory. Bp. Burnet. Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest Pope.\n\n1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter. The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another. Hallam. It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce. Macaulay. Syn. -- Conflict; combat; battle; encounter; shock; struggle; dispute; altercation; debate; controvesy; difference; disagreement; strife. -- Contest, Conflict, Combat, Encounter. Contest is the broadest term, and had originally no reference to actual fighting. It was, on the contrary, a legal term signifying to call witnesses, and hence came to denote first a struggle in argument, and then a struggle for some common object between opposing parties, usually one of considerable duration, and implying successive stages or acts. Conflict denotes literally a close personal engagement, in which sense it is applied to actual fighting. It is, however, more commonly used in a figurative sense to denote strenuous or direct opposition; as, a mental conflict; conflicting interests or passions; a conflict of laws. An encounter is a direct meeting face to face. Usually it is a hostile meeting, and is then very nearly coincident with conflict; as, an encounter of opposing hosts. Sometimes it is used in a looser sense; as, \"this keen encounter of our wits.\" Shak. Combat is commonly applied to actual fighting, but may be used figuratively in reference to a strife or words or a struggle of feeling.","supervive":"To survive; to outlive. [Obs.]","fortifier":"One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.","reconnoiter":"1. To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations. 2. To recognize. [Obs.] Sir H. Walpole.","polychord":"Having many strings.\n\n(a) A musical instrument of ten strings. (b) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.","capriole":"1. (Man.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap. 2. A leap or caper, as in dancing. \"With lofty turns and caprioles.\" Sir J. Davies.\n\nTo perform a capriole. Carlyle.","oxymethylene":"Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.","papalist":"A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.","sole trader":"A feme sole trader.","universally":"In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.","culerage":"See Culrage.","dualistic":"Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality. Dualistic system or theory (Chem.), the theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities.","neutrally":"In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.","justiciable":"Proper to be examined in a court of justice. Bailey.","uptrace":"To trace up or out.","imrigh":"A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland. [Written also imrich.]","imprevalence":"Want of prevalence. [Obs.]","gainly":"Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","homogenesis":"That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.","armored":"Clad with armor.","microform":"A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.","bacterioscopic":"Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.","hexagonal":"Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.","sententiosity":"The quality or state of being sententious. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","leep":"of Leap. leaped.","severally":"Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.","nightertale":"period of night; nighttime. [Obs.] Chaucer.","unpitied":"1. Not pitied. 2. Pitiless; merciless. [Obs.] Shak.","fly fungus":"A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.","binaural":"Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.","mucamide":"The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.","leucocytogenesis":"The formation of leucocytes.","nifle":"A trifle. [Obs.] Chaucer.","manubrial":"Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike.","insulation":"1. The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation. 2. (Elec. & Thermotics) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.","aphetism":"An aphetized form of a word. New Eng. Dict.","mercurialize":"1. (Med.) To affect with mercury. 2. (Photography) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.\n\nTo be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious. [Obs.]","mistrust":"Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. Milton.\n\n1. To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust. I will never mistrust my wife again. Shak. 2. To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. Shak.","paleozooelogy":"The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.","enneapetalous":"Having nine petals, or flower leaves.","conepatl":"The skunk.","passe partout":"1. That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs.] Dryden. 2. A master key; a latchkey. 3. A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.","entermise":"Mediation. [Obs.]","resuscitation":"The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.","sermonical":"Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. [R.] \"Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic.\" Prof. Wilson. \"Sermonical style.\" V. Knox.","thecodactyl":"Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.","enthrill":"To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.","epical":"Epic. -- Ep\"ic*al*ly, adv. Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.","delitescent":"Lying hid; concealed.","splasher":"1. One who, or that which, splashes. 2. One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc. Weale. 3. A guard to keep off splashes from anything.","recarnify":"To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.","physograde":"Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.","pugnacity":"Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. \" A national pugnacity of character.\" Motley.","subpyriform":"Somewhat pyriform.","oviparity":"Generatuon by means of ova. See Generation.","high-top":"A ship's masthead. Shak.","ambaginous":"Ambagious. [R.]","pendulous":"1. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. Shak. \"The pendulous round earth. Milton. 2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] \"A pendulous state of mind.\" Atterbury. 3. (Bot.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.","direption":"The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.","epizoic":"Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.\n\nLiving upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.","bless":"1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3. 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. ) 3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14. 4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16. 5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed. 6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.] 7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1. 8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3. 9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser. Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax. Note: This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. \"In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field.\" Ascham. Bless me! Bless us! an exclamation of surprise. Milton. -- To bless from, to secure, defend, or preserve from. \"Bless me from marrying a usurer.\" Shak. To bless the doors from nightly harm. Milton. -- To bless with, To be blessed with, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness.","siliciureted":"Combined or impregnated with silicon. [Obsoles.] Siliciureted hydrogen. (Chem.) Hydrogen silicide. [Obs.]","mahratta":"One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas. [Written also Maratha.]\n\nA Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.","adulterously":"In an adulterous manner.","lyken":"To please; -- chiefly used impersonally. [Obs.] \" Sith it lyketh you.\" Chaucer.","encyclic":"Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.\n\nAn encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. Shipley.","puckish":"Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. \"Puckish freaks.\" J. R. Green.","kaguan":"The colugo.","basined":"Inclosed in a basin. \"Basined rivers.\" Young.","scurvily":"In a scurvy manner.","corncrib":"A crib for storing corn.","gothamist":"A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.","oxyrhyncha":"The maioid crabs.","bejade":"To jade or tire. [Obs.] Milton.","gulgul":"A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.","racket-tailed":"Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.","deloul":"A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.","premial":"Serving to reward; rewarding. [R.] Baxter.","resonant":"Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.","foreignism":"Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.","cuish":"Defensive armor for the thighs. [ Written also cuisse, and quish.]","refiner":"One who, or that which, refines.","bicycling":"The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.","anonymously":"In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift.","mirage":"An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage. By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.","abaxial":"Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. Balfour.","cyamellone":"A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.","redressless":"Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable. Sherwood.","hoyden":"Same as Hoiden.","aery":"An aerie.\n\nAërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.","clarty":"Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","comfortable":"1. Strong; vigorous; valiant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak. 2. Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak. 3. Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope. \"Kind words and comfortable.\" Cowper. A comfortable provision made for their subsistence. Dryden. 4. In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health. Shak. 5. Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person. [U. S.]\n\nA stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort. [U. S.]","pycnodontini":"An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.","immersable":"See Immersible.","phylactocarp":"A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.","tripping":"1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly. 2. (Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.\n\n1. Act of one who, or that which, trips. 2. A light dance. Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. Milton. 3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. Luce.","compulsively":"By compulsion; by force.","instrumentally":"1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.","deliciate":"To delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel. [Obs.]","kohnur":"A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.","fartherance":"See Furtherence.","lend":"1. To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow. Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. Shak. 2. To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. Levit. xxv. 37. 3. To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence. Cato, lend me for a while thy patience. Addison. Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions. J. A. Symonds. 4. To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. Note: This use of the word is rare in the United States, except with reference to money. To lend a hand, to give assistance; to help. [Colloq.] -- To lend an ear or one's ears, to give attention.","reflexive":"1. Etym: [Cf. F. réflexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. 2. Implying censure. [Obs.] \"What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word\" South. 3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. -- Re*flex\"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex\"ive*ness, n.\n\nIn a reflex manner; reflectively.","metallization":"The act or process of metallizing. [R.]","promulgation":"The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. South.","michaelmas":"The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn. Michaelmas daisy. (Bot.) See under Daisy.","everduring":"Everlasting. Shak.","hunger":"1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment. 2. Any strong eager desire. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden.\n\n1. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger. 2. To have an eager desire; to long. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness. Matt. v. 6.\n\nTo make hungry; to famish.","ixtil":"The fine, soft fiber of the bromeliaceous plant Bromelia sylvestris.","ensober":"To make sober. [Obs.] Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. Jer. Taylor.","wanness":"The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.","elucidative":"Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.","ooerial":"A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.","choree":"See Choreus.\n\n(a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.","rarefaction":"The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; - - opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.","unlooked-for":"Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.","cauponize":"To sell wine or victuals. [Obs.] Warburfon.","poor-willie":"The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.]","better":"1. Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton. 2. Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect. To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam. xv. 22. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Ps. cxviii. 9. 3. Greater in amount; larger; more. 4. Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better. 5. More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject. All the better. See under All, adv. -- Better half, an expression used to designate one's wife. My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now leave thee. Sir P. Sidney. -- To be better off, to be in a better condition. -- Had better. (See under Had). Note: The phrase had better, followed by an infinitive without to, is idiomatic. The earliest form of construction was \"were better\" with a dative; as, \"Him were better go beside.\" (Gower.) i. e., It would be better for him, etc. At length the nominative (I, he, they, etc.) supplanted the dative and had took the place of were. Thus we have the construction now used. By all that's holy, he had better starve Than but once think this place becomes thee not. Shak.\n\n1. Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy. 2. One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be found. Hooker. For the better, in the way of improvement; so as to produce improvement. \"If I have altered him anywhere for the better.\" Dryden.\n\n1. In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak. 2. More correctly or thoroughly. The better to understand the extent of our knowledge. Locke. 3. In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another. Never was monarch better feared, and loved. Shak. 4. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better. [Colloq.] To think better of (any one), to have a more favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.\n\n1. To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of. Love betters what is best. Wordsworth. He thought to better his circumstances. Thackeray. 2. To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise. The constant effort of every man to better himself. Macaulay. 3. To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel. The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered. Hooker. 4. To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of. [Obs.] Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton. Syn. -- To improve; meliorate; ameliorate; mend; amend; correct; emend; reform; advance; promote.\n\nTo become better; to improve. Carlyle.\n\nOne who bets or lays a wager.","polka":"1. A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time. 2. (Mus.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented. Polka jacket, a kind of knit jacket worn by women.","engineer corps":"(a) In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.","undecylic":"Related to, derived from, or containing, undecyl; specifically, designating that member of the fatty acids which corresponds to undecane, and is obtained as a white crystalline substance, C11H22O2.","lucific":"Producing light. Grew.","ganz system":"A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.","zeekoe":"A hippopotamus.","fusel":"A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.","nombles":"The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [Written also numbles.] Johnson.","albinism":"The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.","nightmare":"1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. 2. A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. Dunglison. 3. Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.","palliative":"Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.\n\nThat which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.","waistband":"1. The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like. 2. A sash worn by women around the waist. [R.]","misotheism":"Hatred of God. De Quincey.","windflower":"The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.","organical":"Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.","heben":"Ebony. [Obs.] Spenser.","aquosity":"The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.","bethel":"1. A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams. 2. A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.] 3. A house of worship for seamen.","destitution":"The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.","taglet":"A little tag.","skimback":"The quillback. [Local, U.S.]","unability":"Inability. [Obs.]","faradization":"The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.","lunistice":"The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]","deicide":"1. The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ. [R.] Earth profaned, yet blessed, with deicide. Prior. 2. One concerned in putting Christ to death.","autonomasy":"The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, \"He has gone to town,\" for, \"He has gone to London.\"","narcosis":"Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.","disseat":"To unseat. [R.] Shak.","half seas over":"Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.","incompetence":"1. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. \"Some inherent incompetency.\" Gladstone. 2. (Law) Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause. Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.","avengement":"The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.","antihydrophobic":"Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n. A remedy for hydrophobia.","underfollow":"To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.","spinneret":"One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.","milter":"A male fish.","eyereach":"The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. \"A seat in eyereach of him.\" B. Jonson.","manometer":"An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.","spoilfive":"A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.","succussation":"1. A trot or trotting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 2. A shaking; succussion.","synergy":"Combined action; especially (Med.), the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy. An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.","whereby":"1. By which; -- used relatively. \"You take my life when you take the means whereby I life.\" Shak. 2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively. Whereby shall I know this Luke i. 18. WHERE'ER Wher*e'er\", adv. Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.","electro-negative":"(a) Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. (b) Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.\n\nA body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.","parfourn":"To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.","invalidate":"To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.","staurolitic":"Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.","toreutic":"In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.","self-reprovingly":"In a self-reproving way.","areopagus":"The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal","poller":"One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Bacon. (d) One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter.","reinsure":"1. To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on. 2. To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an inssurance risk upon it. The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons. Walsh.","againstand":"To withstand. [Obs.]","duller":"One who, or that which, dulls.","subindication":"The act of indicating by signs; a slight indication. [R.] \"The subindication and shadowing of heavenly things.\" Barrow.","uraniscorrhaphy":"Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.","noot":"See lst Not. [Obs.] Chaucer.","wagonette":"A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.","rapid-firing":"(a) (Gun.) Firing shots in rapid succession. (b) (Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single- barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); specif.: (1) In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the gun. (2) In the United States army, designating such a gun, whether using fixed or separate ammunition, designed chiefly for use in coast batteries against torpedo vessels and the lightly armored batteries or other war vessels and for the protection of defensive mine fields; -- not distinguished from quick-fire. (3) In Great Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with quick-fire.","misrecite":"To recite erroneously.","lexiconist":"A writer of a lexicon. [R.]","translucid":"Translucent. [R.] Bacon.","maenad":"1. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus. 2. A frantic or frenzied woman.","pencil":"1. A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. With subtile pencil depainted was this storie. Chaucer. 2. A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite. 3. Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. 4. (Opt.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. 5. (Geom.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. 6. (Med.) A small medicated bougie. Pencil case, a holder for pencil lead. -- Pencil flower (Bot.), an American perennial leguminous herb (Stylosanthes elatior). -- Pencil lead, a slender rod of black lead, or the like, adapted for insertion in a holder.\n\nTo write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. Cowper. Where nature pencils butterflies on flowers. Harte.","duction":"Guidance. [Obs.] Feltham.","subnasal":"Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.","belle-lettrist":"One versed in belleslettres.","hard-shell":"Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. [Collog., U.S.]","notwheat":"Wheat not bearded. Carew.","plantigrade":"(a) Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. (b) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.\n\nA plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.","theoretics":"The speculative part of a science; speculation. At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.","knit":"1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. A great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 11. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. Shak. 2. To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings. 3. To join; to cause to grow together. Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. Wiseman. 4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love. Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come , knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson. 5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. knits his brow and shows an angry eye. Shak.\n\n1. To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops. 2. To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. \"It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas.\" [Obs.] Holland.\n\nUnion knitting; texture. Shak.","roup":"To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.\n\n1. An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson. To roup, that is, the sale of his crops, was over. J. C. Shairp. 2. A disease in poultry. See Pip.","adventurously":"In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.","heliochromy":"The art of producing photographs in color.","disseminate":"1. To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation. 2. To spread or extend by dispersion. A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward. Syn. -- To spread; diffuse; propagate; circulate; disperse; scatter.","saintess":"A female saint. [R.] Bp. Fisher.","radiculose":"Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.","dentile":"A small tooth, like that of a saw.","curialism":"The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.","stirrup":"1. A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body. Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. Chaucer. 2. (Carp. & Mach.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron. 3. (Naut.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope. Totten. Stirrup bone (Anat.), the stapes. -- Stirrup cup, a parting cup taken after mounting. -- Stirrup iron, an iron stirrup. -- Stirrup leather, or Stirrup strap, the strap which attaches a stirrup to the saddle. See Stirrup, 1.","toxine":"A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.","seaweed":"1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea. 2. (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.","annulate":"One of the Annulata.\n\n1. Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Annulata.","christless":"Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.","may laws":"1. See Kulturkampf, above. 2. In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).","living picture":"A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.","cuscus":"A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.","cheesemonger":"One who deals incheese. B. Jonson.","onerate":"To load; to burden. [Obs.] Becon.","cringeling":"One who cringes meanly; a fawner.","dipleidoscope":"An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.","dallop":"A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.","pig-eyed":"Having small, deep-set eyes.","limousine":"An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupé, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front; also, an automobile with such a body.","undying":"Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.","braky":"Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.","whisker":"1. One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion. 2. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural. Hoary whiskers and a forky beard. Pope. 3. pl. That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers. 4. A hair of the beard. 5. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal. 6. pl. (Naut.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.","zooegeny":"The doctrine of the formation of living beings.","monogamian":"1. Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.","telenergy":"Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er\"gic (#), a.","yucca borer":"(a) A California boring weevil (Yuccaborus frontalis). (b) A large mothlike butterfly (Megathymus yuccæ) of the family Megatimidæ, whose larva bores in yucca roots.","antagonist":"1. One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's Almigthy King. Milton. Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker. 2. (Anat.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. 3. (Med.) A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues. Syn. -- Adversary; enemy; opponent; toe; competitor. See Adversary.\n\nAntagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.","valuer":"One who values; an appraiser.","encourage":"To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6. Syn. -- To embolden; inspirit; animate; enhearten; hearten; incite; cheer; urge; impel; stimulate; instigate; countenance; comfort; promote; advance; forward; strengthen.","midway":"The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course. Shak. Paths indirect, or in the midway faint. Milton.\n\nBeing in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air. Shak.\n\nIn the middle of the way or distance; half way. \"She met his glance midway.\" Dryden.","glaucosis":"Same as Glaucoma.","tacket":"A small, broad-headed nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.","volcanian":"Volcanic. [R.] Keats.","moltable":"Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]","cannoned":"Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] \"Gilbralter's cannoned steep.\" M. Arnold.","adosculation":"Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.","bote":"(a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain. (b) Payment of any kind. Bouvier. (c) A privilege or allowance of necessaries. Note: This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system. Burrill. Bouvier. Blackstone.","dereliction":"1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke. 2. A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment. A total dereliction of military duties. Sir W. Scott. 3. The state of being left or abandoned. 4. (Law) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.","brabantine":"Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.","tangent":"A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc. -- Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length of the tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity. -- Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the strength of the current. -- Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle. -- Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from the center through the other extremity o.\n\nTouching; touching at a single point; specifically (Geom.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces. Tangent plane (Geom.), a plane which touches a surface in a point or line. -- Tangent scale (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon. -- Tangent screw (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm.","chrysopa":"A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.","aceric":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. Ure.","storminess":"The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.","vaudeville":"1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song. 2. A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant. Johnson's Cyc.","versicolored":"Having various colors; changeable in color. \"Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers.\" Burton.","ignorant":"1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. 2. Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of. Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. Dryden. 3. Unknown; undiscovered. [Obs.] Ignorant concealment. Shak. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed Shak. 4. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved. Shak. Syn. -- Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed; unlearned; unlettered; illiterate. -- Ignorant, Illiterate. Ignorant denotes want of knowledge, either as to single subject or information in general; illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of knowledge acquired by reading and study. In the Middle Ages, a great proportion of the higher classes were illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant, especially in regard to war and other active pursuits. In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. Shak. In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death. Tillotson.\n\nA person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.","knife-edge":"A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.","arbored":"Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. \"An arboreal walk.\" Pollok.","whatsoever":"Whatever. \"In whatsoever shape he lurk.\" Milton. Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Gen. xxxi. 16. Note: The word is sometimes divided by tmesis. \"What things soever ye desire.\" Mark xi. 24.","matzoth":"A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.","batrachomyomachy":"The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.","deturbate":"To evict; to remove. [Obs.] Foxe.","fibulare":"The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.","junco":"Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.","paynize":"To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.","americanism":"1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.","cedar":"The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor. Note: The cedar of Lebanon is the Cedrus Libani; the white cedar (Cupressus thyoides) is now called Chamoecyparis sphæroidea; American red cedar is the Juniperus Virginiana; Spanish cedar, the West Indian Cedrela odorata. Many other trees with odoriferous wood are locally called cedar. Cedar bird (Zoöl.), a species of chatterer (Ampelis cedrarum), so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing.\n\nOf or pertaining to cedar.","irrecognition":"A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.","modalist":"One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie.","spied":"imp. & p. p. of Spy.","divergingly":"In a diverging manner.","ostreaculture":"The artificial cultivation of oysters.","dithecal":"Having two thecæ, cells, or compartments.","moonish":"Like the moon; variable. Being but a moonish youth. Shak.","abbatial":"Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.","gainpain":"Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.","pegm":"A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","endocardium":"The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.","kava":"A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]","deathward":"Toward death.","hegelianism":"The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).","watcher":"One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.","stey":"See Stee.","disaccommodate":"To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.","hecdecane":"A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.","perforate":"To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.\n\nPierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.","ante-":"A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.","top-draining":"The act or practice of drining the surface of land.","cordelier":"1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. 2. (Fr. Hist.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.","caoncito":"1. A small cañon. 2. A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.","abalone":"A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.","decade":"A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.","galacta-gogue":"An agent exciting secretion of milk.","leatherneck":"The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).","supereminent":"Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. -- Su`per*em\"i*nent*ly, adv.","collar bone":"The clavicle.","goslet":"One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.","fondus":"A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.","zion":"1. (Jewish Antiq.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors. 2. Hence, the theocracy, or church of God. 3. The heavenly Jerusalem; heaven.","radeau":"A float; a raft. Three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer. W. Irving.","mezzanine":"(a) Same as Entresol. (b) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.","zincographic":"Of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic processes.","stook":"A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.\n\nTo set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.","clergyman":"An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.","amenability":"The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.","delitescence":"1. Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. (Med.) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.","fatback":"The menhaden.","radiotelegraphy":"Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical (Hertzian) waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.","sun star":"See Sun star, under Sun.","transhumanize":"To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.","eery":"1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson. 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.","interponent":"One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent. [R.] Heywood.","class":"1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes. 2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. 3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc. 4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay. 5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.\n\n1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages. Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. Dana. 2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.\n\nTo grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. Tatham.","revivify":"To cause to revive. Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.","vervel":"See Varvel.","photorelief":"A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations. Knight.","decipherable":"Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.","sheeprack":"The starling. SHEEP'S-EYE Sheep's\"-eye`, n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley. SHEEP'S-FOOT Sheep's-foot`, n. A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.","lavender":"1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts. 2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress. -- Lavender water, a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris. -- Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary. -- To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [Obs.]","cortege":"A train of attendants; a procession.","interlinear":"Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin\"e*ar*ly, adv.","cirrhotic":"Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.","surmisable":"Capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.","temperature":"1. Constitution; state; degree of any quality. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts. 2. Freedom from passion; moderation. [Obs.] In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth, Most goodly temperature you may descry. Spenser. 3. (Physics) Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling. 4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.] Made a temperature of brass and iron together. Holland. Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under Absolute. -- Animal temperature (Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in the bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during respiration. See Homoiothermal. -- Temperature sense (Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of temperature in external objects. H. N. Martin.","herderite":"A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.","prefectorial":"Of or pertaining to a prefect.","scuddle":"To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.","scepsis":"Skepticism; skeptical philosophy. [R.] Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of kant. J. martineau.","dynamite":"An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.","nigromancien":"A necromancer. [Obs.] These false enchanters or nigromanciens. Chaucer.","helmsman":"The man at the helm; a steersman.","cesarism":"See Cæsarism.","cotyledon":"1. (Anat.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta. 2. (Bot.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf. Note: Many plants, as the bean and the maple, have two cotyledons, the grasses only one, and pines have several. In one African plant (Welwitschia) the cotyledons are permanent and grow to immense proportions.","ascertain":"1. To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. [Obs.] When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson. 2. To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. [Archaic] The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. Hooker. The very deferring [of his execution] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. Jer. Taylor. The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon. 3. To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal. He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.","didelphous":"Didelphic.\n\nFormerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix. Cuvier.","capelle":"The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.","glengarry":"A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings. The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet. L. Hutton.","grimness":"Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.","haemadromometry":"Same as Hemadrometry.","lacteously":"In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.","mycoderma":"1. (Biol.) One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zoöloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance. 2. A genus of microörganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother.","fluoride":"A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.","neuropathy":"An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.","idiot":"1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. [Obs.] St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor. 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.] Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. C. Blount. 3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak. 4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach. Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame Chaucer.","silverless":"Having no silcver; hence, without money; impecunious. Piers Plowman.","vagrantness":"State of being vagrant; vagrancy.","zincite":"Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.","ostensive":"Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration (Math.), a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.","footbreadth":"The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.","merluce":"The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.","ma":"1. A child's word for mother. 2. [Hind.] In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother. Balfour (Cyc. of India).\n\nBut; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, \"Vivace, ma non troppo presto\" (i. e., lively, but not too quick). Moore (Encyc. of Music).","iatric":"Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.","ankylosis":"1. (Med.) Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. Dunglison. 2. (Anat.) The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.\n\nSame as Anchylosis.","par":"See Parr.\n\nBy; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.\n\n1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. 2. Equality of condition or circumstances. At par, at the original price; neither at a discount nor at a premium. -- Above par, at a premium. -- Below par, at a discount. -- On a par, on a level; in the same condition, circumstances, position, rank, etc.; as, their pretensions are on a par; his ability is on a par with his ambition. -- Par of exchange. See under Exchange. -- Par value, nominal value; face value.","bindheimite":"An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.","quirked":"Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.","avena":"A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.","lacquer":"A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-maché, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.\n\nTo cover with lacquer. \"Lacquer'd chair.\" Pope.","whisket":"1. A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. (Mach.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.","antizymotic":"Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n. An agent so used.","coriaceous":"1. Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough. 2. (Bot.) Stiff, like leather or parchment.","fair-leader":"A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.","venus":"1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. 2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. 3. (Alchem.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic] 4. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridæ. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; - - so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath. -- Venus's basket (Zoöl.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket, and Venus's purse. -- Venus's comb. (a) (Bot.) Same as Lady's comb. (b) (Zoöl.) A species of Murex (M. tenuispinus). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also Venus's shell. -- Venus's fan (Zoöl.), a common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two. -- Venus's flytrap. (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2. -- Venus's girdle (Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix. -- Venus's hair (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches. -- Venus's hair stone (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile. -- Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; -- also called lady's looking- glass. -- Venus's navelwort (Bot.), any one of several species of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers. -- Venus's pride (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See under Quaker. -- Venus's purse. (Zoöl.) Same as Venus's basket, above. -- Venus's shell. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of Cypræa; a cowrie. (b) Same as Venus's comb, above. (c) Same as Venus, 4. -- Venus's slipper. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper. (b) (Zoöl.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria.","enrank":"To place in ranks or in order. [R.] Shak.","killdeer":"A small American plover (Ægialitis vocifera). Note: It is dark grayish brown above; the rump and upper tail coverts are yellowish rufous; the belly, throat, and a line over the eyes, white; a ring round the neck and band across the breast, black.","bemock":"To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.","cobby":"1. Headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.] Brockett. 2. Stout; hearty; lively. [Obs.]","compulsative":"Compulsatory. [R.] Shak.","crack-loo":"A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]","sentimental":"1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead. 2. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately. 3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. Syn. -- Romantic. -- Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. \"Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously.\" V. Knox. \"I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be.\" Bp. Stillingfleet.","cairn":"1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell. 2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.","intimidation":"The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley.","nimbiferous":"Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.","aventine":"Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.\n\nA post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.","ooephyte":"Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion. Note: This class was at first called Oösporeæ, and is made to include all algæ and fungi which have this kind of reproduction, however they may differ in all other respects, the contrasted classes of Thallophytes being Protophytes, Zygophytes, and Carpophytes. The whole system has its earnest advocates, but is rejected by many botanists. See Carpophyte.","perspicacy":"Perspicacity. [Obs.]","brotherliness":"The state or quality of being brotherly.","supraspinate":"Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.","drabble":"To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.\n\nTo fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.","chufa":"A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.","ophthalmia":"An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.","egotistical":"Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism. Syn. -- Conceited; vain; self-important; opinionated.","perturbance":"Disturbance; perturbation. [R.] \"Perturbance of the mind.\" Sharp.","referential":"Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en\"tial*ly, adv.","flyfish":"A California scorpænoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.","amharic":"Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n. The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia).","hawkey":"See Hockey. Holloway.","inosculation":"The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.","maian":"Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadæ.","knowingly":"1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. [Obs.] Shak.","property":"1. That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: In physical science, the properties of matter are distinguished to the three following classes: 1. Physical properties, or those which result from the relations of bodies to the physical agents, light, heat, electricity, gravitation, cohesion, adhesion, etc., and which are exhibited without a change in the composition or kind of matter acted on. They are color, luster, opacity, transparency, hardness, sonorousness, density, crystalline form, solubility, capability of osmotic diffusion, vaporization, boiling, fusion, etc. 2. Chemical properties, or those which are conditioned by affinity and composition; thus, combustion, explosion, and certain solutions are reactions occasioned by chemical properties. Chemical properties are identical when there is identity of composition and structure, and change according as the composition changes. 3. Organoleptic properties, or those forming a class which can not be included in either of the other two divisions. They manifest themselves in the contact of substances with the organs of taste, touch, and smell, or otherwise affect the living organism, as in the manner of medicines and poisons. 2. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence. 3. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title. Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood. Shak. Shall man assume a property in man Wordsworth. 4. That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property. 5. pl. All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. [Obs.] Camden. Literary property. (Law) See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge of the \"properties\" of a theater.\n\n1. To invest which properties, or qualities. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To make a property of; to appropriate. [Obs.] They have here propertied me. Shak.","array":"1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. Wedged together in the closest array. Gibbon. 2. The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott. 3. An imposing series of things. Their long array of sapphire and of gold. Byron. 4. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. Dryden. 5. (Law) (a) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause. (b) The panel itself. (c) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.\n\n1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar. 2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull. 3. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. Blackstone. To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are impaneled. Cowell. Tomlins. Syn. -- To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.","geological":"Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.","cofferdam":"A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.","giust":"Same as Joust. Spenser.\n\nSame as Joust. Spenser.","parathesis":"1. (Gram.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition. 2. (Rhet.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. Smart. 3. (Print.) The matter contained within brackets. 4. (Eccl.) A commendatory prayer. Shipley.","fixture":"1. That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away. 2. State of being fixed; fixedness. The firm fixture of thy foot. Shak. 3. (Law) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Bouvier. Note: This word is frequently substituted for fixure (formerly the word in common use) in new editions of old works.","snowslip":"A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.","dabb":"A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.","causelessness":"The state of being causeless.","eale":"Ale. [Obs.] Shak.","pocketful":"As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.","congeneric":"Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.","upupa":"A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.","embryology":"The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.","country-dance":"See Contradance. He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macualay.","fluey":"Downy; fluffy. [R.]","pentathionic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.","excheator":"See Escheator. [Obs.]","inoculable":"Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.","timbre":"See 1st Timber.\n\n1. (Her.) The crest on a coat of arms. 2. (Mus.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.","floatingly":"In a floating manner.","kiva":"A large chamber built under, or in, the houses of a Pueblo village, used as an assembly room in religious rites or as a men's dormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in the roof.","aureate":"Golden; gilded. Skelton.","tooling":"Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.","globefish":"A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.","zaim":"A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name. Smart.","farfet":"Farfetched. [Obs.] York with his farfet policy. Shak.","sea maw":"The sea mew.","fuze":"A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n. Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. -- Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. -- Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current. -- Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. -- Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound. -- Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.","verecundity":"The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. [Obs.]","gambadoes":"Same as Gamashes. His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps. Sir W. Scott.","rambling":"Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.","siphonostomata":"(a) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood. (b) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.","elevated":"Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.","pretext":"Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise. They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness. L'Estrange. With how much or how little pretext of reason. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Pretense; excuse; semblance; disguise; appearance. See Pretense.","arietate":"To butt, as a ram. [Obs.]","candlebomb":"1. A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam. 2. A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.","foot guards":"Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [Eng.]","spoutless":"Having no spout. Cowper.","rubeola":"(a) the measles. (b) Rubella.","flushboard":"Same as Flashboard.","colonitis":"See Colitis.","apotome":"1. (Math.) The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square. 2. (Mus) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]","nonchalant":"Indifferent; careless; cool.","sightful":"Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. [Obs.] Testament of Love.","solander":"See Sallenders.","subterraneous":"Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage. -- Sub`ter*ra\"ne*ous*ly, adv.","postnuptial":"Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.","deil":"Devil; -- spelt also deel. [Scot.] Deil's buckie. See under Buckie.","imperatorial":"1. Commanding; imperative; authoritative. 2. Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator. \"Imperatorial laurels.\" C. Merivale.","bipinnatifid":"Doubly pinnatifid. Note: A bipinnatifid leaf is a pinnatifid leaf having its segments or divisions also pinnatifid. The primary divisions are pinnæ and the secondary pinnules.","blandishment":"The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.","hebraistically":"In a Hebraistic sense or form. Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament. Kitto.","undercreep":"To creep secretly or privily. [Obs.] Wyclif.","clupeoid":"Of or pertaining to the Herring family.","keratode":"See Keratose.","damp off":"To decay and perish through excessive moisture.","consuetudinary":"Customary.\n\nA manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.","swanpan":"The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. S. W. Williams. SWAN'S-DOWN; SWANS-DOWN Swan's\"-down`, or; Swans\"-down`, n. 1. The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress. 2. A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin. Swan's-down cotton. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.","banality":"Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.","inantherate":"Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.","synonymicon":"A dictionary of synonyms. C. J. Smith.","hall-mark":"The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.","superintend":"To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature. Bacon. Syn. -- Superintend, Supervise. These words in general use are the synonymous. As sometimes used, supervise implies the more general, and superintend, the more particular and constant, inspection or direction. Among architects there is a disposition to use the word supervise in the sense of a general oversight of the main points of construction with reference to the design, etc., and to employ the word superintend to signify a constant, careful attention to all the details of construction. But this technical distinction is not firmly established.","stab culture":"A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire. The growths are usually of characteristic form.","unsoft":"Not soft; hard; coarse; rough. [Obs.] \"Bristles of his beard unsoft.\" Chaucer.\n\nNot softly. [Obs.] Great climbers fall unsoft. Spenser.","forby":"Near; hard by; along; past. [Obs.] To tell her if her child went ought forby. Chaucer. To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More's Utopia).","glochidiate":"Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.","placation":"The act of placating. [R.] Puttenham (1589).","touse":"To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.\n\nA pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","inactose":"A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive.","trihoral":"Occurring once in every three hours.","areometric":"Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer.","faddle":"To trifle; to toy. -- v. t. To fondle; to dandle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","red-tailed":"Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.","reprieve":"1. To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. Rogers. 2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily. Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience. South.\n\n1. A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death. The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. Clarendon. 2. Interval of ease or relief; respite. All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve. Denham.","snappish":"1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur. 2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope. Jeffrey. -- Snap\"pish*ly, adv. -- Snap\"pish*ness, n.","spink":"The chaffinch.","trifolium":"A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.","glimmering":"1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.","ruinate":"1. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin. I will not ruinate my fShak. Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies. Burton. 2. To cause to fall; to cast down. On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate. Spenser.\n\nTo fall; to tumble. [Obs.]\n\nInvolved in ruin; ruined. My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate. J. Webster.","hungered":"Hungry; pinched for food. [Obs.] Milton.","fuchsia":"A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.","oversoon":"Too soon. Sir P. Sidney.","alarm":"1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1. 3. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] \"These home alarms.\" Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope. 4. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay. 5. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm. Syn. -- Fright; affright; terror; trepidation; apprehension; consternation; dismay; agitation; disquiet; disquietude. -- Alarm, Fright, Terror, Consternation. These words express different degrees of fear at the approach of danger. Fright is fear suddenly excited, producing confusion of the senses, and hence it is unreflecting. Alarm is the hurried agitation of feeling which springs from a sense of immediate and extreme exposure. Terror is agitating and excessive fear, which usually benumbs the faculties. Consternation is overwhelming fear, and carries a notion of powerlessness and amazement. Alarm agitates the feelings; terror disorders the understanding and affects the will; fright seizes on and confuses the sense; consternation takes possession of the soul, and subdues its faculties. See Apprehension.\n\n1. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. 2. To keep in excitement; to disturb. 3. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. Alarmed by rumors of military preparation. Macaulay.","bistort":"An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.","sheep":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. Note: The domestic sheep (Ovis aries) varies much in size, in the length and texture of its wool, the form and size of its horns, the length of its tail, etc. It was domesticated in prehistoric ages, and many distinct breeds have been produced; as the merinos, celebrated for their fine wool; the Cretan sheep, noted for their long horns; the fat-tailed, or Turkish, sheep, remarkable for the size and fatness of the tail, which often has to be supported on trucks; the Southdowns, in which the horns are lacking; and an Asiatic breed which always has four horns. 2. A weak, bashful, silly fellow. Ainsworth. 3. pl. Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. Rocky mountain sheep.(Zoöl.) See Bighorn. -- Maned sheep. (Zoöl.) See Aoudad. -- Sheep bot (Zoöl.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus. -- Sheep dog (Zoöl.), a shepherd dog, or collie. -- Sheep laurel (Bot.), a small North American shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs. -- Sheep pest (Bot.), an Australian plant (Acæna ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep. -- Sheep run, an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. -- Sheep's bit (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep. -- Sheep sorrel. (Bot.), a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel. -- Sheep's-wool (Zoöl.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse. -- Sheep walk, a pasture for sheep; a sheep run. -- Wild sheep. (Zoöl.) See Argali, Mouflon, and Oörial.","bromogelatin":"Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.","plateresque":"Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.","warm-hearted":"Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic. -- Warm\"-heart`ed*ness, n.","whirtle":"A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.","autogenetic topography":"A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.","tropically":"In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.","try cock":"A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.","chromatogenous":"Producing color.","floured":"Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.","involucred":"Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc. Martyn.","lockram":"A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. Shak.","hyoidean":"Same as Hyoid, a.","brassage":"A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.","husky":"Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. Dryden.\n\nRough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.","anserine":"1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. 2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Anseres.","hestern":"Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.","eviration":"Castration. [Obs.]","apoda":"(a) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs. (b) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha. (c) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.","quayd":"p. p. of Quail. [Obs.] Spenser.","necessitude":"1. Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale. 2. Necessary connection or relation. Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. Jer. Taylor.","lenify":"To assuage; to soften; to Bacon. Dryden.","dormitive":"Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.","hyperion":"The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty. So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr. Shak.","molecule":"1. One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist. 2. (Physics) The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state. 3. (Chem.) A group of atoms so united and combined by chemical affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Cf. Atom.","radication":"1. The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits. 2. (Bot.) The disposition of the roots of a plant.","leveling":"1. The act or operation of making level. 2. (Surveying) The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad. Leveling instrument. See Surveyor's level, under Level, n. -- Leveling staff, a graduated rod or staff used in connection with a leveling instrument for measuring differences of level between points.","tentacle":"A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.","mandamus":"A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.","appertinent":"Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.] Coleridge.\n\nThat which belongs to something else; an appurtenant. [Obs.] Shak.","pedlar":"See Peddler.","coagulated":"Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.","sylleptic":"Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis. -- Syl*lep\"tic*al*ly, adv.","blouse":"A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.","pyrrol":"A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.","lardon":"A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.","prorhinal":"Situated in front of the nasal chambers.","morian":"A Moor. [Obs.] In vain the Turks and Morians armed be. Fairfax.","helvine":"A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.","highty-tighty":"Hoity-toity.","post-abdomen":"That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.","coextension":"The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.","tabetic":"Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. -- n. One affected with tabes.","twofold":"Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.\n\nIn a double degree; doubly.","phaenogam":"Any plant of the class Phænogamia.","tegument":"1. A cover or covering; an integument. 2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.","fetidity":"Fetidness.","connusant":"See Cognizant. [Obs.]","executory":"1. Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke. 2. (Law) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.","episodic":"Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- Ep`i*so\"dic*al*ly, adv. Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait. H. James.","hydrencephsloid":"Same as Hydrocephaloid.","subdued":"1. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild. 2. Not glaring in color; soft in tone.","suwarrow":"The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.","puler":"One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.","exotheca":"The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.","butyric":"Pertaining to, or derived from, butter. Butyric acid, C3H7.CO2H, an acid found in butter; an oily, limpid fluid, having the smell of rancid butter, and an acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter.","depudicate":"To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]","epidermical":"Epidermal. [R.]","lepidopter":"One of the Lepidoptera.","wealthily":"In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.","teetotally":"Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]","overshade":"To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.","madisterium":"An instrument to extract hairs.","irresponsive":"Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond.","frontiered":"Placed on the frontiers. [R.]","unmew":"To release from confinement or restraint. Keats.","deckel":"Same as Deckle.","loin":"That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.","alternator":"An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.","rappee":"A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.","plebiscite":"A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791. [Written also plebiscit.] Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. Fitzed. Hall.","electrophone":"An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.","feuar":"One who holds a feu. Sir W. Scott.","geotropic":"Relating to, or showing, geotropism.","outburst":"A bursting forth.","banjorine":"A kind of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called.","annalize":"To record in annals. Sheldon.","interlunar":"Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.","rostrate":"1. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate. 2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.","trieterics":"Festival games celebrated once in three years. [R.] May.","hagioscope":"An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.","deaconess":"A female deacon; as: (a) (Primitive Ch.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. (b) (Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. (c) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.","pontil":"Same as Pontee.","prothetic":"Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus.","contriver":"One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.","conditionality":"The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.","untaste":"To deprive of a taste for a thing. [R.] Daniel.","wharp":"A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder. [Eng.]","dame":"1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak. 2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. Emerson. 3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman. 4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hoddydoddy":"An awkward or foolish person. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","sport":"1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. It is as sport a fool do mischief. prov. x. 23. Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak. 2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.Shak. 3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. Dryden. Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions. John Clarke. 4. Play; idle jingle. An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome. 5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. 6. (Bot. & Zoöl.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting. 7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. \"So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport\" Prov. xxvi. 19. Syn. -- Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.\n\n1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton. 2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 3. To trifle. \"He sports with his own life.\" Tillotson. 4. (Bot. & Zoöl.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin. Syn. -- To play; frolic; game; wanton.\n\n1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. Against whom do ye sport yourselves Isa. lvii. 4. 2. To represent by any knd of play. Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. Dryden. 3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] Grose. 4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. Addison. To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.","impostrous":"Characterized by imposture; deceitful. \"Impostrous pretense of knowledge.\" Grote.","verruculose":"Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.","assay pound":"A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.","horsewhip":"A whip for horses.\n\nTo flog or chastise with a horsewhip.","prostration":"1. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. 2. The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. A greater prostration of reason than of body. Shak. 3. The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. \"A sudden prostration of strength.\" Arbuthnot. 4. (Med.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor. Note: Prostration, in its medical use, is analogous to the state of a spring lying under such a weight that it is incapable of action; while exhaustion is analogous to the state of a spring deprived of its elastic powers. The word, however, is often used to denote any great depression of the vital powers.","importunator":"One who importunes; an importuner. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.","homeopathic":"Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [Also homoepathic.]","volution":"1. A spiral turn or wreath. 2. (Zoöl.) A whorl of a spiral shell.","frigerate":"To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.","reilluminate":"To enlighten again; to reillumine.","nabit":"Pulverized sugar candy. Crabb.","transmigrate":"1. To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate. 2. To pass from one body or condition into another. Their may transmigrate into each other. Howell.","negativeness":"The quality or state of being negative.","juramentum":"An oath.","disguisedness":"The state of being disguised.","untie":"1. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. Waller. Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope. 2. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. 3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear. They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. Denham.\n\nTo become untied or loosed.","craggy":"Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. \"The craggy ledge.\" Tennyson.","apt":"1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock. 3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison. 4. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. \"An apt wit.\" Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak. Syn. -- Fit; meet; suitable; qualified; inclined; disposed; liable; ready; quick; prompt.\n\nTo fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] \" To apt their places.\" B. Jonson. That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor.","septemvirate":"The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.","godlyhead":"Goodness. [Obs.] Spenser.","spitted":"1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit. 2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.\n\np. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit. [Obs.]","supraspinal":"(a) Situated above the vertebral column. (b) Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.","intercurrent":"1. Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell. 2. (Med.) (a) Not belonging to any particular season. (b) Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.\n\nSomething intervening. Holland.","inebriant":"Intoxicating.\n\nAnything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.","love-sick":"1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.","decarbonization":"The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.","overfish":"To fish to excess.","quamoclit":"Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea.","palmister":"One who practices palmistry Bp. Hall.","flathead":"Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.\n\nA Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.","paramere":"One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.","scum":"1. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross. Some to remove the scum it did rise. Spenser. 2. refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless. The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people. Addison.\n\n1. To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim. You that scum the molten lead. Dryden & Lee. 2. To sweep or range over the surface of. [Obs.] Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates. Milton.\n\nTo form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively. Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over. A. K. H. Boyd.","telescopy":"The art or practice of using or making telescopes.","rename":"To give a new name to.","oreosoma":"A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.","impenetrably":"In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. \"Impenetrably armed.\" Milton. \"Impenetrably dull.\" Pope.","compendious":"Containing the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot. Syn. -- Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise.","enmesh":"To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak. My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.","decease":"Departure, especially departure from this life; death. His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser. Syn. -- Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death.\n\nTo depart from this life; to die; to pass away. She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak. When our summers have deceased. Tennyson. Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson.","amplitude":"1. State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller. 2. Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness. (a) Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. \"Amplitude of mind.\" Milton. \"Amplitude of comprehension.\" Macaulay. (b) Of extent of means or resources. \"Amplitude of reward.\" Bacon. 3. (Astron.) (a) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator. (b) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object. 4. (Gun.) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range. 5. (Physics) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements. 6. (math.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions. Magnetic amplitude, the angular distance of a heavenly body, when on the horizon, from the magnetic east or west point as indicated by the compass. The difference between the magnetic and the true or astronomical amplitude (see 3 above) is the \"variation of the compass.\"","freely":"In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously. Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat. Gen. ii. 16. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton. Freely we serve Because we freely love. Milton. Syn. -- Independently; voluntarily; spontaneously; unconditionally; unobstructedly; willingly; readily; liberally; generously; bounteously; munificently; bountifully; abundantly; largely; copiously; plentifully; plenteously.","camembert cheese":"A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.","mohr":"A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also mhorr.]","unruffle":"To cease from being ruffled or agitated. Dryden.","lodde":"The capelin.","hanse":"That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.\n\nAn association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.","shathmont":"A shaftment. [Scot.]","sloggy":"Sluggish. [Obs.] Somnolence that is sloggy slumbering Chaucer.","brogue":"1. A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan. Note: In the Highlands of Scotland, the ancient brogue was made of horsehide or deerskin, untanned or tenned with the hair on, gathered round the ankle with a thong. The name was afterward given to any shoe worn as a part of the Highland costume. Clouted brogues, patched brogues; also, brogues studded with nails. See under Clout, v. t. 2. A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.","cornstarch":"Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.","necroscopical":"Or or relating to post-mortem examinations.","deep-sea":"Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.","sixpenny":"Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.","disassiduity":"Want of as siduity or care. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.","poiser":"The balancer of dipterous insects.","misrecollect":"To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.","synoptical":"Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. \"The synoptic Gospels.\" Alford. -- Syn*op\"tic*al*ly, adv.","vakeel":"A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]","concinnity":"Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.","crystal":"1. (Chem. & Min.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization. 2. The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; - - called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian. 3. A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass. 4. The glass over the dial of a watch case. 5. Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc. The blue crystal of the seas. Byron. Blood crystal. See under Blood. -- Compound crystal. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, or Mountain crystal, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.\n\nConsisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline. Through crystal walls each little mote will peep. Shak. By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.","voltaism":"That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.","crisscross-row":"See Christcross-row.","janthina":"See Ianthina.","announcement":"The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.","xylographer":"One who practices xylography.","bonnet":"1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] Milton. Shak. 2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott. 3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel. 4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as, (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. (b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc. (c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks. (d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft. (e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers. 5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt. 6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal. 7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. -- Black bonnet. See under Black. -- Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.\n\nTo take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.","tannigen":"A compound obtained as a yellowish gray powder by the action of acetyl chloride or acetic anhydride or ordinary tannic acid. It is used as an intestinal astringent, and locally in rhinitis and pharyngitis.","blatteroon":"A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] \"I hate such blatteroons.\" Howell.","concertante":"A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.","quadrennial":"1. Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period. 2. Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every four years; as, quadrennial games.","bluefin":"A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.","urao":"See Trona.","broach":"1. A spit. [Obs.] He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon. 2. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. [Prov. Eng.] Forby. 3. (Mech.) (a) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. (b) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. 4. (Masonry) A broad chisel for stonecutting. 5. (Arch.) A spire rising from a tower. [Local, Eng.] 6. A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. 7. A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. 8. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight. 9. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.\n\n1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak. 2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak. 3. To open for the first time, as stores. You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will broach my store, and will bring forth my stores. Knolles. 4. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift. 5. To cause to begin or break out. [Obs.] Shak. 6. (Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.] 7. To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.","trafficker":"One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.","numberous":"Numerous. [Obs.] Drant.","row":"Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] \"Lock he never so row.\" Chaucer.\n\nA noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.\n\nA series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.\n\n1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat. 2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.\n\n1. To use the oar; as, to row well. 2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.\n\nThe act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.","accurately":"In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.","preconceive":"To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.","jockeyship":"The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship. Chatterton. Where can at last his jockeyship retire Cowper.","latitat":"A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.","injection":"1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc. 2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema. Mayne. 3. (Anat.) (a) The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance. (b) A specimen prepared by injection. 4. (Steam Eng.) (a) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum. (b) The cold water thrown into a condenser. Injection cock, or Injection valve (Steam Eng.), the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser. -- Injection condenser. See under Condenser. -- Injection pipe, the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.","willet":"A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew. Carolina willet, the Hudsonian godwit.","postulatory":"Of the nature of a postulate. Sir T. Browne.","lanseh":"The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. Balfour.","trifoliate":"Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.","viviparously":"In a viviparous manner.","diapophysical":"Pertaining to a diapophysis.","apse":"1. (Arch.) (a) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence: (b) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches. 2. A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. Note: This word is also written apsis and absis.","convergence":"The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.","malate":"A salt of malic acid.","papilionaceous":"1. Resembling the butterfly. 2. (Bot.) (a) Having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea. (b) Belonging to that suborder of leguminous plants (Papilionaceæ) which includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.","piation":"The act of making atonement; expiation. [Obs.]","laudation":"The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.","muskat":"See Muscat.","surmullet":"Any one of various species of mullets of the family Millidæ, esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish. See Mullet.","manage":"The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.] Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. Shak. Note: This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management.\n\n1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. Sir I. Newton. What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. Prior. 2. Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans. It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. Addison . It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. Bp. Hurd. 3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action. 4. To treat with care; to husband. Dryden. 5. To bring about; to contrive. Shak. Syn. -- To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.\n\nTo direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. Leave them to manage for thee. Dryden .","negligent":"Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. \"Be thou negligent of fame.\" Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler. Syn. -- Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless; indifferent; inattentive; remiss.","perclose":"1. (Eccl. Arch.) Same as Parclose. 2. Conclusion; end. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.","cassolette":"a box, or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.","prefatory":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.","bamboozler":"A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot.","glossal":"Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.","chimerically":"Wildy; vainly; fancifully.","ortolan":"(a) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting. (b) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe). (c) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.","gribble":"A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.","buttonwood":"The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.","skylarking":"The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]","loof":"The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Ægyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.\n\n(a) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind. (b) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.\n\nSee Luff.","zaffer":"A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc. [Written also zaffre, and formerly zaffree, zaffar, zaffir.]","alcoholometrical":"Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.","azotic":"Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.] Carpenter.","berth":"1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. \"He has a good berth.\" Totten. 3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.\n\n1. To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. 2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.","prod":"1. A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc. 2. A prick or stab which a pointed instrument. 3. A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd. Fairholt.\n\nTo thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student. H. Taylor.","primy":"Being in its prime. [Obs.] \"The youth of primy nature.\" Shak.","sternson":"The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.","caesural":"Of or pertaining to a cæsura. Cæsural pause, a pause made at a cæsura.","electroplate":"To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.","full-butt":"With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.","profane":"1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. \"Profane authors.\" I. Disraeli. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon. 2. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. Sir W. Raleigh. 3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. 1 Tim. i. 9. Syn. -- Secular; temporal; worldly; unsanctified; unhallowed; unholy; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; wicked; godless; impious. See Impious.\n\n1. To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God. The priests in the temple profane the sabbath. Matt. xii. 5. 2. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile. So idly to profane the precious time. Shak.","circumstantiable":"Capable of being circumstantiated. [Obs.] Jer Taylor.","suppositive":"Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos\"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.\n\nA word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris.","ocreated":"Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.","fubbery":"Cheating; deception. Marston.","spancel":"A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Grose.\n\nTo tie or hobble with a spancel. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Malone.","laureled":"Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. [Written also laurelled.]","implicatively":"By implication. Sir G. Buck.","can hook":"A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.","polypean":"Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.","liberalistic":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.","function":"1. The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. \"In the function of his public calling.\" Swift. 2. (Physiol.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body. 3. The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope. 4. The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. Tradesmen . . . going about their functions. Shak. The malady which made him incapable of performing his regal functions. Macaulay. 5. (Math.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x. Algebraic function, a quantity whose connection with the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function. -- Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. -- Calculus of functions. See under Calculus. -- Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics), a relation between the amount of heat given off by a source of heat, and the work which can be done by it. It is approximately equal to the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by the number expressing the temperature in degrees of the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. -- Circular functions. See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). -- Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. -- Discontinuous function. See under Discontinuous. -- Elliptic functions, a large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith. -- Explicit function, a quantity directly expressed in terms of the independently varying quantity; thus, in the equations y = 6x2, y = 10 -x3, the quantity y is an explicit function of x. -- Implicit function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is expressed indirectly by an equation; thus, y in the equation x2 + y2 = 100 is an implicit function of x. -- Inverse trigonometrical functions, or Circular function, the lengths of arcs relative to the sines, tangents, etc. Thus, AB is the arc whose sine is BD, and (if the length of BD is x) is written sin - 1x, and so of the other lines. See Trigonometrical function (below). Other transcendental functions are the exponential functions, the elliptic functions, the gamma functions, the theta functions, etc. -- One-valued function, a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. -- Transcendental functions, a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be expressed by algebraic operations; thus, y in the equation y = 10x is a transcendental function of x. See Algebraic function (above). -- Trigonometrical function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x, and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang x), cot x, sec x, cosec x, versin x, coversin x. These quantities are also considered as functions of the angle BOA.\n\nTo execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.","macropyramid":"See Macroprism.","matchable":"Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match\"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill.","sparteine":"A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.","acinaceous":"Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.","glonoine":"1. Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin. [Obs.] 2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.","inextricably":"In an inextricable manner.","mail":"A spot. [Obs.]\n\n1. A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also maile, and maille.] 2. Rent; tribute. [Obs., except in certain compounds and phrases, as blackmail, mails and duties, etc.] Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form paid.\n\n1. A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor. Chaucer. Chain mail, Coat of mail. See under Chain, and Coat. 2. Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering. 3. (Naut.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage. 4. (Zoöl.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail. Gay.\n\n1. To arm with mail. 2. To pinion. [Obs.]\n\n1. A bag; a wallet. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter. There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague. Tatler. 3. That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office. 4. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott. Mail bag, a bag in which mailed matter is conveyed under public authority. -- Mail boat, a boat that carries the mail. -- Mail catcher, an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail train, a railroad train carrying the mail.\n\nTo deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter. [U. S.] Note: In the United States to mail and to post are both in common use; as, to mail or post a letter. In England post is the commoner usage.","narrowly":"1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped. 5. Sparingly; parsimoniously.","taupie":"A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.","pro":"A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth. Pro confesso Etym: [L.] (Law), taken as confessed. The action of a court of equity on that portion of the pleading in a particular case which the pleading on the other side does not deny. -- Pro rata. Etym: [L. See Prorate.] In proportion; proportion. -- Pro re nata Etym: [L.] (Law), for the existing occasion; as matters are.\n\nFor, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with Ant: con. Pro and con, for and against, on the affirmative and on the negative side; as, they debated the question pro and con; -- formerly used also as a verb. -- Pros and cons, the arguments or reasons on either side.","saltwort":"A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.","thrombosis":"The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance. -- Throm*bot\"ic, a.","ziphioid":"See Xiphioid.","bombilation":"A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.","confederater":"A confederate.","beaumontague":"A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.","desirableness":"The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.","tormenting":"Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment\"ing*ly, adv.","clout":"1. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak. 2. A swadding cloth. 3. A piece; a fragment. [Obs.] Chaucer. 4. The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak. 5. An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer. 6. A blow with the hand. [Low] Clout nail, a kind of wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.\n\n1. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. And old shoes and clouted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer. 2. To join or patch clumsily. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. P. Fletcher 3. To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 4. To give a blow to; to strike. [Low] The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it. Howell. 5. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips. Note: \"Clouted brogues\" in Shakespeare and \"clouted shoon\" in Milton have been understood by some to mean shoes armed with nails; by others, patched shoes.","posse comitatus":"1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone. 2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.] Note: The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. \"A whole posse of enthusiasts.\" Carlyle. As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. Locke.","wyten":"pl. pres. of Wit.","gambogic":"Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.","nighted":"1. Darkness; clouded. [R.] Shak. 2. Overtaken by night; belated. Beau. & Fl.","umbery":"Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.","bookkeeper":"One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.","rowable":"That may be rowed, or rowed upon. \"That long barren fen, once rowable.\" B. Jonson.","chesible":"See Chasuble.","thing":"1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats. 2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. Ye meads and groves, unsonscious things! Cowper. 3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. [And Jacob said] All these things are against me. Gen. xlii. 36. Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matt. xxi. 24. 4. A portion or part; something. Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom. Tillotson. 5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. See, sons, what things you are! Shak. The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift. 6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.] Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. And them she gave her moebles and her thing. Chaucer. Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition. In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously. Chaucer. Hearkening his minstrels their things play. Chaucer. 7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person. 8. [In this sense pronounced tîng.] In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly. Longfellow. Things personal. (Law) Same as Personal property, under Personal. -- Things real. Same as Real property, under Real.","gressorious":"Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.","turgid":"1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle. 2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- Tur\"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur\"gid*ness, n.","black-a-vised":"Dark-visaged; swart.","dementate":"Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.\n\nTo deprive of reason; to dement. [R.] Burton.","coarctate":"1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] Ayliffe.\n\nPressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.","welldoer":"One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.","anomal":"Anything anomalous. [R.]","alexipyretic":"Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n. A febrifuge.","bell-faced":"Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.","calicular":"Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.","certes":"Certainly; in truth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.","photophony":"The art or practice of using the photophone.","capable":"1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2. Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley. 3. Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will. 4. Capacious; large; comprehensive. [Obs.] Shak. Note: Capable is usually followed by of, sometimes by an infinitive. Syn. -- Able; competent; qualified; fitted; efficient; effective; skillful.","succedaneous":"Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne.","sericulture":"The raising of silkworms.","tracheata":"An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.","goulards extract":"An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.","ideographical":"Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word \"nine,\" but the idea of the number itself. -- I`de*o*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv.","landgravine":"The wife of a landgrave.","pediment":"Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.","spoutshell":"Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.","vesuvianite":"A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.","check":"1. (Chess) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move. 2. A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth. 3. Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay. 4. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad. 5. A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below. 6. A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure. 7. (Falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. 8. Small chick or crack. Bank check, a written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler to prevent the return of the feed water. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden. Syn. -- Hindrance; setback; interruption; obstruction; reprimand; censure; rebuke; reproof; repulse; rebuff; tally; counterfoil; counterbalance; ticket; draft.\n\n1. (Chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check. 2. To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. Burke. 3. To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage. 4. To chide, rebuke, or reprove. The good king, his master, will check him for it. Shak. 5. (Naut.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. 6. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber. Syn. -- To restrain; curb; bridle; repress; control; hinder; impede; obstruct; interrupt; tally; rebuke; reprove; rebuff.\n\nTo make a stop; to pause; -- with at. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke. 2. To clash or interfere. [R.] Bacon. 3. To act as a curb or restraint. It [his presence] checks too strong upon me. Dryden. 4. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc. 5. (Falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Shak.\n\nCheckered; designed in checks.","self-affairs":"One's own affairs; one's private business. [Obs.] Shak.","periscope":"A general or comprehensive view. [R.]","ceterach":"A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).","overdelighted":"Delighted beyond measure.","prosecution":"1. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics . . . in prosecution of their various duties. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Law) (a) The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense. (b) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information. (c) The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted. Blackstone. Burrill. Mozley & W.","feebleness":"The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.","poverty":"1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. \"Swathed in numblest poverty.\" Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. 2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas. Poverty grass (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields. Syn. -- Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want; scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness. Poverty, Indigence, Pauperism. Poverty is a relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution. Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded state.","gasolene engine":"A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.","safety":"1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss. Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element. Milton. 2. Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from libility to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc. Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off. Beau. & Fl. 3. Preservation from escape; close custody. Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return. Shak. 4. (Football) Same as Safety touchdown, below. Safety arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t. -- Safety belt, a belt made of some buoyant material, or which is capable of being inflated, so as to enable a person to float in water; a life preserver. -- Safety buoy, a buoy to enable a person to float in water; a safety belt. -- Safety cage (Mach.), a cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping if the lifting rope should break. -- Safety lamp. (Mining) See under Lamp. -- Safety match, a match which can be ignited only on a surface specially prepared for the purpose. -- Safety pin, a pin made in the form of a clasp, with a guard covering its point so that it will not prick the wearer. -- safety plug. See Fusible plug, under Fusible. -- Safety switch. See Switch. -- Safety touchdown (Football), the act or result of a player's touching to the ground behind his own goal line a ball which received its last impulse from a man on his own side; -- distinguished from touchback. See Touchdown. -- Safety tube (Chem.), a tube to prevent explosion, or to control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence. -- Safety valve, a valve which is held shut by a spring or weight and opens automatically to permit the escape of steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or other vessel, when the pressure becomes too great for safety; also, sometimes, a similar valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, to prevent collapse.","transportant":"Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","noetic":"Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual. I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself. Sir W. Hamilton.","habnab":"By chance. [Obs.]","agist":"To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.","navvy":"Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]","deliberative":"Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. Bancroft. The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.\n\n1. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. Bacon. 2. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.","halometer":"An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.","leachy":"Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.","seafarer":"One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.","en passant":"In passing; in the course of any procedure; -- said specif. (Chess), of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.","xanthomatous":"Of or pertaining to xanthoma.","lapstreak":"Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.","associationist":"One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.","bastile":"1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland. 2. \"The Bastille\", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.","immigrate":"To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.","tankia":"See Tanka.","hexametrist":"One who writes in hexameters. \"The Christian hexametrists.\" Milman.","tressed":"1. Having tresses. 2. Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. Spenser. Drayton.","quotation":"1. The act of quoting or citing. 2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration. Locke. 3. (Com.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named. 4. Quota; share. [Obs.] 5. (print.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc. Quotation marks (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.","ronyon":"A mangy or scabby creature. \"Aroint thee, with!\" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.","retrogradation":"1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.","elutriation":"The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.","unknit":"To undo or unravel what is knitted together. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow. Shak.","exsertile":"Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.","perichete":"Same as Perichæth.","tussis":"A cough.","irradiate":"1. To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster. Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields. Sir W. Jones. 2. To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate; as, to irradiate the mind. Bp. Bull. 3. To animate by heat or light. Sir M. Hale. 4. To radiate, shed, or diffuse. A splendid fairradiating hospitality. H. James.\n\nTo emit rays; to shine.\n\nIlluminated; irradiated. Mason.","sendal":"A light thin stuff of silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott.","fire beetle":"A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.","woodsy":"Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [Colloq. U. S.] It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees. J. Burroughs.","cordite":"A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.","kentle":"A hundred weight; a quintal.","corpus":"A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s Etym: [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (l; pl. Corpora lutea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.","intended":"1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper. 3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.\n\nOne with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover. If it were not that I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away. Dickens.","aden-":"Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.","misemploy":"To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.","blink-eyed":"Habitually winking. Marlowe.","contraversion":"A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.","alineeation":"Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.","cycadaceous":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.","fluxibility":"The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.","allemande":"1. (Mus.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel. 2. A figure in dancing.","brimless":"Having no brim; as, brimless caps.","cadaver":"A dead human body; a corpse.","hornowl":"See Horned Owl.","low-churchman":"One who holds low-church principles.","milkily":"In a milky manner.","pliform":"In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling. [Obs.] Pennant.","divinization":"A making divine. M. Arnold.","endosmometer":"An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.","kapellmeister":"See Capellmeister.","merithal":"Same as Internode.","tonsured":"Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald. A tonsured head in middle age forlorn. Tennyson.","narwal":"See Narwhal.","overthwart":"1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. \"Our overthwart neighbors.\" Dryden. 2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. \"Overthwart humor.\" Clarendon.\n\nAcross; crosswise; transversely. \"Y'clenched overthwart and endelong.\" Chaucer.\n\nAcross; from alde to side of. \"Huge trees overthwart one another.\" Milton.\n\nThat which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [Obs.] Surrey.\n\nTo cross; to oppose. [Obs.]","designate":"Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] Sir G. Buck.\n\n1. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested. 2. To call by a distinctive title; to name. 3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station. Syn. -- To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe.","earsore":"An annoyance to the ear. [R.] The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore Sir T. Browne.","else":"Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming What else shall I give Do you expect anything else \"Bastards and else.\" Shak. Note: This word always follows its noun. It is usual to give the possessive form to else rather than to the substantive; as, somebody else's; no one else's. \"A boy who is fond of somebody else's pencil case.\" G. Eliot. \"A suit of clothes like everybody else's.\" Thackeray.\n\n1. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else. 2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it. Ps. li. 16. Note: After `or', else is sometimes used expletively, as simply noting an alternative. \"Will you give thanks, . . . or else shall I\" Shak.","fico":"A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you. Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase. Shak.","torch":"A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.","isagon":"A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.","gargarism":"A gargle.","uraniscoplasty":"The process of forming an artificial palate.","tollman":"One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.","coronis":"1. In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin. 2. The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. [R.] Bp. Hacket.","manualist":"One who works wi","flanch":"1. A flange. [R.]. (Her.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side. Note: Flanches are always in pairs. A pair of flanches is considered one of the subordinaries.","infamize":"To make infamous; to defame. [R.] Coleridge.","existence":"1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock. 2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. J. S. Mill. 3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.","conscientiously":"In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.","viscin":"A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.","peristome":"1. (Bot.) The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell. (b) The membrane surrounding the mouth of an invertebrate animal.","notebook":"1. A book in which notes or memorandums are written. 2. A book in which notes of hand are registered.","orthophony":"The art of correct articulation; voice training.","alday":"Continually. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hydrocyanide":"A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.","purpureal":"Of a purple color; purple.","thespian":"Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art. -- n. An actor.","hydrostatically":"According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles. Bentley.","amazonian":"1. Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.","preachership":"The office of a preacher. \"The preachership of the Rolls.\" Macaulay.","hamated":"Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. Swift.","diffusively":"In a diffusive manner.","phototaxy":"The influence of light on the movements of low organisms, as various infusorians, the zoöspores of certain algæ, etc.; also, the tendency to follow definite directions of motion or assume definite positions under such influence. If the migration is toward the source of light, it is termed positive phototaxis; if away from the light, negative phototaxis. --Pho`to*tac\"tic (#), a. --Pho`to*tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.","puffiness":"The quality or state of being puffy.","echinoidea":"The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]","torso":"The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.","disciplinable":"1. Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training. 2. Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.","ismaelian":"One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali.","pistillaceous":"Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.","ridgingly":"So as to form ridges.","caddie":"A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.","celibate":"1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.] He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor. 2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.\n\nUnmarried; single; as, a celibate state.","tesla transformer":"A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.","mulligatawny":"See Mullagatawny.","thallene":"A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.","orlop":"The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.","expiatorious":"Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.","gusset":"1. A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement. Seam and gusset and band. Hood. 2. Anything resembling a gusset in a garment; as: (a) (Armor) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms. (b) (Mach.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. 3. (Her.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.","hedonics":"That branch of moral philosophy which treats of the relation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure. J. Grote.","pygmy":"Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. \" Like that Pygmean race.\" Milton. Pygmy antelope (Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. -- Pygmy goose (Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. -- Pygmy owl (Zoöl.), the gnome. Pygmy parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small green parrots (Nasiternæ), native of New Guinea and adjacent islands. They are not larger than sparrows. Pygmy chimpanzee, a species of anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) resembling the chimpanzee, but somewhat smaller; also called bonobo. It is considered (1996) as having the closest genetic relationship to humans of any other animal. It is found in forests in Zaire, and is an endangered species.\n\n1. (Class. Myth.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed. 2. Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf. Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps. And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young.","vaishnava":"A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.","lapling":"One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.","hirundine":"Like or pertaining to the swallows.","dynamism":"The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.","tranquilizing":"Making tranquil; calming. \" The tranquilizing power of time.\" Wordsworth. -- Tran\"quil*i`zing*ly or Tran\"quil*li`zing*ly, adv.","concerted":"Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.","echinozoa":"The Echinodermata.","bescratch":"To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.","filigraned":"See Filigreed. [Archaic]","uppish":"Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [Colloq.] T. Brown. -- Up\"pish*ly, adv. [Colloq.] -- Up\"pish*ness, n. [Colloq.]","inveterate":"1. Old; long-established. [Obs.] It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak. 3. Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker. 4. Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.\n\nTo fix and settle by long continuance. [Obs.] Bacon.","contraries":"Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.","noctilionid":"A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.","phylacteric":"Of or pertaining to phylacteries.","ay":"Ah! alas! \"Ay me! I fondly dream `Had ye been there.'\" Milton.\n\nSame as Aye.\n\nYes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc. Note: This word is written I in the early editions of Shakespeare and other old writers.\n\nAlways; ever; continually; for an indefinite time. For his mercies aye endure. Milton. For aye, always; forever; eternally.","uncharnel":"To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume. Byron.","uranite":"A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.","igneous":"1. Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance. 2. (Geol.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.","circumscriptible":"Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.","ew":"A yew. [Obs.] Chaucer.","shill":"To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo put under cover; to sheal. [Prov.ng.] Brockett.","tarsectomy":"The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.","dyad":"1. Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair. 2. (Chem.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.\n\nHaving a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.","melancholious":"Melancholy. [R.] Milton.","practico":"A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] D. C. Worcester.","sailfish":"(a) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.) (b) The basking, or liver, shark. (c) The quillback.","fugle":"To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.] Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air. Carlyle.","constitutionally":"1. In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam. 2. In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed. Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such] an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament. Macaulay.","royalism":"the principles or conduct of royalists.","scansorial":"(a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, the scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust. under Aves. Scansorial tail (Zoöl.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.","blanchard lathe":"A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.","psychrometry":"Hygrometry.","acrophony":"The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.\n\nThe use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.","vintry":"A place where wine is sold. [Obs.] Ainsworth.","bo tree":"The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.","siphonate":"1. Having a siphon or siphons. 2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siphonata.","debenture stock":"The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament. [Eng.]","dough":"1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.","malleation":"The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.","evaluate":"To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.","phalanstere":"A phalanstery.","natantly":"In a floating manner; swimmingly.","hospitium":"1. An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.] 2. (Law) An inn of court.","misgive":"1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud. 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak. Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. Milton. 3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute. \"My mind misgives.\" Shak.","wickered":"Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather. Milton.","blazonry":"1. Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham. 2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin. 3. Artistic representation or display.","microscope":"An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece. -- Oxyhydrogen microscope, and Solar microscope. See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar. -- Simple, or Single, microscope, a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.","labyrinthodonta":"An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.","planimetrical":"Of or pertaining to planimetry.","ramshackle":"Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.\n\nTo search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]","suboval":"Somewhat oval; nearly oval.","correi":"A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. \"Fleet foot on the correi.\" Sir W. Scott.","paleothere":"Any species of Paleotherium.","rivage":"1. A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson. 2. (O.Eng.Law) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.","personnel":"The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.","haemapod":"An hæmapodous animal. G. Rolleston.","receiver":"1. One who takes or receives in any manner. 2. (Law) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier. 3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone. 4. (Chem.) (a) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. (b) A vessel for receiving and containing gases. 5. (Pneumatics) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump. 6. (Steam Engine) (a) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. (b) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine. 7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter. Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum. RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE Re*ceiv\"er's cer*tif\"i*cate. An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that of bonds or other securities.","self-deception":"Self-deceit.","splenitis":"Inflammation of the spleen.","synteretic":"Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]","unkemmed":"Unkempt. [Obs.]","bombardon":"Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.","expel":"1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7. 2. To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5. 3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member. 4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. \"To expel the winter's flaw.\" Shak. 5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. . Syn. -- To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.","moldiness":"The state of being moldy.","reformation":"1. The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. Dryden. 2. Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches. Syn. -- Reform; amendment; correction; rectification. -- Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is applied to subjects that are more important, and results in changes which are more lasting. A reformation involves, and is followed by, many particular reforms. \"The pagan converts mention this great reformation of those who had been the greatest sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which the Christian religion made in the lives of the most profligate.\" Addison. \"A variety of schemes, founded in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were suddenly produced.\" Pitt.","shintiyan":"A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.","fount":"A font.\n\nA fountain.","moelline":"An unguent for the hair.","bawson":"1. A badger. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A large, unwieldy person. [Obs.] Nares.","candle coal":"See Cannel coal.","self-registering":"Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.","toyish":"1. Sportive; trifling; wanton. 2. Resembling a toy. --Toy\"ish*ly, dv.-Toy\"ish*ness, n.","opsiometer":"An instrument for measuring the limits of distincts vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight. Brande & C.","tricky":"Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.","yaw":"To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.\n\nTo steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship. Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question. Lowell.\n\nA movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.","edema":"Same as oedema.","gyve":"A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. [Written also give.] Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves. Shak. With gyves upon his wrist. Hood.\n\nTo fetter; to shackle; to chain. Spenser. I will gyve thee in thine own courtship. Shak.","sine":"(a) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity. (b) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below. Artificial sines, logarithms of the natural sines, or logarithmic sines. -- Curve of sines. See Sinusoid. -- Natural sines, the decimals expressing the values of the sines, the radius being unity. -- Sine of an angle, in a circle whose radius is unity, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.\n\nWithout.","finific":"A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.","cronstedtite":"A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.","defectible":"Liable to defect; imperfect. [R.] \"A defectible understanding.\" Jer. Taylor.","uninucleated":"Possessed of but a single nucleus; as, a uninucleated cell.","acrid":"1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.","lazarly":"Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.","antitrochanter":"An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.","pannikel":"The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest. [Obs.] Spenser.","water ouzel":"Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.","naivety":", n. Naïveté. Carlyle.","bull terrier":"A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.","photochronograph":"1. (Physics) An instrument for recording minute intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding in time and duration with the signal, is thus produced and is photographed on a moving plate. 2. (Astron.) An instrument for the photographic recording of star transits.","auster":"The south wind. Pope.","sapper":"One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.","worship":"1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.] Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.] Of which great worth and worship may be won. Spenser. Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Luke xiv. 10. 3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. My father desires your worships' company. Shak. 4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. \"God with idols in their worship joined.\" Milton. The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship. Tillotson. 5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. 'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship. Shak. 6. An object of worship. In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair. Longfellow. Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.\n\n1. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. [Obsoles.] Chaucer. Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph. Shak. This holy image that is man God worshipeth. Foxe. 2. To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate. But God is to be worshiped. Shak. When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. Milton. 3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. With bended knees I daily worship her. Carew. Syn. -- To adore; revere; reverence; bow to; honor.\n\nTo perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. John iv. 20. Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence Longfellow.","centauromachy":"A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.","tubicolar":"Tubicolous.","armor":"1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed what arms every man should provide. 2. Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.","owen":"Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.","swellish":"Dandified; stylish. [Slang]","gynandromorphism":"An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.","connascence":"1. The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson. 2. That which is born or produced with another. 3. The act of growing together. [Obs.] Wiseman.","fourpence":"1. A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat. 2. A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.","inculpable":"Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.","rhonchisonant":"Making a snorting noise; snorting. [R.]","deforest":"To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.","knor":"See Knur. [Obs.]","omphalos":"The navel.","woohoo":"The sailfish.","herald":"1. (Antiq.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms. 3. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. Shak. 4. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak. 5. Any messenger. \"My herald is returned.\" Shak. Heralds' College, in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon the crown, instituted or perhaps recognized by Richard III. in 1483, consisting of the three Kings-at-Arms and the Chester, Lancaster, Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl Marshal. This retains from the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of genealogies and kindred subjects; -- called also College of Arms.\n\nTo introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. Shak.","focalize":"To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate. Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. De Quincey.","coaltit":"A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.","numismatical":"Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.","recession":"The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.\n\nThe act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.","ileocaecal":"Pertaining to the ileum and cæcum.","enslaver":"One who enslaves. Swift.","declarable":"Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.","saltie":"The European dab.","savacioun":"Salvation. [Obs.]","bicyclic":"Relating to bicycles.","subangular":"Slightly angular.","bonchretien":"A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.","bastinade":"See Bastinado, n.\n\nTo bastinado. [Archaic]","ghostology":"Ghost lore. [R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.","starosty":"A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. [Poland] Brande & C.","syringotome":"A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.","dioptra":"An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.","asp":"Same as Aspen. \"Trembling poplar or asp.\" Martyn.\n\nA small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.\n\nOne of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.","baria":"Baryta.","protocatechuic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin.","scepticism":"etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.","truffle":"Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles. Truffle pig, a pig used for finding truffles. Note: When trained, certain pigs have a peculiar ability to smell truffles which lie underground, making them useful for searching out hidden truffles.","vocally":"1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.","gasify":"To convert into gas, or an aëriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.\n\nTo become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state. Scientific American.","lighthouse":"A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.","averroist":"One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.","buccaneerish":"Like a buccaneer; piratical.","panacean":"Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] \"Panacean dews.\" Whitehead.","hailshot":"Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Obs.] Hayward.","infester":"One who, or that which, infests.","sevres ware":"Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.","repetitor":"A private instructor.","red-riband":"The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.","valentinian":"One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.","footstep":"1. The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom. How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses. Bryant. 2. An inclined plane under a hand printing press.","disfiguration":"The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.","secrecy":"1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. \"The pensive secrecy of desert cell.\" Milton. 4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery. It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.","decidence":"A falling off. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","cicala":"A cicada. See Cicada. \"At eve a dry cicala sung.\" Tennison.","terrienniak":"The arctic fox.","unmeet":"Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. \"Unmeet for a wife.\" Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet\"ly, adv. -- Un*meet\"ness, n.","lapis lazuli":"An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color. Same as Lazuli, which see.","infidelity":"1. Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity. There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes of infidelity. V. Knox. 2. Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery. 3. Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant. \"The infidelity of friends.\" Sir W. Temple.","impartial":"Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.","insubstantial":"Unsubstantial; not real or strong. \"Insubstantial pageant.\" [R.] Shak.","compunctious":"Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.","interpleader":"1. One who interpleads. 2. (Law) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him.","temporaneous":"Temporarity. [Obs.] Hallywell.","unsubstantialize":"To make unsubstantial. [R.]","muraena":"A genus of large eels of the family Mirænidæ. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous. The murry (Muræna Helenæ) of Southern Europe was the muræna of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.","cochleate":"Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.","homelike":"Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.","moroxite":"A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.","stilton":"A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat. Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner from the soup to the stilton. C. Lever.","slitter":"One who, or that which, slits.","cespitine":"An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.","monal":"Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.","tubulidentate":"Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.","whitsun":"Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.","daily":"Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11. Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands. Macaulay. Syn. -- Daily, Diurnal. Daily is Anglo-Saxon, and diurnal is Latin. The former is used in reference to the ordinary concerns of life; as, daily wants, daily cares, daily employments. The latter is appropriated chiefly by astronomers to what belongs to the astronomical day; as, the diurnal revolution of the earth. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways. Milton. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere. Milton.\n\nA publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.\n\nEvery day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.","unilobar":"Consisting of a single lobe.","vitalist":"A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.","muraenoid":"Like or pertaining to the genus Muræna, or family Murænidæ.","assecuration":"Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]","water cock":"A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.","discourse":"1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak. 2. Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke. 3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak. 4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty. 5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.] Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. Beau. & Fl.\n\n1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] \"Have sense or can discourse.\" Dryden. 2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak. 3. To relate something; to tell. Shak. 4. To treat of something in writing and formally.\n\n1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe. 2. To utter or give forth; to speak. It will discourse mosShak. 3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.","intermetacarpal":"Between the metacarpal bones.","procacity":"Forwardness; pertness; petulance. [R.] Burton.","suprapubian":"Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.","polishable":"Capable of being polished.","vivency":"Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","fanciless":"Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.","fand":"imp. of Find. Spenser.","tawdriness":"Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.","selvaged":"Having a selvage.","cockaleekie":"A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.","scraffle":"To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","nightingale":"1. (Zoöl.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. 2. (Zoöl.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. Mock nightingale. (Zoöl.) See Blackcap, n., 1 (a).","greaten":"To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.\n\nTo become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.","hep tree":"The wild dog-rose.","aggrievance":"Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]","desecate":"To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]","difficultness":"Difficulty. [R.] Golding.","scrubby":"Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. \"Dense, scrubby woods.\" Duke of Argull.","brahmo-somaj":"A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]","enclavement":"The state of being an enclave. [Recent]","rescussee":"The party in whose favor a rescue is made. Crabb.","exophthalmy":"Exophthalmia.","water crane":"A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.","compassless":"Having no compass. Knowles.","wedgy":"Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.","jument":"A beast; especially, a beast of burden. [Obs.] Fitter for juments than men to feed on. Burton.","revestture":"Vesture. [Obs.] Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.","indifferent":"1. Not mal Dangers are to me indifferent. Shak. Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. Jer. Taylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne. 2. Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. The staterooms are in indifferent order. Sir W. Scott. 3. Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison. 4. Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family. It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment. Addison. 5. (Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.\n\nTo a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. [Obs.] \"News indifferent good.\" Shak.","campanularian":"A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.","enounce":"1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.","splutter":"To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. [Colloq.] Carleton.\n\nA confused noise, as of hasty speaking. [Colloq.]","losingly":"In a manner to incur loss.","bookbinder":"One whose occupation is to bind books.","crossway":"See Crossroad.","flashiness":"The quality of being flashy.","complacently":"In a complacent manner.","functionate":"To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.","leathery":"Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. \"A leathery skin.\" Grew.","noon":"No. See the Note under No. [Obs.]\n\n1. The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime. 2. Hence, the highest point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. Motley. High noon, the exact meridian; midday. -- Noon of night, midnight. [Poetic] Dryden.\n\nBelonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional. Young.\n\nTo take rest and refreshment at noon.","red-dog flour":"The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.","protozooen":"(a) One of the Protozoa. (b) A single zooid of a compound protozoan.","testudinarious":"Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.","isabella color":"A brownish yellow color.","subcontract":"A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.","rondeau":"1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. Encyc. Brit. 2. (Mus.) See Rondo,1.","doctorate":"The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.\n\nTo make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.","krokidolite":"See Crocidolite.","toothache":"Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste. -- Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (A. spinosa).","happiness":"1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak. 2. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness. 3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope. Syn. -- Happiness, Felicity, Blessedness, Bliss. Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal appetites; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations; blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the purest social, benevolent, and religious affections; bliss denotes still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the joy anticipated in heaven. O happiness! our being's end and aim! Pope. Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease. Milton. His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little. Shak.","nereites":"Fossil tracks of annelids.","epileptiform":"Resembling epilepsy.","coxcombical":"Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb\"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.","ripplet":"A small ripple.","patriarchship":"A patriarchate. Ayliffe.","raw":"1. Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat. 2. Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. De Quincey. 3. Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought. Specifically: (a) Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] Bacon. (b) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton. (c) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits. (d) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow. (e) Not tanned; as, raw hides. (f) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth. 4. Not covered; bare. Specifically: (a) Bald. [Obs.] \"With scull all raw.\" Spencer (b) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore. (c) Sore, as if by being galled. And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. Spenser. 5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; as, a raw wind. \"A raw and gusty day.\" Shak. Raw material, material that has not been subjected to a (specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry. -- Raw pig, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.\n\nA raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw. Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw. De Quincey.","impune":"Unpunished. [R.]","oread":"One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.","udderless":"1. Destitute or deprived of an udder. 2. Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs. [Poetic] Keats.","si quis":"A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.","podotheca":"The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.","truss":"1. A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser. Note: A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs. 2. A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton. 3. (Surg.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. 4. (Bot.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants. 5. (Naut.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast. 6. (Arch. & Engin.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style. Truss rod, a rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.\n\n1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer. 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. Spenser. 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] Sir W. Scott. To truss a person or one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] \"Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.\" J. Webster (1607). -- To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. -- Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.","unshackle":"To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.","bolivian":"Of or pertaining to Bolivia. -- n. A native of Bolivia.","unite":"1. To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies. 2. Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon. Syn. -- To add; join; annex; attach. See Add.\n\n1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.\n\nUnited; joint; as, unite consent. [Obs.] J. Webster.","obtrusionist":"One who practices or excuses obtrusion. [R.] Gent. Mag.","plausible":"1. Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket. 2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion. \"Plausible and popular arguments.\" Clarendon. 3. Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker. Syn. -- Plausible, Specious. Plausible denotes that which seems reasonable, yet leaves distrust in the judgment. Specious describes that which presents a fair appearance to the view and yet covers something false. Specious refers more definitely to the act or purpose of false representation; plausible has more reference to the effect on the beholder or hearer. An argument may by specious when it is not plausible because its sophistry is so easily discovered.","charre":"See Charge, n., 17.","illiterature":"Want of learning; illiteracy. [R.] Ayliffe. Southey.","flare":"1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares. 2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light. 3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. Shak. 4. To be exosed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior. 5. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare. To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.\n\n1. An unsteady, broad, offensive light. 2. A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.\n\nLeaf of lard. \"Pig's flare.\" Dunglison.","quater-cousin":"A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.","myrialiter":"A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.","vouchsafement":"The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.","palpus":"A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.","syriac":"Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n. The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.","addle-headed":"Dull-witted; stupid. \"The addle-brained Oberstein.\" Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.","germicidal":"Germicide.","gnathostoma":"A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]","mutiny":"1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay. 2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [Obs.] o raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves. Shak. Mutiny act (Law), an English statute reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion. Wharton. Syn. -- See Insurrection.\n\n1. To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority. 2. To fall into strifle; to quarrel. [Obs.] Shak.","trimorphic":"Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.","sideral":"1. Relating to the stars. 2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. \"Sideral blast.\" Milton.","helical":"Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. -- Hel\"i*cal*ly, adv.","maori":"One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.","caudex":"The sterm of a tree., esp. a sterm without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the pernnial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.","jew":"Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite. Jew's frankincense, gum styrax, or benzoin. -- Jew's mallow (Bot.), an annual herb (Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber. -- Jew's pitch, asphaltum; bitumen. -- The Wandering Jew, an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to the Savior during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.","bipalmate":"Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.","paramours":"By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.","alum stone":"A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.","drumhead":"1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum. 2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan. Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.","weather-board":"To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.","wispen":"Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom. [Obs.]","generability":"Capability of being generated. Johnstone.","meagerness":"The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.","compositae":"A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.","dimensity":"Dimension. [R.] Howell.","trillium":"A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.","acetimetry":"The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.","whitworth gun":"A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England. Note: In Mr. Whitworth's system, the bore of the gun has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to fit the bore accurately, and is very much elongated, its length being about three and one half times as great as its diameter. H. L. Scott.","matronly":"1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.","philosophy":"1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. Note: When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended. Thus philosophy, when applied to God and the divine government, is called theology; when applied to material objects, it is called physics; when it treats of man, it is called anthropology and psychology, with which are connected logic and ethics; when it treats of the necessary conceptions and relations by which philosophy is possible, it is called metaphysics. Note: \"Philosophy has been defined: tionscience of things divine and human, and the causes in which they are contained; -- the science of effects by their causes; -- the science of sufficient reasons; -- the science of things possible, inasmuch as they are possible; -- the science of things evidently deduced from first principles; -- the science of truths sensible and abstract; -- the application of reason to its legitimate objects; -- the science of the relations of all knowledge to the necessary ends of human reason; -- the science of the original form of the ego, or mental self; -- the science of science; -- the science of the absolute; -- the scienceof the absolute indifference of the ideal and real.\" Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained. [Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie. Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke. 3. Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy. Then had he spent all his philosophy. Chaucer. 4. Reasoning; argumentation. Of good and evil much they argued then, . . . Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Milton. 5. The course of sciences read in the schools. Johnson. 6. A treatise on philosophy. Philosophy of the Academy, that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy. -- Philosophy of the Garden, that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens. -- Philosophy of the Lyceum, that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens. -- Philosophy of the Porch, that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.","pentateuch":"The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.","elfishness":"The quality of being elfish.","xylotomy":"Art of preparing sections (transverse, tangential, or radial) of wood, esp. by means of a microtome, for microscopic examination.","melanagogue":"A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]","bettermost":"Best. [R.] \"The bettermost classes.\" Brougham.","forties":"See Forty.","diminuendo":"In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.","ghost":"1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. 2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge. 3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. 4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.\n\nTo die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.\n\nTo appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.","ingesta":"That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.","squirter":"One who, or that which, squirts.","thanatopsis":"A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant.","gradely":"Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- adv. Decently; in order. [Prov. Eng.]","whencesoever":"From what place soever; from what cause or source soever. Any idea, whencesoever we have it. Locke. WHENE'ER When*e'er, adv. & conj. Whenever.","furbelow":"A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.\n\nTo put a furbelow on; to ornament.","eleventh":"1. Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter. 2. Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing. 3. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.\n\n1. The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts. 2. (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.","mesomycetes":"One of the three classes into which the fungi are divided in Brefeld's classification. -- Mes`o*my*ce\"tous (#), a.","euphorbia":"Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.","ceorl":"A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.","abbotship":"The state or office of an abbot.","cloke":"See Cloak. [Obs.]","jugated":"Coupled together.","messmate":"An associate in a mess.","eumenides":"A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.","presbyterial":"Presbyterian. \"Presbyterial government.\" Milton.","relevation":"A raising or lifting up. [Obs.]","rove":"1. To draw through an eye or aperture. 2. To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson. 3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.\n\n1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and\n\n1. To practice robbery on the seas;to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] Hakluyt. 2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. For who has power to walk has power to rove. Arbuthnot. 3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser. Syn. -- To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.\n\n1. To wander over or through. Roving the field, i chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold. milton. 2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.\n\nThe act of wandering; a ramble. In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. Young. Rove beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.","pseudonavicula":"One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarinæ and some other Protozoa.","extravagancy":"Extravagance.","coincident":"Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.\n\nOne of two or more coincident events; a coincidence. [R.] \"Coincidents and accidents.\" Froude.","favorer":"One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.","tentful":"As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.","plagal":"Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. Plagal cadence, a cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.","ebrious":"Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.","halteres":"Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.","novelism":"Innovation. [Obs.]","user":"1. One who uses. Shak. 2. (Law) Enjoyment of property; use. Mozley & W.","duel":"A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.\n\nTo fight in single combat. [Obs.]","windpipe":"The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.","durga":"Same as Doorga.","youngth":"Youth. [Obs.] Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.","causeless":"1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.\n\nWithout cause or reason.","unreproachable":"Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable.","bissextile":"Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.\n\nPertaining to leap year.","palmcrist":"The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)","hepatization":"1. (Chem.) Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.] 2. Etym: [Cf. F. hépatisation.] (Med.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.","unempirically":"Not empirically; without experiment or experience.","acrobatic":"Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat\"ic*al*ly, adv.","discipline":"1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith. 2. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden. 3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. Rogers. 4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay. 5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison. 6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins. 7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. 8. (R. C. Ch.) Self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. 9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline. Syn. -- Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.\n\n1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay. 3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly Shak. 4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. Syn. -- To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.","compilement":"Compilation. [R.]","elaeolite":"A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.","sensuality":"The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.","oakum":"1. The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc. 2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. White oakum, that made from untarred rope.","hardener":"One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.","nittings":"The refuse of good ore. Raymond.","rawhead":"A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.","porcelain":"Purslain. [Obs.]\n\nA fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware. Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. Dryden. Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. -- Porcelain clay. See under Clay. -- Porcelain crab (Zoöl.), any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. -- Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite. -- Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. -- Porcelain shell (Zoöl.), a cowry.","hansel":"See Handsel.","dufrenite":"A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.","androus":"A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.","sugarless":"Without sugar; free from sugar.","trickery":"The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.","evincible":"Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale. --E*vin\"ci*bly, adv.","gear":"1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser. 2. Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia) 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser. 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] Jamieson. 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser. 8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b). 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion. -- Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n. -- Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting. -- Gear wheel, any cogwheel. -- Running gear. See under Running. -- To throw in, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.\n\n1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness. 2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing. Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.\n\nTo be in, or come into, gear.","croisado":"A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] Bacon.","cledge":"The upper stratum of fuller's earth.","brawler":"One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.","deplorer":"One who deplores.","geographical":"Of or pertaining to geography. Geographical distribution. See under Distribution. -- Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere. -- Geographical mile. See under Mile. -- Geographical variation, any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions.","hose":"1. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak. 2. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings. 3. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. Hose carriage, cart, or truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. -- Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] -- Hose coupling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. -- Hose wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.","supply":"1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition. 2. To serve instead of; to take the place of. Burning ships the banished sun supply. Waller. The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden. 3. To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit. 4. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war. Prior. Syn. -- To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute; yield; accommodate.\n\n1. The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker. 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: -- (a) Auxiliary troops or reënforcements. \"My promised supply of horsemen.\" Shak. (b) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies. (c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. (d) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit. Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [U.S.] -- Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) \"Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.\" F. A. Walker.\n\nServing to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. Supply system (Zoöl.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongiæ.","woolsack":"A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.","foolhardise":"Foolhardiness. [Obs.] Spenser.","hoosier state":"Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.","needscost":"Of necessity. [Obs.] Chaucer.","slumberless":"Without slumber; sleepless.","slapping":"Very large; monstrous; big. [Slang.]","hakim":"A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan. [India]\n\nA Mohammedan title for a ruler; a judge. [India]","altimetry":"The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.","refrangible":"Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light. -- Re*fran\"gi*ble*ness, n.","bow-pen":"Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.","poebird":"The parson bird.","entablement":"See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.","waster":"1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters of candles. Swift. 2. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. Halliwell. 3. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. Beau. & Fl. Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. Sir T. Browne.","lectica":"A kind of litter or portable couch.","teinture":"Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.] Holland.","montgolfier":"A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.","cephalocercal":"Relating to the long axis of the body.","bruin":"A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.","intermediate":"Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediate terms (Math.), the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the extremes); the means. -- Intermediate tie. (Arch.) Same as Intertie.\n\nTo come between; to intervene; to interpose. Milton.","zollverein":"Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit. Note: In 1834 a zollverein was established which included most of the principal German states except Austria. This was terminated by the events of 1866, and in 1867 a more closely organized union was formed, the administration of which was ultimately merged in that of the new German empire, with which it nearly corresponds territorially.","hemisphere":"1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. J. P. Peters. ten Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.","brittleness":"Aptness to break; fragility.","quiritation":"A crying for help. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","jocular":"1. Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. \"Jocular exploits.\" Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. Dryden.","trapezate":"Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.","personalism":"The quality or state of being personal; personality. [R.]","misreform":"To reform wrongly or imperfectly.","elaiodic":"Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]","subtriangular":"Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.","aeroplane":"A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.","romanticist":"One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.","easy-chair":"An armichair for ease or repose. \"Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair.\" Pope.","smooth":"1. Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain. Chaucer. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities. Dryden. 2. Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair. 3. Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream. 4. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. The only smooth poet of those times. Milton. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. Pope. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay. 5. Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering. This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft Conceal a traitor. Addison. 6. (Mech. & Physics) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding, smooth-grained, smooth- leaved, smooth-sliding, smooth-speaking, smooth-woven, and the like. Syn. -- Even; plain; level; flat; polished; glossy; sleek; soft; bland; mild; soothing; voluble; flattering; adulatory; deceptive.\n\nSmoothly. Chaucer. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. Shak.\n\n1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. \"The smooth of his neck.\" Gen. xxvii. 16.\n\nTo make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron. Specifically: -- (a) To free from obstruction; to make easy. Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day. Pope. (b) To free from harshness; to make flowing. In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted. Milton. (c) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault. (d) To give a smooth or calm appearance to. Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm. Milton. (e) To ease; to regulate. Dryden.\n\nTo flatter; to use blandishment. Because I can not flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog. Shak.","pilgrim":"1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13. 2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. P. Plowman.\n\nOf or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. \"With pilgrim steps.\" Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.\n\nTo journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.","ilmenium":"A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann.","hexade":"A series of six numbers.","preadamic":"Prior to Adam.","turn-sick":"Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\nA disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.","boiar":"See Boyar.","duumviral":"Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.","polliniferous":"Producing pollen; polleniferous.","pronged":"Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.","strombite":"A fossil shell of the genus Strombus.","omination":"The act of ominating; presaging. [Obs.] Fuller.","overgrassed":"Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.","araneous":"Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.","fraud":"1. Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope. 2. (Law) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. 3. A trap or snare. [Obs.] To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud (Law), an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all the States of this country, by which writing with specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property. Wharton. Syn. -- Deception; deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife; circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See Deception.","editress":"A female editor.","credit mobilier":"A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.","dizzily":"In a dizzy manner or state.","horseworm":"The larva of a botfly.","anorthopia":"Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.","performance":"The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley. 2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. \"Her walking and other actual performances.\" Shak. \"His musical performances.\" Macaulay. Syn. -- Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment; achievement; production; work; act; action; deed; exploit; feat.","glowlamp":"1. (Chem.) An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic. 2. (Elect.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a.","coasting":"Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.\n\n1. A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade. 2. Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]","supradecompound":"More than decompound; divided many times.","crossing":"1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. Bp. Hall. 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street. 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. Shak.","sea mew":"A gull; the mew.","southernmost":"Farthest south.","parr":"(a) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling. (b) A young leveret.","bes-antler":"Same as Bez-antler.","pantaloon":"1. Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak. 2. pl. A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one. 3. pl. In recent times, same as Trousers.","offendress":"A woman who offends. Shak.","translation":"1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. 2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. 3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures. 4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker. 6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.","hent":"To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Spenser. This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. Chaucer. But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente. Chaucer.","kadi":"A Turkish judge. See Cadi.","hotchkiss gun":"A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.","sea lily":"A crinoid.","tantra":"A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. -- Tan\"tric (-trik), a.","appropre":"To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.","reasonless":"1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.","comestible":"Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.\n\nSomething suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural. Thackeray.","wagon-roofed":"Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.","wonderous":"Same as Wondrous.","introversion":"The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.","zebrule":"A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.","lunged":"Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.","dalles":"A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada] The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia. F. H. Balch.","elan":"Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.","cental":"A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.\n\nRelating to a hundred. Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the cental, or hundredweight.","upeygan":"The borele.","passableness":"The quality of being passable.","zooelatry":"The worship of animals.","rinser":"One who, or that which, rinses.","carelessly":"In a careless manner.","overcount":"To rate too high; to outnumber. Shak.","excisable":"Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.","emmet":"An ant. Emmet hunter (Zoöl.), the wryneck.","predominant":"Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak. Syn. -- Prevalent; superior; prevailing; ascendant; ruling; reigning; controlling; overruling.","chylific":"Chylifactive.","cogitable":"Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.","abiogenous":"Produced by spontaneous generation.","poikilothermic":"Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.","razorback":"The rorqual.","misinformation":"Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.","self-defence":"See Self-defense.","pygal":"Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.","seether":"A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.","stang":"imp. of Sting. [Archaic]\n\n1. A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. 2. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift. Stang ball, a projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot. See Illust. of Bar shot, under Bar. -- To ride the stang, to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in some parts of England.\n\nTo shoot with pain. [Prov. Eng.]","anabaptistic":"Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.","troostite":"Willemite.","thaneship":"The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.","derailment":"The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.","veteranize":"To reënlist for service as a soldier. [U.S.] Gen. W. T. Sherman.","-ment":"A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.","foots":"The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead. Simmonds.","luff":"(a) The side of a ship toward the wind. (b) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. (c) The roundest part of a ship's bow. (d) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails. Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. Totten. -- Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle. R. H. Dana, Jr.\n\nTo turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.","spatangoidea":"An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.","inconsonancy":"Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.","arere":"See Arear. [Obs.] Ellis.","domiciliate":"1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile. 2. To domesticate. Pownall.","pungent":"1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope. 2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. With pungent pains on every side. Swift. His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation. J. R. Green. 3. (Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. Syn. -- Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging.","stubbedness":"The quality or state of being stubbed.","countermark":"1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy. 2. (Far.) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.\n\nTo apply a countenmark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.","demeanance":"Demeanor. [Obs.] Skelton.","babingtonite":"A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.","friction":"1. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action. 2. (Mech.) The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion. 3. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress. Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane. Note: This angle varies for different bodies, and for planes of different materials. -- Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), wheels turning freely on small pivots, and sustaining, at the angle formed by their circumferences, the pivot or journal of a revolving shaft, to relieve it of friction; -- called also friction wheels. -- Friction balls, or Friction rollers, balls or rollers placed so as to receive the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel. -- Friction brake (Mach.), a form of dynamometer for measuring the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake. -- Friction chocks, brakes attached to the common standing garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and prevent its running back. Earrow. -- Friction clutch, Friction coupling, an engaging and disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc., acting by friction; esp.: (a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives. (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting. -- Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod. -- Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional. -- Friction machine, an electrical machine, generating electricity by friction. -- Friction meter, an instrument for measuring friction, as in testing lubricants. -- Friction powder, Friction composition, a composition of chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which readily ignites by friction. -- Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the friction powder or composition with which the tube is filled -- Friction wheel (Mach.), one of the wheels in frictional gearing. See under Frictional.","debilitation":"The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.","foreflow":"To flow before. [Obs.]","obomegoid":"Obversely omegoid.","grievance":"1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury. 2. Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton. Syn. -- Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble.","daphnia":"A genus of the genus Daphnia.","certiorari":"A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irreguarities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court. Note: A certiorari is the correct process to remove the proceedings of a court in which cases are tried in a manner different from the course of the common law, as of county commissioners. It is also used as an auxiliary process in order to obtain a full return to some other process. Bouvier.","country":"1. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton. 2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. As they walked, on their way into the country. Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ). God made the covatry, and man made the town. Cowper. Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay. 3. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak. 4. (Law) (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. 5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.\n\n1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city. 2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners. 3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. 2 Macc. vii. 27.","gnathic":"Of or pertaining to the jaw. Gnathic index, in a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index. Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98 to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous. Flower.","flint-hearted":"Hard-hearted. Shak.","sacrament":"1. The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath. [Obs.] I'll take the sacrament on't. Shak. 2. The pledge or token of an oath or solemn cobenant; a sacred thing; a mystery. [Obs.] God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud . . . and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows. Jer. Taylor. 3. (Theol.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper. Syn. -- Sacrament, Eucharist. -- Protestants apply the term sacrament to baptism and the Lord's Supper, especially the latter. The R. Cath. and Greek churches have five other sacraments, viz., confirmation, penance, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme unction. As sacrament denotes an oath or vow, the word has been applied by way of emphasis to the Lord's Supper, where the most sacred vows are renewed by the Christian in commemorating the death of his Redeemer. Eucharist denotes the giving of thanks; and this term also has been applied to the same ordinance, as expressing the grateful remembrance of Christ's sufferings and death. \"Some receive the sacrament as a means to procure great graces and blessings; others as an eucharist and an office of thanksgiving for what they have received.\" Jer. Taylor.\n\nTo bind by an oath. [Obs.] Laud.","empassion":"To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.] Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.","miriness":"The quality of being miry.","antilogy":"A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.","exculpation":"The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.","chorepiscopus":"A \"country\" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.","mactation":"The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [Obs.]","revolvable":"That may be revolved.","teemful":"1. Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.] 2. Brimful. [Obs.] Ainsworth.","lammergeier":"A very large vulture (Gypaëtus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full- grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Written also lammergeyer.]","thymus":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland. -- n. The thymus gland. Thymus gland, or Thymus body, a ductless gland in the throat, or in the neighboring region, of nearly all vertebrates. In man and other mammals it is the throat, or neck, sweetbread, which lies in the upper part of the thorax and lower part of the throat. It is largest in fetal and early life, and disappears or becomes rudimentary in the adult.","penniform":"Having the form of a feather or plume.","compositive":"Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [R.]","elegancy":"1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne. 2. That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator. Syn. -- Elegance, Grace. Elegance implies something of a select style of beauty, which is usually produced by art, skill, or training; as, elegance of manners, composition, handwriting, etc.; elegant furniture; an elegant house, etc. Grace, as the word is here used, refers to bodily movements, and is a lower order of beauty. It may be a natural gift; thus, the manners of a peasant girl may be graceful, but can hardly be called elegant.","forget":"1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps. ciii. 2. Let y right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Hath thy knee forget to bow Shak. 2. To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. Can a woman forget her sucking child . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.","mestino":"See Mestizo.","razzia":"A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a rai","lena":"A procuress. J. Webster.","timberman":"A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.","doucepere":"One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.","hackbolt":"The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.","knight baronet":"See Baronet.","constabulatory":"A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.","divertive":"Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.","encrinitical":"Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.","entresol":"A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker.","languid":"1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. \" Languid, powerless limbs. \" Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison. 2. Slow in progress; tardy. \" No motion so swift or languid.\" Bentley. 3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. Keats. Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. W. Black. Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- Lan\"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan\"guid*ness, n.","cackling":"The broken noise of a goose or a hen.","balefire":"A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott.","repleader":"A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.","rawness":"The quality or state of being raw.","sophistication":"The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Boyle.","eider":"Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species. Eider down. Etym: [Cf. Icel. æ\\'ebardun, Sw. eiderdun, Dan. ederduun.] Down of the eider duck, much sought after as an article of luxury.","transformer":"One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.","inarticulate":"1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. (b) Without a hinge; -- said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods. 3. Incapable of articulating. [R.] The poor earl, who is inarticulate with palsy. Walpole.","tsung tu":"A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.","theology":"The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) \"the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life.\" Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of \"science of God\"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.). Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man. Gladstone. Ascetic theology, Natural theology. See Ascetic, Natural. -- Moral theology, that phase of theology which is concerned with moral character and conduct. -- Revealed theology, theology which is to be learned only from revelation. -- Scholastic theology, theology as taught by the scholastics, or as prosecuted after their principles and methods. -- Speculative theology, theology as founded upon, or influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy. -- Systematic theology, that branch of theology of which the aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of statements that together shall constitute an organized whole. E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).","enlumine":"To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.","hexamerous":"In six parts; in sixes.","smirch":"To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.\n\nA smutch; a dirty stain.","quattrocento":"The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. --Quat`tro*cen\"tist (#), n.","compliable":"Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.","interpolation":"1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign. 2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey. 3. (Math.) The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.","intransmissible":"Not capable of being transmitted.","eglandulous":"Destitute of glands.","aviseful":"Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.] With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.","claudication":"A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.","emodin":"An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).","porcelainized":"Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.","exterior":"1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak. 2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. Without exterior help sustained. Milton. 3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. -- Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm. Note: See Illust. of Ravelin.\n\n1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside. 2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.","scaphopoda":"A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.","gurglet":"A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.","subgovernor":"A subordinate or assistant governor.","duster":"1. One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically: (a) (Paper Making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc. (b) (Milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran. 2. A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust. [U.S.]","cowslip":"1. A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States. 2. In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold. American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceæ) with the English cowslip. -- French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auricula).","patter":"1. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. Thomson. 2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.] 3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.\n\n1. To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] \"And patter the water about the boat.\" J. R. Drake. 2. Etym: [See Patter, v. i., 2.] To mutter; as prayers. [The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]\n\n1. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet. 2. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue. 3. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.","menial":"1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean. \" Menial offices.\" Swift.\n\n1. A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices. 2. A person of a servile character or disposition. MENIERE'S DISEASE Mé`nière's\" dis*ease\". (Med.) A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.","immoment":"Trifling. [R.] \"Immoment toys.\" Shak.","perfuncturate":"To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]","lodged":"Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.","perversive":"Tending to pervert.","utriculate":"Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.","cobaltine":"A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.","judge-made":"Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this. The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been. Sir Frederick Pollock.","stealthlike":"Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.","merostomata":"A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.","salpian":"A salpa.","lumping":"Bulky; heavy. Arbuthnot.","canary bird":"A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary. Canary bird flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Tropæolum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine.","heterodont":"Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont.\n\nAny animal with heterodont dentition.","lampblack":"The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.","swordsmanship":"The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.","benumbment":"Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.","cattish":"Catlike; feline Drummond.","meroblast":"An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.","reincrease":"To increase again.","vanguard":"The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.","territorially":"In regard to territory; by means of territory.","notate":"Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored. Henslow.","avoutrie":"Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.","pannus":"A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids. Foster.","weather-fend":"To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.","phosphor":"1. Phosphorus. [Obs.] Addison. 2. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer. [Poetic] Pope. Tennyson.","privy":"1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. \" Privee knights and squires.\" Chaucer. 2. Secret; clandestine. \" A privee thief.\" Chaucer. 3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. \" Privy chambers.\" Ezek. xxi. 14. 4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. His wife also being privy to it. Acts v. 2. Myself am one made privy to the plot. Shak. Privy chamber, a private apartment in a royal residence. [Eng.] -- Privy council (Eng. Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. Burrill. -- Privy councilor, a member of the privy council. -- Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] Macaulay. -- Privy seal or signed, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal. [Eng.] -- Privy verdict, a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused. Burrill.\n\n1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party. Burrill. Wharton. 2. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.","octaemeron":"A fast of eight days before a great festival. Shipley.","esurient":"Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. \"Poor, but esurient.\" Carlyle.\n\nOne who is hungry or greedy. [R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. Wood.","gustoso":"Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.","memory":"1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler. 2. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong. 3. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands. 4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man. And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining. Milton. 5. Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. The memory of the just is blessed. Prov. x. 7. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. Shak. The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory. Macaulay. 6. A memorial. [Obs.] These weeds are memories of those worser hours. Shak. Syn. -- Memory, Remembrance, Recollection, Reminiscence. Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection. \"When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection.\" Locke. To draw to memory, to put on record; to record. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.","reddition":"1. Restoration: restitution: surrender. Howell. 2. Explanation; representation. [R.] The reddition or application of the comparison. Chapman.","slaughterer":"One who slaughters.","heddle":"One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.\n\nTo draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.","electric":"1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark. 2. Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance. 3. Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. \"Electric Pindar.\" Mrs. Browning. Electric atmosphere, or Electric aura. See under Aura. -- Electrical battery. See Battery. -- Electrical brush. See under Brush. -- Electric cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. -- Electric candle. See under Candle. -- Electric cat (Zoöl.), one of three or more large species of African catfish of the genus Malapterurus (esp. M. electricus of the Nile). They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to another which is in a different electrical state. -- Electric, or Electrical, eel (Zoöl.), a South American eel-like fresh-water fish of the genus Gymnotus (G. electricus), from two to five feet in length, capable of giving a violent electric shock. See Gymnotus. -- Electrical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which has an electrical organ by means of which it can give an electrical shock. The best known kinds are the torpedo, the gymnotus, or electrical eel, and the electric cat. See Torpedo, and Gymnotus. -- Electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity; lightning. -- Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical problems. Sir W. Thomson. -- Electrical light, the light produced by a current of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon. -- Electric, or Electrical, machine, an apparatus for generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by friction. -- Electric motor. See Electro-motor, 2. -- Electric osmose. (Physics) See under Osmose. -- Electric pen, a hand pen for making perforated stencils for multiplying writings. It has a puncturing needle driven at great speed by a very small magneto-electric engine on the penhandle. -- Electric railway, a railway in which the machinery for moving the cars is driven by an electric current. -- Electric ray (Zoöl.), the torpedo. -- Electric telegraph. See Telegraph.\n\nA nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.","epigynous":"Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.","trysting":"An appointment; a tryst. Trysting day, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Macaulay. -- Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. Byron.","attaint":"1. To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.] 2. (Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. [Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone. 3. (Law) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III. 4. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic] 5. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak. 6. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.\n\nAttainted; corrupted. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. A touch or hit. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Far.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. White. 3. (Law) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried. Bouvier. 4. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint. Shak. 5. An infecting influence. [R.] Shak.","foretell":"To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.\n\nTo utter predictions. Acts iii. 24.","mummichog":"Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]","naif":"1. Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone. 2. Naïve; as, a naïf remark. London Spectator.","indigence":"The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper. Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.","renowme":"Renown. [Obs.] The glory and renowme of the ancectors. Robynson (More's Utopia).","subbrachiales":"A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.","crofter":"One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.","philippic":"1. Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon. 2. Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.","inhere":"To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities. They do but inhere in the subject that supports them. Digby.","earthboard":"The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.","depressive":"Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press\"ive*ness, n.","octosyllabical":"Consisting of or containing eight syllables.","lorcha":"A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. Admiral Foote.","unvisibly":"Invisibly. [Obs.]","instimulate":"Not to stimulate; to soothe; to quiet. [Obs.] Cheyne.\n\nTo stimulate; to excite. [Obs.] Cockerman.","unerringly":"In an unerring manner.","anecdotist":"One who relates or collects anecdotes.","palpebral":"Of or pertaining to the eyelids.","anaerobia":"Anaërobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.","halation":"An appearance as of a halo of light, surround the edges of dark object","salad":"1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts. 2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad. Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.","by-past":"Past; gone by. \"By-past perils.\" Shak.","two-sided":"1. Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical. 2. (Biol.) Symmetrical.","oad":"See Woad. [Obs.] Coles.","holothure":"A holothurian.","lathe":"Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo- Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also lath.] Brande & C.\n\n1. A granary; a barn. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Mach.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool. 3. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten. Blanchard lathe, a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like. -- Drill lathe, or Speed lathe, a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe. -- Engine lathe, a turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc. -- Foot lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot. -- Geometric lathe. See under Geometric -- Hand lathe, a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool. -- Slide lathe, an engine lathe. -- Throw lathe, a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.","atypic":"That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.","mira":"A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (o Ceti).","apercu":"1. A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic. The main object being to develop the several aperçus or insights which furnish the method of such psychology. W. T. Harris. A series of partial and more or less disparate aperçus or outlooks; each for itself a center of experience. James Ward. 2. Hence, a brief or detached view; conspectus; sketch.","cerebrin":"A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.","lunule":"1. (Anat.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune. 2. (Chem.) A lune. See Lune. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A small or narrow crescent. (b) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart- shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve.","xanthium":"A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.","homograph":"One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.","ducker":"1. One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver. 2. A cringing, servile person; a fawner.","chromospheric":"Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.","beatifical":"Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. \"The beatific vision.\" South. -- Be`a*tif\"ic*al*ly, adv.","cashbook":"A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.","idiotry":"Idiocy. [R.] Bp. Warburton.","nightish":"Of or pertaining to night.","swarthiness":"The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.","demidevil":"A half devil. Shak.","limitless":"Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).","passiflora":"A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.","supravisor":"A supervisor. [Obs.]","cottagely":"Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","cosmolabe":"An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.","hodmandod":"See Dodman. Bacon.","espringal":"An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.","moreland":"Moorland.","pirai":"Same as Piraya.","adactylous":"(a) Without fingers or without toes. (b) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).","embarrassment":"1. A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness. The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft. 2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.","fallible":"Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.","moria":"Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.","bardish":"Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. \"Bardish impostures.\" Selden.","cephalotripsy":"The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.","scholiaze":"To write scholia. [Obs.] Milton.","sauce aux hatelets":"A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.","apteryges":"An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.","distracting":"Tending or serving to distract.","gastritis":"Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.","restore":"To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. \"To restore and to build Jerusalem.\" Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5. 2. To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace. Now therefore restore the man his wife. Gen. xx. 7. Loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat. Milton. The father banished virtue shall restore. Dryden. 3. To renew; to reëstablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance. 4. To give in place of, or as satisfaction for. He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. Ex. xxii. 1. 5. To make good; to make amends for. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Shak. 6. (Fine Arts) (a) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc. (b) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like. Syn. -- To return; replace; refund; repay; reinstate; rebuild; reëstablish; renew; repair; revive; recover; heal; cure.\n\nRestoration. [Obs.] Spenser.","proditory":"Treacherous. [Obs.]","arragonite":"See Aragonite.","mahdiism":"See Mahdism.","cowbird":"The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.","succulency":"The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.","london":"The capital city of England. London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. -- London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.","selfsame":"Precisely the same; the very same; identical. His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Matt. viii. 13.","dancette":"Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.","earthdin":"An earthquake. [Obs.]","laminar":"In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.","backwards":"1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. Locke. 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. Sir J. Davies. 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden. 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.","alternativeness":"The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.","denization":"The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.","unbeliever":"1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker. Syn. -- See Infidel.","gaure":"To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tailstock":"The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.","diphthong":"(a) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong. (b) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.\n\nTo form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize. [R.]","geth":"the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go. [Obs.] Chaucer.","quinquefid":"Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.","thuggee":"The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. \"One of the suppressors of Thuggee.\" J. D. Hooker.","gain":"A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.\n\nConvenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Phil. iii. 7. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. Every one shall share in the gains. Shak. 2. The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. \"The lust of gain.\" Tennyson.\n\n1. To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul Matt. xvi. 26. To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. Milton. For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. Pope. 2. To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. 3. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. Dryden. 4. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. Forded Usk and gained the wood. Tennyson. 5. To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. [Obs. or Ironical] Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. Acts xxvii. 21. Gained day, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. -- To gain ground, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. -- To gain over, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. -- To gain the wind (Naut.), to reach the windward side of another ship. Syn. -- To obtain; acquire; get; procure; win; earn; attain; achieve. See Obtain. -- To Gain, Win. Gain implies only that we get something by exertion; win, that we do it in competition with others. A person gains knowledge, or gains a prize, simply by striving for it; he wins a victory, or wins a prize, by taking it in a struggle with others.\n\nTo have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezek. xxii. 12. Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. To gain on or upon. (a) To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of. The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. Addison. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. Swift.","squarely":"In a square form or manner.","chondrin":"A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.","plebification":"A rendering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing. [R.] You begin with the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the plebification of knowledge. Coleridge.","lexicographical":"Of or pertaining to, or according to, lexicography. -- Lex`i*co*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv.","divisionary":"Divisional.","dumb":"1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker. 2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Shak. To pierce into the dumb past. J. C. Shairp. 3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. De Foe. Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined \"chill.\" [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a \"speaking animal.\" -- Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell. -- Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. \"Inexplicable dumb shows and noise.\" Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech. Syn. -- Silent; speechless; noiseless. See Mute.\n\nTo put to silence. [Obs.] Shak.","tendrilled":"Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. \"The thousand tendriled vine.\" Southey.","donative":"1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. \"The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives.\" Dryden. 2. (Eccl. Law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.\n\nVested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.","lithocarp":"Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.","nilotic":"Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.","aweless":"See Awless.","eloin":"See Eloign.","orchitis":"Inflammation of the testicles.","retractor":"One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: (a) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation. (c) (Surg.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation. (d) (Anat. & Zoöl.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolæmata.","imbiber":"One who, or that which, imbibes.","cerebellum":"The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.","oceanus":"The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.","trothplight":"To betroth. [Obs.]\n\nBetrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nThe act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.","unfurl":"To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.","expanse":"That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky. \"The green expanse.\" Savage. Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven. Milton. The smooth expanse of crystal lakes. Pope.\n\nTo expand. [Obs.] That lies expansed unto the eyes of all. Sir. T. Browne.","overpower":"To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. \"And overpower'd that gallant few.\" Wordsworth. Syn. -- To overbear; overcome; vanquish; defeat; crush; overwhelm; overthrow; rout; conquer; subdue.\n\nA dominating power. Bacon.","stinkweed":"Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.","hemitrope":"Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.\n\nThat which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.","dotage":"1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay. 2. Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton. 3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.","digestedly":"In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.","rabdoidal":"See Sagittal. [Written also rhabdoidal.]","alkazar":"See Alcazar.","infirmly":"In an infirm manner.","dodecahedron":"A solid having twelve faces. Note: The regular dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal and regular pentagons; the pyritohedron (see Pyritohedron) is related to it; the rhombic dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal rhombic faces.","turioniferous":"Producing shoots, as asparagus. Barton.","apodeictical":"Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.","umbilication":"A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.","pichiciago":"A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]","circumvallate":"To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.\n\n1. Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart. 2. (Anat.) Surrounded by a ridle or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.","lobosa":"An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.","brandish":"1. To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake. 2. To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.\n\nA flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc. \"Brandishes of the fan.\" Tailer.","chylaqueous":"Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.","tapered":"Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. [R.] T. Warton.","assecution":"An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.","anatomy":"1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden. Note: \"Animal anatomy\" is sometimes called zomy; \"vegetable anatomy,\" phytotomy; \"human anatomy,\" anthropotomy. Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals. 3. A treatise or book on anatomy. 4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse. 5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.","bicycler":"One who rides a bicycle.","calc-spar":"Same as Calcite.","mayhap":"Perhaps; peradventure. [Prov. or Dialectic]","declaim":"1. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week. 2. To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.\n\n1. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner. 2. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] \"Declaims his cause.\" South.","-mere":"A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.","emissory":"Same as Emissary, a., 2.","truand":"See Truant. [Obs.]","yachter":"One engaged in sailing a jacht.","pentadecylic":"Same as Quindecylic.","tided":"Affected by the tide; having a tide. \"The tided Thames.\" Bp. Hall.","philanthropist":"One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.","milleporite":"A fossil millepore.","counterbuff":"To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.\n\nA blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.","stepper":"One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.","inconcinne":"Dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable. [Obs.] Cudworth.","double-tonguing":"A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.","edam":"A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.","clothespin":"A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.","septifluous":"Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.","enterorrhaphy":"The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.","antipathetical":"Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.","uncurrent":"Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes. Shak.","clean-timbered":"Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.","isolatedly":"In an isolated manner.","wreaken":"p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.","gulaund":"An arctic sea bird.","autokinetic":"Self-moving; moving automatically.","philatelist":"One versed in philately; one who collects postage stamps.","doom":"1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak. 2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden. 3. Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak. 4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.] And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax. Syn. -- Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.\n\n1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton. 2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden. 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death Shak. 4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering. 5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. Macaulay.","spousal":"Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments. Wordsworth.\n\nMarriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden. Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer. the spousals of the newborn year. Emerson.","engagedly":"With attachment; with interest; earnestly.","perspicacious":"1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight. 2. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. -- Per`spi*ca\"cious*ly, adv. -- Per`spi*ca\"cious*ness, n.","monomerous":"1. (Bot.) Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil. 2. (Zoöl.) Having but one joint; -- said of the foot of certain insects.","peristoma":"Same as Peristome.","thowel":"(a) A thole pin. (b) A rowlock. I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.","selch":"A seal. [Scotch]","arduously":"In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.","catelectrotonus":"The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.","shily":"See Shyly.","blend":"1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival. 2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser. Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.\n\nTo mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.\n\nA thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.\n\nTo make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.","reexchange":"To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).\n\n1. A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange. 2. (Com.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.","monstrousness":"The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary. Shak.","meekly":"In a meek manner. Spenser.","supplemental":"Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air (Physiol.), the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve air. -- Supplemental bill (Equity), a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. Burrill. Daniel. -- Supplementary chords (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.","continent":"1. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. [Obs.] Shak. 2. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak. 3. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy. Shak. 4. Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever. [Obs.] The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast. Berrewood.\n\n1. That which contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.] The smaller continent which we call a pipkin. Bp. Kennet. 2. One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America. Note: The continents are now usually regarded as six in number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia, and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern Continent, and North and South America as the Western Continent. The Continent, the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England.","accelerate":"1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard. 2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc. 3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol. Syn. -- To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.","academic":"1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. 2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.\n\n1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. 2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. \"Academic courses.\" Warburton. \"Academical study.\" Berkeley.","ledgement":"See Ledgment.","redhead":"1. A person having red hair. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard. (b) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker. 3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.","poriness":"Porosity. Wiseman.","re-":"A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate, reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.","homonomous":"Of or pertaining to homonomy.","whiteblow":"Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.","prolixious":"Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. [Obs.] \"Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes.\" Shak.","liquefaction":"1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat. 2. The state of being liquid. 3. (Chem. Physics) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.","enallage":"A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.","detach":"1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party. 2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment. Syn. -- To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin; withdraw;; draw off. See Detail.\n\nTo push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.","pantable":", n. See Pantofle. [Obs.]","plea":"1. (Law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him. 2. (Law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common. The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. Laws of Massachusetts. 3. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology. \"Necessity, the tyrant's plea.\" Milton. No plea must serve; 't is cruelty to spare. Denham. 4. An urgent prayer or entreaty. Pleas of the crown (Eng. Law), criminal actions.","dukeship":"The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. Massinger.","dandy":"1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. 2. (Naut.) (a) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. (b) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen. 3. A dandy roller. See below. Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush. -- Dandy fever. See Dengue. -- Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.","sedulous":"Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee. What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end L'Estrange. Syn. -- Assiduous; diligent; industrious; laborious; unremitting; untiring; unwearied; persevering. -- Sed\"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Sed\"u*lous*ness, n.","arundinaceous":"Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.","knock-out drops":"Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]","offensible":"That may give offense. [Obs.]","turbinaceous":"Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy. Sir. W. Scott.","morse code":"The telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, invented by Samuel B. Morse. The Alphabetic code which is in use in North America is given below. In length, or duration, one dash is theoretically equal to three dots; the space between the elements of a letter is equal to one dot; the interval in spaced letters, as O . ., is equal to three dots. There are no spaces in any letter composed wholly or in part of dashes. Alphabet A .- H .... O . . V ...- B - . . . I .. P ..... W .-- C .. . J -.-. Q ..-. X .-.. D -.. K -.- R . .. Y .. .. E . L --- S ... Z ... . F .-. M -- T -- & . ... G --. N -. U ..- Numerals 1 .--. 4 . . . .- 7 --.. 2 ..-.. 5 --- 8 - . . . . 3 . . . -. 6 . . . . . . 9 -..- 0 ---- Period ..--.. Comma .-.- The International (Morse) code used elsewhere is the same as the above with the following exceptions. C -.-. L .-.. Q --.- Y -.-- F ..-. O --- R .-. Z --.. J .--- P .--. X -..- The Morse code is used chiefly with the electric telegraph, but is also employed in signalling with flags, lights, etc.","crossette":"(a) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. (b) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.","sacristy":"A apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.","firring":"See Furring.","imperviable":"Not pervious; impervious. [R.] -- Im*per\"vi*a*ble*ness, n. [R.]","spade":"1. (Zoöl.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.] 2. Etym: [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.\n\n1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. \"With spade and pickax armed.\" Milton. 2. Etym: [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. \"Let spades be trumps!\" she said. Pope. 3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.\n\nTo dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.","nonylenic":"Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.","perishably":"In a perishable degree or manner.","picotine":"A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.","acerbity":"1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit. 2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow.","indiligent":"Not diligent; idle; slothful. [Obs.] Feltham. -- In*dil\"i*gent*ly, adv. [Obs.]","potassic":"Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.","roestone":"Same as Oölite.","harpsichon":"A harpsichord. [Obs.]","boodh":"Same as Buddha. Malcom.","guaiac":"Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum.","prerequire":"To require beforehand. Some things are prerequired of us. Bp. Hall.","bunchiness":"The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.","vaccina":"Vaccinia.","exolve":"To loose; to pay. [Obs.]","tappet rod":"A rod carrying a tappet or tappets, as one for closing the valves in a Cornish pumping engine.","disproval":"Act of disproving; disproof. [R.]","lean-to":"Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n. A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.","surling":"A sour, morose fellow. [Obs.] Camden.","morningtide":"Morning time. [Poetic]","propaedeutical":"Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.","dolabriform":"Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.","megalops":"1. A larva, in a stage following the zoëa, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively. 2. A large fish; the tarpum.","fracid":"Rotten from being too ripe; overripe. [Obs.] Blount.","hydrated":"Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.","preappointment":"Previous appointment.","somniloquist":"One who talks in his sleep.","plumbaginous":"Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.","intricately":"In an intricate manner.","lithonthriptic":"Same as Lithontriptic.","penumbra":"1. An incomplete or partial shadow. 2. (Astron.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light. Sir I. Newton. Note: The faint shade surrounding the dark central portion of a solar spot is also called the penumbra, and sometimes umbra. 3. (Paint.) The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.","ceratobranchia":"A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.","hail-fellow":"An intimate companion. Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.","desport":"See Disport.","bacchus":"The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.","skene":"See Skean. C. Kingsley.","lancet":"1. A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc. 2. (Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century. -- Lancet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) A large, voracious, deep-sea fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth. (b) The doctor, or surgeon fish.","old-maidish":"Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.","infraction":"The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.","ascertainment":"The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.","neatly":"In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.","toothing":"1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth. 2. (Masonry) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.","camerade":"See Comrade, [Obs.]","patricidal":"Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.","catalogize":"To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue. [R.] Coles.","zosterops":"A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See White-eye.","scuffle":"1. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. 2. Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard. A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. Eikon Basilike.\n\n1. A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters. 2. Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight. The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned. L'Estrange. 3. A child's pinafore or bib. [Prov. Eng.] 4. A garden hoe. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","mingledly":"Confusedly.","catholicos":"The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis. Note: The Patriarch of Constantinople is the civil head of the Armenians in Turkey.","amacratic":"Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.","feel":"1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn. 2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak. 3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron. 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak. 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] Chaucer. To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.\n\n1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. 2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope. 3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; - - followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. Shak. 4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak. 5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. \"If haply they might feel after him, and find him.\" Acts xvii. 27. - To feel of, to examine by touching.\n\n1. Feeling; perception. [R.] To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hazlitt. 2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp.","protogine":"A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.","dumose":"1. Abounding with bushes and briers. 2. (Bot.) Having a compact, bushy form.","roration":"A falling of dew. [R.]","saxonist":"One versed in the Saxon language.","secretaryship":"The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.","siderography":"The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.","gazet":"A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]","intensitive":"Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. H. Sweet.","absorptivity":"Absorptiveness.","transmigrant":"Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n. One who transmigrates.","willowy":"1. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. 2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.","zooephilist":"A lover of animals. Southey.","plasterer":"1. One who applies plaster or mortar. \"Thy father was a plasterer.\" Shak. 2. One who makes plaster casts. \"The plasterer doth make his figures by addition.\" Sir H. Wotton.","forleave":"To leave off wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.","wreathless":"Destitute of a wreath.","reengrave":"To engrave anew.","monastically":"In a monastic manner.","septi-":"A combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.","barbiers":"A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.","undermine":"1. To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison. 2. Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state. He should be warned who are like to undermine him. Locke.","pistillation":"The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","scholarship":"1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. [R.] Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student. T. Warton. Syn. -- Learning; erudition; knowledge.","starthroat":"Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.","third-penny":"A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.","observation":"1. The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything. My observation, which very seldom lies. Shak. 2. The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment. In matters of human prudence, we shall find the greatest advantage in making wise observations on our conduct. I. Watts. 3. Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark. \"That's a foolish observation.\" Shak. To observations which ourselves we make We grow more partial for the observer's sake. Pope. 4. Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance. [Obs.] We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances. Jer. Taylor. 5. (Science) (a) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal. (b) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc. (c) The information so acquired. Note: When a phenomenon is scrutinized as it occurs in nature, the act is termed an observation. When the conditions under which the phenomenon occurs are artificial, or arranged beforehand by the observer, the process is called an experiment. Experiment includes observation. To take an observation (Naut.), to ascertain the altitude of a heavenly body, with a view to fixing a vessel's position at sea. Syn. -- Observance; notice; attention; remark; comment; note. See Observance.","committal":"The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.","janissary":"See Janizary.","dextrogerous":"See Dextrogyrate.","pacifier":"One who pacifies.","olein":"A fat, liquid at ordinary temperatures, but solidifying at temperatures below 0° C., found abundantly in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms (see Palmitin). It dissolves solid fats, especially at 30-40° C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule of glyceryl to form the fat, it is technically known as triolein. It is also called elain.","aristotype":"Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.","siderostat":"An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.","pexity":"Nap of cloth. [Obs.] PEYER'S GLANDS Pey\"er's glands`. Etym: [So called from J.K.Peyer, who described them in 1677.] (Anat.) Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.","exanimation":"Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] Bailey.","atlantes":"Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.","epistemology":"The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.","pacifiable":"Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.","caviare":"The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia. Note: Caviare was considered a delicacy, by some, in Shakespeare's time, but was not relished by most. Hence Hamlet says of a certain play. \"'T was caviare to the general,\" i. e., above the taste of the common people.","milk vetch":"A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. Note: The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.","objuration":"A binding by oath. [R.] Abp. Bramhall.","supposable":"Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos\"a*bly, adv.","pontificality":"The state and government of the pope; the papacy. [R.] Bacon.","lampoon":"A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.\n\nTo subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay. Syn. -- To libel; defame; satirize; lash.","semiannual":"Half-yearly.","disappoint":"1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was excepted, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. I was disappointed, but very agreeably. Macaulay. Note: Disappointed of a thing not obtained; disappointed in a thing obtained. 2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. His retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison. Syn. -- To tantalize; fail; frustrate; balk; baffle; delude; foil; defeat. See Tantalize.","instaurator":"One who renews or restores to a former condition. [R.] Dr. H. More.","hemstitch":"To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.","fetlock":"The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.","blessed":"1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. 2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48. Towards England's blessed shore. Shak. 3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. \"Then was a blessed time.\" \"So blessed a disposition.\" Shak. 4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton. 5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.","physiognommonic":"Physiognomic.","beplaster":"To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.","edematose":"Same as oedematous.","garage":"1. A place for housing automobiles. 2. (Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar. 3. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding. Garage is recent in English, and has as yet acquired no settled pronunciation.\n\nTo keep in a garage. [Colloq.]","peddler":"One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] \"Some vagabond huckster or peddler.\" Hakluyt.","bear-trap dam":"A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.","smear dab":"The sand fluke (b). [Prov. Eng.]","tregetour":"A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. Chaucer.","anient":"To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.","belletristical":"Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. \"An unlearned, belletristic trifler.\" M. Arnold.","clypeastroid":"Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.","govern":"1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority. \"Fit to govern and rule multitudes.\" Shak. 2. To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse. Govern well thy appetite. Milton. 3. (Gram.) To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.\n\nTo exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control. Dryden.","repartee":"A smart, ready, and witty reply. Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior. Syn. -- Retort; reply. See Retort.\n\nTo make smart and witty replies. [R.] Prior.","monist":"A believer in monism.","inclamation":"Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","phasma":"An apparition; a phantom; an appearance. [R.] Hammond. Sir T. Herbert.","pumiced":"Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.","caryatid":"Of or pertaining to a caryatid.\n\n(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.","regicidal":"Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide. Bp. Warburton.","strain":"1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. Darwin. 2. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation. Tillotson. 3. Rank; a sort. \"The common strain.\" Dryden.\n\n1. To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument. \"To strain his fetters with a stricter care.\" Dryden. 2. (Mech.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. 3. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. He sweats, Strains his young nerves. Shak. They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring. Dryden. 4. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person. There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it. Swift. 5. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. 6. To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back. Swift. 7. To squeeze; to press closely. Evander with a close embrace Strained his departing friend. Dryden. 8. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forced and strained. Denham. The quality of mercy is not strained. Shak. 9. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. Note, if your lady strain his entertainment. Shak. 10. To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth. To strain a point, to make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings. -- To strain courtesy, to go beyond what courtesy requires; to insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others; -- often used ironically. Shak.\n\n1. To make violent efforts. \"Straining with too weak a wing.\" Pope. To build his fortune I will strain a little. Shak. 2. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.\n\n1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained. Specifically: -- (a) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain. Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation. Landor. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. Sir W. Temple. (b) (Mech. Physics) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. Rankine. 2. (Mus.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. Dryden. 3. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. \"A strain of gallantry.\" Sir W. Scott. Such take too high a strain at first. Bacon. The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. Tillotson. It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. Bunyan. 4. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.","vivda":"See Vifda.","co-mate":"A companion. Shak.","pennigerous":"Bearing feathers or quills.","mulberry-faced":"Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.","antediluvial":"Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.","putrilage":"That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.","naumachy":"1. A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) A show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions.","pleiades":"1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. 2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. Job xxxviii. 31. Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by Mädler the central point around which our universe is revolving, but there is no sufficient evidence of such motion. Only six pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence the ancients supposed that a sister had concealed herself out of shame for having loved a mortal, Sisyphus.","calymene":"A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.","phalangid":"One of the Phalangoidea.","top-armor":"A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.","whirlicote":"An open car or chariot. [Obs.] Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. Stow.","unballasted":"1. Etym: [Properly p. p. unballast.] Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast. 2. Etym: [Pref. un- not + ballasted.] Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast; unsteady; as, unballasted vessels; unballasted wits. Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan. De Quincey.","tribunitious":"Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] Bacon.","unlodge":"To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.","argus shell":"A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.","irate":"Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent] The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. Thackeray. Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. Dickens.","licking":"1. A lapping with the tongue. 2. A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]","adjudge":"1. To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor. 2. To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term. 3. To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton. 4. To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles. Syn. -- To decree; award; determine; adjudicate; ordain; assign.","tibiotarsal":"(a) Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation. (b) Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.","touch-needle":"A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.","triluminous":"Having three lights [R.]","yeel":"An eel. [Obs.] Holland.","crown":"p. p. of Crow. [Obs.]\n\n1. A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. \"An olive branch and laurel crown.\" Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptiblle. 1 Cor. ix. 25. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10. 2. A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc. Note: Nobles wear coronets; the triple crown of the pope is usually called a tiara. The crown of England is a circle of gold with crosses, fleurs-de-lis, and imperial arches, inclosing a crimson velvet cap, and ornamented with thousands of diamonds and precious stones. 3. The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article. Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown. Blackstone. Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown. Macaulay. 4. Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty. There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. Junius. 5. Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish. The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Prov. xvi. 31. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. Prov. xvi. 4. 6. Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. Milton. 7. The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden. 8. The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan. 9. The part of a hat above the brim. 10. (Anat.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth. 11. (Arch.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only. 12. (Bot.) Same as Corona. 13. (Naut.) (a) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank. (b) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. (c) pl. The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten. 14. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. 15. The dome of a furnace. 16. (Geom.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters. 17. (Eccl.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure. 18. A size of writing paper. See under Paper. 19. A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents. 20. An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown. Crown of aberration (Astron.), a spurious circle around the true circle of the sun. -- Crown antler (Zoöl.), the topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim. -- Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace. -- Crown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] \"She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels.\" Milton. -- Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign. -- Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.] -- Crown lawyer, one employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.] -- Crown octavo. See under Paper. -- Crown office. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown paper. See under Paper. -- Crown piece. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown Prince, the heir apparent to a crown or throne. -- Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown scab (Far.), a cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof. -- Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler. -- Crown shell. (Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20. -- Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown work. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pleas of the crown (Engl. law), criminal actions.\n\n1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. Dryden. Crown him, and say, \"Long live our emperor.\" Shak. 2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. Ps. viii. 5. 3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. Motley. 4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley. 5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.","heard":"imp. & p. p. of Hear.","tartrazine":"An artificial dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.","ovate-rotundate":"Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.","attune":"1. To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp. 2. To arrange fitly; to make accordant. Wake to energy each social aim, Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove. Beattie.","globard":"A glowworm. {Obs.] Holland.","sclerodermic":"(a) Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates. (b) Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.","ant egg":"One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.","gynandrous":"Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.","boxberry":"The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]","jersey":"1. The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool. 2. A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet). 3. One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.","tropologize":"To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.] If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.","fighting":"1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.","elaolite":"See Elæolite.","metacromion":"A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.","cacophonic":"Harsh-sounding.","prematurity":"The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.","hip lock":"A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip.","corroborative":"Tending to strengthen of confirm.\n\nA medicine that strengthens; a corroborant. Wiseman.","cliffy":"Having cliffs; broken; craggy.","doctoral":"Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.","feuilltonist":"A writer of feuilletons. F. Harrison.","adversarious":"Hostile. [R.] Southey.","carbanil":"A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.","nephrite":"A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.","religiosity":"The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. [R.] M. Arnold.","unisonal":"Being in unison; unisonant. -- U*nis\"o*nal*ly, adv.","nastiness":"The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity. The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dryden.","apostrophize":"1. To address by apostrophe. 2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.\n\nTo use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.","ominate":"To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","bonhommie":"good nature; pleasant and easy manner.","twitcher":"One who, or that which, twitches.","aceldama":"The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.","stercorarian":"A Stercoranist.","areca":"A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.","penal":"Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: (a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. (b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense. (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. \"Adamantine chains and penal fire.\" Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. -- Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.] -- Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.","devotion":"1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion. Macaulay. 3. Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer. \"The love of public devotion.\" Hooker. 4. Disposal; power of disposal. [Obs.] They are entirely at our devotion, and may be turned backward and forward, as we please. Godwin. 5. A thing consecrated; an object of devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day. Syn. -- Consecration; devoutness; religiousness; piety; attachment; devotedness; ardor; earnestness.","latinism":"A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament.","hypothecator":"One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.","diminishingly":"In a manner to diminish.","post-captain":"A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was \"posted,\" in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.","croys":"See Cross, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.","bearbind":"The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).","crocodility":"A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. [R.]","flear":"See Fleer.","prelusorily":"In a prelusory way.","hot-blooded":"Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.","condemnable":"Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.","solary":"Solar. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","gremial":"Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom. [R.]\n\n1. A bosom friend. [Obs.] Fuller. 2. (Ecol.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.","enterotomy":"Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.","plumularian":"Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.","tinkling":"1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray. 2. (Zoöl.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.","advoke":"To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.","quindecemvir":"One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.","temptable":"Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted. Cudworth.","crankiness":"Crankness. Lowell.","embassadorial":"Same as Ambassadorial.","nailery":"A manufactory where nails are made.","chalet":"1. A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth. 2. A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.","telegram":"A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. Note: \"A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.\" Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).","below":"1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. \"One degree below kings.\" Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. Milton. Who thinks no fact below his regard. Hallam. Syn. -- Underneath; under; beneath.\n\n1. In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott. 2. On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior. 3. In hell, or the regions of the dead. What businesss brought him to the realms below. Dryden. 4. In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. Wheaton. 5. In some part or page following.","provection":"A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.","banewort":"Deadly nightshade.","jube":"(a) chancel screen or rood screen. (b) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read. See Rood loft, under Rood.","nonconcluding":"Not concluding.","spareness":"The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.","constituter":"One who constitutes or appoints.","carline thistle":"A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.","hypermetropy":"A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia. Note: In hypermetropia, vision for distant objects, although not better absolutely, is better than that for near objects, and hence, the individual is said to be farsighted. It is corrected by the use of convex glasses. -- Hy`per*me*trop\"ic, a.","angio-":"A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.","inartificial":"Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character. -- In*ar`ti*fi\"cial*ly, adv. -- In*ar`ti*fi\"cial*ness, n.","cubo-octahedral":"Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.","eyewitness":"One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.","eversive":"Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of. A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality. Geddes.","refurbish":"To furbish anew.","indecimable":"Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes. Cowell.","entrail":"To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nEntanglement; fold. [Obs.] Spenser.","derivative":"Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*riv\"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv\"a*tive*ness, n.\n\n1. That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. 2. (Gram.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. 3. (Mus.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. 4. (Med.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). 5. (Math.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. Note: Except in the mode of derivation the derivative is the same as the differential coefficient. See Differential coefficient, under Differential. 6. (Chem.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.","caverned":"1. Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron. 2. Living in a cavern. \"Caverned hermit.\" Pope.","magnetizee":"A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism. [R.]","conformableness":"The quality of being conformable; conformability.","tellership":"The office or employment of a teller.","spattling-poppy":"A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.","antepenultima":"The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable.","nuthatch":"Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmæa), and others, are American.","cherup":"To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup. \"Cheruping birds.\" Drayton.\n\nTo excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.\n\nA short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.","imbricative":"Imbricate.","duboisine":"An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.","reyse":"To raise. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo go on a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ryal":"Royal. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nSee Rial, and old English coin.","mortmal":"See Mormal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","caoutchouc":"A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.","pseudostella":"Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]","preapprehension":"An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","motto":"1. (Her.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment. 2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... \"Serve God, and be cheerful.\" Addison.","daddy longlegs":"1. (Zoöl.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs. 2. (Zoöl.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.","grilse":"A young salmon after its first return from the sea.","flight":"1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak. 2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. Matt. xxiv. 20. Fain by flight to save themselves. Shak. 3. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soaas, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. Byron. His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. Macaulay. 4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. Swift. Swift flights of angels ministrant. Milton. Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. Shak. 5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. Parker. 6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.] Challenged Cupid at the flight. Shak. Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. Beau. & Fl. 7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. to take a flight{9}. Flight feathers (Zoöl.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. -- To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout. Syn. -- Pair; set. See Pair.","cingle":"A girth. [R.] See Surcingle.","planet-struck":"Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.","forensical":"Forensic. Berkley.","determinateness":"State of being determinate.","manswear":"To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.","shopen":"p. p. of Shape. Chaucer.","remollient":"Mollifying; softening. [R.]","biland":"A byland. [Obs.] Holland.","ovate-oblong":"Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.","quebracho":"A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspnoea of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).","recidivation":"A falling back; a backsliding. Hammond.","pantheistic":"Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism. -- Pan`the*is\"tic*al*ly, adv.","vesicularia":"Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.","fluor":"1. A fluid state. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. 2. Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses. [Obs.] 3. (Min.) See Fluorite.","harrage":"To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.] Fuller.","displace":"1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced. 2. To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times. 3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. 4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak. Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.","swinery":"Same as Piggery. [R.]","philhellenic":"Of or pertaining to philhellenism.","schizont":"In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.","emissive":"Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.","tonical":"Tonic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","tyran":"A tyrant. [Obs.] Lordly love is such a tyran fell. Spenser.","confirm":"1. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10. 2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose. Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. Milton. 3. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak. 4. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift. 5. (Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.","cacao":"A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.","perambulator":"1. One who perambulates. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer. 3. A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.","hegelism":"The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).","dialogite":"Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.","sherris":"Sherry. [Obs.] Shak.","hygroscopicity":"The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.","harmine":"An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.","flyblow":"To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.\n\nOne of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.","nutritious":"Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri\"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri\"tious*ness, n.","nonjurorism":"The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.","amnesty":"1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. 2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.\n\nTo grant amnesty to.","azureous":"Of a fine blue color; azure.","cottontail":"The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.","impendency":"The state of impending; also, that which impends. \"Impendence of volcanic cloud.\" Ruskin.","perimetric":"Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.","bicapsular":"Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.","gelding":"A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).\n\nfrom Geld, v. t.","stibonium":"The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.","misgovernment":"Bad government; want of government. Shak.","prolificate":"To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.","conterminable":"Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. Love and life not conterminable. Sir H. Wotton.","mahometism":"See Mohammedanism.","bedpost":"1. One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead. 2. Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.","evocate":"To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.","unitarianism":"The doctrines of Unitarians.","septiferous":"Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.\n\nConveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.","accrete":"1. To grow together. 2. To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.\n\nTo make adhere; to add. Earle.\n\n1. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. 2. (Bot.) Grown together. Gray.","altarage":"1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.","astrometer":"An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.","fusted":"Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","reformatory":"Tending to produce reformation; reformative.\n\nAn institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.","waggish":"1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. \"A company of waggish boys.\" L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag\"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag\"gish*ness, n.","pomelo":"A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.","alleluiah":"An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.","ethnography":"That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.","rater":"One who rates or estimates.\n\nOne who rates or scolds.","bacillus":"A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.","orycterope":"Same as Oryctere.","turdiformes":"A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.","jeg":"See Jig, 6.","outbleat":"To surpass in bleating.","odium":"1. Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him. 2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden. Odium theologicum ( Etym: [L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians. Syn. -- Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. -- Odium, Hatred. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. Shak. You have...dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield.","diagonial":"Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed. [Obs.] Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.","dodge":"1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Milton. 2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.\n\n1. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown. 2. Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. [Colloq.] S. G. Goodrich. 3. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. Coleridge.\n\nThe act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. [Colloq.] Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.","implicate":"1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley. 2. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.","brawner":"A boor killed for the table.","gaingiving":"A misgiving. [Obs.]","seating":"1. The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience. 2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.","linguistics":"The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.","wart":"1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. 2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. L. A. Duhring. -- Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine. -- Wart snake (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. -- Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia).","calice":"See Chalice.","reasoner":"One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.","upstay":"To sustain; to support. [Obs.] \"His massy spear upstayed.\" Milton.","inefficaciously":"without efficacy or effect.","menispermine":"An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.","watteau":"Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; --said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.","hermogenian":"A disciple of Hermogenes, and heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He ha","protect":"To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.","selenitical":"Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.","wire-pulling":"The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.","succeeder":"A successor. Shak. Tennyson.","quilting":"1. The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt. 2. A quilting bee. See Bee, 2. 3. The material used for making quilts. 4. (Naut.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.","yockel":"The yaffle.","retinophoral":"Of or pertaining to retinophoræ.","pirogue":"A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]","astound":"Stunned; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.\n\n1. To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax. 2. To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.","hammerable":"Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.","intercitizenship":"The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States. Bancroft.","phaeton":"1. A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses. 2. See Phaëthon. 3. (Zoöl.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, or Melitæa, Phaëton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.","pike":"1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. 2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl. 3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. 4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Raymond. 5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.] 6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 7. A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens. 8. (Zoöl.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye. Gar pike. See under Gar. -- Pike perch (Zoöl.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger. -- Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs. -- Pike whale (Zoöl.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale. -- Sand pike (Zoöl.), the lizard fish. -- Sea pike (Zoöl.), the garfish (a).","plant-eating":"Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.","classicalism":"1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism. 2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.","tupaiid":"Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidæ, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed.","livre":"A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.","creaght":"A drove or herd. [Obs.] Haliwell.\n\nTo graze. [Obs.] Sir. L. Davies.","chidester":"A female scold. [Obs.]","cordwain":"A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.","empiricism":"1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery. 3. (Metaph.) The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.","inexpectation":"Absence of expectation. Feltham.","admonisher":"One who admonishes.","skeel":"A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.","outlier":"1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley. 2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body. 3. (Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.","sethen":"See Since. [Obs.]","tirwit":"The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.] 'T IS 'T is. A common contraction of it is.","biseye":"of Besee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Evil biseye, ill looking. [Obs.]","suberize":"To effect suberization of.","lesbian":"Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.","digenea":"A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.","top-dress":"To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.","half-tongue":"A jury, for the trial of a fore foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.","dorsale":"Same as Dorsal, n.","amboyna wood":"A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.","clotweed":"Cocklebur.","insinuation":"1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw. 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition. Sir H. Wotton. I hope through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper. 3. The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner. He bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company. Clarendon. 4. That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations. I scorn your coarse insinuation. Cowper. Syn. -- Hint; intimation; suggestion. See Innuendo.","coppery":"Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.","nutrient":"Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n. Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.","raduliform":"Rasplike; as, raduliform teeth.","fibreless":"Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.","improvisate":"Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [R.]\n\nTo improvise; to extemporize.","stercoranism":"The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.","sparpoil":"To scatter; to spread; to disperse. [Obs.]","superexaltation":"Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.","plathelminthes":"Same as Platyelminthes.","spinozist":"A believer in Spinozism.","scleroskeleton":"That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.","clutch":"1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. \"The clutch of poverty.\" Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak. 2. pl. The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet. 3. (Mach.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure. 4. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. 5. (Zoöl.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird. Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.\n\n1. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power. A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak. 2. To close tightly; to clinch. Not that I have the power to clutch my hand. Shak.\n\nTo reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft.","undeck":"To divest of ornaments. Shak.","recognization":"Recognition. [R.]","mutoscope":"A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.","spirality":"The quality or states of being spiral.","patronate":"The right or duty of a patron; patronage. [R.] Westm. Rev.","bonair":"Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]","circumfusile":"Capable of being poured or spread round. \"Circumfusile gold.\" Pope.","zygosperm":"A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algæ and fungi.","sanded":"1. Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson. 2. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak. 3. Short-sighted. [Prov. Eng.]","tentaculiform":"Shaped like a tentacle.","colp":"See Collop.","insuccess":"Want of success. [R.] Feltham.","scalar":"In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.","tussuck":"See Tussock. Grew.","hochepot":"Hotchpot. [Obs.] Chaucer.","elaterium":"A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).","sneerer":"One who sneers.","gonangium":"See Gonotheca.","objectify":"To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.","block signal":"One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.","languet":"1. Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth. 2. That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.","omnipresence":"Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.","globose":"Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton.","orthoclastic":"Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.","calcite":"Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar. Note: Argentine is a pearly lamellar variety; aphrite is foliated or chalklike; dogtooth spar, a form in acute rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals; calc-sinter and calc-tufa are lose or porous varieties formed in caverns or wet grounds from calcareous deposits; agaric mineral is a soft, white friable variety of similar origin; stalaclite and stalagmite are varieties formed from the drillings in caverns. Iceland spar is a transparent variety, exhibiting the strong double refraction of the species, and hence is called doubly refracting spar.","notableness":"The quality of being notable.","amidogen":"A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.","wreckfish":"A stone bass.","crepitus":"(a) The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. (b) Same as Crepitation, 2.","nicene":"Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325. Nicene Creed (, a summary of Christian faith, composed and adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, A. D. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.","cubebic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).","unicursal":"That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th. Note: As th varies minus infinity to plus infinity, to each value of th there corresponds one, and only one, point of the curve, while to each point on the curve there corresponds one, and only one, value of th. Straight lines, conic sections, curves of the third order with a nodal point, curves of the fourth order with three double points, etc., are unicursal.","morion":"A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat. A battered morion on his brow. Sir W. Scott.\n\nA dark variety of smoky quartz.","pyritaceous":"Of or pertaining to pyrites. See Pyritic.","planipetalous":"Having flat petals.","ramean":"A Ramist. Shipley.","vicine":"Near; neighboring; vicinal. [R.] Glanvill.\n\nAn alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.","sophic":"Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] S. Harris.","glucinic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.","cicatrizant":"A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.","acreage":"Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.","radish":"The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Paphanus sativus); also, the whole plant. Radish fly (Zoöl.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia raphani) whose larvæ burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly. -- Rat-tailed radish (Bot.), an herb (Raphanus caudatus) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten. -- Wild radish (Bot.), the jointed charlock.","easy":"1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. \"The easy vigor of a line.\" Pope. 2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. \"Easy ways to die.\" Shak. 3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. It were an easy leap. Shak. 4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion. 5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. He gained their easy hearts. Dryden. He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. Sir W. Scott. 6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] Chaucer. 7. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points. Syn. -- Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile; unconcerned.","velverd":"The veltfare. [Prov. Eng.]","amoebiform":"Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.","ciborium":"1. (Arch.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar. 2. (R. C. Ch.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.","pleonast":"One who is addicted to pleonasm. [R.] C. Reade.","burrock":"A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.","inoppressive":"Not oppressive or burdensome. O. Wolcott.","nurseryman":"One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.","solanaceous":"Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.","indelicate":"Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del\"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; broad; impolite; gross; indecent; offensive; improper; unchaste; impure; unrefined.","maharajah":"A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.","atmolyzation":"Separation by atmolysis.","witticism":"A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.","anchorable":"Fit for anchorage.","blet":"A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.","impregnate":"1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young. 2. (Biol.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.\n\nTo become pregnant. Addison.\n\nImpregnated; made prolific. The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.","timelessly":"In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] Milton.","turlupin":"One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.","anorthite":"A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.","magnifical":"Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. [Obs.] 1 Chron. xxii. 5. \"Thy magnific deeds.\" Milton. -- Mag*nif\"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]","pseudocoelia":"The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle. B. G. Wilder.","bepaint":"To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.","reapply":"To apply again.","zorilla":"Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks. [Written also zoril, and zorille.] Note: The best-known species (Ictonyx zorilla) has black shiny fur with white bands and spots. It has anal glands which produce a very offensive secretion, similar to that of the skunk. It feeds upon birds and their eggs and upon small mammals, and is often very destructive to poultry. It is sometimes tamed by the natives, and kept to destroy rats and mice. Called also mariput, Cape polecat, and African polecat. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the American skunk.","tesla coil":"A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.","horripilation":"A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.","chignon":"A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head. A curl that had strayed from her chignon. H. James.","cannot":"Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.","epiplooen":"See Omentum.","citrus":"A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.","porphyrite":"A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.","unsorted":"1. Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods. 2. Not well selected; ill-chosen. The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted. Shak.","encollar":"To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]","overflutter":"To flutter over.","stratography":"A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.","zoetrope":"An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.","block":"1. A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson. 2. The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. Noble heads which have been brought to the block. E. Everett. 3. The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. Hence: The pattern on shape of a hat. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Shak. 4. A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. 5. A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. The new city was laid out in rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev. 6. A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. 7. (Falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. 8. Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. 9. A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. 10. (Print.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. 11. A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] What a block art thou ! Shak. 12. A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. A block of shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric signals that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.\n\n1. To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. With moles . . . would block the port. Rowe. A city . . . besieged and blocked about. Milton. 2. To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. 3. To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; as, to block out a plan.","nix":"One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition. The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. Tylor.","derogatoriness":"Quality of being derogatory.","reclination":"1. The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined. 2. (Dialing) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande & C. 3. (Surg.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.","albertite":"A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A.","air gap":"An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.","christom":"See Chrisom. [Obs.] Shak.","discongruity":"Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.","janty":"See Jaunty.","almadie":"(a) A bark canoe used by the Africans. (b) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.","retinol":"A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.","heliolatry":"Sun worship. See Sabianism.","lovelock":"A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.","angulation":"A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.","meteorous":"Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.","undetermination":"Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.","huffy":"1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread. 2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.","water engine":"An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.","winkingly":"In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.","axinomancy":"A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.","besmut":"To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.","oophytic":"Of or pertaining to an oöphyte.","sight-seeing":"Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.\n\nThe act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.","sabine":"Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy. -- n. One of the Sabine people.\n\nSee Savin.","transmeable":"Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. [Obs.]","codlin":"(a) An apple fit to stew or coddle. (b) An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.","management":"1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. \"The management of the voice.\" E. Porter. 2. Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement. He had great managements with ecclesiastics. Addison . 3. Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense. Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you, and some to t'other side. Dryden. 4. The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers. Syn. -- Conduct; administration; government; direction; guidance; care; charge; contrivance; intrigue.","compasses":"An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move. Note: The compasses for drawing circles have adjustable pen points, pencil points, etc.; those used for measuring without adjustable points are generally called dividers. See Dividers. Bow compasses. See Bow-compass. -- Caliber compasses, Caliper compasses. See Calipers. -- Proportional, Triangular, etc., compasses. See under Proportional, etc.","prolongable":"Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.","uniparous":"1. (Zoöl.) Producing but one egg or young at a time. 2. (Bot.) Producing but one axis of inflorescence; -- said of the scorpioid cyme.","junto":"A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians. The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and mighty juntos met. Thomson.","raddle":"1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. 2. A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge. Todd. 3. An instrument consisting of a woodmen bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.\n\nTo interweave or twist together. Raddling or working it up like basket work. De Foe.\n\nA red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle. \"A ruddle of rouge.\" Thackeray.\n\nTo mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. \"Whitened and raddled old women.\" Thackeray.","unsatiable":"Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*sa\"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa\"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]","badger state":"Wisconsin; -- a nickname.","blunging":"The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.","indin":"A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.","enwoman":"To endow with the qualities of a woman. [R.] Daniel.","belleek ware":"A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.","isabel color":"See Isabella.","raking":"1. The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake. 2. A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.","simplistic":"Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist. [R.] Wilkinson.","flaccidity":"The state of being flaccid.","immaterial":"1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not. Syn. -- Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling.","eucalyn":"An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.","goldilocks":"Same as Goldylocks.","emulatively":"In an emulative manner; with emulation.","imputable":"1. That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable. A prince whose political vices, at least, were imputable to mental incapacity. Prescott. 2. Accusable; culpable. [R.] The fault lies at his door, and she is no wise imputable. Ayliffe.","uncleship":"The office or position of an uncle. Lamb.","verbatim":"Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it. Verbatim et literatim Etym: [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.","lagnappe":"In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity. Lagniappe . . .is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. Mark Twain.","good-bye":"Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep. Shak.","bossism":"The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses. [Slang, U. S.]","correctional":"Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.","mash":"A mesh. [Obs.]\n\n1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. 2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. 3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.\n\nTo convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.","pemmican":"1. Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow. 2. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.","brewery":"A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.","pick":"1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. 6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper. 7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. \"One man picked out of ten thousand.\" Shak. 8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. 9. To trim. [Obs.] Chaucer. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. -- To pick a bone with. See under Bone. -- To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To pick off. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. -- To pick out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. (a) To take up, as with the fingers. (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.(c) to acquire (an infectious disease); as, to pick up a cold on the airplane. (d) To meet (a person) and induce to accompany one; as, to pick up a date at the mall. [See several other defs in MW10]\n\n1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. Why stand'st thou picking Is thy palate sore Dryden. 2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. 3. To steal; to pilfer. \"To keep my hands from picking and stealing.\" Book of Com. Prayer. To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]\n\n1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. 3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] \"Take down my buckler . . . and grind the pick on 't.\" Beau. & Fl. 4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. France and Russia have the pick of our stables. Ld. Lytton. 5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. 6. (Print.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. MacKellar. 7. (Painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. 8. (Weawing) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. -- Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners.","reliquidation":"A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. A. Hamilton.","foxery":"Behavior like that of a fox; [Obs.] Chaucer.","regulation":"1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. 2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations. Syn. -- Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law.","pachuca tank":"A high and narrow tank, with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; -- so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.","tactic":"Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.\n\nSee Tactics.","thunderstorm":"A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.","cystoidea":"Same as Cystidea.","curvature":"1. The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin. 2. (Math.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. -- Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve. -- Chord of curvature. See under Chord. -- Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. -- Curvature of the spine (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. -- Radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.","mandible":"1. (Anat.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds. 2. (Zoöl.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.","mown":"Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.","self-indulgence":"Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.","frizette":"a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.\n\nA curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.","acceptableness":"The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.","thwartly":"Transversely; obliquely.","assertion":"1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay. 2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.","clomp":"See Clamp.","eugh":"The yew. [Obs.] Dryden.","triangular":"1. Having three angles; having the form of a triangle. 2. (Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab (Zoöl.), any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually triangular. -- Triangular numbers (Math.), the series of numbers formed by the successive sums of the terms of an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.","apical":"At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit. Gray.","gimp":"Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]\n\nA narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.\n\nTo notch; to indent; to jag.","flabbily":"In a flabby manner.","bucket":"1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth. 2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. 3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel. 4. The valved piston of a lifting pump. Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. -- To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]","water sparrow":"(a) The reed warbler. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.]","scibboleth":"Shibboleth. [Obs.]","crowkeeper":"A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. [Obs.] Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.","saucy":"1. Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest Shak. 2. Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks. We then have done you bold and sausy wrongs. Shak. Syn. -- Impudent; insolent; impertinent; rude.","unwist":"1. Not known; unknown. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. 2. Not knowing; unwitting. [Obs.] Wyclif.","anaglyph":"Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.","rainy":"Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy day or season.","hint":"To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. Pope. Syn. -- To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply.\n\nTo make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle. Tennyson. To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously. Syn. -- To allude; refer; glance; touch.\n\nA remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive. Our hint of woe Is common. Shak. The hint malevolent, the look oblique. Hannah M Syn. -- Suggestion; allusion. See Suggestion.","diffusion":"1. The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke. 2. (Physiol.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate. Syn. -- Extension; spread; propagation; circulation; expansion; dispersion.","tontine":"An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance. Too many of the financiers by professions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop. Burke.","iberian":"Of or pertaining to Iberia.","abhorrence":"Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.","unkind":"Having no race or kindred; childless. [Obs. & R.] Shak.\n\n1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] \"Such unkind abominations.\" Chaucer. 2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. -- Un*kind\"ly, adv. -- Un*kind\"ness, n.","tympanize":"To drum. [R.] Coles.\n\nTo stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] \"Tympanized, as other saints of God were.\" Oley.","spatchcock":"See Spitchcock.","aphides":"See Aphis.","corncrake":"A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.","unvisible":"Invisible. [Obs.] Wyclif.","aerosphere":"The atmosphere. [R.]","topek":"An ESkimo house made of material other than snow, esp. one having walls of turf, driftwood, rock, or skin, and a roof of skins of the walrus or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.","wintergreen":"A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry. Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower. -- Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms. -- Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.","dissimilar":"Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.","paspy":"A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure. Percy Smith.","silk":"1. The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvæ of Bombyx mori. 2. Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. 3. That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. -- Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. -- Silk-cotton tree (Bot.), a name for several tropical trees of the genera Bombax and Eriodendron, and belonging to the order Bombaceæ. The trees grow to an immense size, and have their seeds enveloped in a cottony substance, which is used for stuffing cushions, but can not be spun. -- Silk flower. (Bot.) (a) The silk tree. (b) A similar tree (Calliandra trinervia) of Peru. -- Silk fowl (Zoöl.), a breed of domestic fowls having silky plumage. -- Silk gland (Zoöl.), a gland which secretes the material of silk, as in spider or a silkworm; a sericterium. -- Silk gown, the distinctive robe of a barrister who has been appointed king's or queen's counsel; hence, the counsel himself. Such a one has precedence over mere barristers, who wear stuff gowns. [Eng.] -- Silk grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa comata) of the Western United States, which has very long silky awns. The name is also sometimes given to various species of the genera Aqave and Yucca. -- Silk moth (Zoöl.), the adult moth of any silkworm. See Silkworm. -- Silk shag, a coarse, rough-woven silk, like plush, but with a stiffer nap. -- Silk spider (Zoöl.), a large spider (Nephila plumipes), native of the Southern United States, remarkable for the large quantity of strong silk it produces and for the great disparity in the sizes of the sexes. -- Silk thrower, Silk throwster, one who twists or spins silk, and prepares it for weaving. Brande & C. -- Silk tree (Bot.), an Asiatic leguminous tree (Albizzia Julibrissin) with finely bipinnate leaves, and large flat pods; -- so called because of the abundant long silky stamens of its blossoms. Also called silk flower. -- Silk vessel. (Zoöl.) Same as Silk gland, above. -- Virginia silk (Bot.), a climbing plant (Periploca Græca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe.","quas":"A kind of beer. Same as Quass.","sharock":"An East Indian coin of the value of 12","wikke":"Wicked. [Obs.] Chaucer.","defeasance":"1. A defeat; an overthrow. [Obs.] After his foes' defeasance. Spenser. 2. A rendering null or void. 3. (Law) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated. Note: Mortgages were usually made in this manner in former times, but the modern practice is to include the conveyance and the defeasance in the same deed.","dead-reckoning":"See under Dead, a.","phalangister":"Same as Phalangist.","ricochet":"A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground.\n\nTo operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n. [R.]\n\nTo skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.","armisonant":"Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]","decalitre":"A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.","incomprehense":"Incomprehensible. [Obs.] \"Incomprehense in virtue.\" Marston.","regenerator":"1. One who, or that which, regenerates. 2. (Mech.) A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.","legerdemainist":"One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.","sapient":"Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton. Syn. -- Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.","perpetration":"1. The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime. 2. The thing perpetrated; an evil action.","supportless":"Having no support. Milton.","chalybeous":"Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.","spathulate":"See Spatulate.","superlucration":"Excessive or extraordinary gain. [Obs.] Davenant.","acoustical":"Of or pertaining to acoustics.","phytographical":"Of or pertaining to phytography.","spirituality":"1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly- mindedness. A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth. 2. (Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. 3. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. [Obs.] Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. Fuller.","hamal":"In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.","inactivity":"1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter. 2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.","reseizure":"A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.","arborical":"Relating to trees. [Obs.]","attemperment":"Attemperament.","cobishop":"A joint or coadjutant bishop. Ayliffe.","chorometry":"The art of surveying a region or district.","scyphomedusae":"Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.","sea boy":"A boy employed on shipboard.","statuette":"A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.","brass-visaged":"Impudent; bold.","modest":"1. Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man. 2. Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife. Shak. The blushing beauties of a modest maid. Dryden. 3. Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy. Syn. -- Reserved; unobtrusive; diffident; bashful; coy; shy; decent; becoming; chaste; virtuous.","dentate-sinuate":"Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.","alchemist":"One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.","swingletail":"The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.","disfellowship":"To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.","dephlegmedness":"A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.","overshoot":"1. To shoot over or beyond. \"Not to overshoot his game.\" South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.\n\nTo fly beyond the mark. Collier.","turnhalle":"A building used as a school of gymnastics.","assail":"1. To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble. 2. To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope. 3. To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony. Macaulay. Syn. -- To attack; assault; invade; encounter; fall upon. See Attack.","epanody":"The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.","hard-mouthed":"Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.","bedagat":"The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.","elvanite":"The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.","hysterogenic":"Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria. De Watteville.","fragmentarily":"In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.","gormandize":"To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.","zincographer":"Am engraver on zinc.","pan":"1. A part; a portion. 2. (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. 3. Etym: [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver.\n\nTo join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.] Halliwell.\n\nThe betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See .\n\nThe god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.\n\n1. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. \"A bowl or a pan.\" Chaucer. 2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. 3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. 4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. Chaucer. 5. (C A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. 6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. 7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. Flash in the pan. See under Flash. -- To savor of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. Ridley. Southey.\n\nTo separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.] We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. Gen. W. T. Sherman.\n\n1. (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. 2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]","fillip":"1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. \"You filip me o' the head.\" Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.\n\n1. A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow. 2. Something serving to rouse or excite. I take a glass of grog for a filip. Dickens.","curship":"The state of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose] How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.","interval":"1. A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. Milton. 2. Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II. 3. A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium. 4. (Mus.) Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. \"And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals.\" Tennyson. -- Augmented interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.\n\nA tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.","girdler":"1. One who girdles. 2. A maker of girdles. 3. (Zoöl.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ.","disarm":"1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.","limicoline":"Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.","choral":"Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.\n\nA hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written chorale.]","edriophthalmous":"Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.","dispositively":"In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.","croker":"A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.","skinner":"1. One who skins. 2. One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.","wolf":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf. 3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. 4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. 5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [Obs.] If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side. Jer. Taylor. 6. (Mus.) (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale. 7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. Knight. Black wolf. (Zoöl.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees. (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf. -- Golden wolf (Zoöl.), the Thibetan wolf (Canis laniger); -- called also chanco. -- Indian wolf (Zoöl.), an Asiatic wolf (Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak. -- Prairie wolf (Zoöl.), the coyote. -- Sea wolf. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.) the striped hyena. -- Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), the zebra wolf. -- Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. -- To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. Tennyson. -- Wolf dog. (Zoöl.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. -- Wolf eel (Zoöl.), a wolf fish. -- Wolf fish (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species (A. lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish. -- Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. -- Wolf's peach (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum). -- Wolf spider (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidæ. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App. -- Zebra wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; -- called also Tasmanian wolf.","compulsion":"The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton. Syn. -- See Constraint.","te deum":"1. An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words \"Te Deum laudamus.\" It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, \"We praise thee, O God,\" it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. 2. A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part.","featherly":"Like feathers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","seiches":"Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.","faithed":"Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] \"Make thy words faithed.\" Shak.","circler":"A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","corallite":"1. (Min.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [Written also corallet.]","meconium":"(a) Opium. [Obs.] (b) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.","affirmation":"1. Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker. 2. The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial. 3. That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality. 4. (Law) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.","sucre":"A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.","unlike":"1. Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike. 2. Not likely; improbable; unlikely. [Obsoles.] Unlike quantities (Math.), quantities expressed by letters which are different or of different powers, as a, b, c, a2, a3, xn, and the like. -- Unlike signs (Math.), the signs plus (+) and minus (-).","mistaker":"One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.","centesimal":"Hundredth. -- n. A hundredth part. The neglect of a few centesimals. Arbuthnot.","originalness":"The quality of being original; originality. [R.] Johnson.","stablish":"To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. [Obs.] 2 Sam. vii. 13.","contradistinctive":"having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. -- Con`tra*dis*tinc\"tive, n.","protein":"A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name. Protein crystal. (Bot.) See Crystalloid, n., 2.","fumage":"Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.","physique":"The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. With his white hair and splendid physique. Mrs. Stowe.","quirinal":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis, now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.","genethlialogy":"Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.","bray":"To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22.\n\n1. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. Laugh, and they Return it louder than an ass can bray. Dryden. 2. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. Heard ye the din of battle bray Gray.\n\nTo make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound. Arms on armor clashing, brayed Horrible discord. MIlton. And varying notes the war pipes brayed. Sir W. Scott.\n\nThe harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound. The bray and roar of multitudinous London. Jerrold.\n\nA bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.","rammel":"Refuse matter. [Obs.] Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones. Holland.","mudsucker":"A woodcock.","nomothete":"A lawgiver. [R.]","vigoroso":"Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.","curvicaudate":"Having a curved or crooked tail.","diphyozooid":"One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.","buccinoid":"Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.","chiliast":"One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.","jacobin":"1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. 2. One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue. 3. (Zoöl.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.\n\nSame as Jacobinic.","clincher":"1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope. 2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.","empoverish":"See Impoverish.","kshatruya":"The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. [India]","misapprehension":"A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.","rotal":"Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary. [R.]","exanthem":"Same as Exanthema.","constrict":"To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.","poor":"1. Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. Note: It is often synonymous with indigent and with necessitous denoting extreme want. It is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor people. 2. (Law) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. 3. Hence, in very various applications: Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected; as: (a) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. \"Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed.\" Gen. xli. 19. (b) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. \"His genius . . . poor and cowardly.\" Bacon. (c) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. \"A poor vessel.\" Clarendon. (d) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil. (e) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture. (f) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night. (g) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse. That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day. Calamy. 4. Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. Shak. Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. Prior. 5. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. \"Blessed are the poor in spirit.\" Matt. v. 3. Poor law, a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor man's treacle (Bot.), garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. [Eng] Dr. Prior. -- Poor man's weatherglass (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather. -- Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. \"I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves.\" Franklin.\n\nA small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.","falanaka":"A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.","underground insurance":"Wildcat insurance.","symphyseotomy":"The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.","abash":"To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay. Syn. -- To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame. -- To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was abashed in the presence of those who are greatly his superiors. We are confused when, from some unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid person is apt to be confused in entering a room full of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded at the discovery of his guilt. Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to say. Milton.","chebacco":"A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.","kamichi":"A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.","abelian":"One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.","really":"Royally. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nIn a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth. Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. Swift. Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or a declaration. Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old. Young.","artfulness":"The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.","fright":"1. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. 2. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. [Colloq.] Syn. -- Alarm; terror; consternation. See Alarm.\n\nTo alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. Dryden. Syn. -- To affright; dismay; daunt; intimidate.","inflatus":"A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.","alkalizate":"Alkaline. [Obs.] Boyle.\n\nTo alkalizate. [R.] Johnson.","rescind":"1. To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor. 2. Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment. Syn. -- To revoke; repeal; abrogate; annul; recall; reverse; vacate; void.","impingement":"The act of impinging.","entertake":"To entertain. [Obs.]","allumette":"A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.","sea kale":"See under Kale.","house":"1. A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. Houses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shak. 2. Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below. 3. Those who dwell in the same house; a household. One that feared God with all his house. Acts x. 2. 4. A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel. The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. Tennyson. 5. One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament. 6. (Com.) A firm, or commercial establishment. 7. A public house; an inn; a hotel. 8. (Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours. 9. A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. 10. An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house. 11. The body, as the habitation of the soul. This mortal house I'll ruin, Do Cæsar what he can. Shak. 12. [With an adj., as narrow, dark, etc.] The grave. \"The narrow house.\" Bryant. Note: House is much used adjectively and as the first element of compounds. The sense is usually obvious; as, house cricket, housemaid, house painter, housework. House ant (Zoöl.), a very small, yellowish brown ant (Myrmica molesta), which often infests houses, and sometimes becomes a great pest. -- House of bishops (Prot. Epis. Ch.), one of the two bodies composing a general convertion, the other being House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. -- House boat, a covered boat used as a dwelling. -- House of call, a place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assemble when out of work, ready for the call of employers. [Eng.] Simonds. -- House car (Railroad), a freight car with inclosing sides and a roof; a box car. -- House of correction. See Correction. -- House cricket (Zoöl.), a European cricket (Gryllus domesticus), which frequently lives in houses, between the bricks of chimneys and fireplaces. It is noted for the loud chirping or stridulation of the males. -- House dog, a dog kept in or about a dwelling house. -- House finch (Zoöl.), the burion. -- House flag, a flag denoting the commercial house to which a merchant vessel belongs. -- House fly (Zoöl.), a common fly (esp. Musca domestica), which infests houses both in Europe and America. Its larva is a maggot which lives in decaying substances or excrement, about sink drains, etc. -- House of God, a temple or church. -- House of ill fame. See Ill fame under Ill, a. -- House martin (Zoöl.), a common European swallow (Hirundo urbica). It has feathered feet, and builds its nests of mud against the walls of buildings. Called also house swallow, and window martin. -- House mouse (Zoöl.), the common mouse (Mus musculus). -- House physician, the resident medical adviser of a hospital or other public institution. -- House snake (Zoöl.), the milk snake. -- House sparrow (Zoöl.), the common European sparrow (Passer domesticus). It has recently been introduced into America, where it has become very abundant, esp. in cities. Called also thatch sparrow. -- House spider (Zoöl.), any spider which habitually lives in houses. Among the most common species are Theridium tepidariorum and Tegenaria domestica. -- House surgeon, the resident surgeon of a hospital. -- House wren (Zoöl.), the common wren of the Eastern United States (Troglodytes aëdon). It is common about houses and in gardens, and is noted for its vivacity, and loud musical notes. See Wren. -- Religious house, a monastery or convent. -- The White House, the official residence of the President of the United States; -- hence, colloquially, the office of President. -- To bring down the house. See under Bring. -- To keep house, to maintain an independent domestic establishment. -- To keep open house, to entertain friends at all times. Syn. -- Dwelling; residence; abode. See Tenement.\n\n1. To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. At length have housed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. Evelyn. 2. To drive to a shelter. Shak. 3. To admit to residence; to harbor. Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. Sir P. Sidney. 4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. Sandys. 5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.\n\n1. To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. You shall not house with me. Shak. 2. (Astrol.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. \"Where Saturn houses.\" Dryden.","multifariously":"With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.","concretely":"In a concrete manner.","saltpetre":"Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white crystalline substance, NaNO3, having a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste. It is obtained by leaching the soil of the rainless districts of Chili and Peru. It is deliquescent and cannot be used in gunpowder, but is employed in the production of nitric acid. Called also cubic niter. -- Saltpeter acid (Chem.), nitric acid; -- sometimes so called because made from saltpeter.","puritanic":"1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. 2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. Macaulay. He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne.","raphaelesque":"Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.","tonsor":"A barber. Sir W. Scott.","esloin":"To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.","illation":"The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.","primer":"One who, or that which, primes; specifically, an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other capable for igniting a charge of gunpowder.\n\nFirst; original; primary. [Obs.] \"The primer English kings.\" Drayton. Primer fine (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. -- Primer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.\n\n1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer. 3. (Print.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica. Note: Great primer type.","mucksy":"Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] R. D. Blackmore.","rosaceous":"1. (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceæ) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces. (b) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla. 2. Of a pure purpish pink color.","inalienableness":"The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.","phlebitis":"Inflammation of a vein.","gastroscope":"An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.","stratigraphic":"Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence. -- Strat`i*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv.\n\nSee Stratographic.","counterrolment":"A counter account. See Control. [Obs.] Bacon.","funny":"Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.\n\nA clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]","kidde":"of Kythe. [Obs.] Chaucer.","argil":"Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.","collaud":"To join in praising. [Obs.] Howell.","oxyquinoline":"Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.","deuthydroguret":"Same as Deutohydroguret.","galipot":"An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.","petaline":"Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.","scaldic":"Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.","sagitta":"1. (Astron.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow. 2. (Arch.) The keystone of an arch. [R.] gwitt. 3. (Geom.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string. [Obs.] 4. (Anat.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes. 5. (Zoöl.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chætognatha.","unspin":"To untwist, as something spun.","lib":"To castrate. [Obs.]","outgrow":"1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. Shak. 2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.","cutaway":"Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away. Cutaway coat, a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom.","torques":"A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.","shrubbery":"1. A collection of shrubs. 2. A place where shrubs are planted. Macaulay.","carlin":"An old woman. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]","opinionate":"Opinionated.","pyroxene":"A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90º, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc. Note: The pyroxene group contains pyroxene proper, also the related orthorhombic species, enstatite, bronzite, hypersthene, and various monoclinic and triclinic species, as rhodonite, etc.","kimnel":"A tub. See Kemelin. [Obs.] She knew not what a kimnel was Beau. & Fl.","selenonium":"A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. [R.]","transitionary":"Transitional.","socage":"A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.] Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the services are not only certain, but honorable; and villein socage, where the services, though certain, are of a baser nature. Blackstone.","transposal":"The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.","vacuum":"1. (Physics) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum. 2. The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch. Vacuum brake, a kind of continuous brake operated by exhausting the air from some appliance under each car, and so causing the pressure of the atmosphere to apply the brakes. -- Vacuum pan (Technol.), a kind of large closed metallic retort used in sugar making for boiling down sirup. It is so connected with an exhausting apparatus that a partial vacuum is formed within. This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process. -- Vacuum pump. Same as Pulsometer, 1. -- Vacuum tube (Phys.), a glass tube provided with platinum electrodes and exhausted, for the passage of the electrical discharge; a Geissler tube. -- Vacuum valve, a safety valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, in order to prevent collapse. -- Torricellian vacuum. See under Torricellian.","kail":"1. (Bot.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1. 2. Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. [OE. or Scot.] 3. A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]","passee":"Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.","memorist":"One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. [Obs.]","setula":"A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.","indelible":"1. That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory. 2. That can not be annulled; indestructible. [R.] They are endued with indelible power from above. Sprat. Indelible colors, fast colors which do not fade or tarnish by exposure. -- Indelible ink, an ink obliterated by washing; esp., a solution of silver nitrate. Syn. -- Fixed; fast; permanent; ineffaceable. -- In*del\"i*ble*ness, n. -- In*del\"i*bly, adv. Indelibly stamped and impressed. J. Ellis.","ephialtes":"The nightmare. Brande & C.","hansom":"A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . \" 'Tis the gondola of London,\" said Lothair. Beaconsfield. HAN'T; HAIN'T Han't. A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.","kist":"A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson. Halliwell.\n\nA stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment. [India]","incommodement":"The act of incommoded. [Obs.] Cheyne.","harborough":"A shelter. [Obs]. Spenser.","slanting":"Oblique; sloping. -- Slant\"ing*ly, adv.","phonolite":"A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, haüynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.","rutilant":"Having a reddish glow; shining. Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. Evelin.","exceptless":"Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.] My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.","sold":"imp. & p. p. of Sell.\n\nSolary; military pay. [Obs.] Spenser.","sug":"A kind of worm or larva. Walton.","manchet":"Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.","bisector":"One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.","antero-":"A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.","encrinoidea":"That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.","corrosible":"Corrodible. Bailey.","ochreated":"1. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted. A scholar undertook...to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. Fuller. 2. (Bot.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.","apogamy":"The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.","soapsuds":"Suds made with soap.","embarge":"To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.","cesspool":"A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]","incubiture":"Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.","gaudless":"Destitute of ornament. [R.]","cardecu":"A quarter of a crown. [Obs.] The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott.","concurrency":"Concurrence.","match game":"A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games.","alterative":"Causing ateration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.\n\nA medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.","crystallographic":"Pertaining to crystallography.","apriority":"The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.","ironwort":"An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.","pulverization":"The action of reducing to dust or powder.","scotchman":"1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman. 2. (Naut.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","resider":"One who resides in a place.","rekne":"To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dioptre":"A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.","arenilitic":"Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.","bungling":"Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.","ungka":"The siamang; -- called also ungka ape.","stagnant":"1. That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins. 2. Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant. That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul. Johnson. For him a stagnant life was not worth living. Palfrey.","customarily":"In a customary manner; habitually.","figurehead":"1. (Naut.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.","stethoscopist":"One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.","learn":"1. To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. \"Learn to do well.\" Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt. xxiv. 32. 2. To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.] Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes Shak. Note: Learn formerly had also the sense of teach, in accordance with the analogy of the French and other languages, and hence we find it with this sense in Shakespeare, Spenser, and other old writers. This usage has now passed away. To learn is to receive instruction, and to teach is to give instruction. He who is taught learns, not he who teaches.\n\nTo acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. Matt. xi. 29. To learn by heart. See By heart, under Heart. -- To learn by rote, to memorize by repetition without exercise of the understanding.","viable":"Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant. Note: Unless he [an infant] is born viable, he acquires no rights, and can not transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never been born. Bouvier.","mousseline":"Muslin. Mousseline de laine (. Etym: [F., muslin of wool.] Muslin delaine. See under Muslin. -- Mousseline glass, a kind of thin blown glassware, such as wineglasses, etc.","gleety":"Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.","immortelle":"A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.","titillation":"1. The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker. 2. Any pleasurable sensation. Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses. Glanvill.","corporeality":"The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.","haemadynamometer":"Same as Hemadynamometer.","gaud-day":"See Gaudy, a feast.","refrigeration":"The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.","androgynous":"1. Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge. 2. (Bot.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.","droyle":"See Droil. [Obs.] Spenser.","sinter":"Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. -- Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite. -- Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.","saccharone":"(a) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. (b) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.","indicavit":"A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts. Wharton (Law Dict. ).","antidotical":"Serving as an antidote. -- An`ti*dot\"ic*al*ly, adv.","appeasement":"The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.","neutrophile":"One of a group of leucocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes. -- Neu\"tro*phil\"ic (#), a., Neu*troph\"i*lous (#), a.","prebendate":"To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.","disjudication":"Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] Boyle.","mistura":"(a) A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4. (b) Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.","nervosity":"Nervousness. [R.]","disgestion":"Digestion. [Obs.]","approvement":"1. Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward. 2. (Eng. Law) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bouvier.\n\nImprovement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.","scolytid":"Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.","inordination":"Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. [Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.","zoutch":"To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them. Smart.","alloxantin":"A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.","postulatum":"A postulate. Addison.","disagreement":"1. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity. 2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.] 3. Difference of opinion or sentiment. 4. A falling out, or controversy; difference. Syn. -- Difference; diversity; dissimilitude; unlikeness; discrepancy; variance; dissent; misunderstanding; dissension; division; dispute; jar; wrangle; discord.","esexual":"Sexless; asexual.","osmiamate":"A salt of osmiamic acid.","smash":"To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. Burke.\n\nTo break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.\n\n1. A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck. 2. Hence, bankruptcy. [Colloq.]","dispensatory":"Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. \"Dispensatory power.\" Bp. Rainbow.\n\nA book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.","suffruticose":"Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.","prurigo":"A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.","victuals":"Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. Then had we plenty of victuals. Jer. xliv. 17.","convival":"pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [Obs.] \"A convival dish.\" Sir T. Browne.","gesticulation":"1. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments. 2. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. Macaulay. 3. Antic tricks or motions. B. Jonson.","dumdum bullet":"A kind of manstopping bullet; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.","nebulation":"The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill- defined, color mark.","cagmag":"A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","ghess":"See Guess. [Obs.]","matriarch":"The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.","sea pike":"(a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo. (c) The merluce.","consummative":"Serving to consummate; completing. \"The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy.\" Sir W. Hamilton.","indigest":"Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. [Obs.] \"A chaos rude and indigest.\" W. Browne. \"Monsters and things indigest.\" Shak.\n\nSomething indigested. [Obs.] Shak.","subspecies":"A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.","hardware":"Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.","samurai":"In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member of the class, of military retainers of the daimios, constituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.","inboard":"1. (Naut.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard. 2. (Mech.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.","faint":"1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, \"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.\" Old Proverb. 3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound. 4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. The faint prosecution of the war. Sir J. Davies.\n\nThe act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n. The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint. Sir W. Scott.\n\n1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n. Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. Guardian. If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. Mark viii. 8. 2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. xxiv. 10. 3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.\n\nTo cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. [Obs.] It faints me to think what follows. Shak.","reciproque":"Reciprocal. Bacon.","provoke":"To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs. Syn. -- To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate.\n\n1. To cause provocation or anger. 2. To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.","ambitus":"1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes.","absinthate":"A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.","referendary":"1. One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. \"Referendaries, or masters of request.\" Harmar. 3. Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.","high-proof":"1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. \"We are high-proof melancholy.\" Shak.","oxy-":"A prefix, also used adjectively, designating: (a) A compound containing oxygen. (b) A compound containing the hydroxyl group, more properly designated by hydroxy-. See Hydroxy-. Oxy acid. See Oxyacid (below).","errable":"Liable to error; fallible.","pawnor":"One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.","double-headed":"Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.","dextrality":"The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.","nullifier":"One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.","bombasine":"Same as Bombazine.","microtomy":"The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.","sublimely":"In a sublime manner.","strategical":"Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te\"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.","green-leek":"An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.","crudely":"In a crude, immature manner.","thrack":"To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. [Obs.] South.","profitless":"Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.","discolorate":"To discolor. [R.] Fuller.","faciend":"The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.","vanity":"1. The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham. Sir J. Davies. 2. An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit. The exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled. Macaulay. 3. That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher. Eccl. i. 2. Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come. Sir P. Sidney. [Sin] with vanity had filled the works of men. Milton. Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead; Succeeding vanities she still regards. Pope. 4. One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5. You . . . take vanity the puppet's part. Shak. Syn. -- Egotism; pride; emptiness; worthlessness; self-sufficiency. See Egotism, and Pride.","coagulant":"That which produces coagulation.","ampliate":"To enlarge. [R.] To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire. Udall.\n\nHaving the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.","water lime":"Hydraulic lime.","drum":"1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne. 2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound. 3. (Zoöl.) See Drumfish. 4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett. Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares. 5. A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot. Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. -- Double drum. See under Double.\n\n1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.\n\n1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.","spumescence":"The state of being foamy; frothiness.","sexennial":"Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n. A sexennial event.","sulphone":"Any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, and consisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbon radicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (CH.SO","swingeing":"Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge\"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.","polyconic":"Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones. Polyconic projection (Map Making), a projection of the earth's surface, or any portion thereof, by which each narrow zone is projected upon a conical surface that touches the sphere along this zone, the conical surface being then unrolled. This projection differs from conic projection in that latter assumes but one cone for the whole map. Polyconic projection is that in use in the United States coast and geodetic survey.","croup":"The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Sir W. Scott.\n\nAn inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.","dartle":"To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.","water back":"See under 1st Back.","disroof":"To unroof. [R.] Carlyle.","evesdropper":"See Eavesdropper.","griddle":"1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.","tribune":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls. Note: The tribunes were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, of whom there were from four to six in each legion. Other officers were also called tribunes; as, tribunes of the treasury, etc. 2. Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.","closehanded":"Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close\"hand`ed*ness, n.","cosmographer":"One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).","epacris":"A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.","ottrelite":"A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.","ulva":"A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.","ribaudy":"Ribaldry. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ferrandine":"A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.","prevene":"To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent. [Obs.] Philips.","exserted":"Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes.","kindless":"Destitute of kindness; unnatural.[Obs.] \"Kindless villain.\" Shak.","excogitation":"The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.","zetetic":"Seeking; proceeding by inquiry. Zetetic method (Math.), the method used for finding the value of unknown quantities by direct search, in investigation, or in the solution of problems. [R.] Hutton.\n\nA seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.","necessitarian":"Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.\n\nOne who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.","conimene":"Same as Olibene.","trustee stock":"High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]","erase":"1. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name. 2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.","caper":"To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.\n\nA frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank. To cut a caper, to frolic; to make a sportive spring; to play a prank. Shak.\n\nA vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. Wright.\n\n1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. 2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. Note: The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; - - cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The C. sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries. Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary. -- Caper sauce, a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers.","chrysanthemum":"A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.","multungulate":"Having many hoofs.","squillitic":"Of or pertaining to squills. [R.] \"Squillitic vinegar.\" Holland.","pelf":"Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. \"Mucky pelf.\" Spenser. \"Paltry pelf.\" Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry Fuller.","podded":"Having pods.","cymous":"Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.","nereis":"1. (Class. Myth.) A Nereid. See Nereid. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chætopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennæ, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.","obediently":"In an obedient manner; with obedience.","romanize":"1. To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. [R.] Dryden. 2. To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.\n\n1. To use Latin words and idioms. \"Apishly Romanizing.\" Milton. 2. To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.","serapis":"An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.","trispaston":"A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.","palmitone":"The ketone of palmitic acid.","soubah":"See Subah.","rostelliform":"Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.","fameless":"Without fame or renown. -- Fame\"less*ly, adv.","sneath":"See Snath.","stewpan":"A pan used for stewing.","water screw":"A screw propeller.","pictorical":"Pictorial. [Obs.]","cranioclast":"An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.","smartweed":"An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.","implacably":"In an implacable manner.","perspectively":"1. Optically; as through a glass. [R.] You see them perspectively. Shak. 2. According to the rules of perspective.","whistly":"In a whist manner; silently. [Obs.]","dilated":"1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak. 2. (Bot.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. 3. (Zoöl.) Having the margin wide and spreading.","ductible":"Capable of being drawn out [R.] Feltham.","clift":"A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.\n\n1. A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.] 2. The fork of the legs; the crotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.","astragal":"1. (Arch.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle. 2. (Gun.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.","childship":"The state or relation of being a child.","mesaticephalous":"Mesaticephalic.","saintish":"Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.","thysanopteran":"One of the Thysanoptera.","monamide":"An amido compound with only one amido group.","hemispherical":"Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.","self-aggrandizement":"The aggrandizement of one's self.","counterfeiter":"1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden. 2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. Counterfeiters of devotion. Sherwood.","machine":"1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. Note: The term machine is most commonly applied to such pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts, for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture of cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated an apparatus, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus. Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no well-settled distinction between the terms engine and machine among practical men, there is a tendency to restrict the application of the former to contrivances in which the operating part is not distinct from the motor. 2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. Dryden. Southey. Thackeray. 3. A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. 4. A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive. Landor. 5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant] 6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. Addison. Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. -- Infernal machine. See under Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood. -- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing. -- Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. -- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.\n\nTo subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.","discoure":"To discover. [Obs.] That none might her discoure. Spenser.","anomalously":"In an anomalous manner.","alcyonium":"A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.","moneron":"One of the Monera.","feldspathose":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.","stirious":"Resembling icicles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","verrucose":"Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.","tank vessel":"A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.","couch grass":"See Quitch grass.","dragonish":"resembling a dragon. Shak.","reposure":"Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.","moldery":"Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.","complicacy":"A state of being complicate or intricate. Mitford.","chromid":"One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.","ancome":"A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.","hyoglossal":"(a) Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane. (b) Of or pertaining to the hyoglossus muscle.","nosel":"To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle. [Obs.] If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.","toothless":"Having no teeth. Cowper.","tike":"A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]\n\n1. A dog; a cur. \"Bobtail tike or trundle-tail.\" Shak. 2. A countryman or clown; a boorish person.","deathbird":"Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.","evanishment":"A vanishing; disappearance. [R.] T. Jefferson.","rheocrat":"A kind of motor speed controller permitting of very gradual variation in speed and of reverse. It is especially suitable for use with motor driven machine tools.","yellowshanks":"See Yellolegs.","fibula":"1. A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth. 2. (Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. 3. (Surg.) A needle for sewing up wounds.","oppositely":"In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.","capitolian":"Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. \"Capitolian Jove.\" Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.","sclavonian":"Same as Slavonian.","perfidious":"1. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak. 2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. \"Involved in this perfidious fraud.\" Milton.","hemigamous":"Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.","post-obit bond":"A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.\n\nA bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.","nakedly":"In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.","chop-logic":"One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.","binominal":"Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.","weir":"1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like. 2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish. 3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.","retaliate":"To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. Swift.\n\nTo return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.","mahl-stick":"See Maul-stick.","trama":"The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.","aestivation":"1. (Zoöl.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation. 2. (Bot.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]","arioso":"In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.","sear":"[OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.\n\n1. To wither; to dry up. Shak. 2. To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. I'm seared with burning steel. Rowe. It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. Macaulay. The discipline of war, being a discipline in destruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared. H. Spencer. Note: Sear is allied to scorch in signification; but it is applied primarily to animal flesh, and has special reference to the effect of heat in marking the surface hard. Scorch is applied to flesh, cloth, or any other substance, and has no reference to the effect of hardness. To sear, to close by searing. \"Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill.\" Sir W. Temple.\n\nThe catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.","stepdame":"A stepmother. Spenser.","tune":"1. A sound; a note; a tone. \"The tune of your voices.\" Shak. 2. (Mus.) (a) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air. (b) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shak. 3. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood. A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [his task]. Locke.\n\n1. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. \" Tune your harps.\" Dryden. 2. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious. For now to sorrow must I tune my song. Milton. 3. To sing with melody or harmony. Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Milton. 4. To put into a proper state or disposition. Shak.\n\n1. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds. Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her. Drayton. 2. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. [R.]","quahaug":"An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam. Note: The name is also applied to other allied species, as Venus Mortoni of the Gulf of Mexico.","butchering":"1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.","saturnine":"1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn. 2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. Addison. 3. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. [Archaic] Saturnine colic (Med.), lead colic.","fin keel":"A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water.","vernage":"A kind of sweet wine from Italy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","admonitioner":"Admonisher. [Obs.]","laity":"1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. Macaulay. 2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] Ayliffe. 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.","paracorolla":"A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.","lutherism":"The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.","practisant":"An agent or confederate in treachery. [Obs.] Shak.","disvalue":"To undervalue; to depreciate. Shak.\n\nDisesteem; disregard. B. Jonson.","stalk-eyed":"Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.","fluxure":"1. The quality of being fluid. [Obs.] Fielding. 2. Fluid matter. [Obs.] Drayton.","sexteyn":"A sacristan. [Obs.] Chaucer.","meticulous":"Timid; fearful. -- Me*tic\"u*lous*ly, adv.","uddered":"Having an udder or udders.","wynn":"One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w. X.\n\nA kind of timber truck, or carriage.","persic":"Of or relating to Persia. -- n. The Persian language.","burglar":"One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.","ferrugineous":"Ferruginous. [R.]","ovate":"1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest. 2. (Bot.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray.","primary":"1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. Locke. 2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools. 3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance. 4. (Geol.) Earliest formed; fundamental. 5. (Chem.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement. Primary alcohol (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess the group CH2.OH, and can be oxidized so as to form a corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same number of carbon atoms; -- distinguished from secondary and tertiary alcohols. -- Primary amine (Chem.), an amine containing the amido group, or a derivative of ammonia in which only one atom of hydrogen has been replaced by a basic radical; -- distinguished from secondary and tertiary amines. -- Primary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury performed as soon as the shock due to the injury has passed away, and before symptoms of inflammation supervene. -- Primary axis (Bot.), the main stalk which bears a whole cluster of flowers. -- Primary colors. See under Color. -- Primary meeting, a meeting of citizens at which the first steps are taken towards the nomination of candidates, etc. See Caucus. -- Primary pinna (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded. -- Primary planets. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Primary qualities of bodies, such are essential to and inseparable from them. -- Primary quills (Zoöl.), the largest feathers of the wing of a bird; primaries. -- Primary rocks (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; -- called also primitive rocks. The terms Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like manner, but of these the last two only are now in use. -- Primary salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by a base or basic radical. -- Primary syphilis (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis, including the period from the development of the original lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection. -- Primary union (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by the first intention.\n\n1. That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter. 2. A primary meeting; a caucus. 3. (Zoöl.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird. 4. (Astron.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.","thoria":"A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.","assailer":"One who assails.","minutely":"In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.\n\nHappening every minute; continuing; unceasing. [Obs.] Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence. Hammond.\n\nAt intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips. Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. Hammond.","ruralize":"To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.\n\nTo become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.","expectoration":"1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. 2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.","lactometer":"An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.","simultaneity":"The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.","enfeoffment":"(a) The act of enfeoffing. (b) The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.","self-defensive":"Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.","pessimize":"To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.","nummulitic":"Of, like, composed of, containing, nummulites; as, nummulitic beds.","sororal":"Relating to a sister; sisterly. [R.]","exchangeably":"By way of exchange.","sotto voce":"1. (Mus.) With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone. 2. Spoken low or in an undertone.","contravene":"1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson. Syn. -- To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart.","gyre":"A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.\n\nTo turn round; to gyrate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Drayton.","turbidity":"Turbidness.","cyclostome":"A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.\n\nPertaining to the Cyclostomi.","dowl":"Same as Dowle.","unicolorous":"Having the surface of a uniform color.","illuminator":"1. One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3. 2. A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.","zoccolo":"Same as Socle.","appulsion":"A driving or striking against; an appulse.","hot blast":"See under Blast.","pendant":"1. Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. Some hang upon the pendants of her ear. Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions. Keightley. 2. (Arch.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. \"[A bridge] with . . . pendants graven fair.\" Spenser. 3. (Fine Arts) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase. 4. A pendulum. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby. 5. The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended. [U.S.] Knight. Pendant post (Arch.), a part of the framing of an open timber roof; a post set close against the wall, and resting upon a corbel or other solid support, and supporting the ends of a collar beam or any part of the roof.","em":"The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.","trackwalker":"A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.","low-churchism":"The principles of the low-church party.","honorific":"Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.","evulsion":"The act of plucking out; a rooting out.","gasification":"The act or process of converting into gas.","arachnoidal":"Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid.","circumdenudation":"Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.","chassis":"A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]","jelly":"1. Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. 2. The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. Jelly bag, a bag through which the material for jelly is strained. -- Jelly mold, a mold for forming jelly in ornamental shapes. -- Jelly plant (Bot.), Australian name of an edible seaweed (Eucheuma speciosum), from which an excellent jelly is made. J. Smith. -- Jelly powder, an explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly.\n\nTo become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.","abolishment":"The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.","gane":"To yawn; to gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.","directress":"A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.","platitudinize":"To utter platitudes or truisms.","slape":"Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale. [Prov. Eng.]","quinqueangled":"Having five angles; quinquangular.","tuning":"a. & n. from Tune, v. Tuning fork (Mus.), a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.","triddler":"The jacksnipe. [Local, U.S.]","anhele":"To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.","enharmonical":"1. (Anc. Mus.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. 2. (Mus.) (a) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A for G#. (b) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.","prepare":"1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment. Milton. That they may prepare a city for habitation. Ps. cvii. 36 Syn. -- To fit; adjust; adapt; qualify; equip; provide; form; make; make; ready.\n\n1. To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion. \"Bid them prepare for dinner.\" Shak. 2. To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.\n\nPreparation. [Obs.] Shak.","miseasy":"Not easy; painful. [Obs.]","excursion":"1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland. 2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country. 3. A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper. 4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.] Syn. -- Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.","overrule":"1. To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority. 2. To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman. 3. (Law) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.\n\nTo be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules. Shak.","giddiness":"The quality or state of being giddy.","stand-by":"One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.","instinct":"Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.\n\n1. Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished. An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instructions. Paley. An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Whately. An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Sir W. Hamilton. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. Shak. 2. (Zoöl.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin. 3. A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.\n\nTo impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] Bentley.","putter-on":"An instigator. Shak.","stramineous":"1. Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson. 2. Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored. Burton.","tubal":"Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.","omegoid":"Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (","osspringer":"The osprey. [R.]","pollinate":"Pollinose.\n\nTo apply pollen to (a stigma). -- Pol`li*na\"tion, n. (Bot.)","sea urchin":"Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea. Note: When living they are covered with movable spines which are often long and sharp.","tunk":"A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq. U. S.]","trigeminal":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.","nameless":"1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.\"Nameless pens.\" Atterbury. 4. Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.","sudoriferous":"Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.","sextodecimo":"Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.\n\nA book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16º.","polycotyledonary":"Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.","uncoif":"To deprive of the coif or cap. Young.","fritinancy":"A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","pestalozzian":"Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n. An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.","polyphonic":"1. Having a multiplicity of sounds. 2. Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters. 3. (Mus.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic.","circularity":"The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.","outraze":"To obliterate. [Obs.] Sandys.","accomplish":"1. To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott. 2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37. 3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke. 4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. -- To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. \"Thou shalt accomplish my desire.\" 1 Kings v. 9. He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland. Macaulay. To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. \"What he decreed, he effected.\" Milton. To work in close design by fraud or guile What force effected not. Milton. To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. \"Thou canst best perform that office.\" Milton. The Saints, like stars, around his seat Perform their courses still. Keble. To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence.","selvedged":"Having a selvage.","rivality":"1. Rivalry; competition. [Obs.] 2. Equality, as of right or rank. [Obs.] hak.","almner":"An almoner. [Obs.] Spenser.","intestate":"1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.\n\nA person who dies without making a valid will. Blackstone.","screamer":"Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidæ, and the suborder Palamedeæ. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.","billy":"1. A club; esp., a policeman's club. 2. (Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.","electro-ballistic":"Pertaining to electro-ballistics.","sitten":"p. p. of Sit, for sat.","temporal":"Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal petrosal and mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal. The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cor. iv. 18. Is this an hour for temporal affairs Shak. 2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts. Lords temporal. See under Lord, n. -- Temporal augment. See the Note under Augment, n. Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.\n\nAnything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.","beamily":"In a beaming manner.","simious":"Of or pertaining to the Simian. That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others. Sydney Smith.","coalite":"To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.\n\nTo cause to unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Time has by degrees blended . . . and coalited the conquered with the conquerors. Burke.","raki":"A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.","geothermometer":"A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.","acritude":"Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]","calcographer":"One who practices calcography.","postural":"Of or pertaining to posture.","preemptioner":"One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.","anomalistic":"1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules. 2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.","rouleau":"A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.","bogwood":"The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.","euphonium":"A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.","abecedary":"Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.\n\nA primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.] Fuller.","phagedenical":"Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n. A phagedenic medicine.","culture myth":"A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.","compensatory":"Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.","pumpet":"A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.","abranchial":"Abranchiate.","height":"1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature. Bacon. [Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. 1 Sam. xvii. 4. 3. Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.] Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. Abp. Abbot. 4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. Dryden. 5. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning. All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman. 6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree. Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison. 7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest. My grief was at the height before thou camest. Shak. On height, aloud. [Obs.] [He] spake these same words, all on hight. Chaucer.","rareness":"The state or quality of being rare. And let the rareness the small gift commend. Dryden.","uranographist":"One practiced in uranography.","cob":"1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford. 2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. Nash. 3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.] 4. (Zoöl.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. 5. (Zoöl.) A young herring. B. Jonson. 6. (Zoöl.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb. 7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.] 8. (Zoöl.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.] 9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. 10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.] 11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. R. Carew. 12. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. Wright. 13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] Wright. Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose. -- Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.\n\n1. To strike [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. (Mining) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. Raymond. 3. (Naut.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.","tauricornous":"Having horns like those of a bull. Sir T. Browne.","aladinist":"One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.","derma":"See Dermis.","trottoir":"Footpath; pavement; sidewalk. Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.","weightiness":"The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.","tetramethylene":"(a) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives. (b) Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds which are really related to butylene.","aciniform":"1. Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes. 2. Full of small kernels like a grape.","mesmeric":"Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.","repentless":"Unrepentant. [R.]","campaned":"Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.","nep":"Catnip.","epicele":"A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.","curvilinearity":"The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.","freethinker":"One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison. Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.","bereave":"1. To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell. 2. To take away from. [Obs.] All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. Shak. 3. To take away. [Obs.] Shall move you to bereave my life. Marlowe. Note: The imp. and past pple. form bereaved is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say bereaved or bereft by death of a relative, bereft of hope and strength. Syn. -- To dispossess; to divest.","muslin":"A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. [Written also mousseline de laine.]","posttertiary":"Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.","forswearer":"One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.","slick":"See Schlich.\n\nSleek; smooth. \"Both slick and dainty.\" Chapman.\n\nTo make sleek or smoth. \"Slicked all with sweet oil.\" Chapman.\n\nA wide paring chisel.","waterishness":"The quality of being waterish.","clogging":"Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.","scorper":"Same as Scauper.","phakoscope":"An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.","bastardy":"1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.","pulselessness":"The state of being pulseless.","systemic":"1. Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood. 2. (Anat. & Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.","epispadias":"A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.","quech":"A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.","morland":"Moorland. [Obs.]","netify":"To render neat; to clean; to put in order. [R.] Chapman.","overween":"To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.","meloplasty":"The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.","solution":"1. The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach. In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity. Bacon. 2. The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process. 3. The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration. It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor. I. Taylor. 4. (Chem.Phys.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not take in any more of a substance the solution is said to be saturated. Solution is two kinds; viz.: (a) Mechanical solution, in which no marked chemical change takes place, and in which, in the case of solids, teh dissolved body can be regained by evaporation, as in the solution of salt or sugar in water. (b) Chemical solution, in which there is involved a decided chemical change, as when limestone or zinc undergoes solution in hydrochloric acid. Mechanical solution is regarded as a form of molecular or atomic attraction, and is probably occasioned by the formation of certain very weak and unstable compounds which are easily dissociated and pass into new and similar compounds. Note: This word is not used in chemistry or mineralogy for fusion, or the melting of bodies by the heat of fire. 5. release; deliverance; disharge. [Obs.] Barrow. 6. (Med.) (a) The termination of a disease; resolution. (b) A crisis. (c) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble. U. S. Disp. Fehling's solution (Chem.), a standardized solution of cupric hydrate in sodium potassium tartrate, used as a means of determining the reducing power of certain sugars and sirups by the amount of red cuprous oxide thrown down. -- Heavy solution (Min.), a liquid of high density, as a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide (called the Sonstadt or Thoulet solution) having a maximum specific gravity of 3.2, or of borotungstate of cadium (Klein solution, specific gravity 3.6), and the like. Such solutions are much used in determining the specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock. -- Nessler's solution. See Nesslerize. -- Solution of continuity, the separation of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a facture, laceration, or the like. \"As in the natural body a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual.\" Bacon. -- Standardized solution (Chem.), a solution which is used as a reagent, and is of a known and standard strength; specifically, a normal solution, containing in each cubic centimeter as many milligrams of the element in question as the number representing its atomic weight; thus, a normal solution of silver nitrate would contain 107.7 mgr. of silver nitrate in each cubic centimeter.","subpena":"See Subpoena.","spirochaeta":"A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochæte Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.","viscountcy":"The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount. Sir B. Burke.","isohyetose":"Of or pertaining to lines connecting places on the earth's surface which have a mean annual rainfall. -- n. An isohyetose line.","way":"Away. [Obs. or Archaic] Chaucer. To do way, to take away; to remove. [Obs.] \"Do way your hands.\" Chaucer. -- To make way with, to make away with. See under Away. [Archaic]\n\n1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. \"To find the way to heaven.\" Shak. I shall him seek by way and eke by street. Chaucer. The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. Milton. The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. Evelyn. 2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail. Longfellow. 3. A moving; passage; procession; journey. I prythee, now, lead the way. Shak. 4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance. If that way be your walk, you have not far. Milton. And let eternal justice take the way. Dryden. 5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan. My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. Shak. By noble ways we conquest will prepare. Dryden. What impious ways my wishes took! Prior. 6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas. 7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. \"Having lost the way of nobleness.\" Sir. P. Sidney. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov. iii. 17. When men lived in a grander way. Longfellow. 8. Sphere or scope of observation. Jer. Taylor. The public ministers that fell in my way. Sir W. Temple. 9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way. 10. (Naut.) (a) Progress; as, a ship has way. (b) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched. 11. pl. (Mach.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves. 12. (Law) Right of way. See below. By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse. -- By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of. -- Covert way. (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered. -- In the family way. See under Family. -- In the way, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc. -- In the way with, traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of. -- Milky way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1. -- No way, No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary. -- On the way, traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this country; on the way to success. -- Out of the way. See under Out. -- Right of way (Law), a right of private passage over another's ground. It may arise either by grant or prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate, well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. Kent. -- To be under way, or To have way (Naut.), to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. -- To give way. See under Give. -- To go one's way, or To come one's way, to go or come; to depart or come along. Shak. -- To go the way of all the earth, to die. -- To make one's way, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. -- To make way. See under Make, v. t. -- Ways and means. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue. -- Way leave, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] -- Way of the cross (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See Station, n., 7 (c). -- Way of the rounds (Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. -- Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] -- Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. -- Ways of God, his providential government, or his works. -- Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. -- Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. -- Way warden, the surveyor of a road. Syn. -- Street; highway; road. -- Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. Spenser. There is but one road by which to climb up. Addison. When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Milton.\n\nTo go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path. [Obs.] \"In land not wayed.\" Wyclif.\n\nTo move; to progress; to go. [R.] On a time as they together wayed. Spenser.","translatitious":"Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.","knowing":"1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. [Colloq.]\n\nKnowledge; hence, experience. \" In my knowing.\" Shak. This sore night Hath trifled former knowings. Shak.","averruncate":"1. To avert; to ward off. [Obs.] Hudibras. 2. To root up. [Obs.] Johnson.","corinthiac":"Pertaining to Corinth.","deictic":"Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.","patness":"Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.","behold":"To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry; view; discern.\n\nTo direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, . . . a lamb as it had been slain. Rev. v. 6.","fidicinal":"Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.","water breather":"Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.","ebriety":"Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. \"Ruinous ebriety.\" Cowper.","agrief":"In grief; amiss. [Obs.] Chaucer.","nunciature":"The office of a nuncio. Clarendon.","fellow":"1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon. Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges xi. 37. 2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope. 3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. Shak. 4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak. 5. A person; an individual. She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. Dickens. 6. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges. 7. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation. 8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. Note: Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. Ford.\n\nTo suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] Shak.","high-low":"A laced boot, ankle high.","barse":"The common perch. See 1st Bass. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","faded":"That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. \"His faded cheek.\" Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.","professionalist":"professional person. [R.]","quoif":"See Coif. Shak.","ecthoreum":"The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]","muzzle-loader":"A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech.","invisibly":"In an invisible manner, Denham.","traphole":"See Trou-de-loup.","deturb":"To throw down. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","reblossom":"To blossom again.","havener":"A harbor master. [Obs.]","enigma":"1. A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope. 2. An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.","leonine":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine repacity. -- Le\"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example: Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.","alcohate":"Shortened forms of Alcoholate.","sea quail":"The turnstone.","retell":"To tell again.","emblement":"The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.","sexly":"Pertaining to sex. [R.] Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live. Queen Elizabeth.","cambrian":"1. (Geog.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. 2. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.\n\n1. A native of Cambria or Wales. 2. (Geol.) The Cambrian formation.","dislive":"To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.","revive":"1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22. 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. 3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.\n\n1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson. 2. To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton. 3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. 4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. \"Revive the libels born to die.\" Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke. 5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.","hostile":"Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change. Syn. -- Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed; adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant.\n\nAn enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] P. H. Sheridan.","egilopical":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an ægilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.","romaic":"Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. -- n. The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic. Note: The Greeks at the time of the capture of Constantinople were proud of being \"Romai^oi, or Romans . . . Hence the term Romaic was the name given to the popular language. . . . The Greek language is now spoken of as the Hellenic language. Encyc. Brit.","backbite":"To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.\n\nTo censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.","tinkering":"The act or work of a tinker.","interanimate":"To animate or inspire mutually. [Obs.] Donne.","lasket":"latching.","falsehood":"1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller. 2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. 3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. Shak. 4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Milton. Syn. -- Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.","sanious":"1. (Med.) pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer. 2. (med.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.","clayish":"Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.","suberone":"(a) The hypothetical ketone of suberic acid. (b) A colorless liquid, analogous suberone proper, having a pleasant peppermint odor. It is obtained by the distillation of calcium suberate.","exculpate":"To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle. Mason. I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman. Syn. -- To exonerate; absolve; clear; acquit; excuse; vindicate; justify.","naggy":"Irritable; touchy. [Colloq.]","sea chickweed":"A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.","jargonic":"Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.","glandular":"Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.","mesocoele":"The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.","skinless":"Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.","polytheize":"To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine of polytheism. Milman.","subarctic":"Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.","blackness":"The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.","jingling":"The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink. \"The jingling of the guinea.\" Tennyson.","awaken":"To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth.","picene":"A hydrocarbon (C","myodynamics":"The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction.","substitute":"One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically (Mil.), a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man. Hast thou not made me here thy substitute Milton. Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.\n\nTo put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange. Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others. Congreve.","hypnologist":"One who is versed in hypnology.","illaqueable":"Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.","disenslave":"To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.","in esse":"In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.","livingness":"The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.","hangnest":"1. A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket. 2. A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.","hyblaean":"Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.","irremoval":"Absence of removal.","sciatherical":"Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther\"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] J. Gregory.","drone bee":"The male of the honeybee; a drone.","picea":"A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.","undermasted":"Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.","zoneless":"Not having a zone; ungirded. The reeling goddess with the zoneless waist. Cowper. In careless folds, loose fell her zoneless vest. Mason.","clivers":"See Cleavers.","nanny":"A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name. Nanny goat, a female goat. [Colloq.]","recompose":"1. To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly. The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind. Jer. Taylor.","lens":"A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure. Lenses Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d double-convex; converging concavo- convex, or converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or diverging meniscus. Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius equal to six times the other. -- Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Fresnel lens (Opt.), a compound lens formed by placing around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses, for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so called from the inventor. -- Multiplying lens or glass (Opt.), a lens one side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each of which presents a separate image of the object viewed through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied. -- Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.","deliverable":"Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.","neoplasia":"Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.","douter":"An extinguisher for candles. [Obs.]","obscurantism":"The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley.","neuralgia":"A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.","eudiometry":"The art or process of determining he constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.","enarration":"A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.","syndesmology":"That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.","apperil":"Peril. [Obs.] Shak.","appose":"1. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman. 2. To place in juxtaposition or proximity.\n\nTo put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.","firewood":"Wood for fuel.","chlorocruorin":"A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms. Ray Lankester.","vehiculatory":"Vehicular. Carlyle.","vindicator":"One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.","gyro-pigeon":"A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.","durukuli":"A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). [Written also douroucouli.]","superiorly":"In a superior position or manner.","supervise":"1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as to read; to peruse. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- See Superintend.\n\nSupervision; inspection. [Obs.]","praecipe":"(a) A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it. (b) A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued. Wharton.","i-":"See Y-.\n\nA prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use. That no wight mighte it see neither yheere. Chaucer. Neither to ben yburied nor ybrent. Chaucer. Note: Some examples of Chaucer's use of this prefix are; ibe, ibeen, icaught, ycome, ydo, idoon, ygo, iproved, ywrought. It inough, enough, it is combined with an adjective. Other examples are in the Vocabulary. Spenser and later writers frequently employed this prefix when affecting an archaic style, and sometimes used it incorrectly.","disengagement":"1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones. 2. Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment. Bp. Butler.","quartan":"Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.\n\n1. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. 2. A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.","horrisonant":"Horrisonous. [Obs.]","blow":"To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.\n\nTo cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers). The odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue. Milton.\n\nA blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms. \"Such a blow of tulips.\" Tatler.\n\n1. A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. Well struck ! there was blow for blow. Shak. 2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp]. T. Arnold. 3. The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet. A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows. Shak. At a blow, suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. \"They lose a province at a blow.\" Dryden. -- To come to blows, to engage in combat; to fight; -- said of individuals, armies, and nations. Syn. -- Stroke; knock; shock; misfortune.\n\n1. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows. Hark how it rains and blows ! Walton. 2. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. 3. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak. 4. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. Milton. 5. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. 6. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold. 7. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. \"The enemy's magazines blew up.\" Tatler.\n\n1. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire. 2. To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore. Off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore. Milton. 3. To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ. Hath she no husband That will take pains to blow a horn before her Shak. Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast it off to float upon the skies. Parnell. 4. To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose. 5. To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building. 6. To spread by report; to publish; to disclose. Through the court his courtesy was blown. Dryden. His language does his knowledge blow. Whiting. 7. To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass. 8. To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. Look how imagination blows him. Shak. 9. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. Sir W. Scott. 10. To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in (meat, etc.). To suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth. Shak. To blow great guns, to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast. -- To blow off, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler. -- To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. -- To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. -- To blow up. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. \"Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.\" Milton. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention.(d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [Colloq.] I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot. To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.\n\n1. A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port. 2. The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows. 3. The spouting of a whale. 4. (Metal.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. Raymond. 5. An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. Chapman.","dur":"Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.","sloughing":"The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.","tetrarchical":"Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.","scutibranchian":"One of the Scutibranchiata.","epigraphy":"The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.","react":"To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.\n\n1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. 2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.","ambulation":"The act of walking. Sir T. Browne.","phalaena":"A linnæan genus which included the moths in general.","linum":"A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).","awreak":"To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak.","numerative":"Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative system. Eng. Cyc.","spellbind":"To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell\"bind`er (#), n.","antitheist":"A disbeliever in the existence of God.","weariless":"Incapable of being wearied.","assessor":"1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W. 2. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor. 3. One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier.","enoptomancy":"Divination by the use of a mirror.","philosophizer":"One who philosophizes.","jacobaean lily":"A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]","titularity":"The quality or state of being titular. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","pluri-":"A combining form from L. plus, pluris, more, many; as pluriliteral.","sorrowless":"Free from sorrow.","intelligently":"In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.","antiochian":"1. Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers. 2. Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.","burgess":"1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. Note: \"A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city.\" Burrill. 2. One who represents a borough in Parliament. 3. A magistrate of a borough. 4. An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. Note: Before the Revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia were called burgesses; they are now called delegates. Burgess oath. See Burgher, 2.","brilliance":"Brilliancy. Tennyson.","enhancer":"One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.","dropping":"1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling. 2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.","pillowed":"Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.","swelltoad":"A swellfish.","romancer":"One who romances.","araguato":"A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.","pitcher":"1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] Mortimer.\n\n1. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle. 2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia. -- Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. -- California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. -- Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.","drysalter":"A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.","unturned":"Not turned; not revolved or reversed. To leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing untried for accomplishing one's purpose. [He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. Dryden.","athleticism":"The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.","polythelism":"The condition of having more than two teats, or nipples.","cambistry":"The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.","herborist":"A herbalist. Ray.","ethiop":"A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.","laic":"Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity. \"Laical literature.\" Lowell. An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble. Milton.\n\nA layman. Bp. Morton.","histographical":"Of or pertaining to histography.","justness":"The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause. In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it represented with all the justness and gracefulness of action. Dryden. Note: Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the distinction is not always observed. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; correctness; propriety; fitness; reasonableness; equity; uprightness; justice.","traded":"Professional; practiced. [Obs.] Shak.","phonetically":"In a phonetic manner.","embolismatic":"Embolismic.","concert":"1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet. 2. To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the compaign. Burke.\n\nTo act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet\n\n1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift. 2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord. Let us in concert to the season sing. Cowper. 3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.","professedly":"By profession.","beknave":"To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.","categorize":"To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.","exhereditation":"A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.","flock":"1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14. 2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.\n\nTo gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. Dryden. Flocking fowl (Zoöl.), the greater scaup duck.\n\nTo flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).\n\n1. A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak. 2. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. 3. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. \"Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw.\" Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.\n\nTo coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.","impoliticness":"The quality of being impolitic.","danseuse":"a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.","echinoderm":"One of the Echinodermata.","tiring-house":"A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.","one-sided":"1. Having one side only, or one side prominent; hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. \"Unguarded and one-sided language.\" T. Arnold. 2. (Bot.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers. -- One`-sid\"ed-ly, adv. -- One`-sid\"ed*ness, n.","pariah":"1. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste. Balfour (Cyc. of India). 2. An outcast; one despised by society. Pariah dog (Zoöl.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. -- Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.","civility":"1. The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. [Obs.] Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench. 2. A civil office, or a civil process [Obs.] To serve in a civility. Latimer. 3. Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. Chesterfield. The sweet civilities of life. Dryden. Syn. -- Urbanity; affability; complaisance.","whally":"Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses. \"Whally eyes.\" Spenser.","albuminin":"The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.","couple":"1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.] It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak. 2. Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. \"A couple of shepherds.\" Sir P. Sidney. \"A couple of drops\" Adduson. \"A couple of miles.\" Dickens. \"A couple of weeks.\" Carlyle. Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple. Locke. [Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled. 2 Sam. xvi. 1. 3. A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed. Such were our couple, man and wife. Lloyd. Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league. Milton. 4. (Arch.) See Couple-close. 5. (Elec.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. 6. (Mech.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes. Note: The effect of a couple of forces is to produce a rotation. A couple of rotations is equivalent to a motion of translation.\n\n1. To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. Shak. 2. To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.] A parson who couples all our beggars. Swift.\n\nTo come together as male and female; to copulate. [Obs.] Milton. Bacon.","glycoluric":"Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.","centrale":"The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.","gryphaea":"A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.","modillion":"The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.","myxa":"The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.","mockery":"1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope. 2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser. 3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17.","undercrest":"To support as a crest; to bear. [Obs. & R.] Shak.","attainable":"1. Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison. 2. Obtainable. [Obs.] General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.","eleuthero-petalous":"Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.","endosarc":"The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.","revaluation":"A second or new valuation.","celsiture":"Height; altitude. [Obs.]","virtuosoship":"The condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso. Bp. Hurd.","religieuse":"A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.","taedium":"See Tedium.","concerto":"A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.","tributary":"1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. [Julius] unto Rome made them tributary. Chaucer. 2. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. He to grace his tributary gods. Milton. 3. Paid in tribute. \"Tributary tears.\" Shak. 4. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.\n\n1. A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security. 2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.","toman":"A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.","lawnd":"See Laund.","autoecious":"Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.","avision":"Vision. [Obs.] Chaucer.","inquirable":"Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest. Bacon.","flative":"Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.","ashes":"1. The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal. 2. Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when \"returned to dust\" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay. 3. The color of ashes; deathlike paleness. The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame. Byron. In dust and ashes, In sackcloth and ashes, with humble expression of grief or repentance; -- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.","balm":"1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa. 2. The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. Dryden. 3. Any fragrant ointment. Shak. 4. Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. \"Balm for each ill.\" Mrs. Hemans. Balm cricket (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and Abies balsamea (balsam fir).\n\nTo anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate. [Archaic] Shak.","impatiens":"A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.","margarodite":"A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.","piewipe":"The lapwing, or pewit. [Prov. Eng.]","pigmented":"Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.","verbalism":"Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.","desultorily":"In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.","pulvillus":"One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.","exoptable":"Very desirable. [Obs.] Bailey.","inexpansible":"Incapable of expansion, enlargement, or extension. Tyndall.","parapet":"1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. 2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.","joyless":"Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy\"less*ly, adv. -- Joy\"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.","gnu":"One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.] Note: The common gnu or wildebeest (Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.","subscript":"Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.\n\nAnything written below. Bentley.","sweepstakes":"1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake. 2. sing. or pl. The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.","catarrh":"An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder. Note: In America, the term catarrh is applied especially to a chronic inflammation of, and hypersecretion fron, the membranes of the nose or air passages; in England, to an acute influenza, resulting a cold, and attended with cough, thirst, lassitude, and watery eyes; also, to the cold itself.","neck":"1. The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk. 2. Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal; as: (a) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd. (b) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts. (c) (Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board. 3. (Mech.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft. 4. (Bot.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root. Neck and crop, completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] -- Neck and neck (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side. -- Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin. -- Neck of a cascabel (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the base of the breech. -- Neck of a gun, the small part of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. -- Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the constriction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or nothing (Fig.), at all risks. -- Neck verse. (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, \"Miserere mei,\" etc. Sir W. Scott. (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth. These words, \"bread and cheese,\" were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing \"broad and cause,\" being presently put to death. Fuller. -- Neck yoke. (a) A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harnesses. (b) A device with projecting arms for carrying things (as buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's shoulders. -- On the neck of, immediately after; following closely. \"Commiting one sin on the neck of another.\" W. Perkins. -- Stiff neck, obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. \"I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck.\" Deut. xxxi. 27. -- To break the neck of, to destroy the main force of. \"What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous rules... breaks the neck of their own cause.\" Milton. -- To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. Neh. ix. 17. -- To tread on the neck of, to oppress; to tyrannize over.\n\nTo reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft. v. t. & i. To kiss and caress amorously. n. necking","spectant":"Looking forward.","zircon light":"A light, similar to the calcium light, produced by incandescent zirconia.","hastener":"1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.","namation":"A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.","neal":"To anneal. [R.] Chaucer.\n\nTo be tempered by heat. [R.] Bacon.","outness":"1. The state of being out or beyond; separateness. 2. (Metaph.) The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. The outness of the objects of sense. Sir W. Hamiltom.","tentaculated":"Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.","delightous":"Delightful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.","antipyretic":"Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n. A febrifuge.","circuitous":"Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu\"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu\"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.","norwegian":"Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.\n\n1. A native of Norway. 2. That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.","paneling":"A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also panelling.]","bulbar":"Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.","barrulet":"A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.","accountantship":"The office or employment of an accountant.","creditrix":"A female creditor.","futtock":"One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. -- Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. Totten.","collagenous":"Containing or resembling collagen.","oreography":"The science of mountains; orography.","perichondritis":"Inflammation of the perichondrium.","conglomeration":"The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.","slewed":"Somewhat drunk. [Slang]","autostability":"Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.","petrolatum":"A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments. U. S. Pharm. Note: Petrolatum is the official name for the purified product. Cosmoline and vaseline are commercial names for substances essentially the same, but differing slightly in appearance and consistency or fusibility.","gaysome":"Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.","claro-obscuro":"See Chiaroscuro.","here":"Of them; their. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer.\n\nHair. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to Ant: there. He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6. 2. In the present life or state. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon. 3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson. Thou led'st me here. Byron. 4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren. Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. \"Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.\" Cowley. Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. \"Footsteps here and there.\" Longfellow. -- It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. Shak.","grizzle":"Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. Shak.","pterosaurian":"Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.","ten-strike":"1. (Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.] 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act. [Colloq. U.S.]","malmag":"The tarsius, or spectral lemur.","preacquaintance":"Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.","odelet":"A little or short ode.","masque":"A mask; a masquerade.","prore":"The prow or fore part of a ship. [Poetic] \"Galleys with vermilion prores.\" Pope.","jaw-fallen":"Dejected; chopfallen.","top rake":"The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.","ghyll":"A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.","ravishingly":"In a ravishing manner.","twankay":"See Note under Tea, n., 1. 'T WAS 'T was. A contraction of it was.","mechanic":"1. The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. [Obs.] 2. A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.\n\n1. Having to do woth the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts. \"These mechanic philosophers.\" Ray. Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar. To make a god, a hero, or a king Descend to a mechanic dialect. Roscommon. Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool. Thomson. 3. Base. [Obs.] Whitlock.","water-closet":"A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.","lawer":"A lawyer. [Obs.] Bale.","saltpetrous":"Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [Obs.]","corridor train":"A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]","obtusely":"In an obtuse manner.","physical":"1. Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man. Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion. J. S. Mill. A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force. Macaulay. 2. Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. \"Physical philosophy.\" Pope. 3. Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral. 4. Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. [Obs.] \"Physical herbs.\" Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation. -- Physical education, training of the bodily organs and powers with a view to the promotion of health and vigor. -- Physical examination (Med.), an examination of the bodily condition of a person. -- Physical geography. See under Geography. -- Physical point, an indefinitely small portion of matter; a point conceived as being without extension, yet having physical properties, as weight, inertia, momentum, etc.; a material point. -- Physical signs (Med.), the objective signs of the bodily state afforded by a physical examination.","siderolite":"A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.","thermostat":"A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.","halm":"Same as Haulm.","aidant":"Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.","bark":"1. To strip the bark from; to peel. 2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel. 3. To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3. 4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.\n\n1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs. 2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.\n\nThe short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.\n\n1. Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron. 2. (Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.","bollandists":"The Jesuit editors of the \"Acta Sanctorum\", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.","loving-kindness":"Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.","yttro-tantalite":"A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.","jadery":"The tricks of a jade.","trimestral":"Trimestrial. Southey.","nucament":"A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.","foreappointment":"Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.","seasonable":"Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea\"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea\"son*a*bly, adv.","slammerkin":"A slut; a slatternly woman. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","switchy":"Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.","quinogen":"A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.","tyne":"To lose. [Obs. or Scot.] \"His bliss gan he tyne.\" Piers Plowman. Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo become lost; to perish. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nA prong or point of an antler.\n\nAnxiety; tine. [Obs.] \"With labor and long tyne.\" Spenser.","odalwoman":"A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.","drumly":"Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.","indictive":"Proclaimed; declared; public. Kennet.","olived":"Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.","saan":"Same as Bushmen.","consideringly":"With consideration or deliberation.","popish":"Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously. -- Pop\"ish*ly, adv. -- Pop\"ish*ness, n.","gyropigeon":"A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.","stout":"1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Daniel. 2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic] Your words have been stout against me. Mal. iii. 13. Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout. Latimer. 3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth. 4. Large; bulky; corpulent. Syn. -- Stout, Corpulent, Portly. Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: \"The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size.\" In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.\n\nA strong malt liquor; strong porter. Swift.","putrifacted":"Putrefied. [Obs.] What vermin bred of putrifacted slime. Marston.","coprolite":"A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.","unabsorbable":"Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.","gendarmery":"The body of gendarmes.","flatulently":"In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.","consignification":"Joint signification. [R.]","communion":"1. The act of sharing; community; participation. \"This communion of goods.\" Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints. We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South. 3. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion. 4. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion. Close communion. See under Close, a. -- Communion elements, the bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion service, the celebration of the Lord's supper, or the office or service therefor. -- Communion table, the table upon which the elements are placed at the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion in both kinds, participation in both the bread and wine by all communicants. -- Communion in one kind, participation in but one element, as in the Roman Catholic Church, where the laity partake of the bread only. Syn. -- Share; participation; fellowship; converse; intercourse; unity; concord; agreement.","croak":"1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope. 2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.\n\nTo utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.\n\nThe coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.","gradate":"1. To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize. 2. (Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.","therewith":"1. With that or this. \"I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.\" Phil. iv. 11. 2. In addition; besides; moreover. To speak of strength and therewith hardiness. Chaucer. 3. At the same time; forthwith. [Obs.] Johnson.","math":"A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.","headrope":"That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.","retinal":"Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.","cocaine":"A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.","podalgia":"pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.","athwart":"1. Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. 2. (Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.\n\n1. Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser. 2. Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak.","sirocco":"An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.","preparator":"One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.","ambrosial":"1. Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. \"Ambrosial food.\" \"Ambrosial fragrance.\" Milton. 2. Divinely excellent or beautiful. \"Shakes his ambrosial curls.\" Pope.","determinate":"1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23. 3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.] My determinate voyage. Shak. 4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.] More determinate to do than skillful how to do. Sir P. Sidney. Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal inflorescence. -- Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. -- Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.\n\nTo bring to an end; to determine. See Determine. [Obs.] The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak.","inquinate":"To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","misfortuned":"Unfortunate. [Obs.]","catechumenical":"Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.","dosimetry":"Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met\"ric (#), a. --Do*sim\"e*trist (#), n.","pit-hole":"A pit; a pockmark.","strictly":"In a strict manner; closely; precisely.","bean caper":"A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.","saurognathous":"Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).","misgiving":"Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. \"Suspicious and misgivings.\" South.","exsanguine":"Bloodless. [R.]","expedition":"1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance. 2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition. 3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.","harmonize":"1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. 2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations. 3. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.\n\n1. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of. 2. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.","discompany":"To free from company; to dissociate. [R.] It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.","kain":"Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord. Wharton (Law Dict.).","flabbergast":"To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.","astrofell":"A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.","fozy":"Spongy; soft; fat and puffy. [Scot.]","mainpernor":"A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day. Note: Mainpernors differ from bail in that a man's bail may imprison or surrender him before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither; they are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever. Blackstone.","mawmish":"Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.","chartless":"1. Without a chart; having no guide. 2. Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow.","relumine":"1. To light anew; to rekindle. Shak. 2. To illuminate again.","unconcerning":"Not interesting of affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one. [Obs.] Addison.","full-blown":"1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham. 2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.","weyle":"To wail. [Obs.] Chaucer.","characterize":"1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the character of; to describe. Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to characterize King William. Johnson. 4. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of. The softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries. W. Irving. Syn. -- To describe; distinguish; mark; designate; style; particularize; entitle.","languorous":"Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic] Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.","boomkin":"Same as Bumkin.","amphibian":"Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.\n\nOne of the Amphibia.","drowse":"To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. \"He drowsed upon his couch.\" South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.\n\nTo make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.\n\nA slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.","mesonephric":"Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.","screenings":"The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.","gutturo-":"A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo- nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.","perpetuate":"To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.\n\nMade perpetual; perpetuated. [R.] Southey.","psalmodic":"Relating to psalmody.","vigesimo-quarto":"Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.\n\nA book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty- four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24º.","termine":"To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","rest cure":"Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.","thymiatechny":"The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.","stiffness":"The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.","bout":"1. As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith. 2. A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout. The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.","depurate":"Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.\n\nTo free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. To depurate the mass of blood. Boyle.","elysium":"1. A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise. 2. Hence, any delightful place. An Elysian more pure and bright than that pf the Greeks. I. Taylor.","lardacein":"A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.","shadow":"1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. 2. Darkness; shade; obscurity. Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. Denham. 3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Spenser. 4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. Shak. 5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. Sin and her shadow Death. Milton. 6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. \"Hence, horrible shadow!\" Shak. 7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical reprresentation; type. The law having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. [Types] and shadows of that destined seed. Milton. 8. A small degree; a shade. \"No variableness, neither shadow of turning.\" James i. 17. 9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.\n\n1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. Spenser. 2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. Shak. 3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. Shadoving their right under your wings of war. Shak. 4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. 5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. Augustus is shadowed in the person of Dryden. 6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. Shak. Why sad I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. Beau & Fl. 7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.","adjutage":"Same as Ajutage.","bluey":",a.Bluish. Southey.","credible":"Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.","autohypnotic":"Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. -- n. An autohypnotic person.","sangaree":"Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.","gesture":"1. Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne. 2. A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion. Humble and reverent gestures. Hooker. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Milton.\n\nTo accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate. It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth. Hooker.\n\nTo make gestures; to gesticulate. The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland.","spritefully":"See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.","unjoin":"To disjoin.","dishonor":"1. Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson. 2. (Law) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium.\n\n1. To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor. Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. Milton. 2. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden. 3. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange. Syn. -- To disgrace; shame; debase; degrade; lower; humble; humiliate; debauch; pollute.","diabolify":"To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.","arguable":"Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.","inceptor":"1. A beginner; one in the rudiments. Johnson. 2. One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university. Walton.","spinstry":"The business of one who spins; spinning. [Obs.] Milton.","latibulum":"A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.","prettiness":"The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.","coppering":"1. The act of covering with copper. 2. An envelope or covering of copper.","cress":"A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. Goldsmith. Bitter cress. See under Bitter. -- Not worth a cress, or \"not worth a kers.\" a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless \"not worth a curse.\" Skeat.","sustainable":"Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.","chese":"To choose [Obs.] Chaucer.","gland":"1. (Anat.) (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth. (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known. Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas. 2. (Bot.) (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product. (b) Any very small prominence. 3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. 4. (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.","countersway":"A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence. [Obs.] A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton.","zooegamous":"Of or pertaining zoögamy.","mainsheet":"One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.","noctilucous":"Shining in the night.","churchgoer":"One who attends church.","cerotin":"A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.","ephemerist":"1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. Howell. 2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.","sea onion":"The officinal squill. See Squill.","theomachist":"One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.","fat-witted":"Dull; stupid. Shak.","halidom":"1. Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic] So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak. 2. Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.] Shipley.","materially":"1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good. South. 3. In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions.","perturbative":"Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.","beet":"1. (Bot.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year. 2. The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar. Note: There are many varieties of the common beet (Beta vulgaris). The Old \"white beet\", cultivated for its edible leafstalks, is a distinct species (Beta Cicla).","air gas":"See under Gas.","libral":"Of a pound weight. [Obs.] Johnson.","numismatology":"The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.","discretional":"Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.","elinguation":"Punishment by cutting out the tongue.","castor and pollux":"See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint.","robust":"1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2. Violent; rough; rude. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson. 3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. Locke. Syn. -- Strong; lusty; sinewy; sturdy; muscular; hale; hearty; vigorous; forceful; sound. -- Robust, Strong. Robust means, literally, made of oak, and hence implies great compactness and toughness of muscle, connected with a thick-set frame and great powers of endurance. Strong denotes the power of exerting great physical force. The robust man can bear heat or cold, excess or privation, and toil on through every kind of hardship; the strong man can lift a great weight, can give a heavy blow, and a hard gripe. \"Robust, tough sinews bred to toil.\" Cowper. Then 'gan the villain wax so fierce and strong, That nothing may sustain his furious force. Spenser.","trepidity":"Trepidation. [R.]","warehouseman":"1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] Warehouseman's itch (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.","inaniloquous":"Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]","imposer":"One who imposes. The imposers of these oaths might repent. Walton.","rogatory":"Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. Woolsey.","dodecastyle":"Having twelve columns in front. -- n. A dodecastyle portico, or building.","pers":"Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. -- n. A cloth of sky-blue color. [Obs.] \"A long surcoat of pers.\" Chaucer.","swagman":"A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.","solarium":"1. An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.","laager":"A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. [South Africa] Wagons . . . can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts. James Bryce.\n\nTo form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.","ungrate":"Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","filch":"To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer. Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden. But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.","inobservation":"Neglect or want of observation. [R.]","osteomere":"An osteocomma. Owen.","rethoryke":"Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.","concurring":"Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.","augur":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.\n\n1. To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden. 2. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.\n\nTo predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel. Syn. -- To predict; forebode; betoken; portend; presage; prognosticate; prophesy; forewarn.","eardrum":"The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.","gotten":"p. p. of Get.","fumy":"Producing fumes; fumous. \"Drowned in fumy wine.\" H. Brooke.","leet":"of Let, to allow. Chaucer.\n\nA portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office. [Scot.]\n\nA court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court- leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. Shak. Note: The original intent of the court-leet was to view the frankpledges or freemen within the liberty; hence called the view of frankpledge. Latterly it has fallen into almost entire disuse. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone. Leet ale, a feast or merrymaking in time of leet. [Obs.]\n\nThe European pollock.","launcegaye":"See Langegaye. [Obs.]","briny":"Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.","tea":"1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, or Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. Note: Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See Bohea, Congou, Gunpowder tea, under Gunpowder, Hyson, Oolong, and Souchong. K. Johnson. Tomlinson. Note: \"No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe.\" Encyc. Brit. 2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. 3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. 4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha edulis; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See Kat. -- Assam tea, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. -- Australian, or Botany Bay, tea (Bot.), a woody clambing plant (Smilax glycyphylla). -- Brazilian tea. (a) The dried leaves of Lantana pseodothea, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of Stachytarpheta mutabilis, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. -- Labrador tea. (Bot.) See under Labrador. -- New Jersey tea (Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See Redroot. -- New Zealand tea. (Bot.) See under New Zealand. -- Oswego tea. (Bot.) See Oswego tea. -- Paraguay tea, mate. See 1st Mate. -- Tea board, a board or tray for holding a tea set. -- Tea bug (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. -- Tea caddy, a small box for holding tea. -- Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. -- Tea clam (Zoöl.), a small quahaug. [Local, U.S.] -- Tea garden, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. -- Tea plant (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion; specifically, Thea Chinensis, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. -- Tea rose (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose (Rosa Indica, var. odorata), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. -- Tea service, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. -- Tea set, a tea service. -- Tea table, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. -- Tea taster, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. -- Tea tree (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See Tea plant, above. -- Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing, tea.\n\nTo take or drink tea. [Colloq.]","oily":"1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance. Bacon. 2. Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance. 3. Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating. \"This oily rascal.\" Shak. His oily compliance in all alterations. Fuller. Oily grain (Bot.), the sesame. -- Oily palm, the oil palm.","gipoun":"A short cassock. [Written also gepoun, gypoun, jupon, juppon.] [Obs.]","problem":"1. A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt. Bacon. 2. (Math.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity. Note: Problem differs from theorem in this, that a problem is something to be done, as to bisect a triangle, to describe a circle, etc.; a theorem is something to be proved, as that all the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. Plane problem (Geom.), a problem that can be solved by the use of the rule and compass. -- Solid problem (Geom.), a problem requiring in its geometric solution the use of a conic section or higher curve.","bayou state":"Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.","opposeless":"Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. [Obs.] \"Your great opposeless wills.\" Shak.","coldness":"The state or quality of being cold.","homilist":"One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.","classify":"To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distibute; rank.","sopranist":"A treble singer.","traditional":"1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. 2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [R.] Shak.","ebony":"A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green. Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus), and from the Excæcaria glandulosa.\n\nMade of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.","phratry":"A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.","try-square":"An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.","myricin":"A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.","nymphish":"Relating to nymphs; ladylike. \"Nymphish war.\" Drayton.","panegyrize":"To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.\n\nTo indulge in panegyrics. Mitford.","dry dock":"See under Dock.","unsincerity":"The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. [Obs.] Boyle.","crunodal":"Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.","healthiness":"The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.","sparble":"To scatter; to disperse; to rout. [Obs.] The king's host was sparbled and chased. Fabyan.","doorsill":"The sill or threshold of a door.","serenade":"(a) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies. (b) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.\n\nTo entertain with a serenade.\n\nTo perform a serenade.","carrack":"See Carack.","exoration":"Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.","leyden phial":"A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.","manation":"The act of issuing or flowing out. [Obs.]","flammulated":"Of a reddish color.","astray":"Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.","essoin":"1. (Eng. Law) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court. 2. Excuse; exemption. [Obs.] From every work he challenged essoin. Spenser. Essoin day (Eng. Law), the first general return day of the term, on which the court sits to receive essoins. Blackstone.\n\nTo excuse for nonappearance in court. \"I 'll not essoin thee.\" Quarles.","citizeness":"A female citizen. [R.]","roquefort cheese":"A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.","stoping":"The act of excavating in the form of stopes.","blameworthy":"Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame\"wor`thi*ness, n.","water tender":"In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He \"tends\" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.","cohesibility":"The state of being cohesible. Good.","equate":"To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances. Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[rench] rolle. Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ). Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent. -- Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature.","camelry":"Troops that are mounted on camels.","contemplate":"1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron. 2. To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend. There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions. A. Hamilton. If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. Kent. Syn. -- To view; behold; study; ponder; muse; meditate on; reflect on; consider; intend; design; plan; propose; purpose. See Meditate.\n\nTo consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate. So many hours must I contemplate. Shak.","castlet":"A small castle. Leland.","linden":"(a) A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. (b) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.","lacunous":"Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.","mythologue":"A fabulous narrative; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.","wearily":"In a weary manner.","meagerly":"Poorly; thinly.","immutation":"Change; alteration; mutation. [R.] Dr. H. More.","incommodity":"Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance. [Archaic] Bunyan. A great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.","glumella":"One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.","strong-water":"1. An acid. [Obs.] 2. Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.","solvend":"A substance to be dissolved. [R.]","strigose":"Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.","aparithmesis":"Enumeration of parts or particulars.","coquet":"To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift.\n\nTo trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.","ormuzd":"The good principle, or being, of the ancient Persian religion. See Ahriman.","shallow-bodied":"Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.","redemptory":"Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. \"Hector's redemptory price.\" Chapman.","equinox":"1. The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow. 2. Equinoctial wind or storm. [R.] Dryden.","protooerganism":"An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.","seminification":"Propagation from seed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.","tethydan":"A tunicate.","bromine":"One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.","garran":"See Galloway. [Scot. garron or gerron. Jamieson.]","ooetocoid":"A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.","ataman":"A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.","chaplain":"1. An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel. 2. A clergyman who is officially atteched to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service. 3. Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.","pneumonia":"Inflammation of the lungs. Note: Catarrhal pneumonia, or Broncho-pneumonia, is inflammation of the lung tissue, associated with catarrh and with marked evidences of inflammation of bronchial membranes, often chronic; -- also called lobular pneumonia, from its affecting single lobules at a time. -- Croupous pneumonia, or ordinary pneumonia, is an acute affection characterized by sudden onset with a chill, high fever, rapid course, and sudden decline; -- also called lobar pneumonia, from its affecting a whole lobe of the lung at once. See under Croupous. -- Fibroid pneumonia is an inflammation of the interstitial connective tissue lying between the lobules of the lungs, and is very slow in its course, producing shrinking and atrophy of the lungs.","father":"1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. 2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16. 3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8. 4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14. 5. A senator of ancient Rome. 6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak. 7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. 8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak. 9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc. -- Father in God, a title given to bishops. -- Father of lies, the Devil. -- Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar. -- Fathers of the city, the aldermen. -- Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. -- Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. -- Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. -- Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. -- The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.\n\n1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. 2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift. 3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. \"Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor.\" Barrow.","horologiographer":"A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.","solemness":"Solemnness. Some think he wanted solemnes. Sir H. Wotton.","skonce":"See Sconce.","vaporous":"1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. Arbuthnot. 4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. Carlyle.","carlot":"A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [Obs.] Shak.","thirstle":"The throstle. [Prov. Eng.]","galvanist":"One versed in galvanism.","meterage":"The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.","socket":"1. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden. 2. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden. Socket bolt (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt. -- Socket chisel. Same as Framing chisel. See under Framing. -- Socket pipe, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe. -- Socket pole, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc. [U.S.] -- Socket wrench, a wrench consisting of a socket at the end of a shank or rod, for turning a nut, bolthead, etc., in a narrow or deep recess.","homology":"1. The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons. 2. (Biol.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure. Note: Homology indicates genetic relationship, and according to Haeckel special homology should be defined in terms of identity of embryonic origin. See Homotypy, and Homogeny. 3. (Chem.) The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology. General homology (Biol.), the higher relation which a series of parts, or a single part, bears to the fundamental or general type on which the group is constituted. Owen. -- Serial homology (Biol.), representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism, -- as in the lobster, where the parts follow each other in a straight line or series. Owen. See Homotypy. -- Special homology (Biol.), the correspondence of a part or organ with those of a different animal, as determined by relative position and connection. Owen.","up-over":"Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.","sarcel":"One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.","chelidonic":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine. Cheidonic acid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.","teamster":"One who drives a team.","underhanded":"1. Underhand; clandestine. 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.","mint":"The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha. Note: Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. -- Horsemint is M. sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. -- Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. -- Peppermint is M. piperita. -- Spearmint is M. viridis. -- Water mint is M. aquatica. Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol. -- Mint julep. See Julep. -- Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.\n\n1. A place where money is coined by public authority. 2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.\n\n1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money. 2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted. Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.","marteline":"A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.","encaenia":"= Encenia.","ratihabition":"Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.","finicky":"Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]","murther":"Murder, n. & v. [Obs. or Prov.] \"The treason of the murthering.\" Chaucer.","swung":"imp. & p. p. of Swing.","waiting":"a. & n. from Wait, v. In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. [Eng.] -- Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank. -- Waiting maid, Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant.","longly":"1. With longing desire. [Obs.] Shak. 2. For a long time; hence, wearisomely.","powp":"See Poop, v. i. [Obs.] Chaucer.","amphigonous":"Relating to both parents. [R.]","pyruvil":"A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.","foinery":"Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.","weber":"The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp. [Obs.]","matronhood":"The state of being a matron.","percept":"That which is perceived. Sir W. Hamilton. The modern discussion between percept and concept, the one sensuous, the other intellectual. Max Müller.","courier":"1. A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public busuness. The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose. Knolles. 2. An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.","veneration":"The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves about us in regular and illustrious course of virtue. Addison. Syn. -- Awe; reverence; respect. See Reverence.","extravagantly":"In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.","spinnaker":"A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.","undreamed":"Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.","andiron":"A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.","armadillo":"(a) Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidæ, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay. (b) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.","lyencephala":"A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.","creaturize":"To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.","cerastes":"A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.","hopbind":"The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.","yearling":"An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.\n\nBeing a year old. \"A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.\" Pope.","trichord":"An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.","aclinic":"Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.","regrator":"One guilty of regrating.","cotyloid":"(a) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone. (b) Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.","incorporeally":"In an incorporeal manner. Bacon.","ovococcus":"A germinal vesicle.","ungain":"Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Beau. & Pl.","ethnographic":"pertaining to ethnography.","apostolic":"1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age. 2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice. 3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal. Apostolical brief. See under Brief. -- Apostolic canons, a collection of rules and precepts relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian church; -- so called on account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churches. -- Apostolic constitutions, directions of a nature similar to the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. -- Apostolic king (or majesty), a title granted by the pope to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the throne of Hungary. -- Apostolic see, a see founded and governed by an apostle; specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only apostle who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.\n\nA member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.","vehme":"A vehmic court.","scunner":"To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.\n\nA feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.","crib":"1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope. 2. A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4. 3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child. 4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats. 5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak. 6. (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. 7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc. 8. A small raft of timber. [Canada] 9. A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris [Colloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins. 10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond. 11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.\n\n1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor. Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak. 2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.] Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens.\n\n1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden. 2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant] 3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.","sunflower":"Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.","courche":"A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.","advanced":"1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.","globulous":"Globular; spherical; orbicular. -- Glob\"u*lous*ness, n.","woodcutter":"1. A person who cuts wood. 2. An engraver on wood. [R.]","flemish":"Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. -- n. The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8. -- Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. -- Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.","phyllo-":"A combining form from Gr. a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy.","frightful":"1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. -- Terrible; dreadful; alarming; fearful; terrific; awful; horrid; horrible; shocking. -- Frightful, Dreadful, Awful. These words all express fear. In frightful, it is a sudden emotion; in dreadful, it is deeper and more prolonged; in awful, the fear is mingled with the emotion of awe, which subdues us before the presence of some invisible power. An accident may be frightful; the approach of death is dreadful to most men; the convulsions of the earthquake are awful.","invariable":"Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform. Physical laws which are invariable. I. Taylor. -- In*va\"ri*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*va\"ri*a*bly, adv.\n\nAn invariable quantity; a constant.","knoppern":"A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.","puncher":"One who, or that which, punches.","chromatoscope":"A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.","adjectitious":"Added; additional. Parkhurst.","coda":"A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.","snotty":"Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty. -- Snort\"ti*ly, adb. -- Snot\"ti*ness, n.","humiliation":"1. The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. Bp. Hopkins. 2. The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. Hooker.","heathendom":"1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively. 2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.","overcareful":"Too careful. Shak.","pessimistical":"Pessimistic.","electrometer":"An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope). Balance electrometer. See under Balance.","clodhopper":"A rude, rustic fellow.","ptyalism":"Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva. Quain.","commutator":"A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.","integrability":"The quality of being integrable.","crengle":"See Cringle.","alveated":"Formed or vaulted like a beehive.","nitrobenzol":"See Nitrobenzene.","quebrith":"Sulphur. [Obs.]","indissipable":"Incapable o","braggadocio":"1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden. 2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.","fuero":"(a) A code; a charter; a grant of privileges. (b) A custom having the force of law. (c) A declaration by a magistrate. (d) A place where justice is administered. (e) The jurisdiction of a tribunal. Burrill.","xanthodontous":"Having yellow teeth.","nebulizer":"An atomizer.","nitre":"1. (Chem.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter. 2. (Chem.) Native sodium carbonate; natron. [Obs.] For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me. Jer. ii. 22. Cubic niter, a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chili, whence it is known also as Chili saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.\n\nSee Niter.","overlarge":"Too large; too great.","cavil":"To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.\n\nTo cavil at. [Obs.] Milton.\n\nA captious or frivolous objection. All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. Shak.\n\nOne who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.","unman":"1. To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like. [R.] South. 2. To emasculate; to deprive of virility. 3. To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish. Let's not unman each other. Byron. 4. To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.","velocipede":"A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.","antiquate":"To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.","conicoid":"Same as Conoidal.","apishly":"In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.","zinky":"See Zincky. Kirwan.","bewreck":"To wreck. [Obs.]","gregarine":"An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Gregarinæ. -- n. One of the Gregarinæ.","imminution":"A lessening; diminution; decrease. [R.] Ray.","snakeneck":"The snakebird, 1.","amylogen":"That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.","enfranchisement":"1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak. 2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.","fidgetiness":"Quality of being fidgety.","hagiographal":", Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.","paseng":"The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.","liquefiable":"Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.","apodixis":"Full demonstration.","timer":"A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.","self-willed":"Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.","drowsily":"In a drowsy manner.","agenesic":"Characterized by sterility; infecund.","tesseral":"1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesseræ. 2. (Crystallog.) Isometric.","polygraphical":"Pertaining to, or employed in, polygraphy; as, a polygraphic instrument. 2. Done with a polygraph; as, a polygraphic copy.","crapulence":"The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.","diuretical":"Diuretic. [Obs.] Boyle.","hyp":"An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural. [Colloq.] Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps. Swift.\n\nTo make melancholy. [Colloq.] W. Irving.","reduction":"1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province. 2. (Arith. & Alq.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. 3. (Astron.) (a) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. (b) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result. 4. The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. Fairholt. 5. (Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure. 6. (Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol. 7. (Med.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place. Reduction ascending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents. Syn. -- Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.","dethronize":"To dethrone or unthrone. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","biuret":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.","ordinate":"Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. \"A life blissful and ordinate.\" Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.\n\nThe distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured. Note: The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named, the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See Coordinate.\n\nTo appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.","caliphate":"The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.","centrolecithal":"Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.","tornado":"A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.","trochee":"A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.","hazeless":"Destitute of haze. Tyndall.","afoul":"In collision; entangled. Totten. To run afoul of, to run against or come into collision with, especially so as to become entangled or to cause injury.","vox angelica":"An organ stop of delicate stringlike quality, having for each finger key a pair of pipes, of which one is tuned slightly sharp to give a wavy effect to their joint tone.","conductory":"Having the property of conducting. [R.]","peppermint":"1. (Bot.) An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit (essence of peppermint) obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored with peppermint. Peppermint camphor. (Chem.) Same as Menthol. -- Peppermint tree (Bot.), a name given to several Australian species of gum tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. piperita, E. odorata, etc.) which have hard and durable wood, and yield an essential oil.","subovated":"Subovate. [R.]","comforter":"1. One who administers comfort or consolation. Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Shak. 2. (Script.) The Holy Spirit, -- reffering to his office of comforting believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26. 3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.] The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly. 4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]","eupittone":"A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid. [Written also eupitton.]","dreadnaught":"1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.","miseducate":"To educate in a wrong manner.","hemastatical":"Same as Hemostatic.","insinuative":"1. Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor. \"Crafty, insinuative, plausible men.\" Bp. Reynolds. 2. Using insinuations; giving hints; insinuating; as, insinuative remark.","weather-beaten":"Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.","decemviral":"Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.","trifoliolate":"(Bot.) Having three leaflets.","extensionist":"One who favors or advocates extension.","arachnid":"An arachnidan. Huxley.","armure":"1. Armor. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.","ambrosian":"Ambrosial. [R.] . Jonson.\n\nOf or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.","lymphadenoma":"See Lymphoma.","bouncing":"1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. \"A bouncing reckoning.\" B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.","staminode":"A staminodium.","brachycatalectic":"A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.","retain":"1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. \"Thy shape invisibleretain.\" Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone. 2. To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison. 3. To restrain; to prevent. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple. Retaining wall (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall. Syn. -- To keep; hold; retrain. See Keep.\n\n1. To belong; to pertain. [Obs.] A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. [Obs.] Donne.","panduriform":"Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.","preacquaint":"To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.","furry":"1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. \"Furry nations.\" Thomson. 2. Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden. 3. Resembling fur.","peeping hole":"See Peephole.","obbe":"See Obi.","ulteriorly":"More distantly or remotely.","angelize":"To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.","stail":"A handle, as of a mop; a stale. [Eng.]","adjournal":"Adjournment; postponement. [R.] \"An adjournal of the Diet.\" Sir W. Scott.","halieutics":"A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.","pali":"pl. of Palus.\n\nA dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.","wretchful":"Wretched. [Obs.] Wyclif.","incontiguous":"Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig\"u*ous*ly, adv.","residual":"Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken. Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. -- Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b). -- Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. -- Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. -- Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as sq. root(a-b).\n\n(a) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. (b) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.","scrobicula":"One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.","parturious":"Parturient. [Obs.] Drayton.","gelable":"Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.","donation":"1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South. 2. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift. And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers. Shak. 3. (Law) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift. Bouvier. Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett. Syn. -- Gift; present; benefaction; grant. See Gift.","encephalotomy":"The act or art of dissecting the brain.","invict":"Invincible. [Obs.] Joye.","tristigmatose":"Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. Gray.","apocynaceous":"Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.","fustiness":"A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.","numeration":"1. The act or art of numbering. Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. Locke. 2. The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method. Davies & Peck. Note: For convenience in reading, numbers are usually separated by commas into periods of three figures each, as 1,155,465. According to what is called the \"English\" system, the billion is a million of millions, a trillion a million of billions, and each higher denomination is a million times the one preceding. According to the system of the French and other Continental nations and also that of the United States, the billion is a thousand millions, and each higher denomination is a thousand times the preceding.","somatist":"One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill.","tropidine":"An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.","iodize":"To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.","spicily":"In a spicy manner.","conformer":"One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.","pospolite":"A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.","remonetization":"The act of remonetizing.","dayspring":"The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton. The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78.","subintestinal":"Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.","eocene":"Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits. -- n. The Eocene formation. Lyell.","greenhood":"A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.","lanthopine":"An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.","zoochemical":"Pertaining to zoöchemistry.","exigendary":"See Exigenter.","oleandrine":"One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.","venue":"1. (Law) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone. Note: In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid. 2. A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew. [R.] To lay a venue (Law), to allege a place.","remarry":"To marry again.","hydropult":"A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.","areolar":"Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.","wool-hall":"A trade market in the woolen districts. [Eng.]","halichondriae":"An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.","implorer":"One who implores.","inapprehensive":"Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned. Jer. Taylor.","muggard":"Sullen; displeased. [Obs.]","philosophe":"A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.","rampageous":"Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [Prov. or Low] In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt.","behn":"(a) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury. (b) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata. (c) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.","savin":"(a) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. (b) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)","unifollilate":"Having only one leaflet, as the leaves of the orange tree.","orography":"That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.","incommunicating":"Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.","levity":"1. The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. He gave the form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the form of gravity. Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to the top. Bentley. 2. Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. \" A spirit of levity and libertinism.\" Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy. 3. Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. Burke. Syn. -- Inconstancy; thoughtlessness; unsteadiness; inconsideration; volatility; flightiness. -- Levity, Volatility, Flightiness. All these words relate to outward conduct. Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place.Volatility is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment. Flightiness is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition.","repertory":"1. A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like. 2. A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse. 3. Same as Répertoire.","standpipe":"1. (Engin.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance. 2. (Steam Boiler) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam. Knight.","eggery":"A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs. [R.]","ascendible":"Capable of being ascended; climbable.","itinerant":"Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.\n\nOne who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.","rhetic":"Pertining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.\n\nSame as Rhætic.","exposure":"1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay. 2. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold to inconvenience. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak. 3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. \"Under a southern exposure. Evelyn. The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. Sir. W. Scott. 4. (Photog.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.","humblehead":"Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.","overdevelop":"To develop excessively; specif. (Photog.), to subject (a plate or film) too long to the developing process.","astoop":"In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.","ouze":"See Ooze. [Obs.]","terra incognita":"An unknown land; unexplored country. The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still almost terræ incognitæ. A. R. Colquhoun.","elaeagnus":"A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.","methodistical":"Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis\"tic*al*ly, adv.","spermologist":"One who treats of, or collects, seeds. Bailey.","ureameter":"An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.","silvern":"Made of silver. [Archaic.] Wyclif (Acts xix. 24). Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.","emulable":"Capable of being emulated. [R.] Some imitable and emulable good. Abp. Leighton.","transplace":"To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.","inchant":"See Enchant.","endless":"1. Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor. 2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. Shak. 3. Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] \"All loves are endless.\" Beau. & Fl. 4. Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit. Endless chain, a chain which is made continuous by uniting its two ends. -- Endless screw. (Mech.) See under Screw. Syn. -- Eternal; everlasting; interminable; infinite; unlimited; incessant; perpetual; uninterrupted; continual; unceasing; unending; boundless; undying; imperishable.","reenact":"To enact again.","baudekin":"The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.","ornithotomical":"Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.","incontestability":"The quality or state of being incontestable.","header":"1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. 2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.] 3. (Arch.) (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. 4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. 5. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]","dug":"A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. Shak.\n\nof Dig.","heteromorphy":"The state or quality of being heteromorphic.","intervary":"To alter or vary between; to change. [Obs.] Rush.","homopterous":"Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.","husking":"1. The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn. 2. A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] \"A red ear in the husking.\" Longfellow.","invision":"Want of vision or of the power of seeing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","zooelogy":"1. That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct. 2. A treatise on this science.","crisscross":"1. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write. 2. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.\n\nTo mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.\n\n1. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion. W. E. Boardman. 2. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.","imbrangle":"To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.","gameful":"Full of game or games.","gamophyllous":"Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent). Gray.","bottony":"Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.","uranin":"An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.","epigrammatize":"To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.","neologic":"Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines. A genteel neological dictionary. Chesterfield.","accustomary":"Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.","chemotaxis":"The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoöspores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac\"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.","epipolism":"See Fluorescence. [R.] Sir J. Herschel.","politicalism":"Zeal or party spirit in politics.","democracy":"1. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. 2. Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. 3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. Milton. 4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. [U.S.]","engiscope":"A kind of reflecting microscope. [Obs.]","conviviality":"The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.","secondary":"1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon. 2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands. 3. (Chem.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. 4. (Min.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes. 5. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. 6. (Med.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis. Secondary accent. See the Note under Accent, n., 1. -- Secondary age. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8. -- Secondary alcohol (Chem.), any one of a series of alcohols which contain the radical CH.OH united with two hydrocarbon radicals. On oxidation the secondary alcohols form ketones. -- Secondary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after the constitutional effects of the injury have subsided. -- Secondary axis (Opt.), any line which passes through the optical center of a lens but not through the centers of curvature, or, in the case of a mirror, which passes through the center of curvature but not through the center of the mirror. -- Secondary battery. (Elec.) See under Battery, n., 4. -- Secondary circle (Geom. & Astron.), a great circle passes through the poles of another great circle and is therefore perpendicular to its plane. -- Secondary circuit, Secondary coil (Elec.), a circuit or coil in which a current is produced by the induction of a current in a neighboring circuit or coil called the primary circuit or coil. -- Secondary color, a color formed by mixing any two primary colors in equal proportions. -- Secondary coverts (Zoöl.), the longer coverts which overlie the basal part of the secondary quills of a bird. See Illust. under Bird. -- Secondary crystal (Min.), a crystal derived from one of the primary forms. -- Secondary current (Elec.), a momentary current induced in a closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the passage of the primary current. -- Secondary evidence, that which is admitted upon failure to obtain the primary or best evidence. -- Secondary fever (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease after the subsidence of the fever with which the disease began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the eruption in smallpox. -- Secondary hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the original bleeding has ceased. -- Secondary planet. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Secondary qualities, those qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them as such, but are dependent for their development and intensity on the organism of the percipient, such as color, taste, odor, etc. -- Secondary quills or remiges (Zoöl.), the quill feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a row continuous with the primaries; -- called also secondaries. See Illust. of Bird. -- Secondary rocks or strata (Geol.), those lying between the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see Primary rocks, under Primary); -- later restricted to strata of the Mesozoic age, and at but little used. -- Secondary syphilis (Med.), the second stage of syphilis, including the period from the first development of constitutional symptoms to the time when the bones and the internal organs become involved. -- Secondary tint, any subdued tint, as gray. -- Secondary union (Surg.), the union of wounds after suppuration; union by the second intention. Syn. -- Second; second-rate; subordinate; inferior.\n\n1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London. Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary. Shak. 2. (Astron.) (a) A secondary circle. (b) A satellite. 3. (Zoöl.) A secondary quill.","air shaft":"A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.","shafting":"Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.","ventilator":"A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.","assembly":"1. A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment. 2. A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell. 3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland. Assembly room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing. -- Unlawful assembly (Law), a meeting of three or more persons on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable apprehension that they will disturb the peace tumultuously. -- Westminster Assembly, a convocation, consisting chiefly of divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1, 1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the \"Confession of Faith,\" the \"Larger Catechism,\" and the \"Shorter Catechism,\" which are still received as authority by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by Congregationalists. Syn. -- See Assemblage.","bibliograph":"Bibliographer.","insupportable":"Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port\"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port\"a*bly, adv.","disbodied":"Disembodied. [R.]","mathesis":"Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.","persulphocyanate":"A salt of persulphocyanic acid. [R.]","browning":"1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc. 2. (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.","intersocial":"Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social.","negatively":"1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. \"He answered negatively.\" Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist. South. Negatively charged or electrified (Elec.), having a charge of the kind of electricity called negative.","bilk":"To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. Thackeray.\n\n1. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk. 2. A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras. 3. Nonsense; vain words. B. Jonson. 4. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. Marryat.","octandrian":"Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.","immortalist":"One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","leeangle":"A heavy weapon of the Australian aborigines with a sharp- pointed end, about nine inches in length, projecting at right angles from the main part.","aplanogamete":"A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.","chattel":"Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects. Note: Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc. Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.","conjugally":"In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.","spinthariscope":"A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the a rays are thus rendered visible. -- Spin*thar`i*scop\"ic (#), a.","rectitude":"1. Straightness. [R.] Johnson. 2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice. 3. Right judgment. [R.] Sir G. C. Lewis. Syn. -- See Justice.","traction":"1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.] 4. The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. Knight. Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.","jointweed":"A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.","unchristian":"1. Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel. 2. Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian; as, unchristian conduct.\n\nTo make unchristian. [Obs.] South.","protestantical":"Protestant. [Obs.]","gairfowl":"See Garefowl.","nuciferous":"Bearing, or producing, nuts.","antiptosis":"The putting of one case for another.","wagnerite":"A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.","diclinous":"Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.","aphrasia":"(a) = Dumbness. (b) A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.","grower":"One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.","oxford":"Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford \"Tracts for the Times,\" issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.","unsacrament":"To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. [Obs.]","plumbeous":"1. Consisting of, or resembling, lead. J. Ellis. 2. Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.","metabolic":"1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change. 2. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.","adunation":"A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.","emplunge":"To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] Spenser.","leucosphere":"The inner corona. [R.]","pearmain":"The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.","semaphore":"A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.","plane":"Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species (Platanus racemosa).\n\nWithout elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. Note: In science, this word (instead of plain) is almost exclusively used to designate a flat or level surface. Plane angle, the angle included between two straight lines in a plane. -- Plane chart, Plane curve. See under Chart and Curve. -- Plane figure, a figure all points of which lie in the same plane. If bounded by straight lines it is a rectilinear plane figure, if by curved lines it is a curvilinear plane figure. -- Plane geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the relations and properties of plane figures. -- Plane problem, a problem which can be solved geometrically by the aid of the right line and circle only. -- Plane sailing (Naut.), the method of computing a ship's place and course on the supposition that the earth's surface is a plane. -- Plane scale (Naut.), a scale for the use of navigators, on which are graduated chords, sines, tangents, secants, rhumbs, geographical miles, etc. -- Plane surveying, surveying in which the curvature of the earth is disregarded; ordinary field and topographical surveying of tracts of moderate extent. -- Plane table, an instrument used for plotting the lines of a survey on paper in the field. -- Plane trigonometry, the branch of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles.\n\n1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature. 2. (Astron.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator. 3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. 4. (Joinery) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc. Objective plane (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined, is supposed to stand. -- Perspective plane. See Perspective. -- Plane at infinity (Geom.), a plane in which points infinitely distant are conceived as situated. -- Plane iron, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane. -- Plane of polarization. (Opt.) See Polarization. -- Plane of projection. (a) The plane on which the projection is made, corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective; -- called also principal plane. (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space. -- Plane of refraction or reflection (Opt.), the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray.\n\n1. To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank. 2. To efface or remove. He planed away the names . . . written on his tables. Chaucer. 3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] What student came but that you planed her path. Tennyson.","camping":"1. Lodging in a camp. 2. Etym: [See Camp, n., 6] A game of football. [Prov. Eng.]","murkily":"Darkly; gloomily.","orthotomy":"The property of cutting at right angles.","self-assertion":"The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.","turnsole":"1. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. (b) The sunflower. (c) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). (d) The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria. 2. (Chem.) (a) Litmus. [Obs.] (b) A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).","butt hinge":"See 1st Butt, 10.","lettuce":"A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb. -- Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium. -- Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.","woolgathering":"Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.\n\nIndulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.","bionomy":"Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.","prelatism":"Prelacy; episcopacy.","lamarckianism":"Lamarckism.","muscoid":"Mosslike; resembling moss.\n\nA term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.","inescate":"To allure; to lay a bait for. [Obs.] To inescate and beguile young women! Burton.","these":"The plural of this. See This.","spiraeic":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiræa); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.","inclusa":"A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.","deciliter":"A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.","sea elephant":"A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.","emmenagogue":"A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.","over":"1. Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to Ant: under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city. The mercy seat that is over the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow. 2. Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table. Certain lakes . . . poison birds which fly over them. Bacon. 3. Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city. 4. Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen. Swift. 5. Above in authority or station; -- implying government, direction, care, attention, guard, responsibility, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: under. Thou shalt be over my house. Gen. xli. 40. I will make thee rules over many things. Matt. xxv. 23. Dost thou not watch over my sin Job xiv. 16. His tender mercies are over all his works. Ps. cxlv. 9. 6. Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter. 7. Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes. 8. Beyond; in excess of; in addition to; more than; as, it cost over five dollars. \"Over all this.\" Chaucer. 9. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto. Note: Over, in poetry, is often contracted into o'er. Note: Over his signature (or name) is a substitute for the idiomatic English form, under his signature (name, hand and seal, etc.), the reference in the latter form being to the authority under which the writing is made, executed, or published, and not the place of the autograph, etc. Over all (Her.), placed over or upon other bearings, and therefore hinding them in part; -- said of a charge. -- Over head and ears, beyond one's depth; completely; wholly; hopelessly; as, over head and ears in debt. [Colloq.] -- Over the left. See under Left. -- To run over (Mach.), to have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; -- said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.\n\n1. From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter. 2. From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy. \"We will pass over to Gibeah.\" Judges xix. 12. Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over. 3. From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels. 4. From inside to outside, above or across the brim. Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over. Luke vi. 38. 5. Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over. \"So over violent.\" Dryden. He that gathered much had nothing over. Ex. xvi. 18. 6. In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart. 7. At an end; beyond the limit of continuance; completed; finished. \"Their distress was over.\" Macaulay. \"The feast was over.\" Sir W. Scott. Note: Over, out, off, and similar adverbs, are often used in the predicate with the sense and force of adjectives, agreeing in this respect with the adverbs of place, here, there, everywhere, nowhere; as, the games were over; the play is over; the master was out; his hat is off. Note: Over is much used in composition, with the same significations that it has as a separate word; as in overcast, overflow, to cast or flow so as to spread over or cover; overhang, to hang above; overturn, to turn so as to bring the underside towards the top; overact, overreach, to act or reach beyond, implying excess or superiority. All over. (a) Over the whole; upon all parts; completely; as, he is spatterd with mud all over. (b) Wholly over; at an end; as, it is all over with him. -- Over again, once more; with repetition; afresh; anew. Dryden. -- Over against, opposite; in front. Addison. -- Over and above, in a manner, or degree, beyond what is supposed, defined, or usual; besides; in addition; as, not over and above well. \"He . . . gained, over and above, the good will of all people.\" L' Estrange. -- Over and over, repeatedly; again and again. -- To boil over. See under Boil, v. i. -- To come it over, To do over, To give over, etc. See under Come, Do, Give, etc. -- To throw over, to abandon; to betray. Cf. To throw overboard, under Overboard.\n\nUpper; covering; higher; superior; also, excessive; too much or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.\n\nA certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind ine wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behing the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places.","unessentially":"In an unessential manner.","weaponed":"Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.","corah":"Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. -- n. Corah silk.","dakota group":"A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.","afforestation":"The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.","benzoline":"(a) Same as Benzole. (b) Same as Amarine. [R.] Watts.","discoverable":"Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.","pi cloth":"A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.\n\nA fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, etc., woven from the fiber obtained from the leaf of the sterile pineapple plant. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a tinge of pale yellow.","usher":"1. An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc. \"The ushers and the squires.\" Chaucer. These are the ushers of Marcius. Shak. Note: There are various officers of this kind attached to the royal household in England, including the gentleman usher of the black rod, who attends in the House of Peers during the sessions of Parliament, and twelve or more gentlemen ushers. See Black rod. 2. An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.\n\nTo introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.","concinnous":"Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.] The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.","pasigraphical":"Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.","exercent":"Practicing; professional. [Obs.] \"Every exercent advocate.\" Ayliffe.","octogamy":"A marrying eight times. [R.] Chaucer.","mezzo-relievo":"Mezzo-rilievo.","enigmatize":"To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.","inimaginable":"Unimaginable; inconceivable. [R.] Bp. Pearson.","eudemon":"A good angel. Southey.","leptology":"A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.","macilent":"Lean; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.","ingrediency":"1. Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale. 2. The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part. Boyle.","slushy":"Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. \"A dark, drizzling, slushy day.\" Blackw. Mag.","tegmentum":"A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.","chronophotograph":"One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog\"ra*phy, n.","technical":"Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.","injuria":"Injury; invasion of another's rights.","-poda":"A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.","cousinhood":"The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.","ornamentally":"By way of ornament.","uptrain":"To train up; to educate. [Obs.] \"Daughters which were well uptrained.\" Spenser.","web-footed":"Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web- footed fowl.","incorrigibly":"In an incorrigible manner.","hypochondry":"Hypochondriasis.","opitulation":"The act of helping or aiding; help. [Obs.] Bailey.","sexed":"Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.","sceneman":"The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.","anthrenus":"A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common \"museum pest\" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.","baptization":"Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.","assuetude":"Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. Bacon.","scale":"1. The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively. Long time in even scale The battle hung. Milton. The scales are turned; her kindness weighs no more Now than my vows. Waller. 2. (Astron.) The sign or constellation Libra. Platform scale. See under Platform. tip the scales, influence an action so as to change an outcome from one likely result to another.\n\nTo weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. Scaling his present bearing with his past. Shak. To scale, or scale down, a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.]\n\n1. (Anat.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave. Milton. 2. Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc. 3. (Zoöl.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera. 4. (Zoöl.) A scale insect. (See below.) 5. (Bot.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns. 6. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. 7. An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. 8. (Metal.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists esentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. Covering scale (Zoöl.), a hydrophyllium. -- Ganoid scale (Zoöl.) See under Ganoid. -- Scale armor (Mil.), armor made of small metallic scales overlapping, and fastened upon leather or cloth. -- Scale beetle (Zoöl.), the tiger beetle. -- Scale carp (Zoöl.), a carp having normal scales. -- Scale insect (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small hemipterous insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, in which the females, when adult, become more or less scalelike in form. They are found upon the leaves and twigs of various trees and shrubs, and often do great damage to fruit trees. See Orange scale,under Orange. -- Scale moss (Bot.), any leafy-stemmed moss of the order Hepaticæ; -- so called from the small imbricated scalelike leaves of most of the species. See Hepatica, 2, and Jungermannia.\n\n1. To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler. 2. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. \"If all the mountaines were scaled, and the earth made even.\" T. Burnet. 3. To scatter; to spread. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] 4. (Gun.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Totten.\n\n1. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminæ; as, some sandstone scales by exposure. Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off. Bacon. 2. To separate; to scatter. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. [Obs.] 2. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically: (a) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. (b) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan. (c) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc. (d) (Mus.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor. 3. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being. There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion. Milton. 4. Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile. Scale of chords, a graduated scale on which are given the lengths of the chords of arcs from 0º to 90º in a circle of given radius, -- used in measuring given angles and in plotting angles of given numbers of degrees.\n\nTo climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. Oft have I scaled the craggy oak. Spenser.\n\nTo lead up by steps; to ascend. [Obs.] Satan from hence, now on the lower stair, That scaled by steps of gold to heaven-gate, Looks down with wonder. Milton.","schizorhinal":"1. (Anat.) Having the nasal bones separate. 2. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.","uplean":"To lean or incline upon anything. [Obs.] Spenser.","valued policy":"A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.","jacksmith":"A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.","trigonous":"Same as Trigonal.","camis":"A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.] All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.","outright":"1. Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright. 2. Completely; utterly. Cardinal Manning.","ablutionary":"Pertaining to ablution.","indices":"See Index.","growse":"To shiver; to have chills. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray.","unafiled":"Undefiled. [Obs.] Gower.","cruentous":"Bloody; cruentate. [Obs.]","carmagnole":"1. A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. They danced and yelled the carmagnole. Compton Reade. 2. A bombastic report from the French armies.","fondling":"The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. Mickle.\n\n1. A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange. 2. A fool; a simpleton; a ninny. [Obs.] Chapman.","spoliatory":"Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.","habituation":"The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.","amyl":"A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.","stare":"The starling. [Obs.]\n\n1. To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object. For ever upon the ground I see thee stare. Chaucer. Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret. Shak. 2. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors. 3. To stand out; to project; to bristle. [Obs.] Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare. Shak. Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive. Mortimer. Syn. -- To gaze; to look earnestly. See Gaze.\n\nTo look earnestly at; to gaze at. I will stare him out of his wits. Shak. To stare in the face, to be before the eyes, or to be undeniably evident. \"The law . . . stares them in the face whilst they are breaking it.\" Locke.\n\nThe act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open. \"A dull and stupid stare.\" Churchill.","ferforthly":"Ferforth. [Obs.] Chaucer.","theism":"The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.","bodock":"The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]","pindarist":"One who imitates Pindar.","catastrophist":"One who holds the theory or catastrophism.","ponderable":"Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon\"der*a*ble*ness, n.","ferreter":"One who ferrets. Johnson.","unadulterated":"Not adulterated; pure. \"Unadulterate air.\" Cowper. -- Un`a*dul\"ter*ate*ly, adv.","underwitted":"Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly. [R.] Bp. Kennet.","misconfident":"Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.","scat":"Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.\n\nTribute. [R.] \"Seizing scatt and treasure.\" Longfellow.\n\nA shower of rain. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.","cerotic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.","ladylove":"A sweetheart or mistress. LADY'S BEDSTRAW La\"dy's bed\"straw`, (Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels. LADY'S BOWER La\"dy's bow\"er. (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). Note: This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus. LADY'S CLOTH La\"dy's cloth` A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, etc. LADY'S COMB La\"dy's comb\", (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. LADY'S CUSHION La\"dy's cush\"ion, (Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). LADY'S FINGER La\"dy's fin\"ger, 1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch. 2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. 3. A long, slender variety of the potato. 4. (Zoöl.) One of the branchiæ of the lobster. LADY'S GARTERS La\"dy's gar\"ters. (Bot.) Ribbon grass. LADY'S HAIR La\"dy's hair\". (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.","ophidian":"One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.","anchorage":"1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge. 5. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust. 6. A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. Johnson.\n\nAbode of an anchoret.","filibusterism":"The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.","draffy":"Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.","station":"1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. [R.] A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. Hooker. 2. A state of standing or rest; equilibrium. [Obs.] All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet. Sir T. Browne. 3. The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel. Specifically: (a) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc. (b) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct. (c) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying. (d) (Biol.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (e) (Naut.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely. (f) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty. (g) (Mil.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.). (h) (Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc. 4. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following. R. Nelson. 5. Situation; position; location. The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain Prior. 6. State; rank; condition of life; social status. The greater part have kept, I see, Their station. Milton. They in France of the best rank and station. Shak. 7. (Eccl.) (a) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. Addis & Arnold. (c) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter. -- Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters of the police assigned to a certain district, and as a place of temporary confinement. (b) The house used as a shelter at a railway station. -- Station master, one who has charge of a station, esp. of a railway station. -- Station pointer (Surv.), an instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed. -- Station staff (Surv.), an instrument for taking angles in surveying. Craig. Syn. -- Station, Depot. In the United States, a stopping place on a railway for passengers and freight is commonly called a depot: but to a considerable extent in official use, and in common speech, the more appropriate name, station, has been adopted.\n\nTo place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa. He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed. Lyttelton.","counterwheel":"To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.","paludism":"The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.","funded":"1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt. 2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money.","theurgic":"Of or pertaining to theurgy; magical. Theurgic hymns, songs of incantation.","acater":"See Caterer. [Obs.]","orchestric":"Orchestral.","bushman":"1. A woodsman; a settler in the bush. 2. (Ethnol.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.","stew":"1. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Evelyn. 2. An artificial bed of oysters. [Local, U.S.]\n\nTo boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.\n\nTo be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.\n\n1. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.] As burning Ætna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. Spenser. The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot. 2. A brothel; -- usually in the plural. Bacon. South. There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. Aschman. 3. A prostitute. [Obs.] Sir A. Weldon. 4. A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons. 5. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.]","concentrator":"An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.","unvoluntary":"Involuntary. [Obs.] Fuller.","encrinal":"Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.","peaceful":"1. Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end. 2. Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words. Syn. -- See Peaceable. --Peace\"ful*ly, adv.. -- Peace\"ful*ness, n.","unmarry":"To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.","abscession":"A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.","crag":"1. A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.\n\n1. The neck or throat [Obs.] And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser. 2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.","anaphrodisiac":"Same as Antaphrodisiac. Dunglison.","simagre":"A grimace. [Obs.] Dryden.","harefoot":"1. (Zoöl.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs. 2. (Bot) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot. Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with soft and silky heads.","cirriferous":"Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.","sprinkler":"1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.","cometary":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. Cheyne.","accension":"The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. Locke.","accompt":"See Account. Note: Accompt, accomptant, etc., are archaic forms.","adar":"The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.","thurst":"The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls. Raymond.","upsodown":"Upside down. [Obs. or Colloq.] Wyclif. In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown. Chaucer.","pseudo-symmetric":"Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.","oscillate":"1. To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway. 2. To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. Dc Quincey.","relaxant":"A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.","unaccomplished":"Not accomplished or performed; unfinished; also, deficient in accomplishment; unrefined.","amir":"1. Emir. [Obs.] 2. One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.\n\nSame as Ameer.","coverer":"One who, or that which, covers.","griffon":"1. (Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art. 2. (Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge. 3. (Zoöl.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; - - called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the \"eagle\" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. [Written also gryphon.] 4. An English early apple.","undergraduate":"A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.\n\nOf or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.","tollbooth":"1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.","king-post":"A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. KING'S BENCH King's Bench. (Law) Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.","chariotee":"A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.","compromise":"1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. [Obs.] Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement. But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam. 3. A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.\n\n1. To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. [Obs.] Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. Shak. 2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. The controversy may easily be compromised. Fuller. 3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. Motley.\n\n1. To agree; to accord. [Obs.] 2. To make concession for concilation and peace.","sodamide":"A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.","utility":"1. The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay. 2. (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2. Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. F. A. Walker. 3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. J. S. Mill. Syn. -- Usefulness; advantageous; benefit; profit; avail; service. -- Utility, Usefulness. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus, we speak of the utility of an invention, and the usefulness of the thing invented; of the utility of an institution, and the usefulness of an individual. So beauty and utility (not usefulness) are brought into comparison. Still, the words are often used interchangeably.","unharness":"1. To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen. Cowper. 2. To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.","nom":"Name. Nom de guerre (, literally, war name; hence, a fictitious name, or one assumed for a time. -- Nom de plume (, literally, pen name; hence, a name assumed by an author as his or her signature.","pteropappi":"Same as Odontotormæ.","tarsier":"See Tarsius.","donya":"Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.","pentoic":"Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.","poetize":"To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize. I versify the truth, not poetize. Donne.","lame":"1. (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. (b) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. \"Lame of one leg.\" Arbuthnot. \"Lame in both his feet.\" 2 Sam. ix. 13. \"He fell, and became lame.\" 2 Sam. iv. 4. 2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. \"A lame endeavor.\" Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Lame duck (stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. [Cant]\n\nTo make lame. If you happen to let child fall and lame it. Swift.","hijera":"See Hegira.","impedite":"Hindered; obstructed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.\n\nTo impede. [Obs.] Boyle.","hispidulous":"Minutely hispid.","impeachment":"The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as: (a) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. [Obs.] Willing to march on to Calais, Without impeachment. Shak. (b) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration. The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state. Swift. (c) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives. Shak. Note: In England, it is the privilege or right of the House of Commons to impeach, and the right of the House of Lords to try and determine impeachments. In the United States, it is the right of the House of Representatives to impeach, and of the Senate to try and determine impeachments. Articles of impeachment. See under Article. -- Impeachment of waste (Law), restraint from, or accountability for, injury; also, a suit for damages for injury. Abbott.","loud-voiced":"Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.","pretenceful":"See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.","ootype":"The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.","hatting":"The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats.","semicubical":"Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity. Semicubical parabola, a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.","saliency":"Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. \"A fatal lack of poetic saliency.\" J. Morley.","canny":"1. Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary. 2. Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott. 3. Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay. 4. Having pleasing of useful qualities; gentle. Burns. 5. Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]","platycephalic":"Broad-headed.","subnotochordal":"Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.","subterfluous":"Running under or beneath. [R.]","mother":"1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor. 3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar] 4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. 5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] Shak. Mother Carey's chicken (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and O. furcata of the North Pacific. -- Mother Carey's goose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.\n\nReceived by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating. It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived. T. Arnold. Mother cell (Biol.), a cell which, by endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell. -- Mother church, the original church; a church from which other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a diocese. -- Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin. -- Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed. -- Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother. -- Mother tongue. (a) A language from which another language has had its origin. (b) The language of one's native land; native tongue. -- Mother water. See Mother liquor (above). -- Mother wit, natural or native wit or intelligence.\n\nTo adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to. The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child. Howell.\n\nA film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation. Note: The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing microörganisms of the genus Mycoderma, and in the mother of vinegar the microörganisms (Mycoderma aceti) composing the film are the active agents in the Conversion of the alcohol into vinegar. When thickened by growth, the film may settle to the bottom of the fluid. See Acetous fermentation, under Fermentation.\n\nTo become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.","thick-winded":"Affected with thick wind.","effect":"1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak. 2. Manifestation; expression; sign. All the large effects That troop with majesty. Shak. 3. In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell. 4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect. J. C. Shairp. The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. W. Irving. 5. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect. 6. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to. They spake to her to that effect. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22. 7. The purport; the sum and substance. \"The effect of his intent.\" Chaucer. 8. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. No other in effect than what it seems. Denham. 9. pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. \"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition.\" Mark vii. 13. \"All my study be to no effect.\" Shak. -- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results. -- To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims. Shak. Syn. -- Effect, Consequence, Result. These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results. Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. Cowper. Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die. Milton.\n\n1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ). Syn. -- To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish.","viscerate":"To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.","inseparably":"In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable. Bacon. And cleaves through life inseparably close. Cowper.","cocoanut":"The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.","zooephagous":"Feeding on animals. Note: This is a more general term than either sarcophagous or carnivorous.","tampon":"A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.\n\nTo plug with a tampon.","papabote":"The upland plover. [Local, U. S.]","embody":"To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.\n\nTo unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.","blustering":"1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. \"A blustering fellow.\" L'Estrange.","malignancy":"1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart. 2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak. 3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.","versability":"The quality or state of being versable. [R.] Sterne","hangbird":"The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.","dog-fox":"(a) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6. Sir W. Scott. (b) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.","felicity":"1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer. 2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. the felicities of her wonderful reign. Atterbury. 3. A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. \"Felicity of expression.\" Bp. Warburton. Syn. -- Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness.","sacchulmic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [Written also sacculmic.]","silver state":"Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.","damageable":"1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. [R.] That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.","ineffervescible":"Not capable or susceptible of effervescence.","anagraph":"An inventory; a record. [Obs.] Knowles.","unpreach":"To undo or overthrow by preaching. [R.] De Foe.","dissepiment":"1. A separating tissue; a partition; a septum. 2. (Bot.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells. 3. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.","oblite":"Indistinct; slurred over. [Obs.] \"Obscure and oblite mention.\" Fuller.","affectionateness":"The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.","disastrous":"1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Shak. -- Dis*as\"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as\"trous*ness, n.","appellancy":"Capability of appeal.","picard":"One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.","tirade":"A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.","bedim":"To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.","sugariness":"The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.","synagogical":"Of or pertaining to a synagogue.","staves":"pl. of Staff. \"Banners, scarves and staves.\" R. Browning. Also (stavz), pl. of Stave.","incalculability":"The quality or state of being incalculable.","commigrate":"To migrate together. [R.]","baggage master":"One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]","metrological":"Of or pertaining to metrology.","veratric":"Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum. Veratric acid (Chem.), an acid occurring, together with veratrine, in the root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed; -- extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related to protocatechuic acid.","hexoic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.","hostilely":"In a hostile manner.","rit":"3d pers. ssing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth. Chaucer.","marron":"1. A large chestnut. [Obs.] Holland. 2. A chestnut color; maroon. 3. (Pyrotechny & Mil.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]","overwax":"To wax or grow too rapindly or too much. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.","squamulose":"Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.","capivi":"A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.","congruity":"1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney. 2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. 3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.","weasel-faced":"Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.","game fowl":"A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.","misrepute":"To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.","sciascope":"A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. -- Ski*as\"co*py (#), Ski*as\"co*py (#), n.","pulsate":"To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.","lyra":"1. (Astron.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega. 2. (Anat.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.","subtleness":"The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.","unfolder":"One who, or that which, unfolds.","in-":"A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.\n\nAn inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.","acrospore":"A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.","undervaluation":"The act of undervaluing; a rate or value not equal to the real worth.","grayback":"(a) The California gray whale. (b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. (c) The dowitcher. (d) The body louse.","andromede":"A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name. A shower of these meteors takes place every year on November 27th or 28th. The Andromedes are also called Bielids, as they are connected with Biela's comet and move in its orbit.","hobnob":"1. Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak. 2. At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) Holinshed.\n\n1. To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.] 2. To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.\n\nFamiliar, social intercourse. W. Black.","biforked":"Bifurcate.","spoon":"See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.\n\n1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. \"Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,\" thus heard I say. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak. 2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. 3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] Hood. Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar.\n\nTo take up in, a spoon.\n\nTo act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]","water hare":"A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.","stubbed":"1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. 2. Abounding in stubs; stubby. A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. R. Browning. 3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. \"Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.\" Berkley.","pantascopic":"Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.","graille":"A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.","oryctography":"Description of fossils. [Obs.]","sufficiency":"1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. Boyle. 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. Shak. I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. Eikon Basilike. 3. Adequate substance or means; competence. \"An elegant sufficiency.\" Thomson. 4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund. 5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency. Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. Sir W. Temple.","seraphine":"A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.","double-shade":"To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton.","statoblast":"One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh- water species; -- also called winter buds. Note: They are protected by a firm covering, and are usually destined to perpetuate the species during the winter season. They burst open and develop in the spring. In some fresh-water sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season. See Illust. under Phylactolæmata.","informed":"Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. [Obs.] Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.","suffocation":"The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking. Note: The term suffocation is sometimes employed synonymously with asphyxia. In the strict medico-legal sense it signifies asphyxia induced by obstruction of the respiration otherwise than by direct pressure on the neck (hanging, strangulation) or submersion (drowning). Quain.","plastid":"1. (Biol.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon. Haeckel. 2. (Bot.) One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.","beach":"1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. 2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.\n\nTo run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.","caulicle":"A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.","mydaus":"The teledu.","nereidian":"Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridæ or allied families.","alimentariness":"The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]","saponul":"A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil. [Written also saponule.] [Obs.]","anticous":"Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.","catapasm":"A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.","beaconage":"Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.","seemingly":"In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.","devil":"1. The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. Luke iv. 2. That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. Rev. xii. 9. 2. An evil spirit; a demon. A dumb man possessed with a devil. Matt. ix. 32. 3. A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. \"That devil Glendower.\" \"The devil drunkenness.\" Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70. 4. An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. [Low] The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser. Shak. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope. 5. (Cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott. 6. (Manuf.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. Blue devils. See under Blue. -- Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian. -- Devil bird (Zoöl.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes (Edolius retifer, and E. remifer), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. Longfellow. -- Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet. \"Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels.\" F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. \"Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer.\" Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus, or Diabolus, ursinus). -- To play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low]\n\n1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. 2. To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. A deviled leg of turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and\/or spices such as paprika.","variously":"In various or different ways.","willow":"1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. \"A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.\" Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow. And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me. Campbell. 2. (Textile Manuf.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil. Almond willow, Pussy willow, Weeping willow. (Bot.) See under Almond, Pussy, and Weeping. -- Willow biter (Zoöl.) the blue tit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Willow fly (Zoöl.), a greenish European stone fly (Chloroperla viridis); -- called also yellow Sally. -- Willow gall (Zoöl.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly (Cecidomyia strobiloides). -- Willow grouse (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. See ptarmigan. -- Willow lark (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Willow ptarmigan (Zoöl.) (a) The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting. See under Reed. (b) A sparrow (Passer salicicolus) native of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe. -- Willow tea, the prepared leaves of a species of willow largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute for tea. McElrath. -- Willow thrush (Zoöl.), a variety of the veery, or Wilson's thrush. See Veery. -- Willow warbler (Zoöl.), a very small European warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus); -- called also bee bird, haybird, golden wren, pettychaps, sweet William, Tom Thumb, and willow wren.\n\nTo open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.","delegacy":"1. The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. [Obs.] By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. [Obs.] Burton.","gige":"The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Meyrick (Ancient Armor).","phoronomics":"The science of motion; kinematics. [R.] Weisbach.","interfascicular":"Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.","scortatory":"Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.","brunswick green":"An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.","stercorin":"Same as Serolin (b).","eyeball":"The ball or globe of the eye.","full-blooded":"1. Having a full supply of blood. 2. Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.","balbutiate":"To stammer. [Obs.]","feria":"A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.","misprint":"To print wrong.\n\nA mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.","ferricyanic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), a brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.","ticketing":"A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.","petrohyoid":"Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.","bolus":"A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.","hutch":"To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.\n\n1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch. 2. A measure of two Winchester bushels. 3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt. 4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.\n\n1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] \"She hutched the . . . ore.\" Milton. 2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.","dough-baked":"Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. [Colloq.] Halliwell.","dice":"Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.\n\n1. To play games with dice. I . . . diced not above seven times a week. Shak. 2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.","come":"1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. Look, who comes yonder Shak. I did not come to curse thee. Tennyson. 2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. When we came to Rome. Acts xxviii. 16. Lately come from Italy. Acts vviii. 2. 3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or form a distance. \"Thy kingdom come.\" Matt. vi. 10. The hour is comming, and now is. John. v. 25. So quik bright things come to confusion. Shak. 4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. From whence come wars James iv. 1. Both riches and honor come of thee! Chron. xxix. 12. 5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. Then butter does refuse to come. Hudibras. 6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak. Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to be gives adjectival significance to the participle as expressing a state or condition of the subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the completion of the action signified by the verb. Think not that I am come to destroy. Matt. v. 17. We are come off like Romans. Shak. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. Bryant. Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall come home next week; he will come to your house to-day. It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary, indicative of approach to the action or state expressed by the verb; as, how came you to do it Come is used colloquially, with reference to a definite future time approaching, without an auxilliary; as, it will be two years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall come. They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday. Lowell. Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go. \"This is the heir; come, let us kill him.\" Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. \"Come, come, no time for lamentation now.\" Milton. To come, yet to arrive, future. \"In times to come.\" Dryden. \"There's pippins and cheese to come.\" Shak. -- To come about. (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as, how did these things come about (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about. \"The wind is come about.\" Shak. On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side. B. Jonson. -- To come abroad. (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. \"Am come abroad to see the world.\" Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] \"Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.\" Mark. iv. 22. -- To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. \"We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars.\" E. A. Freeman. \"Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across.\" H. R. Heweis. -- To come after. (a) To follow. (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a book. -- To come again, to return. \"His spirit came again and he revived.\" Judges. xv. 19. -- To come and go. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. \"The color of the king doth come and go.\" Shak. (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward. -- To come at. (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true knowledge of ourselves. (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury. -- To come away, to part or depart. -- To come between, to interverne; to separate; hence, to cause estrangement. -- To come by. (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. \"Examine how you came by all your state.\" Dryden. (b) To pass near or by way of. -- To come down. (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled. -- To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- To come home. (a) To retuen to one's house or family. (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. (b) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an anchor. -- To come in. (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. \"The thief cometh in.\" Hos. vii. 1. (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in. (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in. (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. \"We need not fear his coming in\" Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. \"Silken garments did not come in till late.\" Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] -- To come in for, to claim or receive. \"The rest came in for subsidies.\" Swift. -- To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme. -- To come it ever, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. \"Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it.\" Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. \"Of Priam's royal race my mother came.\" Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. \"This comes of judging by the eye.\" L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well. (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.); as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a come off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.] (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.] (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come off (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] \"To come off by the worst.\" Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. \"To come off from these grave disquisitions.\" Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. \"They shall come out with great substance.\" Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. \"It is indeed come out at last.\" Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out he has come out well at last. (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two seasons ago. (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out. (f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out against the tariff.(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual. -- To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose. -- To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. \"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.\" Addison. (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation. -- To come over to, to join. -- To come round. (a) To recur in regular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. J. H. Newman. (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.] -- To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. \"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.\" Rom. iii. 23. -- To come to. (a) To consent or yield. Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to brin the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. Shak. -- To come to blows. See under Blow. -- To come to grief. See under Grief. -- To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. -- To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. -- To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and \"time\" is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] -- To come together. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. Matt. i. 18. -- To come true, to happen as predicated or expected. -- To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class. -- To come up (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. -- To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. -- To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten. -- To come up to, to rise to; to equal. -- To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.\n\nTo carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]\n\nComing. Chaucer.","faintish":"Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint\"ish*ness, n.","triliteralness":"The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots. W. D. Whitney.","novaculite":"A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.","thy":"Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine. Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Matt. vi. 9,10. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. Milton.","equibalance":"Equal weight; equiponderance.\n\nTo make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.","irpe":"A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.] Smirks and irps and all affected humors. B. Jonson .","ugrian":"A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns. [Written also Uigrian.]","filing":"A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.","antinational":"Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.","sagittate":"Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.","proverbialist":"One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.","brooklime":"A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]","unalienable":"Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al\"ien*a*bly, adv.","teetotal":"Entire; total. [Colloq.]","adjusting surface":"A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.","clong":"imp. of Cling. [Obs.]","tripodian":"An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.","defend":"1. To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel. [A Latinism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser. 2. To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak. 3. To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies. The lord mayor craves aid . . . to defend the city. Shak. God defend the right! Shak. A village near it was defended by the river. Clarendon. 4. (Law.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit. Burrill. Syn. -- To Defend, Protect. To defend is literally to ward off; to protect is to cover so as to secure against approaching danger. We defend those who are attacked; we protect those who are liable to injury or invasion. A fortress is defended by its guns, and protected by its wall. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it. Is. xxxi. 5. Leave not the faithful side That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects. Milton.","accommodating":"Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.","gazetteer":"1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson. 2. A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke. 3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. 4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.","uncontestable":"Incontestable.","chainlet":"A small chain. Sir W. Scott.","indiscerptible":"Not discerpible; inseparable. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. -- In`dis*cerp\"i*ble*ness, n., In`dis*cerp\"ti*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- In`dis*cerp\"ti*bly, adv. [Obs.]","ostler":"See Hostler.","laryngotracheal":"Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.","bicostate":"Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.","threatener":"One who threatens. Shak.","epiglottidean":"Same as Epiglottic.","photosphere":"A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.","squatter":"1. One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown. Macaulay. 2. (Zoöl.) See Squat snipe, under Squat. Squatter sovereignty, the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.","blur":"1. To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak. 2. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. J. R. Drake. 3. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown. Hudibras. Syn. -- To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.\n\n1. That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse. Fuller. 2. A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur. 3. A moral stain or blot. Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. Udall.","ransomless":"Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom. Shak.","swashbuckler":"A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.","coot":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald); the American is F. Americana. (b) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (Edemia are called coots. See Scoter. \"As simple as a coot.\" Halliwell. 2. A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [Colloq.]","tripartite":"1. Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf. 2. Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite. A. Smith. 3. Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.","uxorial":"Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.] The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment. Geddes.","simblot":"The harness of a drawloom.","chute":"1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. 2. See Shoot.","common":"1. Belonging or relating equally, or similary, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, consired together; general; public; as, propertis common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requereth. Hocker. The common enemy of man. Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. L'Estrange. Common bar (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank. -- Common barrator (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. -- Common chord (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. -- Common council, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the crier of a town or city. -- Common divisor (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. -- Common gender (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. -- Common law, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from statute law. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See Law. -- Common lawyer, one versed in common law. -- Common lewdness (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. -- Common multiple (Arith.) See under Multiple. -- Common noun (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). -- Common nuisance (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. -- Common pleas, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, botth civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court. Its powers are generally defined by statute. -- Common prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. -- Common school, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. -- Common scold (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. -- Common seal, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. -- Common sense. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under Sense. -- Common time (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. -- In common, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. -- Out of the common, uncommon; extraordinary. -- Tenant in common, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See Joint tenant, under Joint. -- To make common cause with, to join or ally one's self with. Syn. -- General; public; popular; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See Mutual, Ordinary, General.\n\n1. The people; the community. [Obs.] \"The weal o' the common.\" Shak. 2. An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons. 3. (Law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. Common appendant, a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell. -- Common appurtenant, a similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs. -- Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields. -- Common in gross or at large, a common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging to another. -- Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.\n\n1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs.] Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton. 2. To participate. [Obs.] Sir T. More. 3. To have a joint right with others in common ground. Johnson. 4. To board together; to eat at a table in common.","rasp":"1. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder. 2. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.\n\n1. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file. 2. The raspberry. [Obs.] \"Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.\" Bacon. Rasp palm (Bot.), a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong aërial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.","dorse":"1. Same as dorsal, n. [Obs.] 2. The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.\n\nThe Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.","arbuscular":"Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.","sphincter":"A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.\n\nOf, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.","pelvis":"1. (Anat.) The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum. 2. (Zoöl.) The calyx of a crinoid. Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the ureter expands as it joins the kidney.","furciferous":"Rascally; scandalous. [R.] \"Furciferous knaves.\" De Quincey.","kingbird":"1. A small American bird (Tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the bead and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds. 2. The king tody. See under King.","hyalescence":"The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.","deadly":"1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. Shak. 3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.\n\n1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. \"Deadly pale.\" Shak. 2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally. The groanings of a deadly wounded man. Ezek. xxx. 24. 3. In an implacable manner; destructively. 4. Extremely. [Obs.] \"Deadly weary.\" Orrery. \"So deadly cunning a man.\" Arbuthnot.","changeless":"That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. -- Change\"less*ness, n.","task wage":"A wage paid by the day, or some fixed period, on condition that a minimum task be performed. When the workman is paid in proportion for excess over the minimum, the wage is one for piece-work.","moira":"The deity who assigns to every man his lot.","uroxanthin":"Same as Indican.","instructible":"Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. Bacon.","titano-":"A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano- cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.","linguiform":"Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped.","diurna":"A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.","soliloquize":"To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.","lethargic":"Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. -- Le*thar\"gic*al*ly, v. -- Le*thar\"gic*al*ness, n. -- Le*thar\"gic*ness, n.","bedrug":"To drug abundantly or excessively.","goatish":"Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat\"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat\"ish*ness, n.","proboscidian":"Pertaining to the Proboscidea. -- n. One of the Proboscidea.","kibed":"Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels. Beau. & Fl.","numerary":"Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body. A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon. Ayliffe.","pun":"To pound. [Obs.] He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Shak.\n\nA play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. Addison. A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. Walpole.\n\nTo make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble. Dryden.\n\nTo persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.","case system":"The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.","gowdnook":"The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.","fantom":"See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.","alkaloid":"An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. Note: Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many of the active principles in plants; thus, morphine and narcotine are alkaloids found in opium.\n\nPertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.","imposingness":"The quality of being imposing.","yestern":"Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.","productus":"An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.","orthodromic":"Of or pertaining to orthodromy.","bulb":"1. (Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. 2. (Anat.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. -- Bulb of a hair, the \"root,\" or part whence the hair originates. -- Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth. 3. An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. Tomlinson.\n\nTo take the shape of a bulb; to swell.","cheirotherium":"A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.","startfulness":"Aptness to start. [R.]","unspilt":"Not spilt or wasted; not shed.","alguazil":"An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.","lawbreaker":"One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law\"break`ing, n. & a.","verisimilous":"Verisimilar. [Obs.]","hiveless":"Destitute of a hive. Gascoigne.","two-cycle":"A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine. --Two\"- cy`cle, a.","bugle horn":"1. A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.] And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.","mum-chance":"1. A game of hazard played with cards in silence. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Decker. 2. A silent, stupid person. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.\n\nSilent and idle. [Colloq.] Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.","playful":"Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play\"ful*ly, adv. -- Play\"ful*ness, n.","leafed":"Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.","seise":"See Seize. Spenser. Note: This is the common spelling in the law phrase to be seised of (an estate).","unappropriated":"1. Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton. 2. Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands. 3. Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as, the unappropriated moneys in the treasury.","centrebit":"An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.","epure":"A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.","incorpse":"To incorporate. [R.] Shak.","calamander wood":"A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.","oldish":"Somewhat old.","egotize":"To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.","absterge":"To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.","transcript":"1. That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript. South. 2. A copy of any kind; an imitation. The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian. Glanvill. A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.","gruntingly":"In a grunting manner.","algometer":"An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom\"e*try (#), n. -- Al`go*met\"ric (#), *met\"ric*al (#), a. --Al`go*met\"ric*al*ly, adv.","parelectronomy":"A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.","triplite":"A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.","glycin":"Same as Glycocoll.","cocking":"Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.","gaul":"1. The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul). 2. A native or inhabitant of Gaul.","adenographic":"Pertaining to adenography.","unfool":"To restore from folly, or from being a fool. [Obs.] Shak.","illimitable":"Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; unlimited; unbounded; immeasurable; infinite; immense; vast. -- Il*lim\"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Il*lim\"it*a*bly, adv.","piccadil":"A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.","rhinoplastic":"Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.","turndown":"1. Capable of being turned down; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required. 2. Made to wear with the upper part turned down; as, a turndown collar.","verily":"In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly. Bacon. Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the verily thou shalt be fed. Ps. xxxvii. 3.","determinative":"Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.\n\nThat which serves to determine. Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).","unmentionables":"The breeches; trousers. [Jocose]","treenail":"A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]","foreread":"To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.","delusional":"Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.","fleen":"Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer.","paramountly":"In a paramount manner.","rigel":"A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. [Written also Regel.]","chouka":"The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.","unio":"Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.","venulose":"Full of venules, or small veins.","carling":"A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.","whimsical":"1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. \"A whimsical insult.\" Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. \"A whimsical chair.\" Evelyn. Syn. -- Quaint; capricious; fanciful; fantastic.","tax certificate":"The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purchaser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument of conveyance (called a tax deed) of the land, to be executed by the proper officer.","ennead":"The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.","noncontent":"One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.","unsparing":"1. Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. Burke. 2. Not merciful or forgiving. [R.] Milton. -- Un*spar\"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*spar\"ing*ness, n.","sedum":"A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. Gray.","adherer":"One who adheres; an adherent.","zumbooruk":"A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.","electary":"See Electuary.","fernticle":"A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. [Prov. Eng.]","clatter":"1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow. 2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser.\n\nTo make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.\n\n1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. Tennyson. 2. Commotion; disturbance. \"Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story.\" Barrow. 3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. \"Hold still thy clatter.\" Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson","scorpiodea":"Same as Scorpiones.","stalagmitical":"Having the form or structure of stalagmites. -- Stal`ag*mit\"ic*al*ly, adv.","innocent":"1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air. Pope. 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. Shak. I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. Matt. xxvii. 4. The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey. Milton. 3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. Innocent from the great transgression. Ps. xix. 13. 4. Simple; artless; foolish. Shak. 5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. 6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality. Syn. -- Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.\n\n1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. Shak. 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. B. Jonson. In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. Sir W. Scott. Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day.","aecidium":"A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.","tibrie":"The pollack. [Prov. Eng.]","lyrie":"A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.","bridestake":"A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.","ottawas":"A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.","quadrinomical":"Quadrinomial.","speediness":"The quality or state of being speedy.","miscredent":"A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.","impressive":"1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. [Obs.] Drayton. - Im*press\"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press\"ive*ness, n.","formula":"1. A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said. 2. (Eccl.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines. 3. (Math.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula. 4. (Med.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound. 5. (Chem.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound. Note: Chemical formulæ consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained. Empirical formula (Chem.), an expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2. -- Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), an expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene. -- Molecular formula (Chem.), a formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound.","enecate":"To kill off; to destroy. [Obs.] Harvey.","jesus":"The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation. Luke i. 31. Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. Matt. i. 21. Note: The form Jesu is often used, esp. in the vocative. Jesu, do thou my soul receive. Keble. The Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.","stereochromy":"A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).","tubful":"As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.","alarmedly":"In an alarmed manner.","wooyen":"See Yuen.","circulatory":"1. Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson. 2. Circulating, or going round. T. Warton. 3. (Anat.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.\n\nA chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.","measle":"A leper. [Obs.] [Written also meazel, and mesel.] Wyclif (Matt. x. 8. ).\n\nA tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.","naze":"A promotory or headland.","republican":"1. Of or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay. 2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners. Republican party. (U.S. Politics) (a) An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader. (b) One of the existing great parties. It was organized in 1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.\n\n1. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government. 2. (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together. (b) A South African weaver bird (Philetærus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw. Red republican. See under Red.","lichenic":"Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens. Lichenic acid. (a) An organic acid, C14H24O3 obtained from Iceland moss. (b) An old name of fumaric acid.","forelift":"To lift up in front. [Obs.]","water dressing":"The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.","headpan":"The brainpan. [Obs.]","bighorn":"The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana).","rumkin":"A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]","cage":"1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. Cowper. 2. A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace. 3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt. 4. (Mach.) (a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. (b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft. 6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.\n\nTo confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. \"Caged and starved to death.\" Cowper.","syphilodermatous":"Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.","fangle":"Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.\n\nTo fashion. [Obs.] To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.","aggressor":"The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.","land-poor":"Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. [Colloq.]","incorrupt":"1. Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled. 2. Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. Milton. Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. Bp. Hurd.","antivivisectionist":"One opposed to vivisection","bantling":"A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.","chestnut":"1. (Bot.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that of the nut. 4. The horse chestnut (often so used in England). 5. One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals. 6. An old joke or story. [Slang] Chestnut tree, a tree that bears chestnuts.\n\nOf or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.","wedge":"1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical. 2. (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. 3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. \"Wedges of gold.\" Shak. 4. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton. 5. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] C. A. Bristed. Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox. -- Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.\n\n1. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. \"My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain.\" Shak. 2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven. Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more. Shak. He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth. Mrs. J. H. Ewing. 3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. Milton. 4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden. 5. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place. 6. (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc. Tomlinson.","bronchotome":"An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.","demilance":"A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.","besmoke":"1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.","wood-note":"A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. [R.] Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton.","contrapuntal":"Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.","paleographical":"Of or pertaining to paleography.","liberality":"1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham. 2. A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.","adaptly":"In a suitable manner. [R.] Prior.","commonwealth":"1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton. Note: This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class. 2. The whole body of people in a state; the public. 3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic.","hawaiian":"Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii. -- n. A native of Hawaii.","lask":"A diarrhea or flux. [Obs.] Holland.","blue book":"1. A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.] 2. The United States official \"Biennial Register.\"","uprising":"1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. \"The steep uprising of the hill.\" Shak. 2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters.","lignite":"Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.","luminiferous":"Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.","hydrocephalus":"An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.","tun-dish":"A tunnel. [Obs.] Shak.","emmew":"To mew or coop up. [Obs.] Shak.","entity":"A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence. Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.","unfounded":"1. Not founded; not built or established. Milton. 2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley.","woolhead":"The buffel duck.","ad valorem":"A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.","fornicator":"An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.","malic":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid. Malic acid, a hydroxy acid obtained as a substance which is sirupy or crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste. It occurs in many fruits, as in green apples, currants, etc. It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature and concentration. An artificial variety is a derivative of succinic acid, but has no action on polarized light, and thus malic acid is a remarkable case of physical isomerism.","bibber":"One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.","croupous":"Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.","garlandless":"Destitute of a garland. Shelley.","rontgenize":"To render (air or other gas) conducting by the passage of Röntgen rays.","smuggle":"1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. 2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.\n\nTo import or export in violation of the customs laws.","clasper":"1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. \"The claspers of vines.\" Derham. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. (b) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.","electro-metallurgy":"The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.","igasurine":"An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.","anticonvulsive":"Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.","incogitantly":"In an incogitant manner.","disennoble":"To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.","delibrate":"To strip off the bark; to peel. [Obs.] Ash.","armipotence":"Power in arms. [R.] Johnson.","priming":"1. The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm. 2. (Paint.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface. 3. (Steam Eng.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder. Priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Priming tube, a small pipe, filled with a combustible composition for firing cannon. -- Priming valve (Steam Eng.), a spring safety valve applied to the cylinder of a steam engine for discharging water carried into the cylinder by priming. -- Priming wire, a pointed wire used to penetrate the vent of a piece, for piercing the cartridge before priming.","salal-berry":"The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.","subcontracted":"1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. [Obs.] Shak.","bird-eyed":"Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.","calculary":"Of or pertaining to calculi.\n\nA congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.","cargo":"The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett. Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods only, and not to live animals or persons. Burill.","troublous":"Full of trouble; causing trouble. \"In doubtful time of troublous need.\" Byron. A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.","well-meaning":"Having a good intention.","tonicity":"The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.","water elder":"The guelder-rose.","brokenness":"1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.","gleeman":"A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.","hortative":"Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.\n\nAn exhortation. [Obs.]","turpitude":"Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.","generality":"1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate. 3. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.","plumber block":"A pillow block.","adeniform":"Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.","pleasantness":"The state or quality of being pleasant.","unparadise":"To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [R.] Young.","wren":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidæ. Note: Among the species best known are the house wren (Troglodytes aëdon) common in both Europe and America, and the American winter wren (T. hiemalis). See also Cactus wren, Marsh wren, and Rock wren, under Cactus, Marsh, and Rock. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits. Note: Among these are several species of European warblers; as, the reed wren (see Reed warbler (a), under Reed), the sedge wren (see Sedge warbler, under Sedge), the willow wren (see Willow warbler, under Willow), the golden-crested wren, and the ruby-crowned wren (see Kinglet). Ant wren, any one of numerous South American birds of the family Formicaridæ, allied to the ant thrushes. -- Blue wren, a small Australian singing bird (Malurus cyaneus), the male of which in the breeding season is bright blue. Called also superb warbler. -- Emu wren. See in the Vocabulary. -- Wren babbler, any one of numerous species of small timaline birds belonging to Alcippe, Stachyris, Timalia, and several allied genera. These birds are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Wren tit. See Ground wren, under Ground. -- Wren warbler, any one of several species of small Asiatic and African singing birds belonging to Prinia and allied genera. These birds are closely allied to the tailor birds, and build their nests in a similar manner. See also Pincpinc.","strangely":"1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.] Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it. Shak. 3. In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully. How strangely active are the arts of peace! Dryden. It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses. Law.","besieger":"One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.","bebirine":"An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]","dataria":"Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).","spiracular":"Of or pertaining to a spiracle.","unruliment":"Unruliness. [Obs.] \"Breaking forth with rude unruliment.\" Spenser.","harle":"The red-breasted merganser.","chitterlings":"The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.","tidings":"Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is plural in form, it has been used also as a singular. By Shakespeare it was used indiscriminately as a singular or plural. Now near the tidings of our comfort is. Shak. Tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes. Shak. Syn. -- News; advice; information; intelligence. -- Tidings, News. The term news denotes recent intelligence from any quarter; the term tidings denotes intelligence expected from a particular quarter, showing what has there betided. We may be indifferent as to news, but are always more or less interested in tidings. We read the news daily; we wait for tidings respecting an absent friend or an impending battle. We may be curious to hear the news; we are always anxious for tidings. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. What tidings dost thou bring Addison.","electro-biologist":"One versed in electro-biology.","anamnesis":"A recalling to mind; recollection.","a cheval":"Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road. A position à cheval on a river is not one which a general willingly assumes. Swinton.","innovator":"One who innovates. Shak.","medalet":"A small medal.","propulsive":"Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. \"[The] propulsive movement of the verse.\" Coleridge.","adrogation":"A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.","sporiferous":"Bearing or producing spores.","ursal":"The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal.","vickers-maxim automatic machine gun":"An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, and against the front wall of the gas chamber, checking the recoil of the system.","raiser":"One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).","branchiate":"Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.","lascivient":"Lascivious. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","ignescent":"Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.","be-all":"The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.","brumous":"Foggy; misty.","commandry":"See Commandery.","core loss":"Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.","trendle":"A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.","pharisaical":"1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. \"The Pharisaic sect among the Jews.\" Cudworth. 2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous. \"Excess of outward and pharisaical holiness. \" Bacon. \"Pharisaical ostentation.\" Macaulay. -- Phar`i*sa\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phar`i*sa\"ic*al*ness, n.","porosity":"The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.","coulter":"Same as Colter.","flammability":"The quality of being flammable; inflammability. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","illumine":"To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.","efficient":"Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. The efficient cause is the working cause. Wilson. Syn. -- Effective; effectual; competent; able; capable; material; potent.\n\nAn efficient cause; a prime mover. God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. Hooker.","decussate":"To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.\n\n1. Crossed; intersected. 2. (Bot.) Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches. 3. (Rhet.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.","chromoplastid":"A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.","encradle":"To lay in a cradle.","pleonaste":"A black variety of spinel.","emendately":"Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]","flang":"A miner's two-pointed pick.","jewbush":"A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities.","glyoxaline":"A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.","sinapoline":"A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C3H5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diallyl urea.","insure":"1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one. 2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.\n\nTo underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.","dogal":"Of or pertaining to a doge.[R.]","microphthalmia":"An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.","synedral":"Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.","antre":"A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.","raton":"A small rat. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","historiette":"Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. Emerson.","formaldehyde":"A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.","grudgingly":"In a grudging manner.","knosp":"Same as Knop,2. Milman.","wox":"imp. of Wax. Gower.","antitoxin":"A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.","manie":"Mania; insanity. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tarquinish":"Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.","arraignment":"1. (Law) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint. 2. A calling to an account to faults; accusation. In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden.","delit":"Delight. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tramrail":"An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.","paresis":"Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.","socratically":"In the Socratic method.","acne":"A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.","superimpregnation":"The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.","priscillianist":"A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.","xanthoprotein":"A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange- yellow color by the addition of ammonia.","yern":"See 3d Yearn. [Obs.]\n\nEager; brisk; quick; active. [Obs.] \"Her song . . . loud and yern.\" Chaucer.","shide":"A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.]","aphrodisiac":"Exciting venereal desire; provocative to venery.\n\nThat which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.","medium-sized":"Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.","tannable":"That may be tanned.","repand":"Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.","quib":"A quip; a gibe.","complexus":"A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.","bacharach":"A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.","rooftree":"The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.","isocrymal":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or illustrating, an isocryme; as, an isocrymal line; an isocrymal chart.","oolong":"A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea. [Written also oulong.]","mania":"1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.","sea-gate":"A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","concerned":"Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.","parley":"Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.\n\nTo speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace. They are at hand, To parley or to fight; therefore prepare. Shak.","oversell":"1. To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl. 2. To sell beyond means of delivery. [Brokers'Cant] Oversold market (Brokers' Cant), a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold \"short\" to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.","nubilose":"Cloudy. [R.]","luter":"One who plays on a lute.\n\nOne who applies lute.","convulse":"1. To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay. 2. To agitate greatly; to shake violently. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. Syn. -- To agitate; disturb; shake; tear; rend.","scripturalness":"Quality of being scriptural.","unglue":"To separate, part, or open, as anything fastened with glue. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. Swift.","feigning":"That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign\"ing*ly, adv.","cultrated":"Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.","enstore":"To restore. [Obs.] Wyclif.","pensible":"Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.","stateswoman":"A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.","artocarpeous":"Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.","conceptional":"Pertaining to conception.","infraorbital":"Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.","pockiness":"The state of being pocky.","unhitch":"To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.","glidingly":"In a gliding manner.","lyncher":"One who assists in lynching.","ravissant":"In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.","draughts":"A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).\n\nA game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers. Note: Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc.","expediency":"1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self- interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately. 2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak. 3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.","vagarious":"Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.","multinominous":"Having many names or terms.","immemorial":"Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. \"Immemorial elms.\" Tennyson. \"Immemorial usage or custom.\" Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond \"legal memory\" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.","drupe":"A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.","karvel":"See Carvel, and Caravel.","unintermission":"Want or failure of intermission. [R.] Bp. Parker.","lithotomist":"One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.","thunderbird":"An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.","decime":"A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.","gloss":"1. Bbrightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker. 2. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.\n\nTo give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. J. R. Drake.\n\n1. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation. [Obs.] 2. An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker. 3. A false or specious explanation. Dryden.\n\n1. To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate. 2. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation. You have the art to gloss the foulest cause. Philips.\n\n1. To make comments; to comment; to explain. Dryden. 2. To make sly remarks, or insinuations. Prior.","oxalethyline":"A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.","unkennel":"1. To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox. 2. Fig.: To discover; to disclose. Shak.","bestialize":"To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.","water moccasin":"A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.","shilfa":"The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]","amiably":"In an amiable manner.","cinquecentist":"1. An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist. 2. A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.","merchantman":"1. A merchant. [Obs.] Matt. xiii. 45. 2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.","stuttering":"The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.\n\nApt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- Stut\"ter*ing*ly, adv.","doob grass":"A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]","copesmate":"An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.","gros":"A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.","octosyllable":"Octosyllabic.\n\nA word of eight syllables.","inapplicable":"Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case. J. S. Mill. Syn. -- Unsuitable; unsuited; unadapted; inappropriate; inapposite; irrelevant. -- In*ap\"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In*ap\"pli*ca*bly, adv.","ooze leather":"Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.","elvish":"1. Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish. He seemeth elvish by his countenance. Chaucer. 2. Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]","fatalism":"The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.","hobbly":"Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.","militarily":"In a military manner.","plaintiff":"One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant.\n\nSee Plaintive. [Obs.] Prior.","wordsman":"One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.] \"Some speculative wordsman.\" H. Bushnell.","torbernite":"A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.","cloth":"1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others. 2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles. 3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor. Body cloth. See under Body. -- Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.","elder":"1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. Hoyle.\n\n1. One who is older; a superior in age; a senior. 1 Tim. v. 1. 2. An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. Carry your head as your elders have done. L'Estrange. 3. A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church. Note: In the modern Presbyterian churches, elders are lay officers who, with the minister, compose the church session, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline. In some churches, pastors or clergymen are called elders, or presbyters. 4. (M. E. Ch.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.\n\nA genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries. Note: The common North American species is Sambucus Canadensis; the common European species (S. nigra) forms a small tree. The red- berried elder is S. pubens. The berries are diaphoretic and aperient. Box elder. See under 1st Box. -- Dwarf elder. See Danewort. -- Elder tree. (Bot.) Same as Elder. Shak. -- Marsh elder, the cranberry tree Viburnum Opulus).","rug-gowned":"Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug. Beau. & Fl.","same":"1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged. Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Ps. cii. 27. 2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like. The ethereal vigor is in all the same. Dryden. 3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned. What ye know, the same do I know. Job. xiii. 2. Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve. Daniel. Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is followed by as or with. Bees like the same odors as we do. Lubbock. [He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend. Macaulay.","poachy":"Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land","bulldoze":"To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]","ptilopaedic":"Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.","bounteous":"Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun\"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun\"te*ous*ness, n.","embark":"1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. 2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.\n\n1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon. 2. To engage in any affair. Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.","condensate":"Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.\n\nTo condense. [R.] Hammond.","bolar":"Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.","girandole":"1. An ornamental branched candlestick. 2. A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form. 3. (Pyrotechny) A kind of revolving firework. 4. (Fort.) A series of chambers in defensive mines. Farrow.","tarditation":"Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.","xerophthalmia":"An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long- continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.","codicillary":"Of the nature of a codicil.","slew":"imp. of Slay.\n\nSee Slue.","lifeless":"Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- Life\"less*ly, adv. -- Life\"less*ness, n. Syn. -- Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless. -- Lifeless, Dull, Inanimate, Dead. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a want of vital energy; inanimate, a want of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.","unijugate":"Having but one pair of leaflets; -- said of a pinnate leaf.","denominationalism":"A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.","extender":"One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.","loris":"Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori.]","duces tecum":"A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.","eager":"1. Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] \"Like eager droppings into milk.\" Shak. 2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. [Obs.] \"A nipping and an eager air.\" \"Eager words.\" Shak. 3. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes. Shak. How eagerly ye follow my disgraces! Shak. When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak. 4. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. [Obs.] Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke. Syn. -- Earnest; ardent; vehement; hot; impetuous; fervent; intense; impassioned; zealous; forward. See Earnest. -- Eager, Earnest. Eager marks an excited state of desire or passion; thus, a child is eager for a plaything, a hungry man is eager for food, a covetous man is eager for gain. Eagerness is liable to frequent abuses, and is good or bad, as the case may be. It relates to what is praiseworthy or the contrary. Earnest denotes a permanent state of mind, feeling, or sentiment. It is always taken in a good sense; as, a preacher is earnest in his appeals to the conscience; an agent is earnest in his solicitations.\n\nSame as Eagre.","redoubted":"Formidable; dread. \"Some redoubled knight.\" Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.","inflammation":"1. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. \"The inflammation of fat.\" Wilkins. 2. (Med.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain. 3. Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties. Hooker.","leechcraft":"The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.","shoo":"Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.","dazzlingly":"In a dazzling manner.","marmorosis":"The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.","chelifer":"See Book scorpion, under Book.","effront":"To give assurance to. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","cestuy":"He; the one. Cestuy que trust ( Etym: [norm. F.], a person who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. Wharton. -- Cestuy que use ( Etym: [Norm. F.], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.","escaper":"One who escapes.","logan":"A rocking or balanced stone. Gwill.","hymenoptera":"An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc. Note: They have four membranous wings, with few reticulations, and usually with a thickened, dark spot on the front edge of the anterior wings. In most of the species, the tongue, or lingua, is converted into an organ for sucking honey, or other liquid food, and the mandibles are adapted for biting or cutting. In one large division (Aculeata), including the bees, wasps, and ants, the females and workers usually have a sting, which is only a modified ovipositor.","waking":"1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] \"Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.\" Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).","earing":"(a) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing. (b) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing. (c) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.\n\nComing into ear, as corn.\n\nA plowing of land. [Archaic] Neither earing nor harvest. Gen. xlv. 6.","domicile":"1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family. 2. (Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton.\n\nTo establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.","evection":"1. The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson. 2. (Astron.) (a) An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'. (b) The libration of the moon. Whewell.","mattowacca":"An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.","sphalerite":"Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).","swinker":"A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hip tree":"The dog-rose.","candidature":"Candidacy.","assoil":"1. To set free; to release. [Archaic] Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser. 2. To solve; to clear up. [Obs.] Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel. 3. To set free from guilt; to absolve. [Archaic] Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt. Dr. H. More. Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor. 4. To expiate; to atone for. [Archaic] Spenser. Let each act assoil a fault. E. Arnold. 5. To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.\n\nTo soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.","gristle":"Cartilage. See Cartilage. Bacon.","seditionary":"An inciter or promoter of sedition. Bp. Hall.","radicant":"Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.","elapine":"Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.","bunn":"A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.\n\nSee Bun.","methylic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.","thermotensile":"Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.","marconigram":"A Marconi wireless message.","blood":"1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters. 3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. Shak. I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. Shak. 4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5. The fleshy nature of man. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak. 6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood. 7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.] He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak. 8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Shak. Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. 9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray. 10. The juice of anything, especially if red. He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11. Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. -- Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. -- Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. -- Blood clam (Zoöl.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. -- Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. -- Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the hæmoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; hæmatocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. -- Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98½ º Fahr. -- Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. -- Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. -- Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. -- Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxæmia. -- Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. -- Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. -- Blood spavin. See under Spavin. -- Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover , has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. -- Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature. -- In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. Shak. -- To let blood. See under Let. -- Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.\n\n1. To bleed. [Obs.] Cowper. 2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden. 3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay. 4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.","monodimetric":"Dimetric.","bagworm":"One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.","impressibility":"The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.","interminableness":"The state of being endless.","southeastern":"Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.","testator":"A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.","venomous":"1. Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous. 2. (Zoöl.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake (Zoöl.), any serpent which has poison glands and fangs, whether dangerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect and grooved fangs, with ordinary maxillary teeth behind them. -- Ven\"om*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven\"om*ous*ness, n.","whirlpit":"A whirlpool. [Obs.] \"Raging whirlpits.\" Sandys.","decree":"1. An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru \"The decrees of Venice.\" Sh There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Luke ii. 1. Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree Shak. 2. (Law) (a) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty. (b) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. Brande. 3. (Eccl.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. Syn. -- Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law.\n\n1. To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee. Job xxii. 28. 2. To ordain by fate.\n\nTo make decrees; -- used absolutely. Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will. Milton.","lye":"A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.\n\nA short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding. [Eng.]\n\nA falsehood. [Obs.] See Lie.","incorresponding":"Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] Coleridge.","tetraspaston":"A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.","ceresin":"A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.","crawl":"1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew. 2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron. 3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. Secretly crawling up the battered walls. Knolles. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. Absurd opinions crawl about the world. South. 4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i. ,7.\n\nThe act or motion of crawling;\n\nA pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.","lugworm":"A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.","maleo":"A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.","noematical":"Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.","swale":"A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]\n\nTo melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.\n\nA gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]","froufrou":"A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.","villose":"See Villous.","rigolette":"A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.","speiss":"A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.","apologize":"1. To make an apology or defense. Dr. H. More. 2. To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.\n\nTo defend. [Obs.] The Christians . . . were apologized by Plinie. Dr. G. Benson.","perigonium":"Same as Perigone.","interungulate":"Between ungulæ; as, interungular glands.","inamovable":"Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.","mab":"1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.] 2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. Shak.","logroller":"One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.","reparably":"In a reparable manner.","cloy":"1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden. 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.","enlight":"To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.","hoofbound":"Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.","squander":"1. To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.] Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler. Syn. -- To spend; expend; waste; scatter; dissipate.\n\n1. To spend lavishly; to be wasteful. They often squandered, but they never gave. Savage. 2. To wander at random; to scatter. [R.] The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool. Shak.\n\nThe act of squandering; waste.","warmness":"Warmth. Chaucer.","diurnally":"Daily; every day.","dodd":"To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell.","aqueity":"Wateriness. [Obs.]","entomostracan":"Relating to the Entomostraca. -- n. One of the Entomostraca.","fallen":"Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.","aret":"To reckon; to ascribe; to impute. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dislikeful":"Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.","individualize":"The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.","nodation":"Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [R.]","resubjection":"A second subjection.","investigable":"Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.\n\nUnsearchable; inscrutable. [Obs.] So unsearchable the judgment and so investigable the ways thereof. Bale.","textuary":"1. Contained in the text; textual. Sir T. Browne. 2. Serving as a text; authoritative. Glanvill.\n\n1. One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman. Bp. Bull. 2. One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.","illocality":"Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.","unbreast":"To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom. [Obs.] P. Fletcher,","superannuation":"The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.","soliform":"Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun. [R.] \"Soliform things.\" Cudworth.","prentice":"An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. \"My accuser is my prentice.\" Shak.","furring":"1. (Carp.) (a) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3. (b) The strips thus laid on. 2. (Shipbuilding) Double planking of a ship's side. 3. A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.","matricide":"1. The murder of a mother by her son or daughter. 2. Etym: [L. matricida: cf. F. matricide.] One who murders one's own mother.","cuspidated":"Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.","moth":"A mote. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth. 2. (Zoöl.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc. 3. (Zoöl.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvæ of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvæ of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus. 4. Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. Moth blight (Zoöl.), any plant louse of the genus Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to various plants. -- Moth gnat (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect of the genus Bychoda, having fringed wings. -- Moth hunter (Zoöl.), the goatsucker. -- Moth miller (Zoöl.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a). -- Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.","solpugid":"Of or pertaining to the Solifugæ. -- n. One of the Solifugæ.","symbiotic":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis. -- Sym`bi*ot\"ic*al (#), a. -- Sym`bi*ot\"ic*al*ly (#), adv.","typesetting":"The act or art of setting type.","rheochord":"A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.","opuntia":"A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.","disputacity":"Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] Bp. Ward.","prolocutorship":"The office of a prolocutor.","breakman":"See Brakeman.","garrulous":"1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey. 2. (Zoöl.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller. Syn. -- Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious. A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his dotage is garrulous. -- Gar\"ru*lous*ly, adv. -- Gar\"ru*lous*ness, n.","hieron":"A consecrateo place; esp., a temple.","supplicatory":"Containing supplication; humble; earnest.","stultiloquence":"Silly talk; babbling.","covering":"Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.","eschalot":"See Shallot.","flea-beetle":"A small beetle of the family Halticidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.","nougat":"A cake, sweetmeat, or confectión made with almonds or other nuts.","obedible":"Obedient. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","kabala":"See Cabala.","urodela":"An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.","spy":"To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see. One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration. Swift. 2. To discover by close search or examination. Look about with yout eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England. Latimer. 3. To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out. Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof. Num. xxi. 32.\n\nTo search narrowly; to scrutinize. It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses. Shak.\n\n1. One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others. \"These wretched spies of wit.\" Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer. Spy money, money paid to a spy; the reward for private or secret intelligence regarding the enemy. -- Spy Wednesday (Eccl.), the Wednesday immediately preceding the festival of Easter; -- so called in allusion to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot. Syn. -- See Emissary, and Scout.","conifer":"A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.","daubing":"1. The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed. 2. A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast. 3. In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.","vatican":"A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc. Note: The word is often used to indicate the papal authority. Thunders of the Vatican, the anathemas, or denunciations, of the pope.","woodmeil":"See Wadmol.","cornu":"A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.","falsism":"That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.","algaroth":"A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.","juglandine":"An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia).","postdiluvian":"Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.\n\nOne who lived after the flood.","primateship":"The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.","praxinoscope":"An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.","norna":"1. (Scandinavian Myth.) One of the three Fates, Past, Present, and Future. Their names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld. 2. A tutelary deity; a genius.","impunctuality":"Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality. [R.] A. Hamilton.","stirt":"Started; leaped. They privily be stirt into a well. Chaucer.","pharisee":"One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.","xyst":"A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.","articulateness":"Quality of being articulate.","non-":"A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit. Note: The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix non- could easily be lengthened.","laurinol":"Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceæ) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.","rabious":"Fierce. [Obs.] Daniel.","subreligion":"A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration. Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. Emerson.","cooperate":"To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect. Whate'er coöperates to the common mirth. Crashaw.","merus":"See Meros.","wastrel":"1. Any waste thing or substance; as: (a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","repulsory":"Repulsive; driving back.","scorie":"The young of any gull. [Written also scaurie.] [prov. Eng.]","skaith":"See Scatch. [Scot.]","protogynous":"Same as Proterogynous.","laccin":"A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.","orthogon":"A rectangular figure.","innocuity":"Innocuousness.","angiography":"A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.","suit":"1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.] 2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor. Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. Spenser. 3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. Pope. 4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. Shak. In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. Blackstone. 5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet. 6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet. 7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. \"Two rogues in buckram suits.\" Shak. 8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper. 9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.] Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. Bacon. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] Shak. -- Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service. Blackstone. -- Suit broker, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court. [Obs.] -- Suit court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord. -- Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain court. -- Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time immemorial. -- Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above. -- To bring suit. (Law) (a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the plaintiff's demand. [Obs.] (b) In modern usage, to institute an action. -- To follow suit. (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.\n\n1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. Prior. 3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. Shak. 4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.\n\nTo agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to. The place itself was suiting to his care. Dryden. Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. Addison. Syn. -- To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match; answer.","volborthite":"A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.","discus":"1. (a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. (b) The exercise with the discus. Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible distance. 2. A disk. See Disk.","musa":"A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linnæus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.","nonet":"A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.","glassmaker":"One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass\" mak`ing, or Glass\"mak`ing, n.","water motor":"1. A water engine. 2. A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main.","hederiferous":"Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.","loir":"A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).","exclude":"1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton. 2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the \"three logical axioms,\" so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: \"Everything is either A or Not-A.\" no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.","paronym":"A paronymous word. [Written also paronyme.]","roam":"To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak. Syn. -- To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble.\n\nTo range or wander over. And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. Milton.\n\nThe act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.","rhabarbarin":"Chrysophanic acid.","co-sufferer":"One who suffers with another. Wycherley.","strategic":"Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te\"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.","worldly-wise":"Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.","trichromatic":"Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.","desert":"That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton. Syn. -- Merit; worth; excellence; due.\n\n1. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope. 2. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Is. li. 3. Note: Also figuratively. Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life. Longfellow.\n\nOf or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. Luke ix. 10. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. -- Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.\n\n1. To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country. \"The deserted fortress.\" Prescott. 2. (Mil.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.\n\nTo abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond. The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. Bancroft. Syn. -- To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit; depart from; abdicate. See Abandon.","festally":"Joyously; festively; mirthfully.","osseter":"A species of sturgeon.","avoirdupois":"1. Goods sold by weight. [Obs.] 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [Colloq.] Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62º Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton).","him":"Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nThe objective case of he. See He. Him that is weak in the faith receive. Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy. Thackeray. Note: In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself. I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman. Shak.","absent":"1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. \"Expecting absent friends.\" Shak. 2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. 3. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield. Syn. -- Absent, Abstracted. These words both imply a want of attention to surrounding objects. We speak of a man as absent when his thoughts wander unconsciously from present scenes or topics of discourse; we speak of him as abstracted when his mind (usually for a brief period) is drawn off from present things by some weighty matter for reflection. Absence of mind is usually the result of loose habits of thought; abstraction commonly arises either from engrossing interests and cares, or from unfortunate habits of association.\n\n1. To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison. 2. To withhold from being present. [Obs.] \"Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.\" Milton.","atheize":"To render atheistic or godless. [R.] They endeavored to atheize one another. Berkeley.\n\nTo discourse, argue, or act as an atheist. [R.] -- A\"the*i`zer, n. Cudworth.","thermolyze":"To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.","quinquangular":"Having five angles or corners.","organzine":"A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.","tepor":"Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.","approacher":"One who approaches.","roundly":"1. In a round form or manner. 2. Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. He affirms everything roundly. Addison. 3. Briskly; with speed. locke. Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward. Sir W. Scott. 4. Completely; vigorously; in earnest. Shak. 5. Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly. In speaking roundly of this period. H. Morley.","hematophilia":"A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.","kynurenic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]","simplist":"One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler. Sir T. Browne.","hemal":"Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural. Note: As applied to vertebrates, hemal is the same as ventral, the heart and great blood vessels being on the ventral, and the central nervous system on the dorsal, side of the vertebral column. Hemal arch (Anat.), the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.","neutral":"1. Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent. The heart can not possibly remain neutral, but constantly takes part one way or the other. Shaftesbury. 2. Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced. Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye. Sir J. Davies. 3. (Biol.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3. 4. (Chem.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with Ant: acid, and Ant: alkaline. Neutral axis, Neutral surface (Mech.), that line or plane, in a beam under transverse pressure, at which the fibers are neither stretched nor compressed, or where the longitudinal stress is zero. See Axis. -- Neutral equilibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that when moved slighty it neither tends to return to its former position not depart more widely from it, as a perfect sphere or cylinder on a horizontal plane. -- Neutral salt (Chem.), a salt formed by the complete replacement of the hydrogen in an acid or base; in the former case by a positive or basic, in the latter by a negative or acid, element or radical. -- Neutral tint, a bluish gray pigment, used in water colors, made by mixing indigo or other blue some warm color. the shades vary greatly. -- Neutral vowel, the vowel element having an obscure and indefinite quality, such as is commonly taken by the vowel in many unaccented syllables. It is regarded by some as identical with the û in up, and is called also the natural vowel, as unformed by art and effort. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 17.\n\nA person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral. The neutral, as far as commerce extends, becomes a party in the war. R. G. Harper.","pococurantism":"Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.","echauguette":"A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.","bluing":"1. The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson. 2. Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.","monking":"Monkish. [R.] Coleridge.","provided":"On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever. Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost indifferent to their truth. G. H. Lewes. Note: This word is strictly a participle, and the word being is understood, the participle provided agreeing with the whole sentence absolute, and being equivalent to this condition being previously stipulated or established.","nightdress":"A nightgown.","southernliness":"Southerliness.","unspirit":"To dispirit. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.","brachiopod":"One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.","suburb":"1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. \"In the suburbs of a town.\" Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. Hallam. 2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. \"The suburbs . . . of sorrow.\" Jer. Taylor. The suburb of their straw-built citadel. Milton. Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] Milton.","ranunculaceous":"Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.","employer":"One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.","haired":"1. Having hair. \"A beast haired like a bear.\" Purchas. 2. In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.","twistical":"Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.","line":"1. Flax; linen. [Obs.] \"Garments made of line.\" Spenser. 2. The longer and fiber of flax.\n\n1. To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin. The inside lined with rich carnation silk. W. Browne. 2. To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money. The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto. Carew. Till coffee has her stomach lined. Swift. 3. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers. Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 4. To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. Creech. Lined gold, gold foil having a lining of another metal.\n\n1. linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. Piers Plowman. 2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. 3. The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel. 4. Direction; as, the line sight or vision. 5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column. 6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend. 7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. Broome. 8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. Coleridge. 9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness. 10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. Milton. 11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. Cleveland. 12. Lineament; feature; figure. \"The lines of my boy's face.\" Shak. 13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers. Unite thy forces and attack their lines. Dryden. 14. A series or succession of ancestors or descand ants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. Chaucer. 15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc. ; as, a line of stages; an express line. 16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line. 17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. 18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord. He marketh it out with a line. Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yes. I have a goodly heritage. Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. Ps. xix. 4. 19. (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line or out of line. 20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad. 21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc. 22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. 23. pl. (Shipbuilding) form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and obique sections. 24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. 25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. 26. (Trade) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. McElrath. 27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. 28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.] 29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. Hard lines, hard lot. C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.] -- Line breeding (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. -- Line conch (Zoöl.), a spiral marine shell (Fasciolaria distans), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines. -- Line engraving. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving. -- Line of battle. (a) (Mil Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. -- Line of battle ship. See Ship of the line, below. -- Line of beauty (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). -- Line of centers. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See Dead center, under Dead. -- Line of dip (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon. -- Line of fire (Mil.), the direction of fire. -- Line of force (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. Faraday. -- Line of life (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. -- Line of lines. See Gunter's line. -- Line of march. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching. -- Line of operations, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. H. W. Halleck. -- Line of sight (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. -- Line tub (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. -- Mason and Dixon's line, the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. In an extended sense, the line between the free and the slave States. -- On the line, on a level with the eye of the spectator; -- said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. -- Right line a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. -- Right line, a straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points. -- Ship of the line, formerly, a ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle; a vessel superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker; -- called also line of battle ship. Totten. -- To cross the line, to cross the equator, as a vessel at sea. -- To give a person line, to allow him more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line. -- Water line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.\n\n1. To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. Dickens. 2. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] \"Pictures fairest lined.\" Shak. 3. To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn. This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called \"deaconing' the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity. N. D. Gould. 4. To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops. To line bees, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight. -- To line up (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d Line, 19.","ravener":"1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. [Obs.] Holland.","strategetical":"Strategic.","myologist":"One skilled in myology.","fixation":"1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts. 2. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements. 3. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. Glanvill. 4. A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. Bacon.","muneration":"Remuneration. [Obs.]","sithen":"Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith. [Obs.] Fortune was first friend and sithen foe. Chaucer.","proser":"1. A writer of prose. [Obs.] 2. One who talks or writes tediously. Sir W. 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[Written also slangey.]","erin":"An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.","hairpin":"A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.","huntsmanship":"The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. Donne. HUNT'S-UP Hunt's\"-up`, n. A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.","kelp":"1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine. 2. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed. Note: Laminaria is the common kelp of Great Britain; Macrocystis pyrifera and Nereocystis Lutkeana are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean. Kelp crab (Zoöl.), a California spider crab (Epialtus productus), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. -- Kelp salmon (Zoöl.), a serranoid food fish (Serranus clathratus) of California. See Cabrilla.","hypochondriasm":"Hypochondriasis. [R.]","offspring":"1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.] 2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden. 3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] Fairfax.","illimitation":"State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.","nectariferous":"Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.","matie":"A fat herring with undeveloped roe. [Written also matty.] [Eng. & Scot.]","appellee":"(a) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. (b) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.","spectrograph":"(a) An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. (b) A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph\"ic (#), a. --Spec`tro*graph\"ic*al*ly (#), adv. --Spec*trog\"ra*phy (#), n.","aeruginous":"Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.","polyphore":"A receptacle which bears many ovaries.","armor-plated":"Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).","wet plate":"A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.","piperidine":"An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.","fulmar":"One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidæ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well- known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).","white-foot":"A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.","redemand":"To demand back; to demand again.\n\nA demanding back; a second or renewed demand.","quoll":"A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.","scandent":"Climbing. Note: Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the hop, or by twisted leafstalks, as the clematis, or by tendrils, as the passion flower, or by rootlets, as the ivy.","puy":"See Poy.","serjeant":"See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc. Serjeant-at-arms. See Sergeant- at-arms, under Sergeant.","limn":"1. To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different. Sir T. Browne. 2. To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.","ouphen":"Elfish. [Obs.]","neaped":"Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.","bursa":"Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.","pin-tailed":"Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.","kyke":"To look steadfastly; to gaze. [Obs.] [Written also kike, keke.] This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, As he had kyked on the newe moon. Chaucer.","oreographic":"Of or pertaining to oreography.","allantoin":"A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.","theanthropical":"Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.","reviver":"One who, or that which, revives.","bash":"To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] His countenance was bold and bashed not. Spenser.","discovenant":"To dissolve covenant with.","foy":"1. Faith; allegiance; fealty. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. A feast given by one about to leave a place. [Obs.] He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day. Pepys.","munific":"Munificent; liberal. [Obs. or R.]","shone":"imp. & p. p. of Shine.","dicentra":"A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]","portigue":"See Portague. Beau. & Fl.","anticlinal":"The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.","indorsable":"Capable of being indorsed; transferable; convertible.","serio-comical":"Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.","apiked":"Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.","graafian":"Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician. Graafian follicles or vesicles, small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged.","lanary":"A place for storing wool.","aerological":"Of or pertaining to aërology.","taglioni":"A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers. He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel. Sir W. Scott.","amido":"Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the amido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid. -- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.","discoid":"Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.\n\nAnything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.","genialness":"The quality of being genial.","experientialism":"The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.","facade":"The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.","alveary":"1. A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret. 2. (Anat.) The hollow of the external ear. Quincy.","paradox":"A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.","isicle":"A icicle. [Obs.]","viscus":"One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.","shaps":"Chaparajos. [Western U. S.] A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. The Century.","drome":"The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.","grazer":"One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.","quarry":"Same as 1st Quarrel. [Obs.] Fairfax.\n\nQuadrate; square. [Obs.]\n\n1. (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds. (b) A heap of game killed. 2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. \"The stone-dead quarry.\" Spenser. The wily quarry shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. L'Estrange.\n\nA place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).\n\nTo dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.","egotism":"The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self- praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazlitt. Syn. -- Egotism, Self-conceit, Vanity, Egoism. Self-conceit is an overweening opinion of one's talents, capacity, attractions, etc.; egotism is the acting out of self-conceit, or self-importance, in words and exterior conduct; vanity is inflation of mind arising from the idea of being thought highly of by others. It shows itself by its eagerness to catch the notice of others. Egoism is a state in which the feelings are concentrated on one's self. Its expression is egotism.","sacchulmin":"An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.","algor":"Cold; chilliness.","vermilion":"1. (Chem.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Note: The kermes insect has long been used for dyeing red or scarlet. It was formerly known as the worm dye, vermiculus, or vermiculum, and the cloth was called vermiculatia. Hence came the French vermeil for any red dye, and hence the modern name vermilion, although the substance it denotes is very different from the kermes, being a compound of mercury and sulphur. R. Hunt. 2. Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.\n\nTo color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.","santoninate":"A salt of santoninic acid.","supertragical":"Tragical to excess.","bilinguist":"One versed in two languages.","aread":"1. To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser. 2. To read. [Obs.] Drayton. 3. To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton. 4. To decree; to adjudge. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.","maid":"1. An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire Yet my people have forgotten me. Jer. ii. 32. 2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. Chaucer. 3. A female servant. Spinning amongst her maids. Shak. Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant. 4. (Zoöl.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; - - usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. See under Old.","scutage":"Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.","spook":"1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zoöl.) The chimæra.","geochemistry":"The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem\"ic*al (#), a. --Ge`o*chem\"ist (#), n.","tenderness":"The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.","praemunire":"(a) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom. (b) The writ grounded on that offense. Wharton. (c) The penalty ascribed for the offense of præmunire. Wolsey incurred a præmunire, and forfeited his honor, estate, and life. South. Note: The penalties of præmunire were subsequently applied to many other offenses; but prosecutions upon a præmunire are at this day unheard of in the English courts. Blackstone.\n\n1. The subject to the penalties of præmunire. [Obs.] T. Ward.","atoll":"A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.","rectifiable":"1. Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake. 2. (Math.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l","knifeboard":"A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.","macho":"The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, or Mexicanus).","confus":"Confused, disturbed. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ejecta":"Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.","tintometer":"An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.","fluent":"1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving. 2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.\n\n1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.] 2. Etym: [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.","fielden":"Consisting of fields. [Obs.] The fielden country also and plains. Holland.","cinematics":"See Kinematics.","meliorator":"One who meliorates.","nucleolus":"1. A little nucleus. 2. (Biol.) A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan. Note: It was termed by Agassiz the entoblast. In the protozoa, where it may be situated on one side of the nucleus, it is sometimes called the endoplastule, and is supposed to be concerned in the male part of the reproductive process. See Nucleus.","nonelectric":"Not electric; conducting electricity.\n\nA substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.","semble":"1. To imitate; to make a representation or likeness. [Obs.] Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. Prior. 2. (Law) It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause.\n\nLike; resembling. [Obs.] T. Hudson.","insidiate":"To lie in ambush for. [Obs.] Heywood.","affecter":"One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. \"Affecters of wit.\" Abp. Secker.","listerize":"To make antiseptic.","hyemation":"1. The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering. 2. The act of affording shelter in winter. [Obs.]","auricularly":"In an auricular manner.","mountain specter":"An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains (as on the Brocken) when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colors.","outgoer":"One who goes out or departs.","ceremonially":"According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.","rouk":"See 5th Ruck, and Roke. [Obs.]","escribed":"Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.","cretacic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.","aggravate":"1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] \"To aggravate thy store.\" Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. \"To aggravate my woes.\" Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison. 3. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley. 4. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa). Syn. -- To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.","nationalist":"One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.","sabulose":"Growing in sandy places.","amoebean":"Alternately answering.","nosology":"1. A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.","diureide":"One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.","accordance":"Agreement; harmony; conformity. \"In strict accordance with the law.\" Macaulay. Syn. -- Harmony; unison; coincidence.","melaconite":"An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.","spine-tailed":"Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. (Zoöl.) See Spinetail (a).","crincum":"A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] Hudibras.","salacious":"Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. -- Sa*la\"cious*ly, dv. -- Sa*la\"cious*ness, n.","gorcrow":"The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]","cassioberry":"The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.","insuppressible":"That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press\"i*bly, adv.","psarolite":"A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.","water thyme":"See Anacharis.","destituent":"Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","fatner":"One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. Arbuthnit.","piliferous":"1. Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair. 2. Beset with hairs.","quahog":"An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam. Note: The name is also applied to other allied species, as Venus Mortoni of the Gulf of Mexico.","homer":"A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.\n\nSee Hoemother.\n\nA Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]","white person":"A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect: one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio).","purse":"1. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. 2. Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse. 3. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse. 4. A specific sum of money; as: (a) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters. (b) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans. Light purse, or Empty purse, poverty or want of resources. -- Long purse, or Heavy purse, wealth; riches. -- Purse crab (Zoöl.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs. They sometimes weigh twenty pounds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab. -- Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. Mortimer. Purse pride, pride of money; insolence proceeding from the possession of wealth. Bp. Hall. -- Purse rat. (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket. -- Sword and purse, the military power and financial resources of a nation.\n\n1. To put into a purse. I will go and purse the ducats straight. Shak. 2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit. Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak.\n\nTo steal purses; to rob. [Obs. & R.] I'll purse: . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys. Beau. & Fl.","cantiniere":"A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandière.","nonylic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.","serotinous":"Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.","zander":"A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.","dribblet":"A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.","domableness":"Tamableness.","nuisance":"That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only.","israelite":"A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.","hypothenar":"Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.\n\nThe hypothenar eminence.","alizari":"The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.","bedplate":"The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.","nide":"A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants. [Obs.]","fictitious":"Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. -- Fic*ti\"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti\"tious*ness, n.","harmonics":"1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds. 2. pl. (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.","cracker":"1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett. 6. (Zoöl.) The pintail duck. 7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.","monotocous":"1. (Bot.) Bearing fruit but once; monocarpic. 2. (Zoöl.) Uniparous; laying a single egg.","obliquely":"In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. \"Truth obliquely leveled.\" Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.","smicker":"To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.\n\nAmorous; wanton; gay; spruce. [Obs.]","taliacotian":"See Tagliacotian.","lectern":"See Lecturn.","velvety":"Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.","inwrap":"1. To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc. 2. To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex. [R.] Bp. Hall.","arousal":"The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused. Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature. Hare.","morainic":"Of or pertaining to a moranie.","chondrule":"A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.","palmin":"(a) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. (b) Ricinolein. [Obs.]","unhouse":"To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.","polarimeter":"An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.","richweed":"An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.","ugly":"1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak. 2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.] 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]\n\nA shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.\n\nTo make ugly. [R.] Richardson.","carbolize":"To apply carbonic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.","candescence":"See Inclandescence.","notionality":"A notional or groundless opinion. [R.] Glanvill.","tachyscope":"An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.","palmately":"In a palmate manner.","wype":"The wipe, or lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]","idolatress":"A female worshiper of idols.","rawish":"Somewhat raw. [R.] Marston.","disthene":"Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.","envassal":"To make a vassal of. [Obs.]","hexastichon":"A poem consisting of six verses or lines.","communicability":"The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.","protozooenite":"One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod.","tabler":"1. One who boards. [Obs.] 2. One who boards others for hire. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","mediacy":"The state or quality of being mediate. Sir W. Hamilton.","cantonment":"A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. Note: When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during any suspension of hostilities, they are said to be in cantonment, or to be cantoned. In India, permanent military stations, or military towns, are termed cantonments.","melanterite":"A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.","crinatory":"Crinitory. Craig.","fallowness":"A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.","sinusoid":"The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines.","stannel":"The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.","pression":"1. The act of pressing; pressure. Sir I. Newton. 2. (Cartesian Philos.) An endeavor to move.","beguinage":"A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.","myselven":"Myself. [Obs.]","whin":"1. (Bot.) (a) Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns. (b) Woad-waxed. Gray. 2. Same as Whinstone. [Prov. Eng.] Moor whin or Petty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow (Zoöl.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]","sequential":"Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen\"tial*ly, adv.","preoblongata":"The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.","scorbutic":"Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu\"tic*al*ly, adv.","eavesdropping":"The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.","incondensibility":"The quality or state of being incondensable.","undulated":"1. Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory. 2. (Bot.) Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy. 3. (Zoöl.) Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.","collitigant":"Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]","etymon":"1. An original form; primitive word; root. 2. Original or fundamental signification. [R.] Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word. Coleridge.","sinusoidal":"Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.","outshine":"To shine forth. \"Bright, outshining beams.\" Shak.\n\nTo excel in splendor. A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Milton.","tore":"imp. of Tear.\n\nThe dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.\n\n1. (Arch.) Same as Torus. 2. (Geom.) (a) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. (b) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.","dibranchiata":"An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.","chutnee":"A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.","ironmaster":"A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein. Bp. Hurd.","liberalize":"To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.","temperately":"In a temperate manner.","sontag":"A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.","mahwa tree":"An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.","metely":"According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate. [Obs.]","electro-vital":"Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.","alibility":"Quality of being alible.","unbox":"To remove from a box or boxes.","parentless":"Deprived of parents.","subderivative":"A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, \"friendliness\" is a subderivative, being derived from \"friendly\", which is in turn a derivative from \"friend.\"","replevin":"1. (Law) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. Bouvier. 2. The writ by which goods and chattles are replevied.\n\nTo replevy.","actinomere":"One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.","borate":"A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.","casuistic":"Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.","coinstantaneous":"Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.","loathsome":"Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath\"some*ly. adv. -- Loath\"some*ness, n.","psychotherapeutics":"The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.","quab":"An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished. Ford.\n\nSee Quob, v. i.","grayness":"The quality of being gray.","subcutaneous":"Situated under the skin; hypodermic. -- Sub`cu*ta\"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.","subalpine":"Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.","intellectual":"1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton. 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called \"mental\" philosophy.\n\nThe intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.","zany":"A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany. Donne. Preacher at once, and zany of thy age. Pope.\n\nTo mimic. [Obs.] Your part is acted; give me leave at distance To zany it. Massinger.","ascidiform":"Shaped like an ascidian.","sylvicoline":"Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.","antithesis":"1. (Rhet.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, \"The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself.\" \"He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen.\" 2. The second of two clauses forming an antithesis. 3. Opposition; contrast.","shoveler":"1. One who, or that which, shovels. 2. (Zoöl.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.","whitewasher":"One who whitewashes.","anisostemonous":"Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.","injuriousness":"The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.","bluebill":"A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.","bilamellated":"Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.","cynoidea":"A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.","planary":"Of or pertaining to a plane. [R.]","pluckily":"In a plucky manner.","heathery":"Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.","advenient":"Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]","torpor":"1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.","tuberculocidin":"A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.","elater":"One who, or that which, elates.\n\n1. (Bot.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts. 2. (Zoöl.) Any beetle of the family Elateridæ, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle. 3. (Zoöl.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.\n\nThe active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.","lustic":"Lusty; vigorous. [Obs.]","demicannon":"A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.","subdelegate":"A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.\n\nTo appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete.","hexagram":"(a) A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. (b) In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or \"Book of Changes.\" S. W. Williams.","cabalism":"1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. [R] Emerson.","incubatory":"Serving for incubation.","mower":"One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.","revivalistic":"Pertaining to revivals.","embroglio":"See Imbroglio.","sheriffwick":"The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.","obnoxious":"1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things Milton. 2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. \"The contrived and interested schemes of ...obnoxious authors.\" Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller. 3. Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke. -- Ob*nox\"ious*ly, adv. -- Ob*nox\"ious*ness, n. South.","steer":"A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.\n\nTo castrate; -- said of male calves.\n\nTo direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water. That with a staff his feeble steps did steer. Spenser.\n\n1. To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course. \"No helmsman steers.\" Tennyson. 2. To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily. Where the wind Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail. Milton. 3. To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.\n\nA rudder or helm. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA helmsman, a pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer.","adeption":"An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.","paramalic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.","tobacconing":"Smoking tobacco. [Obs.] \"Tobacconing is but a smoky play.\" [Obs.] Sylvester.","putid":"Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor. \"Thy putid muse.\" Dr. H. More.","suffragette":"A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.","rascal":"1. One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill- conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.] He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak. 2. A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryden.\n\nOf or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. \"The rascal many.\" Spencer. \"The rascal people.\" Shak. While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak.","rascaless":"A female rascal. [Humorous]","avoyer":"A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]","asterism":"1. (Astron.) (a) A constellation. [Obs.] (b) A small cluster of stars. 2. (Printing) (a) An asterisk, or mark of reference. [R.] (b) Three asterisks placed in this manner, *, to direct attention to a particular passage. 3. (Crystallog.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.","coppled":"Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.","protomerite":"The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.","thermoscope":"An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.","legatee":"One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.","solipedous":"Having single hoofs.","carpologist":"One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.","fusileer":"(a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, \"The Royal Fusiliers,\" etc.","reengage":"To engage a second time or again.","beached":"1. Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak. 2. Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.","shorlaceous":"See Schorl, Schorlaceous.","superpolitic":"More than politic; above or exceeding policy. Milton.","tamaric":"A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.] He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).","tipsify":"To make tipsy. [Colloq.] Thackeray.","outform":"External appearance. [Obs.]","coffin":"1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial. They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin. Gen. 1. 26. 2. A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20). 3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Shak. 4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares. 5. (Far.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.\n\nTo inclose in, or as in, a coffin. Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. John Hall (1646).","pompeian":"Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Pompeii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a. d., and partly uncovered by modern excavations.","buff":"1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. \"A suit of buff.\" Shak. 2. The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden. 3. A military coat, made of buff leather. Shak. 4. (Med.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a. 5. (Mech.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc. 6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.\n\n1. Made of buff leather. Goldsmith. 2. Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. -- Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.\n\nTo polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.\n\nTo strike. [Obs.] B. Jonson.\n\nA buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase \"Blindman's buff.\" Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel. Spenser.\n\nFirm; sturdy. And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.","clairaudience":"Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.","manograph":"An optical device for making an indicator diagram for high- speed engines. It consists of a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror which reflects a beam of light on to the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved in one direction by a small plunger operated by an elastic metal diaphragm which closes a tube connected with the engine cylinder. It is also moved at right angles to this direction by a reducing motion, called a reproducer, so as to copy accurately on a smaller scale the motion of the engine piston. The resultant of these two movements imparts to the reflected beam of light a motion similar to that of the pencil of the ordinary indicator, and this can be traced on the sheet of ground glass, or photographed.","sclerodermous":"(a) Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates. (b) Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.","session":"1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. [Archaic] So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. Tennyson. 2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business. It's fit this royal session do proceed. Shak. 3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term. It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. Macaulay. Note: Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States. Church session, the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc. -- Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland. -- Quarter sessions. (Eng.Law) See under Quarter. -- Sessions of the peace, sittings held by justices of the peace. [Eng.]","aptly":"In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.","gamogenesis":"The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.","mannered":"1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style is in some degree mannered and confined. Hazlitt.","cabalize":"To use cabalistic language. [R] Dr. H. More.","vanadate":"A salt of vanadic acid. [Formerly also vanadiate.]","pinniform":"Shaped like a fin or feather. Sir J. Hill.","potentially":"1. With power; potently. [Obs.] 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.","lentigo":"A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.","sorriness":"The quality or state of being sorry.","conceiver":"One who conceives.","drying":"1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. 2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.","myriarch":"A captain or commander of ten thousand men.","myeloplax":"One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.","twank":"To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. Addison.","unarted":"1. Ignorant of the arts. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse. 2. Not artificial; plain; simple. [Obs.] Feltham.","redisseizin":"A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.","heterocercal":"Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.","dolioform":"Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.","vinnewed":"Moldy; musty. [Written also vinewed.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Vin\"newed*ness, n. [Obs.] Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.","deodorize":"To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.","conscience":"1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. [Obs.] The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Shak. As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self- knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. Whewell. 3. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty. Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e., moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions. Adam Smith. 4. Tenderness of feeling; pity. [Obs.] Chaucer. Conscience clause, a clause in a general law exempting persons whose religious scruples forbid compliance therewith, -- as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc. -- Conscience money, stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. \"This is enough in conscience.\" Howell. \"Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.\" Swift. -- To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.","kindle":"To bring forth young. [Obs.] Shak. The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland.\n\n1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings. His breath kindleth coals. Job xii. 21. 2. Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame. So is a contentious man to kindle strife. Prov. xxvi. 21. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither. Shak. Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton. Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Dryden. Syn. -- Enkindle; light; ignite; inflame; provoke; excite; arouse; stir up.\n\n1. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame. When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Is. xliii. 2. 2. Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated. On all occasions where forbearance might be called for, the Briton kindles, and the Christian gives way. I. Taylor.","black hole":"A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.","scandia":"A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.","agonic":"Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.","cosmical":"1. Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly. 2. Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone. 3. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed. \"Cosmic ranges of time.\" Tyndall. 4. (Astron.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.","flimflam":"A freak; a trick; a lie. Beau. & Fl.","malacostomous":"Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.","flysch":"A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.","parchmentize":"To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.","scenery":"1. Assemblage of scenes; the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence. 2. Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc. Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. W. Irving.","ant-bear":"An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.","cesarean":"Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian.","barmcloth":"Apron. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tangle":"1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. 2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. \"Tangled in amorous nets.\" Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.\n\nTo be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.\n\n1. Etym: [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley. 2. Etym: [From Tangle, v.] A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively. 3. pl. An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]","hugger":"One who hugs or embraces.\n\nTo conceal; to lurk ambush. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","confessedly":"By confession; without denial. [Written also confessly.]","courant":"Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.\n\n1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto. 2. A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.","overlong":"Too long. Shak.","hives":"(a) The croup. (b) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.","pliability":"The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition. \"Pliability of movement.\" Sir W. Scott.","renunciatory":"Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.","earsh":"See Arrish.","wormed":"Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.","ectocuniform":"One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.","pericardial":"Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. Pericardial fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid of a pale yellow color contained in the pericardium.","abannation":"Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.","reel":"A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English \"country dance,\" or contradance (contredanse). Bartlett.\n\n1. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel. 2. A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. McElrath. 3. (Agric.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.\n\n1. To roll. [Obs.] And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel. Spenser. 2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.\n\n1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay. 2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.\n\nThe act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak.","digynian":"Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.","self-adjusting":"Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery. Self-adjusting bearing (Shafting), a bearing which is supported in such a manner that it may tip to accomodate flexure or displacement of the shaft.","without":"1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach. T. Burnet. 3. Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. Addison. There is no living with thee nor without thee. Tatler. To do without. See under Do. -- Without day Etym: [a translation of L. sine die], without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally; as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day. -- Without recourse. See under Recourse.\n\nUnless; except; -- introducing a clause. You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. Sir P. Sidney. Note: Now rarely used by good writers or speakers.\n\n1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.","nitromethane":"A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.","squiry":"The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy. [Obs.] The flower of chivalry and squiry. Ld. Berbers.","disgage":"To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.","urith":"The bindings of a hedge. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","tresor":"Treasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.","astone":"To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","vitiate":"1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. Garth. 2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.","inconfusion":"Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.","perivitelline":"Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.","cornopean":"An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.","intestine":"1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton. 2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc. Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. Milton. An intestine struggle . . . between authority and liberty. Hume. 3. Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Everything labors under and intestine necessity. Cudworth. 4. Shut up; inclosed. [R.] Cowper.\n\n1. (Anat.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. 2. pl. The bowels; entrails; viscera. Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the cæcum, colon, and rectum. -- Small intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the upper portion of the bowel, in which the process of digestion is practically completed. It is narrow and contorted, and consists of three parts, the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.","scission":"The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge. Wiseman.","restrictive":"1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. 2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] Wiseman. -- Re*strict\"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*strict\"ive*ness, n.","tracheotomy":"The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.","mucilaginous":"1. Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid. 2. Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands. 3. Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants. -- Mu`ci*lag\"i*nous*ness, n.","transenne":"A transom. [Obs.]","dumb-bell":"A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.","asphaltum":"1. Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen. 2. A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.","broadpiece":"An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.","repercussive":"1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison. 2. Repellent. [Obs.] \"Blood is stanched by astringent and repecussive medicines.\" Bacon. 3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. \"Rages loud the repercussive roar.\" Thomson.\n\nA repellent. [Obs.] Bacon.","deviceful":"Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.","analepsis":"(a) Recovery of strength after sickness. (b) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.","collectedly":"Composedly; coolly.","resplendishing":"Resplendent. [Obs.]","fiber-faced":"Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.","importuous":"Without a port or harbor. [R.]","heedful":"Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant. Shak. -- Heed\"ful*ly, adv. -- Heed\"ful*ness, n.","pampas":"Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. -- Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris). -- Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.","dactylar":"1. Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.","lanifical":"Working in wool.","chargeable":"1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome. That we might not be chargeable to any of you. 2. Thess. iii. 8. For the sculptures, which are elegant, were very chargeable. Evelyn.","indigogen":"1. (Chem.) See Indigo white, under Indigo. 2. (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Indican, 2.","scantle":"To be deficient; to fail. [Obs.] Drayton.\n\nTo scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down. [Obs.] All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back. J. Webster.","pendence":"Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.","taxation":"1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue. 2. (Law) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. 3. Tax; sum imposed. [R.] Daniel. 4. Charge; accusation. [Obs.] Shak.","usurp":"To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. Burke. Note: Usurp is applied to seizure and use of office, functions, powers, rights, etc.; it is not applied to common dispossession of private property. Syn. -- To arrogate; assume; appropriate.\n\nTo commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper. The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped. Evelyn. And now the Spirits of the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell. Wordsworth.","dry-stone":"Constructed of uncemented stone. \"Dry-stone walls.\" Sir W. Scott.","bezzle":"To plunder; to waste in riot. [Obs.]\n\nTo drink to excess; to revel. [Obs.]","ethylidene":"An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.","utopia":"1. An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. 2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.","vesture":"1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope. 2. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre. (b) Seizin; possession.","impostury":"Imposture. [Obs.] Fuller.","putrescent":"1. Becoming putrid or rotten. Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core. Motley. 2. Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.","suppositor":"An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.","catoptric":"Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. Catoptric light, a light in which the rays are concentrated by reflectors into a beam visible at a distance.","colorature":"Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.","panton":"A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.","pythonic":"Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.","revigorate":"Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew. [R.] Southey.\n\nTo give new vigor to. [Obs.]","catapuce":"Spurge. [Obs.]","counterplot":"To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.\n\nA plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.","harier":"See Harrier.","malignant":"1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak. 2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. \"Malignant care.\" Macaulay. Some malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne. 3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.\n\n1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker. 2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.","amplificatory":"Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.","supinator":"A muscle which produces the motion of supination.","swoln":"Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton.","translative":"tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. [R.] Puttenham.","etrurian":"Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. \"Etrurian Shades.\" Milton, -- n. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.","backbiting":"Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.","depeach":"To discharge. [Obs.] As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.","promptitude":"The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. 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Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.","zonaria":"A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.","sandyx":"See Sandix.","schistous":"Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.","asbestos":"A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine. Note: The finer varieties have been wrought into gloves and cloth which are incombustible. The cloth was formerly used as a shroud for dead bodies, and has been recommended for firemen's clothes. Asbestus in also employed in the manufacture of iron safes, for fireproof roofing, and for lampwicks. Some varieties are called amianthus. Dana.","pantisocracy":"A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.","glaucoma":"Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.","divineness":"The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.","dreamland":"An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.","sarse":"A fine sieve; a searce. [Obs.]\n\nTo sift through a sarse. [Obs.]","damascene":"Of or relating to Damascus.\n\nA kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.\n\nSame as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. \"Damascened armor.\" Beaconsfield. \"Cast and damascened steel.\" Ure.","dualism":"State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: (a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.) (b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. (c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. (d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole. Emerson.","autokinetic system":"In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.","ctenocyst":"An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.","overwrestle":"To subdue by wrestling. [Obs.] Spenser.","tubularia":"A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.","disordinately":"Inordinately. [Obs.] E. Hall.","quadra":"(a) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like. (b) A fillet, or listel.","dyestuff":"A material used for dyeing.","garbel":"Same as Garboard.\n\nAnything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken. [Obs.]","biblically":"According to the Bible.","meagre":"1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. 2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. \"Meager soil.\" Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley. 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.\n\nTo make lean. [Obs.]\n\nA large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]","endamagement":"Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.","ghostless":"Without life or spirit. [R.]","foumart":"The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]","grandpapa":"A grandfather.","contuse":"1. To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon. 2. To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin. Contused wound, a wound attended with bruising.","biliousness":"The state of being bilious.","scratchbrush":"A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.","firmament":"1. Fixed foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of the law. Jer. Taylor. 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the miGen. i. 6. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament. Gen. i. 14. Note: In Scripture, the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. 3. (Old Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.","irrecognizable":"Not recognizable. Carlyle.","paracelsist":"A Paracelsian.","abelite":"One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.","mesohepar":"A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.","re-formation":"The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.","splutterer":"One who splutters.","suffumigation":"The operation of suffumigating.","cartbote":"Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.","ayegreen":"The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.","diamonded":"1. Having figures like a diamond or lozenge. 2. Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson.","guipure":"A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.","bulkhead":"1. (Naut.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck. 2. A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; -- usually, the harbor line.","boarding":"1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. 3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.","cleronomy":"Inheritance; heritage.","whisky":"A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.\n\nAn intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whisky Jack (Zoöl.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis). It is noted for its fearless and familiar habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the winter season. Its color is dull grayish blue, lighter beneath. Called also moose bird.","ifere":"Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hardiment":"Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.] Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.","supersalt":"An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n.","unoperative":"Producing no effect; inoperative. [Obs.] South.","corporalship":"A corporal's office.","skirl":"To utter in a shrill tone; to scream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]\n\nA shrill cry or sound. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","foundery":"Same as Foundry.","undecent":"Indecent. [Obs.]","unequalness":"The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.","kerchered":"Covered, or bound round, with a kercher. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.","pacific":"Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition. Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea. Syn. -- Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.","gumboil":"A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.","roostcock":"The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","exopodite":"The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.","marlaceous":"Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl.","hurtful":"Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; destructive. -- Hurt\"ful*ly, adv. -- Hurt\"ful*ness, n.","aim":"1. To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target. 2. To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well. Aim'st thou at princes Pope. 3. To guess or conjecture. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).\n\n1. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton. 2. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. To be the aim of every dangerous shot. Shak. 3. Intention; purpose; design; scheme. How oft ambitious aims are crossed! Pope. 4. Conjecture; guess. [Obs.] What you would work me to, I have some aim. Shak. To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- End; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention; scheme; tendency; aspiration.","culler":"One who piks or chooses; esp., an inspector who select wares suitable for market.","false":"1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. 2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. I to myself was false, ere thou to me. Milton. 3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement. 4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak. 5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser. 6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. 7. (Mus.) Not in tune. False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing. -- False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. -- False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance. -- False key, a picklock. -- False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg. -- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane. -- False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, ect., for the purpose of deceiving. -- False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments. -- False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another. -- False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another. -- False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it. -- False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp. -- False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution. -- False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man. -- False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. Oxford Gloss. -- False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes. -- False scorpion (Zoöl.), any arachnid of the genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion. -- False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack. -- False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire. -- False window. (Arch.) See False door, above. -- False wing. (Zoöl.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under Bastard. -- False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.\n\nNot truly; not honestly; falsely. \"You play me false.\" Shak.\n\n1. To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To betray; to falsify. [Obs.] [He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. Chaucer. 3. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.] In his falsed fancy. Spenser. 4. To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] \"And falsed oft his blows.\" Spenser.","disseminated":"Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.","disblame":"To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.","cauterize":"1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison. 2. To sear, as the conscience. Jer. Taylor.","unpleat":"To remove the plaits of; to smooth. W. Browne.","eructation":"1. The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch. 2. A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.","mistletoe":"A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also misletoe, misseltoe, and mistleto.] Lindley. Loudon. Note: The mistletoe of the United States is Phoradendron flavescens, having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name.","hemistichal":"Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.","irresuscitable":"Incapable of being resuscitated or revived. -- Ir`re*sus\"ci*ta*bly, adv.","relievement":"The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. [Archaic.]","inquirer":"One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.","eerily":"In a strange, unearthly way.","epitapher":"A writer of epitaphs. Nash.","remoulade":"An ointment used in farriery.","entrance":"1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office. 2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak. 3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24. 4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. \"Beware of entrance to a quarrel.\" Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill. 5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day. 6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.\n\n1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden. 2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden.","mesopterygium":"The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes. -- Me*sop`ter*yg\"i*al, a.","obese":"Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.","quarreling":"Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar\"rel*ing*ly, adv.","appear":"1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 2. To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time. 3. To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay. 4. To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton. 5. To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16. Syn. -- To seem; look. See Seem.\n\nAppearance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.","prenatal":"Being or happening before birth.","sos":"The letters signified by the signal ( . . . ---. . . ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 for use by ships in distress.","pinking":"1. The act of piercing or stabbing. 2. The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]","foolfish":"(a) The orange filefish. See Filefish. (b) The winter flounder. See Flounder.","gingerly":"Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.","refutatory":"Tending tu refute; refuting.","self-denial":"The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.","caustic":"1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing. 2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction. Syn. -- Stinging; cutting; pungent; searching.\n\n1. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic. 2. (Optics) A caustic curve or caustic surface.","suctorian":"1. (Zoöl.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the Suctoria.","mustard":"1. (Bot.) The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum). Note: There are also many herbs of the same family which are called mustard, and have more or less of the flavor of the true mustard; as, bowyer's mustard (Lepidium ruderale); hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale); Mithridate mustard (Thlaspi arvense); tower mustard (Arabis perfoliata); treacle mustard (Erysimum cheiranthoides). 2. A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic. Mustard oil (Chem.), a substance obtained from mustard, as a transparent, volatile and intensely pungent oil. The name is also extended to a number of analogous compounds produced either naturally or artificially.","nondevelopment":"Failure or lack of development.","pectus":"The breast of a bird.","cadger":"1. A packman or itinerant huckster. 2. One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] \"The gentleman cadger.\" Dickens.\n\nOne who carries hawks on a cadge.","chitinization":"The process of becoming chitinous.","nonmoral":"Not moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not in the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical.","nourishable":"1. Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew. 2. Capable of giving nourishment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","mimosa":"A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica). Note: The term mimosa is also applied in commerce to several kinds bark imported from Australia, and used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark. Tomlinson.","windowed":"Having windows or openings. [R.] \"Looped and windowed raggedness.\" Shak.","appointer":"One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.","anastrophe":"An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.","cutch":"See Catechu.\n\nSee Cultch.","hardhack":"A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.","incase":"To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.","profound":"1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. \"A gulf profound.\" Milton. 2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom. 3. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. \"Profound sciatica.\" Shak. Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. Milman. 4. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Dupp\n\n1. The deep; the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys. 2. An abyss. Milton.\n\nTo cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo dive deeply; to penetrate. [Obs.]","unmanhood":"Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.","whimsicalness":"The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.","baggala":"A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.","reckling":"Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. H. Taylor. -- n. A weak child or animal. Tennyson.","celebration":"The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.","claudent":"Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson","yeldhall":"Guildhall. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rivered":"Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.","onely":"See Only. [Obs.] Spenser.","burthen":"See Burden. [Archaic]","pleadings":"The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.","apprest":"Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem, Gray.","quadrinominal":"Quadrinomial. Sir W. R. Hamilton.","trial balance":"The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were all correctly posted.","intertubular":"Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.","wondered":"Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things. [Obs.] Shak.","jumelle":"Twin; paired; -- said of various objects made or formed in pairs, as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc.\n\nA jumelle opera glass, or the like.","boracite":"A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.","peanut":"The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogæa); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. Note: The fruit is a hard pod, usually containing two or three seeds, sometimes but one, which ripen beneath the soil. Called also earthnut, groundnut, and goober.","slough":"Slow. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton. 2. [Pronounced sloo.] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.] Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.\n\nimp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.\n\n1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal. 2. (Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.\n\nTo form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.\n\nTo cast off; to discard as refuse. New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds. Emerson.","unappropriate":"1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.\n\nTo take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.","rosmarine":"1. Dew from the sea; sea dew. [Obs.] That purer brine And wholesome dew called rosmarine. B. Jonson. 2. Rosemary. [Obs.] Spenser. \"Biting on anise seed and rosmarine.\" Bp. Hall.\n\nA fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew. And greedly rosmarines with visages deforme. Spenser.","mesymnicum":"A repetition at the end of a stanza.","orient":"1. Rising, as the sun. Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton. 2. Eastern; oriental. \"The orient part.\" Hakluyt. 3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. \"Pearls round and orient.\" Jer. Taylor. \"Orient gems.\" Wordsworth. \"Orient liquor in a crystal glass.\" Milton.\n\n1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold. Tennyson. 2. The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer. Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert. 3. A pearl of great luster. [R.] Carlyle.\n\n1. To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of. 2. Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.","spend":"1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2. 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert. 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9. 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.\n\n1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South. 2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon. 3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon. 4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.","confrication":"A rubbing together; friction. [Obs.] Bacon.","earlap":"The lobe of the ear.","fatherless":"1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.","hydrargochloride":"A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]","walleteer":"One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.","cabesse":"The finest kind of silk received from India.","indignance":"Indignation. [Obs.] Spenser.","ingluvies":"The crop, or craw, of birds.","biennial":"1. Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election. 2. (Bot.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.\n\n1. Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination. 2. (Bot.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.","escharine":"Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidæ.","foiningly":"With a push or thrust. [Obs.]","ihvh":"A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or \"incommunicable name\" of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost. Numerous attempts have been made to represent the supposed original form of the word, as Jahaveh, Jahvaj, Jahve, Jahveh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe, Yahweh, etc.","solecist":"One who commits a solecism. Blackwall.","veadar":"The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.","cayugas":"; sing Cayuga. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inbabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.","illegitimatize":"To render illegitimate; to bastardize.","ardurous":"Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.","stanchness":"The quality or state of being stanch.","liman":"The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.","goggled":"Prominent; staring, as the eye.","drail":"To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] South.","tot":"1. Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child. 2. A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell. 3. A foolish fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","favosites":"A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.","carbureted":"1. (Chem.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide. 2. Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas. -- Light carbureted hydrogen, marsh gas, CH4; fire damp.","rebreathe":"To breathe again.","neuropathic":"Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.","fibre-faced":"Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.","cancellated":"1. Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew. 2. (Anat.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones.","twinlike":"Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- Twin\"like`ness, n.","backwoodsman":"A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.","melee":"A fight in which the combatants are mingled","reluctancy":"The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. \"Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action.\" Dryden. He had some reluctance to obey the summons. Sir W. Scott. Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. Dryden. Syn. See Dislike.","chthonophagia":"A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.","gender":"1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] \"One gender of herbs.\" Shak. 2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.] 3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris. Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.\n\nTo beget; to engender.\n\nTo copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.","conversant":"1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper. 3. Concerned; occupied. Education . . . is conversant about children. W. Wotton.\n\nOne who converses with another; a convenser. [R.]","stackyard":"A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.","acoustic":"Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.\n\nA medicine or agent to assist hearing.","acromion":"The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.","polythalamia":"A division of Foraminifera including those having a manychambered shell.","etna":"A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.","irregular":"Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem. Milton. Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower. Shak. A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured in many irregular meanders. Jones. Syn. -- Immethodical; unsystematic; abnormal; unnatural; anomalous; erratic; devious; crooked; eccentric; unsettled; uneven; variable; changeable; mutable; desultory; disorderly; wild; immoderate; intemperate; inordinate; vicious.\n\nOne who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.","shieldtail":"Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidæ, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.","lecanorin":"See Lecanoric.","moodily":"In a moody manner.","mystification":"The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify. The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.","turbidly":"1. In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion. 2. Proudly; haughtily. [A Latinism. R.] One of great merit turbidly resents them. Young.","plouter":"To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.] I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.\n\nAct of ploutering; floundering; act or sound of splashing. [Scot. & Dial.Eng.]","cabalist":"One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. \"Studious cabalists.\" Swift.","mansionry":"The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place. [Obs.] Shak.","revalescent":"Growing well; recovering strength.","spoonful":"1. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful. 2. Hence, a small quantity. Arbuthnot.","tong":"Tongue. [Obs.] Chaucer.","microscopist":"One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.","pegador":"A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.","unsensible":"Insensible. [Obs.]","aquiparous":"Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.","disentail":"To free from entailment.","polychoerany":"A government by many chiefs, princes, or rules. [Obs.] Cudworth.","fayence":"See Fa.","chely":"A claw. See Chela. [Obs.]","naeve":"A nævus. [Obs.] Dryden.","rubiginous":"Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.","radicalism":"The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.","lithogenous":"Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.","ballistics":"The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.","stab":"1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person. 2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.\n\n1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon. None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war. Dryden. 2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. Shak. To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.\n\n1. The thrust of a pointed weapon. 2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin. Shak. 3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.","indispensableness":"The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.","adreamed":"Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]","threpsology":"The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.","rulingly":"In a ruling manner; so as to rule.","ferula":"1. A ferule. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 2. The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.","finery":"1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson. 3. Etym: [Cf. Refinery.] (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.","monophysite":"One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.","britzska":"A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.","carnose":"1. Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray. 2. (Bot.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.","new":"1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. \"Your new wife.\" Chaucer. 2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes. 3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction. 4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. Bacon. 5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. Addison. 6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope. 7. Fresh from anything; newly come. New from her sickness to that northern air. Dryden. New birth. See under Birth. -- New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian. -- New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. -- New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. -- New style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times. Syn. -- Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.\n\nNewly; recently. Chaucer. Note: New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to quality other words, as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown. Of new, anew. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo make new; to renew. [Obs.]","onto":"On the top of; upon; on. See On to, under On, prep.","agama":"A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.","superintendency":"The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.","dismay":"1. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax. 2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.] Do not dismay yourself for this. Spenser. Syn. -- To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt; dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. -- To Dismay, Daunt, Appall. Dismay denotes a state of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes something more sudden and startling. To appall is the strongest term, implying a sense of terror which overwhelms the faculties. So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed, The lions roaring through the midnight shade. Pope. Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control. Pope. Now the last ruin the whole host appalls; Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls. Pope.\n\nTo take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld. 2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser. Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.","netsuke":"In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.","arrach":"See Orach.","candle power":"Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.","plectospondyli":"An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.","marginal":"1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.","conscionably":"Reasonably; justly.","complexion":"1. The state of being complex; complexity. [Obs.] Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is proprly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts. 2. A combination; a complex. [Archaic] This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge. 3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak. 4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordswoorth. Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scron and proud disdain. Shak. 5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.","frank-law":"The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.","title-page":"The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.","pairing":"1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.","condiment":"Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.","aerostatical":"1. Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic. 2. Aëronautic; as, an aërostatic voyage.","archaistic":"Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.","safe":"1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. \"And ye dwelled safe.\" 1 Sam. xii. 11. They escaped all safe all safe to land. Acts xxvii. 44. Established in a safe, unenvied throne. Milton. 2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. \"The man of safe discretion.\" Shak. The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat. Milton. 3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. But Banquo's safe Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. Shak. Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side. Syn. -- Secure; unendangered; sure.\n\nA place for keeping things in safety. Specifically: (a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers, or the like. (b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.\n\nTo render safe; to make right. [Obs.] Shak.","ebullient":"Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. \"Ebullient with subtlety.\" De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.","supernacular":"Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine. [R.] Thackeray.","ventriloquy":"Same as Ventriloquism.","bullfaced":"Having a large face.","deforcement":"(a) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. (b) (Scots Law) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. Burrill.","interpenetrate":"To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.\n\nTo penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts. Interpenetrating molding (Arch.), in late Gothic architecture, a decoration by means of moldings which seem to pass through solid uprights, transoms, or other members; often, two sets of architectural members penetrating one another, in appearance, as if both had been plastic when they were put together.","foursome":"Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]\n\nA game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.","revellent":"Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.) A revulsive medicine.","scotia":"A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.\n\nScotland [Poetic] O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! Burns.","entitle":"1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book \"Commentaries;\" to entitle a man \"Honorable.\" That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak. 2. To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command. 3. To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.] The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself. Milton. Syn. -- To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.","filiety":"The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. J. S. Mill.","legend":"1. That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. 2. A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. Addison. 3. Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax. 4. An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. Golden legend. See under Golden.\n\nTo tell or narrate, as a legend. Bp. Hall.","ponibility":"The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] Barrow.","annexationist":"One who favors annexation.","bryological":"Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.","renerve":"To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.","spathose":"See Spathic.\n\nHaving a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.","tiddle":"To use with tenderness; to fondle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","indescribable":"Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib\"a*bly, adv.","sawfly":"Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.","galvanic":"Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit. -- Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under Voltaic.","farmery":"The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]","pneumonophora":"The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophoræ.","hander":"One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession. Dryden.","neife":"A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.","superfluous":"More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. Shak. An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous. E. Everett. Superfluous interval (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone. Syn. -- Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless. -- Su*per\"flu*ous*ly, adv. -- Su*per\"flu*ous*ness, n.","drogher":"A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.","dimeran":"One of the Dimera.","connotatively":"In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.","obtruncation":"The act of lopping or cutting off. [R.] Cockeram.","tabu":"See Taboo.","cranioscopist":"One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.","dapatical":"Sumptuous in cheer. [Obs.] Bailey.","parade":"1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. 4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. In state returned the grand parade. Swift. 5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke. 6. A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. -- Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. -- Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. \"It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.\" Robertson. \"We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.\" Spectator.\n\n1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. Parading all her sensibility. Byron. 2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.\n\n1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. 2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.","defendress":"A female defender. [R.] Defendress of the faith. Stow.","distemperate":"1. Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.","guarana":"A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.","deambulation":"A walking abroad; a promenading. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","prism glass":"Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.","richness":"The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).","unprotestantize":"To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic. The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England. Froude.","personality":"1. That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground. Coleridge. 2. Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. Sharp personalities were exchanged. Macaulay. 3. (Law) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. Burrill.","jugata":"The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.","water monitor":"A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.","doctorly":"Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] \"Doctorly prelates.\" Foxe.","tillandsia":"A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.","backless":"Without a back.","malposition":"A wrong position.","innodate":"To bind up,as in a knot; to include. [Obs.] Fuller.","warsaw":"(a) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States. (b) The jewfish; -- called also guasa.","naples yellow":"See under Yellow.","unblushing":"Not blushing; shameless. -- Un*blush\"ing*ly, adv.","astrologian":"An astrologer. [Obs.]","mortify":"1. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. 2. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. [Obs.] Chaucer. Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine. Bacon. He mortified pearls in vinegar. Hakewill. 3. To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5. 4. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress. The news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations. Evelyn. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought! Addison.\n\n1. To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene. 2. To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. This makes him ... give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify. Law. 3. To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.","risquee":"Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.","copeck":"A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.","circumscriptive":"Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.","courteousness":"The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.","porcate":"Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.","soc":"1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grrinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.","tidewaiter":"A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.","abrenounce":"To renounce. [Obs.] \"They abrenounce and cast them off.\" Latimer.","daker":"A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.","mucusin":"Mucin. [R.]","disavowance":"Disavowal. [Obs.] South.","overpamper":"To pamper excessively; to feed or dress too much. Dryton.","corrobory":"See Corroboree.","dispassioned":"Free from passion; dispassionate. [R.] \"Dispassioned men.\" Donne.","paraffin":"A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins. Note: In the present chemical usage this word is spelt paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt paraffine. Native paraffin. See Ozocerite. -- Paraffin series. See Methane series, under Methane.","strategist":"One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.","bezel":"The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.","whippletree":"1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson. 2. (Bot.) The cornel tree. Chaucer.","chapfallen":"Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.","iris diaphragm":"An adjustable diaphragm, suggesting the iris of the eye in its action, for regulating the aperture of a lens, consisting of a number of thin pieces fastened to a ring. It is used in cameras and microscopes.","pultesse":"Poultry. [Obs.] Chaucer.","coco palm":"See Cocoa.","mutation":"Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.","congressional":"Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. E. Everett. Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.","crossbar":"A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.","curtsy":"Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.","dolphin":"1. (Zool.) (a) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin. (b) The Coryphæna hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphænoid. Note: The dolphin of the ancients (D. delphis) is common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and attains a length of from six to eight feet. 2. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel. 3. (Naut.) (a) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage. (b) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana. (c) A mooring post on a wharf or beach. (d) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 4. (Gun.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted. 5. (Astron.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2. Dolphin fly (Zoöl.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis (Aphis fable), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.","malleus":"1. (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax. 3. (Zoöl.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.","solan goose":"The common gannet.","splenization":"A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.","implicity":"Implicitness. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","limosis":"A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.","bear":"1. To support or sustain; to hold up. 2. To support and remove or carry; to convey. I 'll bear your logs the while. Shak. 3. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Bear them to my house. Shak. 4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise. Every man should bear rule in his own house. Esther i. 22. 5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. 6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. 7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor Dryden. The ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. 8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13. 9. To gain or win. [Obs.] Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer. 10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. Dryden. 11. To render or give; to bring forward. \"Your testimony bear\" Dryden. 12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. \"The credit of bearing a part in the conversation.\" Locke. 13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. Swift. 14. To manage, wield, or direct. \"Thus must thou thy body bear.\" Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct. Hath he borne himself penitently in prison Shak. 15. To afford; to be to ; to supply with. bear him company. Pope. 16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. Dryden. Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle. To bear down. (a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. \"His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance.\" Marryat. (b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy. -- To bear a hand. (a) To help; to give assistance. (b) (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick. -- To bear in hand, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] \"How you were borne in hand, how crossed.\" Shak. -- To bear in mind, to remember. -- To bear off. (a) To restrain; to keep from approach. (b) (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat. (c) To gain; to carry off, as a prize. -- To bear one hard, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] \"Cæsar doth bear me hard.\" Shak. -- To bear out. (a) To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. \"Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.\" South. (b) To corroborate; to confirm. -- To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. \"Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.\" Addison. Syn. -- To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer; endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.\n\n1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not, can not bear. Dryden. 4. To press; -- with on or upon, or against. These men bear hard on the suspected party. Addison. 5. To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. 6. To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question 7. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. Hawthorne. 8. To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.] -- To bear away (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind. -- To bear back, to retreat. \"Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist.\" Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy. -- To bear in with (Naut.), to run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land. -- To bear off (Naut.), to steer away, as from land. -- To bear up. (a) To be supported; to have fortitude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions. (b) (Naut.) To put the helm up (or to windward) and so put the ship before the wind; to bear away. Hamersly. -- To bear upon (Mil.), to be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort or a ship; the artillery bore upon the center. -- To bear up to, to tend or move toward; as, to bear up to one another. -- To bear with, to endure; to be indulgent to; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish.\n\nA bier. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. Note: The European brown bear (U. arctos), the white polar bear (U. maritimus), the grizzly bear (U. horribilis), the American black bear, and its variety the cinnamon bear (U. Americanus), the Syrian bear (Ursus Syriacus), and the sloth bear, are among the notable species. 2. (Zoöl.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. 3. (Astron.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. 4. Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. 5. (Stock Exchange) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. Note: The bears and bulls of the Stock Exchange, whose interest it is, the one to depress, and the other to raise, stocks, are said to be so called in allusion to the bear's habit of pulling down, and the bull's of tossing up. 6. (Mach.) A portable punching machine. 7. (Naut.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. Australian bear. (Zoöl.) See Koala. -- Bear baiting, the sport of baiting bears with dogs. -- Bear caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. M. Arnold. -- Bear leader, one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young man on his travels.\n\nTo endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.\n\nBarley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]","liguliflorous":"Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.","methodios":"The art and principles of method.","bopeep":"The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.","cannibalism":"The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke.","reign":"1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and deep hell beneath. Prior. 2. The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion. [Obs.] Spenser. [God] him bereft the regne that he had. Chaucer. 3. The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.\n\n1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule. Chaucer. We will not have this man to reign over us. Luke xix. 14. Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom Shak. 2. Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. \"Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer.\" Bacon. 3. To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body. Rom. vi. 12. Syn. -- To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.","finite":"Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.","vagary":"1. A wandering or strolling. [Obs.] 2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. \"The vagaries of a child.\" Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.","neurochordal":"See Neurocord.","sumptuous":"Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. -- Sump\"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump\"tu*ous*ness, n.","hypallelomorph":"See Allelomorph.","stocah":"A menial attendant. [Obs.] Spenser.","slatternly":"Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv. In a slatternly manner.","nonplane":"Not lying in one plane; -- said of certain curves.","bagman":"A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.","kiddyish":"Frolicsome; sportive. [Slang]","ventuse":"See Ventouse. [Obs.]","anthropomancy":"Divination by the entrails of human being.","orchestrion":"A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.","scritch":"A screech. [R.] Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch. Coleridge.","interceder":"One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator. Johnson.","echinodermata":"One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.] Note: The species usually have an exterior calcareous skeleton, or shell, made of many pieces, and often covered with spines, to which the name. They may be star-shaped, cylindrical, disk-shaped, or more or less spherical. The body consists of several similar parts (spheromeres) repeated symmetrically around a central axis, at one end of which the mouth is situated. They generally have suckers for locomotion. The group includes the following classes: Crinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, and Holothurioidea. See these words in the Vocabulary, and also Ambulacrum.","shutter":"1. One who shuts or closes. 2. A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. 3. A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.","erythrochroic":"Having, or subject to, erythrochroism.","chinch":"1. (Zoöl.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). 2. (Zoöl.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.","tintie":"The wren. [Prov. Eng.]","baffler":"One who, or that which, baffles.","viscoidal":"Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.","gern":"To grin or yawn. [Obs.] \"[\/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern.\" Spenser.","froze":"imp. of Freeze.","disfranchisement":"The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.","annexation":"1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. 2. (a) (Law) The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the crown. Wharton.","ouranographist":"See Uranographist.","delver":"One who digs, as with a spade.","fetal":"Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.","replenishment":"1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.","holder-forth":"One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.","mastology":"The natural history of Mammalia.","rankness":"The condition or quality of being rank.","tetterous":"Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.","bouk":"1. The body. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Bulk; volume. [Scot.]","choir":"1. A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also quire.] 2. That part of a church appropriated to the singers. 3. (Arch.) The chancel. Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir. T. Warton.","avoset":"A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. [Written also avocette.]\n\nSame as Avocet.","pink-sterned":"Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.","spurry":"An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder. [Written also spurrey.] Sand spurry (Bot.), any low herb of the genus Lepigonum, mostly found in sandy places.","enthetic":"Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.","chaffern":"A vessel for heating water. [Obs.] Johnson.","placoidian":"One of the placoids.","starvation":"The act of starving, or the state of being starved. Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. \"Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them.\" Fitzed. Hall.","isorropic":"Of equal value. Isorropic line (in a diagram) (Geom.), the locus of all the points for which a specified function has a constant value. Newcomb.","accessariness":"The state of being accessary.","tophet":"A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. [Written also Topheth.] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom. 2 Kings xxiii. 10. Note: It seems to have been at first part of the royal garden, but it was afterwards defiled and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Moloch, and resounded with the cries of burning infants. At a later period, its altars and high places were thrown down, and all the filth of the city poured into it, until it became the abhorrence of Jerusalem, and, in symbol, the place where are wailing and gnashing of teeth. The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell. Milton.","polycystidea":"A division of Gregarinæ including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.","paraplegia":"Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord. -- Par`a*pleg\"ic, a.","elsin":"A shoemaker's awl. [Prov. Eng.]","cotarnine":"A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.","pory":"Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.","inhabitancy":"1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew. 2. (Law) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.","metope":"1. (Arch.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature. 2. (Zoöl.) The face of a crab. Note: In the Parthenon, groups of centaurs and heroes in high relief occupy the metopes.","supersaliency":"The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","vegetable":"1. Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc. Blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold. Milton. 2. Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom. Vegetable alkali (Chem.), an alkaloid. -- Vegetable brimstone. (Bot.) See Vegetable sulphur, below. -- Vegetable butter (Bot.), a name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferæ, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma). -- Vegetable flannel, a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris. -- Vegetable ivory. See Ivory nut, under Ivory. -- Vegetable jelly. See Pectin. -- Vegetable kingdom. (Nat. Hist.) See the last Phrase, below. -- Vegetable leather. (a) (Bot.) A shrubby West Indian spurge (Euphorbia punicea), with leathery foliage and crimson bracts. (b) See Vegetable leather, under Leather. -- Vegetable marrow (Bot.), an egg-shaped gourd, commonly eight to ten inches long. It is noted for the very tender quality of its flesh, and is a favorite culinary vegetable in England. It has been said to be of Persian origin, but is now thought to have been derived from a form of the American pumpkin. -- Vegetable oyster (Bot.), the oyster plant. See under Oyster. -- Vegetable parchment, papyrine. -- Vegetable sheep (Bot.), a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains. -- Vegetable silk, a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It us used for various purposes, as for stuffing, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers. -- Vegetable sponge. See 1st Loof. -- Vegetable sulphur, the fine highly inflammable spores of the club moss (Lycopodium clavatum); witch. -- Vegetable tallow, a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow. -- Vegetable wax, a waxy excretion on the leaves or fruits of certain plants, as the bayberry. Vegetable kingdom (Nat. Hist.), that primary division of living things which includes all plants. The classes of the vegetable kingdom have been grouped differently by various botanists. The following is one of the best of the many arrangements of the principal subdivisions. I. Phænogamia (called also Phanerogamia). Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. { 1. Dicotyledons (called also Exogens). -- Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark.} II. Cryptogamia. Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. { 1. Acrogens. -- Plants usually with distinct stems and leaves, existing in two alternate conditions, one of which is nonsexual and sporophoric, the other sexual and oöphoric. Divided into Vascular Acrogens, or Pteridophyta, having the sporophoric plant conspicuous and consisting partly of vascular tissue, as in Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta, and Cellular Acrogens, or Bryophyta, having the sexual plant most conspicuous, but destitute of vascular tissue, as in Mosses and Scale Mosses. 2. Thallogens. -- Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or educed to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algæ.} Note: Many botanists divide the Phænogamia primarily into Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, and the latter into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. Others consider Pteridophyta and Bryophyta to be separate classes. Thallogens are variously divided by different writers, and the places for diatoms, slime molds, and stoneworts are altogether uncertain. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary.","vernant":"Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. [Obs.] \"Vernant flowers.\" Milton.","aerie":"The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.","southwestwardly":"Toward the southwest.","gat":"imp. of Get. [Obs.]","elfish":"Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. \"Elfish light.\" Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.","anacrusis":"A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.","whatever":"Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively. Whatever fortune stays from his word. Shak. Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. Milton. Whatever be its intrinsic value. J. H. Newman. Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically. \"There being no room for any physical discovery whatever\" [sc. it may be]. Whately.","impersonally":"In an impersonal manner.","metropolis":"1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson. 2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak.","osmiamic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.","customariness":"Quality of being customary.","haemomanometer":"Same as Hemadynamometer.","bickford fuze":"A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.","second-sighted":"Having the power of second-sight. Addison.","armpit":"The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.","whoremonger":"A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.","primordiate":"Primordial. [R.] Boyle.","euisopoda":"A group which includes the typical Isopoda.","proteose":"One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.","extendant":"Displaced. Ogilvie.","mascotte":"A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.","greenness":"1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow. 2. Freshness; vigor; newness. 3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.","throp":"A thorp. [Obs.] Chaucer.","merchantry":"1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.","epistler":"1. A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold. 2. (Eccl.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.","bridemaid":"See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.","dysentery":"A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood. Note: When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges.","assuredness":"The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.","friskal":"A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","vicarian":"A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.","wottest":"2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.]","swarth":"Swart; swarthy. \"A swarth complexion.\" Chapman.\n\nAn apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.\n\nSward; short grass. Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. Cowper.\n\nSee Swath.","trutination":"The act of weighing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","mismanagement":"Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.","inebrious":"Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating. [R.] T. Brown.","rower":"One who rows with an oar.","ambition":"1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton. 2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.\n\nTo seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.","beatitude":"1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness.","dry-boned":"Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.","fantasm":"Same as Phantasm.","olympiad":"A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Coroebus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.","tyrannous":"Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr\"an*nous*ly, adv.","gainstand":"To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.","stoichiometry":"The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.","stimulate":"1. To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. To excite and stimulate us thereunto. Dr. J. Scott. 2. (Physiol.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense.","tocher":"Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. [Scot.] Burns.","troilite":"Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.","blemishment":"The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.","whipworm":"A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.","welkin":"The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky. On the welkne shoon the sterres lyght. Chaucer. The fair welkin foully overcast. Spenser. When storms the welkin rend. Wordsworth. Note: Used adjectively by Shakespeare in the phase, \"Your welkin eye,\" with uncertain meaning.","bobbish":"Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] Dickens.","grainer":"1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.","ascitical":"Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.","sleepily":"In a sleepy manner; drowsily.","palilogy":"The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, \"The living, the living, he shall praise thee.\" Is. xxxviii. 19.","grotesqueness":"Quality of being grotesque.","brachiate":"Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.","damask":"1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. \"A bed of ancient damask.\" W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color. 3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings. 4. Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or \"water\" of such steel. 5. A deep pink or rose color. Fairfax.\n\n1. Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus. 2. Having the color of the damask rose. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. Damask color, a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. -- Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. -- Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. \"Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years.\" Bacon. -- Damask steel, or Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.\n\nTo decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or \"water,\" as metal. See Damaskeen. Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold. Dryde On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.","drapery":"1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon. 2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay. 3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. Burke. Casting of draperies. See under Casting. The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. Fairholt.","boggle":"1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow. 2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully. 3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell. Syn. -- To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.\n\nTo embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]","straitly":"1. In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously. Mark i. 43. 2. Closely; intimately. [Obs.]","thomaism":"The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.","commote":"To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.","intentionally":"In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.","mastoid":"(a) Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. (b) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.","nival":"Abounding with snow; snowy. [Obs.] Johnson.","evermore":"During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for. Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore. Ps. cv. 4. And, behold, I am alive for evermore. Rev. i. 18. Which flow from the presence of God for evermore. Tillotson. I evermore did love you, Hermia. Shak.","palmate":"(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]\n\n1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread. 2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.","gastrostomy":"The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.","totteringly":"In a tottering manner.","valinch":"A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. [Written also velinche.]","convene":"1. To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.] In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton. 2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson. Syn. -- To meet; to assemble; to congregate; to collect; to unite.\n\n1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope. 2. To summon judicially to meet or appear. By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe.","marshal":"1. Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. [Obs.] 2. An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like; as, specifically: (a) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant. (b) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like. (c) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists. Johnson. (d) (France) The highest military officer. In other countries of Europe a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field marshal. (e) (Am. Law) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city. Earl marshal of England, the eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary in the family of the Duke of Norfolk. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry. Brande & C. -- Earl marshal of Scotland, an officer who had command of the cavalry under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715. -- Knight marshal, or Marshal of the King's house, formerly, in England, the marshal of the king's house, who was authorized to hear and determine all pleas of the Crown, to punish faults committed within the verge, etc. His court was called the Court of Marshalsea. -- Marshal of the Queen's Bench, formerly the title of the officer who had the custody of the Queen's bench prison in Southwark. Mozley & W.\n\n1. To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army. And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came. Dryden. 2. To direct, guide, or lead. Thou marshalest me the way that I was going. Shak. 3. (Her.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.","pured":"Purified; refined. [Obs.] \"Bread of pured wheat.\" \"Pured gold.\" Chaucer.","creel":"1. An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.","pluralism":"1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. 2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]","euonymin":"A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.","oxygenation":"The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.","medicinally":"In a medicinal manner.","ornithon":"An aviary; a poultry house. Weale.","throw-off":"A start in a hunt or a race. [Eng.]","giddy":"1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate. 2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. Prior. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. Shak. 3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling. The giddy motion of the whirling mill. Pope. 4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. \"Giddy, foolish hours.\" Rowe. \"Giddy chance.\" Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.\n\nTo reel; to whirl. Chapman.\n\nTo make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]","forlornly":"In a forlorn manner. Pollok.","barmote":"A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.","jakwood":"See Jackwood.","gentle-hearted":"Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen\"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.","folding":"1. The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison. 2. (Agric.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.","nicking":"(a) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face. (b) pl. Small coal produced in making the nicking.","ration":"1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.\n\nTo supply with rations, as a regiment.","synapta":"A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.","coranto":"A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.","uroerythrin":"A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.","proverbial":"1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir W. Temple. 2. Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. \"A proverbial obscurity.\" Sir T. Browne.","deliracy":"Delirium. [Obs.]","holophotal":"Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.","talking":"1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot. 2. Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.","guttatrap":"The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.","foresee":"1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.\n\nTo have or exercise foresight. [Obs.]","whoremasterly":"Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.","conditionate":"Conditional. [Obs.] Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.\n\n1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. [Obs.] 2. To put under conditions; to render conditional.","caligation":"Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","blea":"The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.","stercorianism":"The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.","austrian":"Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Austria.","cheerry":"Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.","autunite":"A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2- 2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.","outwing":"To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.","privateersman":"An officer or seaman of a privateer.","balmoral":"1. A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress. 2. A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.","choreic":"Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.","blackball":"1. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. 2. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.\n\n1. To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray. 2. To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.","astrut":"1. Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper. 2. In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.","retoucher":"One who retouches.","embryonate":"In the state of, or having, an embryonal.","rosselly":"Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.","biestings":"The first milk given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).","biferous":"Bearing fruit twice a year.","beside":"1. At the side of; on one side of. \"Beside him hung his bow.\" Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. [You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak. 3. Over and above; distinct from; in addition to. Note: [In this use besides is now commoner.] Wise and learned men beside those whose names are in the Christian records. Addison. To be beside one's self, to be out ob one's wits or senses. Paul, thou art beside thyself. Acts xxvi. 24. Syn. -- Beside, Besides. These words, whether used as prepositions or adverbs, have been considered strictly synonymous, from an early period of our literature, and have been freely interchanged by our best writers. There is, however, a tendency, in present usage, to make the following distinction between them: 1. That beside be used only and always as a preposition, with the original meaning \"by the side of; \" as, to sit beside a fountain; or with the closely allied meaning \"aside from\", \"apart from\", or \"out of\"; as, this is beside our present purpose; to be beside one's self with joy. The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word. 2. That besides, as a preposition, take the remaining sense \"in addition to\", as, besides all this; besides the considerations here offered. \"There was a famine in the land besides the first famine.\" Gen. xxvi. 1. And that it also take the adverbial sense of \"moreover\", \"beyond\", etc., which had been divided between the words; as, besides, there are other considerations which belong to this case. The following passages may serve to illustrate this use of the words: -- Lovely Thais sits beside thee. Dryden. Only be patient till we have appeased The multitude, beside themselves with fear. Shak. It is beside my present business to enlarge on this speculation. Locke. Besides this, there are persons in certain situations who are expected to be charitable. Bp. Porteus. And, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril. Shak. That man that does not know those things which are of necessity for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. Note: See Moreover.\n\n1. On one side. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak. 2. More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope. Note: These sentences may be considered as elliptical.","wis":"Certainly; really; indeed. [Obs.] \"As wis God helpe me.\" Chaucer.\n\nTo think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. [Obs. or Poetic] \"Howe'er you wis.\" R. Browning. Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain entranced, I wis). Coleridge.","concessionnaire":"The beneficiary of a concession or grant.","milldam":"A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.","dicyemata":"An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.","demise":"1. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. 2. The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing-rooms] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham. 3. (Law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier. Note: The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown, royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when Edward IV. was driven from his throne for a few months by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of his dignity was called a demise. Thus the natural death of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise, as by that event the crown is transferred to a successor. Blackstone. Demise and redemise, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it. Syn. -- Death; decease; departure. See Death.\n\n1. To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. \"Power to demise my lands.\" Swift. What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine Shak. 2. To convey; to give. [R.] His soul is at his conception demised to him. Hammond. 3. (Law) To convey, as an estate, be lease; to lease.","acidic":"Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic. an acidic solution.","altarwise":"In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.","neo-kantian":"An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.\n\nOf or pertaining to Neo-Kantianism.","eviternal":"Eternal; everlasting. [Obs.] -- Ev`i*ter\"nal*ly, adv. Bp. Hall.","leavings":"1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.","thraw":"See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.","besieging":"That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie\"ging*ly, adv.","affiliation":"1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. 2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. 3. Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.","abaft":"Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.\n\nToward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.","riffraff":"Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society. Beau & Fl.","submetallic":"Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.","obey":"1. To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. Was she the God, that her thou didst obey Milton. 2. To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by. My will obeyed his will. Chaucer. Afric and India shall his power obey. Dryden. 3. To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.\n\nTo give obedience. Will he obey when one commands Tennyson. Note: By some old writers obey was used, as in the French idiom, with the preposition to. His servants ye are, to whom ye obey. Rom. vi. 16. He commanded the trumpets to sound: to which the two brave knights obeying, they performed their courses. Sir. P. Sidney.","army":"1. A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers. 2. A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army. 3. A great number; a vast multitude; a host. An army of good words. Shak. Standing army, a permanent army of professional soldiers, as distinguished from militia or volunteers.","rapid-fire":"(a) (Gun.) Firing shots in rapid succession. (b) (Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single- barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); specif.: (1) In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the gun. (2) In the United States army, designating such a gun, whether using fixed or separate ammunition, designed chiefly for use in coast batteries against torpedo vessels and the lightly armored batteries or other war vessels and for the protection of defensive mine fields; -- not distinguished from quick-fire. (3) In Great Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with quick-fire.","nascal":"A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.","nitter":"The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.","bedchamber":"A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]","lign-aloes":"1. Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum. 2. A fragrant tree mentioned in the Bible. Num. xxiv. 6.","philosophaster":"A pretender to philosophy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","stomacher":"1. One who stomachs. 2. ( An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated. A stately lady in a diamond stomacher. Johnson.","overnumerous":"Excessively numerous; too many.","metallographic":"Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.","droil":"To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]\n\n1. A drudge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 2. Mean labor; toil.[Obs.]","knitter":"One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. Shak.","angulous":"Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.","berretta":"A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]","protege":"One under the care and protection of another.","staving":"A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.","heliacal":"Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. Sir T. Browne. Note: The heliacal rising of a star is when, after being in conjunction with the sun, and invisible, it emerges from the light so as to be visible in the morning before sunrising. On the contrary, the heliacal setting of a star is when the sun approaches conjunction so near as to render the star invisible.","heliconia":"One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.","approvable":"Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov\"a*ble*ness, n.","monthly":"1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. 2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine. Monthly nurse, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.\n\nA publication which appears regularly once a month.\n\n1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly. Shak. 2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [Obs.] Middleton.","water rate":"A rate or tax for a supply of water.","misrepresenter":"One who misrepresents.","micraster":"A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.","detersion":"The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.","exhaustible":"Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.","esophagal":"Esophageal.","tuscaroras":"A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.","recurviroster":"A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.","regentship":"The office of a regent; regency.","jugular":"1. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein. (b) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen. 2. (Zoöl.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.\n\n1. (Anat.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein. 2. (Zoöl.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).","shew":"See Show.\n\nShow. [Obs. except in shewbread.]","cure":"1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman. 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32. 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.\n\n1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18. 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1. 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift. 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.\n\n1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.] 2. To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak. 3. To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.\n\nA curate; a pardon.","covert baron":"Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.","droplight":"An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.","precessional":"Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.","awkly":"1. In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner. [Obs.] Holland. 2. Awkwardly. [Obs.] Fuller.","cirrhiferous":"See Cirriferous.","bouilli":"Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.","prospectless":"Having no prospect.","contraindicate":"To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.","tituled":"Having a title. [Obs.] Fuller.","statarianly":"Fixedly; steadly. [Obs.]","anthraconite":"A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.","supersaturation":"The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.","riprap":"A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.\n\nTo form a riprap in or upon.","assurgency":"Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.","attainture":"Attainder; disgrace.","sassaby":"A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.","dentex":"An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.","inequitate":"To ride over or through. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","deplume":"1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller. 2. To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.","etymological":"Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words. -- Et`y*mo*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","zealant":"One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast. [Obs.] To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Bacon.","kinate":"See Quinate. [Obsolescent]","phenix":"1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality. 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. 3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] Latimer.","sobranje":"The unicameral national assembly of Bulgaria, elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage of adult males.","tringa":"A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.","gnatworm":"The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.","acanth":"Same as Acanthus.","soda":"(a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. (b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide. -- Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.] -- Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. -- Soda alum (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of alumina and soda. -- Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium. -- Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc. -- Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap making. -- Soda niter. See Nitratine. -- Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts. -- Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste. -- Soda water, originally, a beverage consisting of a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate, with some acid to cause effervescence; now, in common usage, a beverage consisting of water highly charged with carbon dioxide (carbonic acid). Fruit sirups, cream, etc., are usually added to give flavor. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Washing soda, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]","rebeller":"One who rebels; a rebel.","gloomy":"1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. \"Though hid in gloomiest shade.\" Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance. Syn. -- Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened.","rent":"To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.\n\nimp. & p. p. of Rend.\n\n1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. See what a rent the envious Casca made. Shak. 2. Figuratively, a schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. Syn. -- Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; diaceration; break; fracture.\n\nTo tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. Incone; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] \"Catel had they enough and rent.\" Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. Pope. 2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. Chaucer. 3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc. Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattles, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. -- Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. -- Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone. -- Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it, Bouvier. -- Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. -- Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statue 4 George II. c. 28. -- Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. -- White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.\n\n1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it. 2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.\n\nTo be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.","imblazon":"See Emblazon.","forwarding":"1. The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others. 2. (Bookbinding) The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.","toothlet":"A little tooth, or like projection.","semimetallic":"Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.","weave":"1. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. Milton. And for these words, thus woven into song. Byron. 2. To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. When she weaved the sleided silk. Shak. Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. Ld. Lytton.\n\n1. To practice weaving; to work with a loom. 2. To become woven or interwoven.\n\nA particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.","engulfment":"A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]","perpetrable":"Capable of being perpetrated. R. North.","bramble":"1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak. 2. (Zoöl.) The brambling or bramble finch.","circumventor":"One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.","indocibility":"The state of being indocible; indocibleness; indocility.","senge":"To singe. [Obs.] Chaucer.","clinically":"In a clinical manner.","ambitiousness":"The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.","pruriginous":"Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.","delete":"To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.","futurity":"1. State of being that is yet to come; future state. 2. Future time; time to come; the future. 3. Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.","bread":"To spread. [Obs.] Ray.\n\n1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. Note: Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking. -- Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid. -- Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only. Aërated bread. See under Aërated. Bread and butter (fig.), means of living. -- Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown. -- Bread tree. See Breadfruit. 2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11\n\nTo cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.","high":"To hie. [Obs.] Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.\n\n1. Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high. 2. Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection; as - (a) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preëminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. \"The highest faculty of the soul.\" Baxter. (b) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. He was a wight of high renown. Shak. (c) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family. (d) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. \"With rather a high manner.\" Thackeray. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Ps. lxxxix. 13. Can heavenly minds such high resentment show Dryden. (e) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth. (f) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper. South. (g) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. An high look and a proud heart . . . is sin. Prov. xxi. 4. His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon. 3. Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. High time it is this war now ended were. Spenser. High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. Baker. 4. (Cookery) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high. 5. (Mus.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note. 6. (Phon.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as e (eve), oo (food). See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 10, 11. High admiral, the chief admiral. -- High altar, the principal altar in a church. -- High and dry, out of water; out of reach of the current or tide; -- said of a vessel, aground or beached. -- High and mighty arrogant; overbearing. [Colloq.] -- High art, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. -- High bailiff, the chief bailiff. -- High Church, and Low Church, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high- churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental presence in the Eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and to the sole validity of Episcopal ordination. They attach much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship. Low-churchmen lay less stress on these points, and, in many instances, reject altogether the peculiar tenets of the high-church school. See Broad Church. -- High constable (Law), a chief of constabulary. See Constable, n., 2. -- High commission court,a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in 1559. On account of the abuse of its powers it was abolished in 1641. -- High day (Script.), a holy or feast day. John xix. 31. -- High festival (Eccl.), a festival to be observed with full ceremonial. -- High German, or High Dutch. See under German. -- High jinks, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild sport. [Colloq.] \"All the high jinks of the county, when the lad comes of age.\" F. Harrison. -- High latitude (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator. -- High life, life among the aristocracy or the rich. -- High liver, one who indulges in a rich diet. -- High living, a feeding upon rich, pampering food. -- High Mass. (R. C. Ch.) See under Mass. -- High milling, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian. -- High place (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. -- High priest. See in the Vocabulary. -- High relief. (Fine Arts) See Alto-rilievo. -- High school. See under School. High seas (Law), the open sea; the part of the ocean not in the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty, usually distant three miles or more from the coast line. Wharton. -- High steam, steam having a high pressure. -- High steward, the chief steward. -- High tea, tea with meats and extra relishes. -- High tide, the greatest flow of the tide; high water. -- High time. (a) Quite time; full time for the occasion. (b) A time of great excitement or enjoyment; a carousal. [Slang] -- High treason, treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See Treason. Note: It is now sufficient to speak of high treason as treason simply, seeing that petty treason, as a distinct offense, has been abolished. Mozley & W. -- High water, the utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide; also, the time of such elevation. -- High-water mark. (a) That line of the seashore to which the waters ordinarily reach at high water. (b) A mark showing the highest level reached by water in a river or other body of fresh water, as in time of freshet. -- High-water shrub (Bot.), a composite shrub (Iva frutescens), growing in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States. -- High wine, distilled spirits containing a high percentage of alcohol; -- usually in the plural. -- To be on a high horse, to be on one's dignity; to bear one's self loftily. [Colloq.] -- With a high hand. (a) With power; in force; triumphantly. \"The children of Israel went out with a high hand.\" Ex. xiv. 8.(b) In an overbearing manner, arbitrarily. \"They governed the city with a high hand.\" Jowett (Thucyd. ). Syn. -- Tall; lofty; elevated; noble; exalted; supercilious; proud; violent; full; dear. See Tall.\n\nIn a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully. \"And reasoned high.\" Milton. \"I can not reach so high.\" Shak. Note: High is extensively used in the formation of compound words, most of which are of very obvious signification; as, high-aimed, high-arched, high-aspiring, high-bearing, high-boasting, high-browed, high-crested, high-crowned, high-designing, high-engendered, high- feeding, high-flaming, high-flavored, high-gazing, high-heaped, high- heeled, high-priced, high-reared, high-resolved, high-rigged, high- seated, high-shouldered, high-soaring, high-towering, high-voiced, and the like. High and low, everywhere; in all supposable places; as, I hunted high and low. [Colloq.]\n\n1. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. 2. People of rank or high station; as, high and low. 3. (Card Playing) The highest card dealt or drawn. High, low, jack, and the game, a game at cards; -- also called all fours, old sledge, and seven up. -- In high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.\n\nTo rise; as, the sun higheth. [Obs.]","windfallen":"Blown down by the wind.","forty-spot":"The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).","masturbation":"Onanism; self-pollution.","mop":"A made-up face; a grimace. \"What mops and mowes it makes!\" Beau. & Fl.\n\nTo make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.] 3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Mop head. (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.]\n\nTo rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.","shod":"f Shoe.","deanery":"1. The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. 2. The residence of a dean. Shak. 3. The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone.","bicallous":"Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.","zonal":"Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones. Zonal equation (Crystallog.), the mathematical relation which belongs to all the planes of a zone, and expresses their common position with reference to the axes. -- Zonal structure (Crystallog.), a structure characterized by the arrangements of color, inclusions, etc., of a crystal in parallel or concentric layers, which usually follow the outline of the crystal, and mark the changes that have taken place during its growth. -- Zonal symmetry. (Biol.) See the Note under Symmetry.","cheerily":"In a cheery manner.","point":"To appoint. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer. 3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line. 4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick. 5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced. 6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. Sir J. Davies. 7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. Pope. 8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. \"A point of precedence.\" Selden. \"Creeping on from point to point.\" Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer. 9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty Milton. 10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. \"Here lies the point.\" Shak. They will hardly prove his point. Arbuthnot. 11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. Spenser. 12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. \"Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war.\" Sir W. Scott. (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. 13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal. 14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon. 15. (Naut.) (a) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point. (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef. 16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. Sir W. Scott. 17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below. 18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.] 19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.] 20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. 21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer. 22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type. 23. A tyne or snag of an antler. 24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board. 25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point. Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc. At all points, in every particular, completely; perfectly. Shak. -- At point, In point, At, In, or On, the point, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see About, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. \"In point to fall down.\" Chaucer. \"Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side.\" Milton. -- Dead point. (Mach.) Same as Dead center, under Dead. -- Far point (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). -- Nine points of the law, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. -- On the point. See At point, above. -- Point lace, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. -- Point net, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). -- Point of concurrence (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. -- Point of contrary flexure, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. -- Point of order, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. -- Point of sight (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. -- Point of view, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. -- Points of the compass (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under Compass. -- Point paper, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. -- Point system of type. See under Type. -- Singular point (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. -- To carry one's point, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. -- To make a point of, to attach special importance to. -- To make, or gain, a point, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. -- To mark, or score, a point, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. -- To strain a point, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. -- Vowel point, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.\n\n1. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral. 2. To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort. 3. Hence, to direct the attention or notice of. Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. Pope. 4. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition. 5. To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points. 6. To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out. Pope. He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. Dickens. 7. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game. 8. (Masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface. 9. (Stone Cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool. To point a rope (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the end by interweaving the nettles. -- To point a sail (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs. -- To point off, to divide into periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures. -- To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. Totten.\n\n1. To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at. Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak. Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden. 2. To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do. He treads with caution, and he points with fear. Gay. 3. (Med.) To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess. To point at, to treat with scorn or contempt by pointing or directing attention to. -- To point well (Naut.), to sail close to the wind; -- said of a vessel.","nupson":"A simpleton; a fool. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","filamentous":"Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.","gynno":"To begin. See Gin. [Obs.]","synocil":"A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.","falsity":"1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown. Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit. -- Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.","naphtha":"1. (Chem.) The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc. 2. (Chem.) One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum; as, Boghead naphtha, from Boghead coal (obtained at Boghead, Scotland); crude naphtha, or light oil, from coal tar; wood naphtha, from wood, etc. Note: This term was applied by the earlier chemical writers to a number of volatile, strong smelling, inflammable liquids, chiefly belonging to the ethers, as the sulphate, nitrate, or acetate of ethyl. Watts. Naphtha vitrioli Etym: [NL., naphtha of vitriol] (Old Chem.), common ethyl ether; -- formerly called sulphuric ether. See Ether.","eczema":"An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.","advancer":"1. One who advances; a promoter. 2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.","vaginant":"Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.","homological":"Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. -- Ho`mo*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","commorant":"1. (Law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone. 2. (Am. Law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.\n\nA resident. Bp. Hacket.","deictically":"In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely. When Christ spake it deictically. Hammond.","conciator":"The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.","water pheasant":"(a) The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1. (b) The goosander. (c) The hooded merganser.","proratable":"Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately. [U.S.]","broad":"1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. 2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean. 3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. \"Broad and open day.\" Bp. Porteus. 4. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke. Note: Hence: - 5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case. D. Daggett. In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. E. Everett. 6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. 7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak. 8. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. 9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. 10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered, broad-spreading, broad-winged. Broad acres. See under Acre. -- Broad arrow, originally a pheon. See Pheon, and Broad arrow under Arrow. -- As broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes. It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them. L'Estrange. Broad pennant. See under Pennant. Syn. -- Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy; extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.\n\n1. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. 2. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey. 3. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.","worst":"Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse. \"Heard so oft in worst extremes.\" Milton. I have a wife, the worst that may be. Chaucer. If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer. Shak.\n\nThat which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree. The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst. Shak. He is always sure of finding diversion when the worst comes to the worst. Addison.\n\nTo gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit. The . . . Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark. South.\n\nTo grow worse; to deteriorate. [R.] \"Every face . . . worsting.\" Jane Austen.","extraarticular":"Situated outside of a joint.","present value":"The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.","entreatance":"Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.","indulto":"1. A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope. 2. (Spain) A duty levied on all importations.","mammiferous":"Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.","perspire":"1. (Physiol.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat. 2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.\n\nTo emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine. Smollett.","surcle":"A little shoot; a twig; a sucker. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","druidism":"The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.","schizognathous":"Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.","elastical":"Elastic. [R.] Bentley.","rarity":"1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases. 2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place. Addison.","cumulostratus":"A form of cloud. See Cloud.","ecchymose":"To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.","iguanian":"Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.","scary":"Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq.U.S.] Whittier. 2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq.U.S.]","actinometric":"Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.","seedless":"Without seed or seeds.","liflode":"Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ravishment":"1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. Spencer. In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton. 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.","cuppy":"1. Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions. 2. Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.","domesman":"A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]","ypres lace":"Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.","existimation":"Esteem; opinion; reputation. [Obs.] Steele.","kinglet":"1. A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidæ. Note: The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (R. calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (R. cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.","quidam":"Somebody; one unknown. Spenser.","burst":"1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton. Note: Often used figuratively, as of the heart, in reference to a surcharge of passion, grief, desire, etc. No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak: And I will speak, that so my heart may burst. Shak. 2. To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpecedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.\n\n1. To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors. My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage. Shak. 2. To break. [Obs.] You will not pay for the glasses you have burst Shak. He burst his lance against the sand below. Fairfax (Tasso). 3. To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall. Bursting charge. See under Charge.\n\n1. A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration. Bursts of fox-hunting melody. W. Irving. 2. Any brief, violent evertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed. 3. A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] \"A fine burst of country.\" Jane Austen. 4. A rupture of hernia; a breach.","regrate":"1. (Masonry) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. [Obs.] Derham.\n\nTo buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.","groveling":"Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] \"A groveling creature.\" Cowper.","makeless":"1. Matchless. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Without a mate. Shak.","tentaculifera":"Same as Suctoria, 1.","interchain":"To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.","bronchitic":"Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.","melanosperm":"An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp. -- Mel`a*no*sper\"mous, a.","pandemic":"Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n. A pandemic disease. Harvey.","scapulo-":"A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the scapulo- clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.","atticism":"1. A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians. 2. The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.","biddery ware":"A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]","bland":"1. Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant. \"Exhilarating vapor bland.\" Milton. 2. Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.","civicism":"The principle of civil government.","chaldee":"Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n. The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. Chaldee Paraphrase, A targum written in Aramaic.","sickening":"Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick\"en*ing*ly, adv.","deanship":"The office of a dean. I dont't value your deanship a straw. Swift.","colour":"See Color.","oppugn":"To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist. They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament. Clarendon.","relatively":"In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. 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Dryden.","echoer":"One who, or that which, echoes.","redhorn":"Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennæ are usually red.","indulgiate":"To indulge. [R.] Sandys.","swimmingness":"Act or state of swimming; suffusion. \"A swimmingness in the eye.\" Congreve.","canonicals":"The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.","inflame":"1. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman. 2. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire. Though more,it seems, Inflamed with lust than rage. Milton. But, O inflame and fire our hearts. Dryden. 3. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. It will inflame you; it will make you mad. Shak. 4. (Med.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork. 5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. [Obs.] A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. Addison. Syn. -- To provoke; fire; kindle; irritate; exasperate; incense; enrage; anger; excite; arouse.\n\nTo grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed. Wiseman.","independent":"1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper. 2. Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property. 3. Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind. 4. Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner. 5. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective. That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward. 6. (Eccl.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. 7. (Math.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions. 8. (U. S. Politics) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party. Independent company (Mil.), one not incorporated in any regiment. -- Independent seconds watch, a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc., for timing to a fraction of a second. -- Independent variable. (Math.) See Dependent variable, under Dependent. Syn. -- Free; uncontrolled; separate; uncoerced; self-reliant; bold; unconstrained; unrestricted.\n\n1. (Eccl.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority. Note: In England the name is often applied (commonly in the pl.) to the Congregationalists. 2. (Politics) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.","prognathous":"Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; - - opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.","unconsonant":"Incongruous; inconsistent. \"A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.","ashore":"On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.","flewed":"Having large flews. Shak.","alpigene":"Growing in Alpine regions.","excrementitial":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.","arenicolite":"An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. Dana.","epithelial":"Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.","water junket":"The common sandpiper.","nephalist":"One who advocates or practices nephalism.","concupiscibleness":"The state of being concupiscible. [Obs.]","undersecretary":"A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.","tubulibranchiata":"A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.","cleavable":"Capable of cleaving or being divided.","hin":"A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.","disappendent":"Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]","barmy":"Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. \"Barmy beer.\" Dryden.\n\nFull of barm or froth; in a ferment. \"Barmy beer.\" Dryden.","masser":"A priest who celebrates Mass. [R.] Bale.","hypothenuse":"The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.\n\nSame as Hypotenuse.","obole":"A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. [Written also obol.]","oboval":"Obovate.","prattle":"To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.\n\nTo utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. Addison.\n\nTrifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. Shak.","ripper act":"An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [Polit. Cant, U. S.]","brunette":"A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a. Having a dark tint.","medioxumous":"Intermediate. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","vesica":"A bladder. Vesica piscis. Etym: [L., dish bladder.] (Eccl. Art) A glory, or aureole, of oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.","self-communicative":"Imparting or communicating by its own powers.","panelwork":"Wainscoting.","lyceum":"1. A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy. 2. A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions. 3. A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university. 4. An association for debate and literary improvement.","manes":"The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. Hail, O ye holy manes! Dryden.","eparchy":"A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.","water plate":"A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.","chronoscope":"An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.","cripply":"Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.","affamishment":"Starvation. Bp. Hall.","clancularly":"privately; secretly. [Obs.]","closehauled":"Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.","semiacid":"Slightly acid; subacid.","teratoid":"Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized. S. D. Gross.","hyacine":"A hyacinth. [Obs.] Spenser.","vexillary":"1. Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation (Bot.), a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.\n\nA standard bearer. Tennyson.","trental":"1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. \"Their trentals and their shrifts.\" Spenser. 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.","vaccinate":"To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.","sulphuration":"The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.","conjunctional":"Relating to a conjunction.","mortgager":"gives a mortgage.","reassignment":"The act of reassigning.","dioxide":"(a) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide. (b) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. [Obs.] Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.","funnel":"1. A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel. 2. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.","furnishment":"The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] Daniel.","lycanthrope":"1. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf. 2. One affected with lycanthropy.","napkin":"1. A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table. 2. A handkerchief. [Obs.] Shak. Napkin pattern. See Linen scroll, under Linen. -- Napkin ring, a ring of metal, ivory, or other material, used to inclose a table napkin.","allotropy":"The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations. Note: Thus, carbon occurs crystallized in octahedrons and other related forms, in a state of extreme hardness, in the diamond; it occurs in hexagonal forms, and of little hardness, in black lead; and again occurs in a third form, with entire softness, in lampblack and charcoal. In some cases, one of these is peculiarly an active state, and the other a passive one. Thus, ozone is an active state of oxygen, and is distinct from ordinary oxygen, which is the element in its passive state.","mortifyingly":"In a mortifying manner.","nipping":"Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.","luny":"Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]","jenneting":"A variety of early apple. See Juneating. [Written also geniting.]","cower":"To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.\n\nTo cherish with care. [Obs.]","brush":"1. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc. 2. The bushy tail of a fox. 3. (Zoöl.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. 6. (Elec.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus. 7. The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed. [As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts. Shak. 8. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak. 9. A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.\n\n1. To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. \"A' brushes his hat o' mornings.\" Shak. 2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton. 3. To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush. -- To brush away, to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. -- To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.\n\nTo move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith.","inseparate":"Not separate; together; united. Shak.","hayrack":"A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.","solar parallax":"The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the earth. It is 8.\"80, and is the fundamental datum.","submerge":"1. To put under water; to plunge. 2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.\n\nTo plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included. Some say swallows submerge in ponds. Gent. Mag.","footstool":"A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.","defuse":"To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.","furnisher":"One who supplies or fits out.","thank":"A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. \"This ceremonial thanks.\" Massinger. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye for sinners also do even the same. Luke vi. 33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin Milton. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught. Longfellow. His thanks, Her thanks, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [Obs.] Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship. Chaucer. -- In thank, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.] -- Thank offering, an offering made as an expression of thanks.\n\nTo express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame. \"Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you,\" quod she. Chaucer. I thank thee for thine honest care. Shak. Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss. Dryden.","defoedation":"Defedation. [Obs.]","malevolent":"Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune. Syn. -- Ill-disposed; envious; mischievous; evil-minded; spiteful; malicious; malignant; rancorous.","decagon":"A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.","penalize":"1. To make penal. 2. (Sport.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. [Eng.]","minuteness":"The quality of being minute.","transcalent":"Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.","heterogeneous":"Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge\"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge\"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum, neuter in the singular; hi cæli, masculine in the plural. -- Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids. -- Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having different radical signs.","puzzler":"One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads. Brome.","bifilar":"Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.","swap":"1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] \"Swap off his head!\" Chaucer. 2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. [Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.\n\n1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. Chaucer. 2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.\n\n1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.\n\nHastily. [Prov. Eng.]","dreadless":"1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. \"The dreadless angel.\" Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. \" safe in his dreadless den.\" Spenser.\n\nWithout doubt. [Obs.] Chaucer.","maranta":"A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.","prolatum":"A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.","kettledrum":"1. (Mus.) A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Note: Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they are called tympani. 2. An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.","saikyr":"Same as Saker. [Obs.]","stigmata":"pl. of Stigma.","jesse":"Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art; as: (a) A genealogical tree represented in stained glass. (b) A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse. Jesse window (Arch.), a window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.","incaverned":"Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.","morsitation":"The act of biting or gnawing. [Obs.]","disquisition":"A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. Macaulay.","cautel":"1. Caution; prudence; wariness. [Obs.] Fulke. 2. Craft; deceit; falseness. [Obs.] Shak.","dactylist":"A writer of dactylic verse.","outpace":"To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. [R.] Lamb.","photochromic":"Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.","municipalize":"To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry. London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services. The Century.","toxaemia":"Blood poisoning. See under Blood.","bristle-pointed":"Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.","emigrate":"To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.\n\nMigratory; roving. [Obs.]","whoobub":"Hubbub. [Obs.] Shak.","synonymous":"Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea. -- Syn*on\"y*mous*ly, adv. These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here. Tillotson. Syn. -- Identical; interchangeable. -- Synonymous, Identical. If no words are synonymous except those which are identical in use and meaning, so that the one can in all cases be substituted for the other, we have scarcely ten such words in our language. But the term more properly denotes that the words in question approach so near to each other, that, in many or most cases, they can be used interchangeably. 1. Words may thus coincide in certain connections, and so be interchanged, when they can not be interchanged in other connections; thus we may speak either strength of mind or of force of mind, but we say the force (not strength) of gravitation. 2. Two words may differ slightly, but this difference may be unimportant to the speaker's object, so that he may freely interchange them; thus it makes but little difference, in most cases, whether we speak of a man's having secured his object or having attained his object. For these and other causes we have numerous words which may, in many cases or connections, be used interchangeably, and these are properly called synonyms. Synonymous words \"are words which, with great and essential resemblances of meaning, have, at the same time, small, subordinate, and partial differences, -- these differences being such as either originally and on the ground of their etymology inhered in them; or differences which they have by usage acquired in the eyes of all; or such as, though nearly latent now, they are capable of receiving at the hands of wise and discreet masters of the tongue. Synonyms are words of like significance in the main, but with a certain unlikeness as well.\" Trench.","stoutly":"In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.","debellation":"The act of conquering or subduing. [Obs.]","realliance":"A renewed alliance.","sea crawfish":"Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.","dittology":"A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.]","firmamental":"Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.","rechabite":"One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.","haemostatic":"Same Hemostatic.","metabolite":"A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.","nonsexual":"Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.","anchor escapement":"(a) The common recoil escapement. (b) A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.","panto-":"Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.\n\nSee Pan-.","handy-dandy":"A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.","misdistinguish":"To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.","overtroubled":"Excessively troubled.","alkalization":"The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.","prevenient":"Going before; preceding; hence, preventive. \"Prevenient grace descending.\" Milton.","subagency":"A subordinate agency.","chequer":"Same as Checker.","reillumination":"The act or process of enlightening again.","roominess":"The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.","inbreathe":"To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.","star-spangled":"Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.","unkent":"Unknown; strange. [Obs. or Scot.] W. Browne.","orthographize":"To spell correctly or according to usage; to correct in regard to spelling. In the coalesced into ith, which modern reaction has orthographized to i' th'. Earle.","swather":"A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.","almsfolk":"Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.","enquire":"See Inquire.","slows":"Milk sickness.","westerner":"A native or inhabitant of the west.","coannex":"To annex with something else.","wingy":"1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison. 2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy. [Obs. or R.] Those wingy mysteries in divinity. Sir T. Browne.","morceau":"A bit; a morsel.","noctivagation":"A roving or going about in the night. Gayton.","inherence":"The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.","insignment":"A token, mark, or explanation. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","thermo-":"A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.","vang":"A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.","rosen":"Consisting of roses; rosy. [Obs.] ROSENMULLER'S ORGAN; ROSENMUELLER'S ORGAN Ro\"sen*mül`ler's or\"gan. [So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.","vanadous":"Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.","thievish":"1. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie. 2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret. Time's thievish progress to eternity. Shak. 3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice. Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road. Shak. -- Thiev\"ish*ly, adv. -- Thiev\"ish*ness, n.","escritorial":"Of or pertaining to an escritoire.","haddock":"A marine food fish (Melanogrammus æglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.","burgher":"1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess \"the true religion professed within the realm\"), the opposite party being called antiburghers. Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the \"United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.\"","oxygen":"1. (Chem.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96. Note: It occurs combined in immense quantities, forming eight ninths by weight of water, and probably one half by weight of the entire solid crust of the globe, being an ingredient of silica, the silicates, sulphates, carbonates, nitrates, etc. Oxygen combines with all elements (except fluorine), forming oxides, bases, oxyacid anhydrides, etc., the process in general being called oxidation, of which combustion is only an intense modification. At ordinary temperatures with most substances it is moderately active, but at higher temperatures it is one of the most violent and powerful chemical agents known. It is indispensable in respiration, and in general is the most universally active and efficient element. It may be prepared in the pure state by heating potassium chlorate. This element (called dephlogisticated air by Priestley) was named oxygen by Lavoisier because he supposed it to be a constituent of all acids. This is not so in the case of a very few acids (as hydrochloric, hydrobromic, hydric sulphide, etc.), but these do contain elements analogous to oxygen in property and action. Moreover, the fact that most elements approach the nearer to acid qualities in proportion as they are combined with more oxygen, shows the great accuracy and breadth of Lavoisier's conception of its nature. 2. Chlorine used in bleaching. [Manufacturing name]","thyroideal":"Thyroid.","deliberately":"With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.","hals":"The neck or throat. [Obs.] Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.","suspend":"1. To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone. 2. To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. [Archaic] Tillotson. 3. To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay. Suspend your indignation against my brother. Shak. The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear. Denham. 4. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion. Locke. 5. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club. Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanderson. 6. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body. 7. (Chem.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment (Com.), to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder; debar.\n\nTo cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).","consulter":"One who consults, or asks counsel or information.","jards":"A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock.","slouching":"Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.","chorister":"1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden. 2. One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]","cirrigrade":"Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.","evocator":"One who calls forth. [R.]","stufa":"A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.","unravelment":"The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.","deltohedron":"A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.","atomician":"An atomist. [R.]","herpetological":"Pertaining to herpetology.","imbrute":"To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.\n\nTo sink to the state of a brute. The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Milton.","schismatize":"To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.","oscan":"Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy. -- n. The language of the Osci.","bestrode":"imp. & p. p. of Bestride.","bicorned":"Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.","palmaceous":"Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.","nithing":"See Niding.","icosandrian":"Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.","peritoneal":"Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.","felspathic":"See Feldspathic.","ambry":"1. In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc. 2. A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc. 3. Almonry. [Improperly so used]","miscredulity":"Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. Bp. Hall.","passable":"1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak. 2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current. With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another. L'Estrange. Could they have made this slander passable. Collier. 3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. Dryden.","subzonal":"Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.","giffard injector":"See under Injector.","corsage":"The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as. a low corsage.","membered":"1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition. 2. (Her.) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations.","dinarchy":"See Diarchy.","halloysite":"A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.","rapper":"1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne. 2. A forcible oath or lie. [Slang] Bp. Parker.","affirmer":"One who affirms.","age":"1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5. 2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth 3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. Shak. 4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak. 5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott. Note: In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old. 6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. Abbott. 7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. \"The spirit of the age.\" Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle. 8. A great period in the history of the Earth. Note: The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Archæan, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. Dana. 9. A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam. 10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. \"Ages yet unborn.\" Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague. 11. A long time. [Colloq.] \"He made minutes an age.\" Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon. Note: Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled, agelong. Syn. -- Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.\n\nTo grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.\n\nTo cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.","platonist":"One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. Hammond.","symbolics":"The study of ancient symbols; esp. (Theol.), that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.","grindlet":"A small drain.","unrevenued":"Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] Milton.","forestal":"Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.","costate":"Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.","aboriginally":"Primarily.","vehemently":"In a vehement manner.","aesthesis":"Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.","supplely":"In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.","unpinion":"To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint. Goldsmith.","cursores":"(a) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ. (b) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.","stitchwort":"See Stichwort.","worsted":"1. Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like. 2. Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.","cittern":"An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither.","thematic":"1. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4. 2. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject. Thematic catalogue (Mus.), a catalogue of musical works which, besides the title and other particulars, gives in notes the theme, or first few measures, of the whole work or of its several movements.","counterpole":"The exact opposite. The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style. De Quincey.","aboriginal":"1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. \"Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.\" Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.\n\n1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. 2. An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.","blackbirding":"1. The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves. 2. The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]","eye-splice":"A splice formed by bending a rope's and back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.","symphytism":"Coalescence; a growing into one with another word. [R.] Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other. Earle.","cervical":"Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebræ.","anbury":"1. (Far.) A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen. 2. A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.","arhizal":"See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous.","snively":"Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.","pedantocracy":"The sway of pedants. [R.] J. S. Mill.","unfit":"To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.\n\nNot fit; unsuitable. -- Un*fit\"ly, adv. -- Un*fit\"ness, n.","parochial":"Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties. \"Parochial pastors.\" Bp. Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow. \"The parochial mind.\" W. Black.","computer":"One who computes.","mahumetan":"See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.","authorial":"Of or pertaining to an author. \"The authorial Hare.","snuffle":"To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.\n\n1. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed. This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle. Coleridge. 2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy. 3. pl. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.]","tranquilization":"The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.","claymore":"A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.","regardless":"1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. [R.] Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned; inattentive; unobservant; neglectful. -- Re*gard\"less*ly, adv. -- Re*gard\"less*ness, n.","envy":"1. Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.] If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak. 2. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar. Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope. 3. Emulation; rivalry. [Obs.] Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy. Ford. 4. Public odium; ill repute. [Obs.] To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero. B. Jonson. 5. An object of envious notice or feeling. This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. Macaulay.\n\n1. To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler. 2. To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge. I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior. Shak. Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes. Froude. 3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet. Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. T. Gray. 4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.] If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. J. Fletcher. 5. To hate. [Obs.] Marlowe. 6. To emulate. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at. Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked Jer. Taylor. 2. To show malice or ill will; to rail. [Obs.] \"He has . . . envied against the people.\" Shak.","incomplex":"Not complex; uncompounded; simple. Barrow.","advantage":"1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay. 2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11. 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. \"You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.\" Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit. Syn. -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a \"vantage ground\" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.\n\nTo give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]","roundhouse":"1. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.] 2. (Naut.) (a) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach. (b) A privy near the bow of the vessel. 3. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.","metoposcopy":"The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.","broad-brimmed":"Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.","erythrogen":"(a) Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances. (b) A substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers. (c) A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.","often":"Frequently; many times; not seldom.\n\nFrequent; common; repeated. [R.] \"Thine often infirmities.\" 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.","tron":"See 3d Trone, 2. [Obs. or Scott.]","mesothelium":"Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the coelum.","copped":"Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.","finochio":"An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.","brontometer":"An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.","glassware":"Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.","pantograph":"An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. [Written also pantagraph, and incorrectly pentagraph.] Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.","popularize":"To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. \"The popularizing of religious teaching.\" Milman.","antlered":"Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.","formidability":"Formidableness. Walpole.","misavize":"To misadvise. [Obs.]","unquietude":"Uneasiness; inquietude.","drug":"To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] \"To drugge and draw.\" Chaucer.\n\nA drudge. Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).\n\n1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations. Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. Milton. 2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. \"But sermons are mere drugs.\" Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.\n\nTo prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.\n\n1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig. The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson. 2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton. 3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron.","episodial":"Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.","tractation":"Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [Obs.] A full tractation of the points controverted. Bp. Hall.","steller":"The rytina; -- called also stellerine.","enhydrous":"Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.","devi":"; fem. of Deva. A goddess.","cliff limestone":"A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.","guardianless":"Without a guardian. Marston.","spial":"A spy; a scout. [Obs.] Bacon.","oriskany":"Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.","insouciant":"Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned. J. S. Mill.","pistoleer":"One who uses a pistol. [R.] Carlyle.","unplight":"To unfold; to lay open; to explain. [Obs.] Chaucer.","bedwarf":"To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.","homotypical":"Same as Homotypal.","jacqueminot":"A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.","undefeasible":"Indefeasible. [Obs.]","sich":"Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.","phanerogamian":"Phanerogamous.","yesterweek":"The week last past; last week.","furtherer":"One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter. Shak.","affixion":"Affixture. [Obs.] T. Adams.","wowe":"To woo. [Obs.] Chaucer.","landskip":"A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.","afflux":"A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.","ankus":"An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.","anoxemia":"An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ\"mic, *e\"mic (#), a.","uneared":"Not eared, or plowed. Shak.","postcornu":"The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.","rash":"1. To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.] 2. To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.] Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser.\n\nA fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. -- Nettle rash. See Urticaria. -- Rose rash. See Roseola. -- Tooth rash. See Red-gum.\n\nAn inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obs.] Donne.\n\n1. Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] \"Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.\" Shak. 2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.] I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash. Shak. 3. Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander. 4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures. 5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov. Eng.] Syn. -- Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary. -- Rash, Adventurous, Foolhardy. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences. Was never known a more adventurous knight. Dryden. Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Milton. If any yet to be foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honors got by such a maim. Hudibras.\n\nTo prepare with haste. [Obs.] Foxe.","intendancy":"1. The office or employment of an intendant. 2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.","monarcho":"The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. [Obs.] Shak.","torticollis":"See Wryneck.","spectator":"One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. \"Devised and played to take spectators.\" Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.","triandrous":"Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.","subesophageal":"Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.","lave":"To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron.\n\nTo bathe; to wash one's self. In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. Pope.\n\nTo lade, dip, or pour out. [Obs.] Dryden.\n\nThe remainder; others. [Scot.] Bp. Hall.","horometrical":"Belonging to horometry.","branchiferous":"Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.","dry goods":"A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]","struthio":"A genus of birds including the African ostriches.","capercailzie":"A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]","vouchsafe":"1. To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow. If ye vouchsafe that it be so. Chaucer. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two Shak. It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation. South. 2. To receive or accept in condescension. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop. Chaucer. Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old. Dryden.","excitability":"1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes. 2. (Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.","derm":"1. The integument of animal; the skin. 2. (Anat.) See Dermis.","grandfather":"A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.","outgate":"An outlet. [Obs.] Spenser.","civilized":"Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.","vedette":"A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.","retinitis":"Inflammation of the retina.","cascabel":"The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. Note: [See Illust. of Cannon.]","electro-gilding":"The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.","unscrupulous":"Not scrupulous; unprincipled. -- Un*scru\"pu*lous*ly, adv. -- Un*scru\"pu*lous*ness, n.","wormul":"See Wornil.","categorematic":"Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.","autotheist":"One given to self-worship. [R.]","clearage":"The act of reforming anything; clearance. [R.]","chalchihuitl":"The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise.","nauscopy":"The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.","dry":"1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison. (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. Shak (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott. (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. 2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. Pope. 3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving. 4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. -- Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term. -- Dry castor (Zoöl.) a kind of beaver; -- called also parchment beaver. -- Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping. -- Dry dock. See under Dock. -- Dry fat. See Dry vat (below). -- Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. Bacon. The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. J. C. Shairp. -- Dry masonry. See Masonry. -- Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. -- Dry rent (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier. -- Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus (Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. D. C. Eaton. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.\n\nTo make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. Their sources of revenue were dried up. Jowett (Thucyd. ) -- To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.\n\n1. To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly. 2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up. 3. To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. I Kings xiii. 4.","hallucinate":"To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.","barruly":"Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.","pantologist":"One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.","anglicity":"The state or quality of being English.","enthuse":"To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]","deesis":"An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.","brobdingnagian":"Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]","bridle":"1. The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages. 2. A restraint; a curb; a check. I. Watts. 3. (Gun.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. 4. (Naut.) (a) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. (b) A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See under Bowline. -- Branches of a bridle. See under Branch. -- Bridle cable (Naut.), a cable which is bent to a bridle. See 4, above. -- Bridle hand, the hand which holds the bridle in riding; the left hand. -- Bridle path, Bridle way, a path or way for saddle horses and pack horses, as distinguished from a road for vehicles. -- Bridle port (Naut.), a porthole or opening in the bow through which hawsers, mooring or bridle cables, etc., are passed. -- Bridle rein, a rein attached to the bit. -- Bridle road. (a) Same as Bridle path. Lowell. (b) A road in a pleasure park reserved for horseback exercise. -- Bridle track, a bridle path. -- Scolding bridle. See Branks, 2. Syn. -- A check; restrain.\n\n1. To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse. He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist. Drake. 2. To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse. Addison. Savoy and Nice, the keys of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation. Burke. Syn. -- To check; restrain; curb; govern; control; repress; master; subdue.\n\nTo hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. \"His bridling neck.\" Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.","reciprok":"Reciprocal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","interlard":"1. To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.] Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. Drayton. 2. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.","patroness":"A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.","recto-uterine":"Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.","sepsin":"A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.","statued":"Adorned with statues. \"The statued hall.\" Longfellow. \"Statued niches.\" G. Eliot.","alexandrine":"Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.\n\nA kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.","interwove":"imp. & p. p. of Interweave.","gnomically":"In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.","slaughterous":"Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh\"ter*ous*ly, adv.","disinteressment":"Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.","votarist":"A votary. Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. Milton.","overturn":"1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.\n\nThe act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.","zink":"See Zinc. [Obs.]","sceptre":"1. A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Esther v. 2. 2. Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shilon come. Gen. xlix. 10.\n\nTo endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends. Tickell.","atheistical":"1. Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow. 2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. -- A`the*is\"tic*al*ly, adv. -- A`the*is\"tic*al*ness, n.","viduation":"The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement. [R.]","miny":"Abounding with mines; like a mine. \"Miny caverns.\" Thomson.","pentylic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol","boggy":"Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.","substile":"See Substyle.","protectionist":"One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.","overmultiply":"To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.","dahoon":"An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.","fistulose":"Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. Craig.","prepossessor":"One who possesses, or occupies, previously. R. Brady.","been":"The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.","relique":"See Relic. Chaucer.","assaying":"The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.","outbabble":"To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. [R.] Milton.","eventual":"1. Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential. Burke. 2. Final; ultimate. \"Eventual success.\" Cooper. 3. (Law) Dependent on events; contingent. Marshall.","anallantoic":"Without, or not developing, an allantois.","bellybound":"Costive; constipated.","factitious":"Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti\"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti\"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey. Syn. -- Unnatural. -- Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.","westing":"The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.","legislator":"A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.","innovationist":"One who favors innovation.","phonotypy":"A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.","ambiguously":"In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.","ventiduct":"A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments. Gwilt.","jejune":"1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june\"ly, adv. -- Je*june\"ness, n. Bacon.","crural":"Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.","condog":"To concur; to agree. [Burlesque] Note: This word appears in early dictionaries as a synonym for the word agree; thus. \"Agree; concurre, cohere, condog, condescend.\" Cockeram.","epidermoid":"Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.","milord":"Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.","shut":"1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. 2. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open Milton. 3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. \"Shut from every shore.\" Dryden. 4. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. To shut in. (a) To inclose; to confine. \"The Lord shut him in.\" Cen. vii. 16. (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another. -- To shut off. (a) To exclude. (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. -- To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. -- To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. -- To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To obstruct. \"Dangerous rocks shut up the passage.\" Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii. 23. (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude. When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier. (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.\n\nTo close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. To shut up, to cease speaking. [Colloq.] T. Hughes.\n\n1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. 2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.] L'Estrange. 3. (Phon.) (a) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. H. Sweet. (b) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, â, ê, î, ô, û, always are.\n\nThe act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. Milton. 2. A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. 3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.","ellingeness":"See Elenge, Elengeness. [Obs.]","cookmaid":"A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.","godwit":"One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidæ. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hæmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.","galloping":"Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.","deducive":"That deduces; inferential.","peasant":"A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.\n\nRustic, rural. Spenser.","inexactly":"In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.","phycomycetes":"A large, important class of parasitic or saprophytic fungi, the algal or algalike fungi. The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much- branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms. -- Phy`co*my*ce\"tous (#), a.","ineffective":"Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, [is] a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.","catarrhous":"Catarrhal. [R.]","undeify":"To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god. Addison.","duodecuple":"Consisting of twelves. Arbuthnot.","spodumene":"A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite.","cognize":"To know or perceive; to recognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.","ascian":"One of the Ascii.","bilingualism":"Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.","unwrite":"To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.","godlike":"Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God\"like`ness, n.","ebrauke":"Hebrew. [Obs.] Chaucer.","highbinder":"A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [U. S.]","soja":"An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.","pluviameter":"See Pluviometer.","harbor":"1. A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. 2. Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. (Astrol.) The mansion of a heavenly body. [Obs.] 4. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven. 5. (Glass Works) A mixing box materials. Harbor dues (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor. -- Harbor seal (Zoöl.), the common seal. -- Harbor watch, a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.\n\nTo afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought). Any place that harbors men. Shak. The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. Bp. Burnet. Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.\n\nTo lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor. For this night let's harbor here in York. Shak.","lyam":"A leash. [Obs.]","moldwarp":"See Mole the animal. Spenser.","flowery":"1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.","woo":"1. To solicit in love; to court. Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought. Prior. 2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song. Milton. I woo the wind That still delays his coming. Bryant.\n\nTo court; to make love. Dryden.","outwhore":"To exceed in lewdness.","dendrology":"A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.","cirrate":"Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.","oatcake":"A cake made of oatmeal.","epimachus":"A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.","pricky":"Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.","grapeshot":"A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.","princeling":"A petty prince; a young prince.","outluster":"To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.","washable":"Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.","turquois":"A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface. [Formerly written also turcois, and turkois.] Note: Turquoise is susceptible of a high polish, and when of a bright blue color is much esteemed as a gem. The finest specimens come from Persia. It is also found in New Mexico and Arizona, and is regarded as identical with the chalchihuitl of the Mexicans.","cassia":"1. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine. 2. The bark of several species of Cinnamommum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached. Note: The medicinal \"cassia\" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but naturalized in various tropical countries. Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum Cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon. -- Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..). -- Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; -- called also oil of cinnamon.","whereof":"1. Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively. I do not find the certain numbers whereof their armies did consist. Sir J. Davies. Let it work like Borgias' wine, Whereof his sire, the pope, was poisoned. Marlowe. Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one. Shak. 2. Of what; -- used interrogatively. Whereof was the house built Johnson.","tun-bellied":"Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.","grinting":"Grinding. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ignominiously":"In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.","cream-fruit":"A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.","metallicly":"In a metallic manner; by metallic means.","grantable":"Capable of being granted.","compassing":"Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.","governing":"1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay. 2. (Gram.) Requiring a particular case.","wheeze":"To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. \"Wheezing lungs.\" Shak.\n\n1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. 2. (Phon.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the \"stage whisper.\" It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.","quaestor":"Same as Questor.","stylohyal":"A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.","interjectionally":"In an interjectional manner. G. Eliot.","kingfisher":"Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidæ. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles, insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant in the East Indies. Note: The belted king-fisher of the United States (Ceryle alcyon) feeds upon fishes. It is slate-blue above, with a white belly and breast, and a broad white ring around the neck. A dark band crosses the breast. The common European species (Alcedo ispida), which is much smaller and brighter colored, is also a fisher. See Alcedo. The wood kingfishers (Halcyones), which inhabit forests, especially in Africa, feed largely upon insects, but also eat reptiles, snails, and small Crustacea, as well as fishes. The giant kingfisher of Australia feeds largely upon lizards and insects. See Laughing jackass, under Laughing.","immediacy":"The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.","anangular":"Containing no angle. [R.]","endemial":"Endemic. [R.]","intersternal":"Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.","cryptogamous":"Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.","milligram":"A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.","flagrance":"Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.","subsensible":"Deeper than the reach of the senses. \"That subsensible world.\" Tyndall.","epicoele":"A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.","gravely":"In a grave manner.","hypural":"Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.","elocation":"1. A removal from the usual place of residence. [Obs.] 2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. [Obs.]","leucocythaemia":"A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.","immaturity":"The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.","syndactylic":"Syndactilous.","bractea":"A bract.","alectorides":"A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.","chaus":"a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).","squireling":"A petty squire. Tennyson.","sourwood":"The sorrel tree.","rhigolene":"A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.","ctenoidean":"Relating to the Ctenoidei. -- n. One of the Ctenoidei.","iridosmine":"The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens.","opercle":"1. (Anat.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone. 2. (Zoöl.) An operculum.","gemul":"A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]","suffixion":"The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.","coffeeroom":"A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.","enrange":"1. To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To rove over; to range. [Obs.] Spenser.","brazil nut":"An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or \"nuts\" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.","parrock":"A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]","rencounter":"1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter. 2. To attack hand to hand. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.\n\n1. A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meetingg in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement. The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join. Granville. 2. A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties. The confederates should . . . outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements. Addison. Syn. -- Combat; fight; conflict; collision; clash.","devilism":"The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.","nerka":"The most important salmon of Alaska (Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; --called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.","pigmentous":"Pigmental.","met-":"1. A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely. 2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting: (a) Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde. (b) (Organic Chem.) That two replacing radicals, in the benzene nucleus, occupy the relative positions of 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 3 and 5, 4 and 6, 5 and 1, or 6 and 2; as, metacresol, etc. See Ortho-, and Para-. (c) (Inorganic Chem.) Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. Also used adjectively. at a level above, as metaphysics, metalanguage.","workable":"Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.","studiedly":"In a studied manner.","flavorless":"Without flavor; tasteless.","polyphase":"Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.","blirt":"A gust of wind and rain. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","candent":"Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. \"A candent vessel.\" Boyle.","crossjack":"The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.","leme":"A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo shine. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","conditory":"A repository for holding things; a hinding place.","dandy-cock":"A bantam fowl.","dankish":"Somewhat dank. -- Dank\"ish*ness, n. In a dark and dankish vault at home. Shak.","slinky":"Thin; lank. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]","july":"The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days. Note: This month was called Quintilis, or the fifth month, according to the old Roman calendar, in which March was the first month of the year.","fotmal":"Seventy pounds of lead.","gael":"A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.","desirousness":"The state of being desirous.","monstrosity":"The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).","statarian":"Fixed; settled; steady; statary. [Obs.]","convexo-convex":"Convex on botConvex, a.","given":"p. p. & a. from Give, v. 1. (Math. & Logic) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise. 2. Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given. Shak. 3. Stated; fixed; as, in a given time. Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]","imputably":"By imputation.","frisette":"a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.","lithophosphor":"A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.","osteocolla":"1. A kind of glue obtained from bones. Ure. 2. A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.","subtrude":"To place under; to insert. [R.]","exarticulation":"Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.","uncouth":"1. Unknown. [Obs.] \"This uncouth errand.\" Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [Obs.] Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish. Chaucer. 3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. \"Uncouth in guise and gesture.\" I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. Milton. Syn. -- See Awkward. -- Un*couth\"ly, adv. -- Un*couth\"ness, n.","malacostracology":"That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.","credulousness":"Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity. Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke.","discovery":"1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next [world]. South. 3. Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the \"invention\" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench. 4. That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery. 5. Exploration; examination. [Obs.]","decrown":"To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] Hakewill.","shepherdling":"A little shepherd.","unyoked":"1. Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke. 2. Freed or loosed from a yoke. 3. Licentious; unrestrained. [R.] Shak.","unforgettable":"Not forgettable; enduring in memory. Pungent and unforgettable truths. Emerson.","pongee":"A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.","comatose":"Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.","spindrift":"Same as Spoondrift. The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm wrack and spindrift of the tempest-tossed sea. J. E. Marr.","ventriculous":"Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.","vesuvine":"A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.","inurement":"Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.","yumas":"A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc. Note: The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes.","crofton system":"A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.","fretwork":"Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.","podostomata":"An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.","birdbolt":"A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.","ripple-marked":"HAving ripple marks.","chatterer":"1. A prater; an idle talker. 2. (Zoöl.) A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.","scotticize":"To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. [R.]","conjunctively":"In conjunction or union; together. Sir T. Browne.","chazy epoch":"An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.","infeasible":"Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.","ganesa":"The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence. Note: He is represented as a short, fat, red-colored man, with a large belly and the head of an elephant. Balfour.","pratincole":"Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidæ, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.","molar":"Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Carpenter.\n\nHaving power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth. Bacon.\n\nAny one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.","cuculoid":"Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidæ).","bullyrock":"A bully. [Slang Obs.] Shak.","antispasmodic":"Good against spasms. -- n. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.","salpid":"A salpa.","almendron":"The lofty Brazil-nut tree.","weightily":"In a weighty manner.","physics":"The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy. Note: Chemistry, though a branch of general physics, is commonly treated as a science by itself, and the application of physical principles which it involves constitute a branch called chemical physics, which treats more especially of those physical properties of matter which are used by chemists in defining and distinguishing substances.","gonfalon":"1. The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediæval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope. 2. A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself. Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air. Milton.","caroche":"A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler.","behavior":"Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. -- During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety. Syn. -- Bearing; demeanor; manner. -- Behavior, Conduct. Behavior is the mode in which we have or bear ourselves in the presence of others or toward them; conduct is the mode of our carrying ourselves forward in the concerns of life. Behavior respects our manner of acting in particular cases; conduct refers to the general tenor of our actions. We may say of soldiers, that their conduct had been praiseworthy during the whole campaign, and their behavior admirable in every instance when they met the enemy.","crabby":"Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. \"Persius is crabby, because ancient.\" Marston.","birthnight":"The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.","cementation":"1. The act or process of cementing. 2. (Chem.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.","oneiroscopy":"The interpretation of dreams.","coacervate":"Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.\n\nTo heap up; to pile. [R.]","bloomy":"1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith. 2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden.","panicled":"Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.","equery":"Same as Equerry.","self-knowledge":"Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.","desiccate":"To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.\n\nTo become dry.","prickshaft":"An arrow. [Obs.]","rink":"1. The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling. 2. An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.","stilpnomelane":"A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.","epicarp":"The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.","spectrally":"In the form or manner of a specter.","precative":"Suppliant; beseeching. Bp. Hopkins. Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. Jarman.","unawares":", Without design or preparation; suddenly; without premeditation, unexpectedly. \"Mercies lighting unawares.\" J. H. Newman. Lest unawares we lose This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill. Milton. At unaware, or At unawares, unexpectedly; by surprise. He breaks at unawares upon our walks. Dryden. So we met In this old sleepy town an at unaware. R. Browning.","addle-patedness":"Stupidity.","eugetic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.","dinosaur":"One of the Dinosauria. [Written also deinosaur, and deinosaurian.]","torpedo":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. Note: The common European torpedo (T. vulgaris) and the American species (T. occidentalis) are the best known. 2. An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. Specifically: -- (a) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. (b) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship. 3. (Mil.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it. 4. (Railroad) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal. 5. An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. 6. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. Fish torpedo, a spindle- shaped, or fish-shaped, self-propelling submarine torpedo. -- Spar torpedo, a canister or other vessel containing an explosive charge, and attached to the end of a long spar which projects from a ship or boat and is thrust against an enemy's ship, exploding the torpedo. -- Torpedo boat, a vessel adapted for carrying, launching, operating, or otherwise making use of, torpedoes against an enemy's ship. -- Torpedo nettings, nettings made of chains or bars, which can be suspended around a vessel and allowed to sink beneath the surface of the water, as a protection against torpedoes.\n\nto destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. London Spectator.","wretch":"1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. \"The wretch that lies in woe.\" Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun Cowper. 2. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch. Note: Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing. \"Poor wretch was never frighted so.\" Drayton.","frondiferous":"Producing fronds.","investigate":"To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.\n\nTo pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.","paedogenesis":"Reproduction by young or larval animals.","spermatoon":"A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to\"al, a. Owen.","acidimeter":"An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.","fewel":"Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.","peppergrass":"(a) Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; -- called also pepperwort. All the species have a pungent flavor. (b) The common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera). See Pillwort.","proportionable":"Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por\"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.","dicastery":"A court of justice; judgment hall. [R.] J. S. Mill.","keratose":"A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.\n\nContaining hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.","rousing":"1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. Milton. 2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]","massoola boat":"See Masoola boat.","globule":"1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley. 2. (Biol.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.","pipewood":"An ericaceous shrub (Leucothoë acuminata) of the southern United States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.","sharebone":"The public bone.","flatteringly":"With flattery.","dantesque":"Dantelike; Dantean. Earle.","fairhood":"Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.","vertebrated":"1. (Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes. 2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. Henslow. 3. (Zoöl.) Having movable joints resembling vertebræ; -- said of the arms ophiurans. 4. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.","wadset":"A kind of pledge or mortgage. [Written also wadsett.]","provisionary":"Provisional. Burke.","thyrohyal":"One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.","aries":"1. (Astron.) (a) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. (b) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) A battering-ram.","blinding":"Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.\n\nA thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.","interopercular":"Of or pertaining to the interoperculum. -- n. The interopercular bone.","interfere":"1. To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands. 2. To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose. To interfere with party disputes. Swift. There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. Bp. Warburton. 3. To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes. 4. (Physics) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2. 5. (Patent Law) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention. Syn. -- To interpose; intermeddle. See Interpose.","nosocomial":"Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere. Dunglison.","dichlamydeous":"Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.","reprisal":"1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay. 2. Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation. 3. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. Vattel (Trans. ) 4. Any act of retaliation. Waterland. Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.","landlord":"1. The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. 2. The master of an inn or of a lodging house. Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. Addison.","misrepeat":"To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.","respirational":"Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.","sequestral":"Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.","archdukedom":"An archduchy.","allectation":"Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.","mosque":"A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also mosk.]","ounded":"Wavy; waving [Obs.] \"Owndie hair.\" Chaucer.","coptic church":"The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned (a. d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The \"pope and patriarch\" has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.","emulousness":"The quality of being emulous.","representatively":"In a representative manner; vicariously.","vickers-maxim gun":"One of a system of ordnance, including machine, quick-fire, coast, and field guns, of all calibers, manufactured by the combined firms of Vickers' Sons of Sheffield and Maxim of Birmingham and elsewhere, England.","yid":"A Jew. [Slang or Colloq.] \"Almost any young Yid who goes out from among her people.\" John Corbin.","guerdonable":"Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.","shode":"1. The parting of the hair on the head. [Obs.] Full straight and even lay his jolly shode. Chaucer. 2. The top of the head; the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nSee Shoad, Shoading.","tellurite":"1. (Chem.) A salt of tellurous acid. 2. (Min.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.","tube-shell":"Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.","curve":"Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.\n\n1. A bending without angles; that wcich is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal. 2. (Geom.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.\n\nTo bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.\n\nTo bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.","apoise":"Balanced.","resetter":"One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.\n\nOne who resets, or sets again.","plagiarist":"One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.","helleborin":"A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.","elogist":"One who pronounces an éloge.","bereaver":"One who bereaves.","modulus":"A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter. Modulus of a machine, a formula expressing the work which a given machine can perform under the conditions involved in its construction; the relation between the work done upon a machine by the moving power, and that yielded at the working points, either constantly, if its motion be uniform, or in the interval of time which it occupies in passing from any given velocity to the same velocity again, if its motion be variable; -- called also the efficiency of the machine. Mosley. Rankine. -- Modulus of a system of logarithms (Math.), a number by which all the Napierian logarithms must be multiplied to obtain the logarithms in another system. -- Modulus of elasticity. (a) The measure of the elastic force of any substance, expressed by the ratio of a stress on a given unit of the substance to the accompanying distortion, or strain. (b) An expression of the force (usually in terms of the height in feet or weight in pounds of a column of the same body) which would be necessary to elongate a prismatic body of a transverse section equal to a given unit, as a square inch or foot, to double, or to compress it to half, its original length, were that degree of elongation or compression possible, or within the limits of elasticity; -- called also Young's modulus. -- Modulus of rupture, the measure of the force necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, and loaded in the middle between the points of support. Rankine.","wardian":"Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.","puritan":"1. (Eccl. Hist.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England. Note: The Puritans were afterward distinguished as Political Puritans, Doctrinal Puritans, and Puritans in Discipline. Hume. 2. One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions. She would make a puritan of the devil. Shak.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.","snaphead":"A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.","cabinetwork":"The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.","uniformal":"Uniform. [Obs.] Herrick.","libretto":"(a) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. (b) The words themselves.","polyatomic":"(a) Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms. (b) Having a valence greater than one. [Obs.]","unciform":"Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.\n\nThe unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.","garnet":"A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms. Note: There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate. Garnet berry (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color. -- Garnet brown (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.\n\nA tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under Clew.","corked":"having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.","bashfully":"In a bashful manner.","ducat":"A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke. Note: The gold ducat is generally of the value of nine shillings and four pence sterling, or somewhat more that two dollars. The silver ducat is of about half this value.","fielded":"Engaged in the field; encamped. [Obs.] To help fielded friends. Shak.","lawny":"Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton.\n\nMade of lawn or fine linen. Bp. Hall.","hungrily":"In a hungry manner; voraciously. Dryden.","radium":"An intensely radioactive metallic element found (combined) in minute quantities in pitchblende, and various other uranium minerals. Symbol, Ra; atomic weight, 226.4. Radium was discovered by M. and Mme. Curie, of Paris, who in 1902 separated compounds of it by a tedious process from pitchblende. Its compounds color flames carmine and give a characteristic spectrum. It resembles barium chemically. Radium preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore an atomic property, and is explained as result from a disintegration of the atom. This breaking up occurs in at least seven stages; the successive main products have been studied and are called radium emanation or exradio, radium A, radium B, radium C, etc. (The emanation is a heavy gas, the later products are solids.) These products are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a little lower than its predecessor. It is possible that lead is the stable end product. At the same time the light gas helium is formed; it probably consists of the expelled alpha particles. The heat effect mentioned above is ascribed to the impacts of these particles. Radium, in turn, is believed to be formed indirectly by an immeasurably slow disintegration of uranium.","behindhand":"1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.","lapps":"A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.","colitis":"An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.","lifen":"To enliven. [Obs.] Marston.","incertum":"Doubtful; not of definite form. Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.), a kind of masonry employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.","vizcacha":"Same as Viscacha.","extinguisher":"One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.","kinesipathy":"See Kinesiatrics.\n\nSee Kinesiatrics.","sanskritic":"Sanskrit.","trematoid":"f or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.","mercurify":"1. To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.] 2. To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize. [R.]","cyme":"A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.","perennibranchiate":"1. (Anat.) Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. 2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.","splendorous":"Splendid. Drayton.","debris":"1. (Geol.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base. 2. Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.","earl marshal":"An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.","immolate":"To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.","predispose":"1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. 2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.","cannula":"A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]","ennui":"A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.","gnathidium":"The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.","psychomachy":"A conflict of the soul with the body.","tipula":"Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.","consociation":"1. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton. 2. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and co Note: In Connecticut some of the Congregational churhes are associated in consociations and the others in conferences.","printer":"One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman. Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. -- Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.","dietary":"Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.\n\nA rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.","sea perch":"(a) The European bass (Roccus, or Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace. (b) The cunner. (c) The sea bass. (d) The name is applied also to other species of fishes.","loculose":"Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.","cramoisy":"Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.","sensible":"1. Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; sensible resistance. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot. The disgrace was more sensible than the pain. Sir W. Temple. Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things. A. Smith. 2. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. Would your cambric were sensible as your finger. Shak. 3. Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer. \"With affection wondrous sensible.\" Shak. 4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded. He an] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke. They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse. Addison. 5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil. 6. Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise. Now a sensible man, by and by a fool. Shak. Sensible note or tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone. -- Sensible horizon. See Horizon, n., 2. (a). Syn. -- Intelligent; wise. -- Sensible, Intelligent. We call a man sensible whose judgments and conduct are marked and governed by sound judgment or good common semse. We call one intelligent who is quick and clear in his understanding, i. e., who discriminates readily and nicely in respect to difficult and important distinction. The sphere of the sensible man lies in matters of practical concern; of the intelligent man, in subjects of intellectual interest. \"I have been tired with accounts from sensible men, furnished with matters of fact which have happened within their own knowledge.\" Addison. \"Trace out numerous footsteps . . . of a most wise and intelligent architect throughout all this stupendous fabric.\" Woodward.\n\n1. Sensation; sensibility. [R.] \"Our temper changed . . . which must needs remove the sensible of pain.\" Milton. 2. That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible. Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper. Krauth- Fleming. 3. That which has sensibility; a sensitive being. [R.] This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles. Burton.","soutane":"A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.","corrugant":"Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.","pipra":"Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridæ. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.","revocatory":"Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.","scath":"Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.] But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.\n\nTo do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irwing.","stirrer":"One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.","fustigation":"A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.","iconomania":"A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.","weatherly":"Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.","tatt":"To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.","norroy":"The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at- arms, under King.","starchedness":"The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.","oozy":"Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river. Pope.","sea needle":"See Garfish (a).","washer":"1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. 3. (Plumbing) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. 4. (Zoöl.) The common raccoon. 5. (Zoöl.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]","correctify":"To correct. [Obs.] When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.","bockelet":"A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]","dint":"1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] \"Mortal dint.\" Milton. \"Like thunder's dint.\" Fairfax. 2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson. 3. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. Donne. Tennyson.","wive":"To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.\n\n1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. \"An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived.\" Shak. 2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.","arthrogastra":"A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi.","insolvency":"(a) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency. (b) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate. Act of insolvency. See Insolvent law under Insolvent, a.","passegarde":"A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.","alchemize":"To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace.","altarist":"(a) A chaplain. (b) A vicar of a church.","disqualification":"1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. 2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.","abortionist":"One who procures abortion or miscarriage.","diskless":"Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.","horseshoe":"1. A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. 2. Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab. 3. (Zoöl.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head (Med.), an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.","seditious":"1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di\"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di\"tious*ness, n.","fluework":"A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.","rhonchus":"An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to râle in its widest sense. See Râle.","statured":"Arrived at full stature. [R.]","theroid":"Resembling a beast in nature or habit; marked by animal characteristics; as, theroid idiocy.","unworship":"To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. [Obs.] Wyclif.\n\nLack of worship or respect; dishonor. [Obs.] Gower.","detective":"Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.\n\nOne who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.","polygony":"Any plant of the genus Polygonum.","lingering":"1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.","peabird":"The wryneck; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]","entomoid":"Resembling an insect. -- n. An object resembling an insect.","present":"1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. 2. Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance. I'll bring thee to the present business Shak. 3. Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. \"A present recompense.\" \"A present pardon.\" Shak. An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger. 4. Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. [R.] 5. Favorably attentive; propitious. [Archaic] To find a god so present to my prayer. Dryden. Present tense (Gram.), the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am writing, I write, or I do write.\n\n1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present. Past and present, wound in one. Tennyson. 2. pl. (Law) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, \" Know all men by these presents,\" that is, by the writing itself, \" per has literas praesentes; \" -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular. 3. (Gram.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense. At present, at the present time; now. -- For the present, for the tine being; temporarily. -- In present, at once, without delay. [Obs.] \"With them, in present, half his kingdom; the rest to follow at his death.\" Milton.\n\n1. To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord. Job i. 6 2. To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance. Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons. I. Watts. 3. To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over. So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. Pope. 4. To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer. My last, least offering, I present thee now. Cowper. 5. Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts. Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus. Dryden. 6. To present; to personate. [Obs.] Shak. 7. In specific uses; (a) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution. The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted. Blackstone. (b) To nominate for support at a public school or other institution . Lamb. (c) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment. (d) To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries. (e) To bring an indictment against . [U.S] (f) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another. Pesent arms (Mil.), the command in response to which the gun is carried perpendicularly in front of the center of the body, and held there with the left hand grasping it at the lower band, and the right hand grasping the small of the stock, in token of respect, as in saluting a superior officer; also, the position taken at such a command.\n\nTo appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.\n\nAnything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present. Syn. -- Gift; donation; donative; benefaction. See Gift.\n\nThe position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.","caisson disease":"A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.","screak":"To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.\n\nA creaking; a screech; a shriek. Bp. Bull.","dermatography":"An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.","quintessence":"1. The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. [Obs.] Note: The ancient Greeks recognized four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth essence, which they said flew upward at creation and out of it the stars were made. The alchemists sometimes considered alcohol, or the ferment oils, as the fifth essence. 2. Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. Milton.\n\nTo distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. [R.] Stirling. \"Truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power.\" J. A. Symonds.","supersubstantial":"More than substantial; spiritual. \"The heavenly supersubstantial bread.\" Jer. Taylor.","cokenay":"A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hexdecyl":"The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.","red-short":"Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red\"-short`ness, n.","angora":"A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.","tannage":"A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.] They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.","reannex":"To annex again or anew; to reunite. \"To reannex that duchy.\" Bacon.","creed":"1. A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive. In the Protestant system the creed is not coördinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. 2. Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed. Shak. Apostles' creed, Athanasian creed, Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene.\n\nTo believe; to credit. [Obs.] That part which is so creeded by the people. Milton.","expediently":"1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]","kiss":"1. To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak. 2. To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak.\n\n1. To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends. 2. To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly. Like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. Shak. Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.\n\n1. A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation. Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell. Dryden. Dear as remembered kisses after death. Tennyson. 2. A small piece of confectionery.","bidden":"of Bid.","securipalp":"One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.","presention":"See Presension. [Obs.]","hogo":"High flavor; strong scent. [Obs.] Halliwell.","basidiospore":"A spore borne by a basidium. -- Ba*sid`i*o*spor\"ous (, a.","bull moose":"(a) A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt \"like a bull moose.\" [Cant] (b) The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912. -- Bull Mooser. [Cant]","neckcloth":"A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.","zoanthacea":"A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases.","hawked":"Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.","thirty":"Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.\n\n1. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects. 2. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.","phenician":"See Phoenician.","uvular":"Of or pertaining to a uvula.","zend-avesta":"The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.","irrigation":"The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.","aldermanlike":"Like or suited to an alderman.","convulsively":"in a convulsive manner.","diffame":"Evil name; bad reputation; defamation. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hypospadias":"A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.","carnalize":"To make carnal; to debase to carnality. A sensual and carnalized spirit. John Scott.","concubinacy":"The practice of concubinage. [Obs.] Strype.","impatronize":"To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. [R.] Bacon.","capistrate":"Hooded; cowled.","septifragal":"Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.","veritas":"The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.","paard":"The zebra. [S. Africa]","distermination":"Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.","droppingly":"In drops.","hooper":"One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.\n\nThe European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.","pulpy":"Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.","charqui":"Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.","tergite":"The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.","wayworn":"Wearied by traveling.","protestancy":"Protestantism. [R.]","kaique":"See Caique.","cereous":"Waxen; like wax. [Obs.] Gayton.","hamesecken":"The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.","apostolically":"In an apostolic manner.","sabre":"A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zoöl.), the cutlass fish.\n\nTo strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke.\n\nSee Saber.","polylogy":"Talkativeness. [R.]","practisour":"A practitioner. [Obs.]","acaulous":"Same as Acaulescent.","beeswax":"The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.","festivous":"Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.] Sir W. Scott.","hypochondriacal":"Same as Hypochondriac, 2. -- Hy`po*chon\"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.","durion":"The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.","lambaste":"To beat severely. [Low] Nares.","administrant":"Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n. One who administers.","shattery":"Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.","camously":"Awry. [Obs.] Skelton.","endecane":"One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]","jointing":"The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.","dakoity":"See Dacoit, Dacoity.","wise-hearted":"Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent. Ex. xxviii. 3.","disintegrable":"Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.","kerf":"A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.","tympanitis":"Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.","colfox":"A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tead":"A torch. [Obs.] \"A burning teade.\" Spenser.","phlebolite":"A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.","repaid":"imp. & p. p. of Repay.","gasiform":"Having a form of gas; gaseous.","youngger":"One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. \"The elder shall serve the younger.\" Rom. ix. 12.","para nut":"The Brazil nut.","farmer":"One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general Etym: [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. -- Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. -- The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.","breeches":"1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. His jacket was red, and his breeches were blue. Coleridge. 2. Trousers; pantaloons. [Colloq.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. -- To wear the breeches, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]","fughetta":"a short, condensed fugue. Grove.","magdeburg":"A city of Saxony. Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.","septicidal":"Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.","glassite":"A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is \"no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding.\" The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.","limpingly":"In a limping manner.","umbe":"About. [Obs.] Layamon.","tremendous":"Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley. Syn. -- Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. -- Tre*men\"dous*ly, adv. -- Tre*men\"dous*ness, n.","baudrick":"A belt. See Baldric.","persiennes":"Window blinds having movable slats, similar to Venetian blinds.","unkempt":"1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair. 2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough. My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser.","ruche":"1. A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.] 2. A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.","smooch":"See Smutch.","lace-winged":"Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace- winged flies.","phylactered":"Wearing a phylactery.","urocerata":"A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of Horntail.","exornation":"Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.","cornigerous":"Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","-ana":"A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc. Used also as a substantive; as, the French anas. It has been said that the table-talk of Selden is worth all the ana of the Continent. Hallam.","fag":"A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]\n\n1. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie. 2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge. 3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.\n\n1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out. 2. Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.","fuming":"Producing fumes, or vapors. Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libsvius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.","underprize":"To undervalue; to underestimate. Shak.","popple":"To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble. Cotton.\n\n1. The poplar. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.] 2. Tares. [Obs.] \"To sow popple among wheat.\" Bale.","lodgment":"1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. Paley. 2. A lodging place; a room. [Obs.] 3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest. 4. (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.","acetaldehyde":"Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.","shamanic":"Of or pertaining to Shamanism.","budger":"One who budges. Shak.","ovally":"In an oval form.","money-maker":"1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. [R.] 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.","pectose":"An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.","replete":"Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. \"His words replete with guile.\" Milton. When he of wine was replet at his feast. Chaucer. In heads repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.\n\nTo fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]","sthenic":"Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever. Sthenic theory. See Stimulism (a).","triblet":"1. A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. Ainsworth. 2. A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson. 3. (Blacksmithing) A tapering mandrel.","diuretic":"Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. -- n. A medicine with diuretic properties. Diuretic salt (Med.), potassium acetate; -- so called because of its diuretic properties.","nettles":"(a) The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. (b) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. (c) Reef points.","respectless":"Having no respect; without regard; regardless. Rather than again Endure, respectless, their so moving cChapman. -- Re*spect\"less*ness, n. [R.] Shelton.","setfoil":"See Septfoil.","disfranchise":"To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.","decatoic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.","maleyl":"A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.","crowner":"1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: [Cf. Coroner.] A coroner. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]","metavanadic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.","near beer":"Any of various malt liquors (see Citation). Near beer is a term of common currency used to designate all that class of malt liquors which contain so little alcohol that they will not produce intoxication, though drunk to excess, and includes in its meaning all malt liquors which are not within the purview of the general prohibition law. Cambell v. City of Thomasville, Georgia Appeal Records, 6 212.","herringbone":"Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.","inoxidizable":"Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.","trochilus":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species. (b) Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. [Obs.] (c) The crocodile bird. 2. (Arch.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.","deputable":"Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.","invulnerate":"Invulnerable.","croquante":"A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.","zealous":"1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. [Obs.] Shak. -- Zeal\"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal\"ous*ness, n.","similitudinary":"Involving or expressing similitude. [Obs.] Coke.","modestly":"In a modest manner.","meslin":"See Maslin.","vaulting":"1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.","solidly":"In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.","freight":"1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. 2. (Law) (a) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. (b) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton. 3. Freight transportation, or freight line.\n\nEmployed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. -- Freight car. See under Car. -- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.\n\nTo load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.","unhele":"Same as Unheal, n. [Obs.]\n\nTo uncover. [Obs.] Spenser. Marston.","accentuate":"1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent.","retrim":"To trim again.","impregnable":"Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. South. -- Im*preg\"na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*preg\"na*bly, adv.\n\nCapable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.","scoldingly":"In a scolding manner.","battalia":"1. Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor. 2. An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. [Obs.] Shak.","exceptor":"One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.","inimicality":"The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness. [R.]","waldgrave":"In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.","groschen":"A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.","swedenborgian":"One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.\n\nOf or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.","rhodian":"Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.","appeacher":"An accuser. [Obs.] Raleigh.","jongler":"1. In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse. J R. Green. 2. A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler. Milton.","support":"1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches. 2. To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes. This fierce demeanor and his insolence The patience of a god could not support. Dryden. 3. To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits. 4. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear. 5. To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel. 6. To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate. 7. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations. To urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. J. Edwards. 8. To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause. 9. To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration. Wherefore, bold pleasant, Darest thou support a published traitor Shak. 10. A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons. Support arms (Mil.), a command in the manual of arms in responce to which the piece is held vertically at the shoulder, with the hammer resting on the left forearm, which is passed horizontally across the body in front; also, the position assumed in response to this command. Syn. -- To maintain; endure; verify; substantiate; countenance; patronize; help; back; second; succor; relieve; uphold; encourage; favor; nurture; nourish; cherish; shield; defend; protect; stay; assist; forward.\n\n1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reënforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery. Points of support (Arch.), the horizontal area of the solids of a building, walls, piers, and the like, as compared with the open or vacant spaces. -- Right of support (Law), an easement or servitude by which the owner of a house has a right to rest his timber on the walls of his neighbor's house. Kent. Syn. -- Stay; prop; maintenance; subsistence; assistance; favor; countenance; encouragement; patronage; aid; help; succor; nutriment; sustenance; food.","johannes":"A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.","prescriptible":"Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. Grafton.","inconstantly":"In an inconstant manner.","abdicate":"1. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy. Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II., to abandon without a formal surrender. The cross-bearers abdicated their service. Gibbon. 2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude. 3. To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 4. (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. Syn. -- To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon; resign; renounce; desert. -- To Abdicate, Resign. Abdicate commonly expresses the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the government. Resign is applied to the act of any person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk resigns. The expression, \"The king resigned his crown,\" sometimes occurs in our later literature, implying that he held it from his people. -- There are other senses of resign which are not here brought into view.\n\nTo relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.","salvific":"Tending to save or secure safety. [Obs.]","looping":"The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.\n\nof Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.","wayfarer":"One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.","punt-out":"A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one of his own side for a fair catch, from which an attempt to kick a goal may be made.","startlish":"Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse. [Colloq.]","haemolysis":"Same as Hæmatolysis, Hæmatolytic.","interference":"1. The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others. 2. (Physics) The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally. Note: The term is most commonly applied to light, and the undulatory theory of light affords the proper explanation of the phenomena which are considered to be produced by the superposition of waves, and are thus substantially identical in their origin with the phenomena of heat, sound, waves of water, and the like. 3. (Patent Law) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention. Interference figures (Optics), the figures observed when certain sections of crystallized bodies are viewed in converging polarized light; thus, a section of a uniaxial crystal, cut normal to the vertical axis, shows a series of concentric colored rings with a single black cross; -- so called because produced by the interference of luminous waves. -- Interference fringe. (Optics) See Fringe.","atelier":"A workshop; a studio.","discernible":"Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay. Syn. -- Perceptible; distinguishable; apparent; visible; evident; manifest.","full-hot":"Very fiery. Shak.","hausen":"A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.","natch":"The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump. Natch bone, the edgebone, or aitchbone, in beef.","alamort":"To the death; mortally.","shoring":"1. The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore. 2. A system of props; props, collectively.","accite":"To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.","steadfastness":"The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. \"The steadfastness of your faith.\" Col. ii. 5. To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness. Chaucer.","implicitness":"State or quality of being implicit.","aeroclub":"A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.","chondritic":"Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.","rufous":"Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.","politically":"1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. [Obs.] Knolles.","concealable":"Capable of being concealed.","moanful":"Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan\"ful*ly, adv.","resolvedness":"Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.","entocuniform":"One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.","ywar":"Aware; wary. [Obs.] \"Be ywar, and his way shun.\" Piers Plowman.","assyriologist":"One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.","structural":"1. Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. 2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant. Structural formula. (Chem.) See Rational formula, under Formula. empirical formula.","subinduce":"To insinuate; to offer indirectly. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.","persistency":"1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy. 2. The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as: (a) (Physics) The persistence of motion. (b) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.","sue":"1. To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. Chaucer. I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due. Spenser. Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. Tennyson. 2. (Law) (a) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially. (b) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process. 3. (Falconry) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk. 4. (Naut.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship. R. H. Dana, Jr. To sue out (Law), to petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.\n\n1. To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. By adverse destiny constrained to sue For counsel and redress, he sues to you. Pope. Cæsar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. C. Middleton. The Indians were defeated and sued for peace. Jefferson. 2. (Law) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages. 3. To woo; to pay addresses as a lover. Massinger. 4. (Naut.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship. R. H. Dana, Jr.","phytolithologist":"One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.","maistry":"Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer.","coachdog":"One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.","disembowel":"1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. 2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] \"Her disemboweled web.\" J. Philips.","lima":"The capital city of Peru, in South America. Lima bean. (Bot.) (a) A variety of climbing or pole bean (Phaseolus lunatus), which has very large flattish seeds. (b) The seed of this plant, much used for food. -- Lima wood (Bot.), the beautiful dark wood of the South American tree Cæsalpinia echinata.","bewailing":"Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail\"ing*ly, adv.","serranoid":"Any fish of the family Serranidæ, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes. -- a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Serranidæ.","slake":"1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. \"And slake the heavenly fire.\" Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.\n\n1. To go out; to become extinct. \"His flame did slake.\" Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided. [R.] Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. \"When the body's strongest sinews slake.\" [R.] Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes. Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool.","parergy":"Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","zoochlorella":"One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.","lodemanage":"Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nPilotage. [Obs.]","hot-brained":"Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.","underpeep":"To peep under. \"The flame . . . would underpeep her lids.\" [R.] Shak.","gavage":"Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.","chioppine":"Same as Chopine, n.","propagative":"Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.","pillowy":"Like a pillow. Keats.","epipodial":"1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong. 2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca.","successively":"In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton.","interlining":"Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet.","rangle":"To range about in an irregular manner. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","legibility":"The quality of being legible; legibleness. Sir. D. Brewster.","footfall":"A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep. Shak. Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. Poe","gambist":"A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.","incarnate":"Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.\n\n1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin. 2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.\n\nTo clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature. This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. Milton.\n\nTo form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. Sterne.","balneation":"The act of bathing. [R.]","becurl":"To curl; to adorn with curls.","farmstead":"A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.","endolymphatic":"(a) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct. (b) Within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.","cover":"1. To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak. 3. To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham. 4. To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the snemy were covered from our sight by the woods. A cloud covered the mount. Exod. xxiv. 15. In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame. Milton. 5. To brood or sit on; to incubate. While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs. Addison. 6. To overwhelm; to spread over. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. Ex. xiv. 28. 7. To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley. 8. To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.\"Blessed is he whose is covered.\" Ps. xxxii. 1. 9. To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses. 10. To put the usual covering or headdress on. Cover thy head . . . ; nay, prithee, be covered. Shak. 11. To copulate with (a female); to serve; as. a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. To cover ground or distance, to pass over; as, the rider covered the ground in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. -- Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the treasury. Syn. -- To shelter; screen; shield; hide; overspread.\n\n1. Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book. 2. Anything which weils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloack. \"Under cover of the night.\" Macualay. A hendsome cover for imperfections. Collier. 3. Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover. Being compelled to lodge in the field . . . whilst his army was under cover, they might be forced to retire. Clarendon. 4. (Huntig) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover. 5. That portion of a slate, tile, or shingle, which is hidden by the overlap of the course above. Knight. 6. (Steam Engine) The lap of a slide valve. 7. Etym: [Cf. F. couvert.] A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests. To break cover, to start from a covert or lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship. Thackeray.\n\nTo spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. [Obs.] Shak.","exhibitioner":"One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.","jole":"Same as Jowl. Shak.","atellan":"Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n. A farcical drama performed at Atella.","waterproof":"Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.\n\n1. A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. 2. Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.\n\nTo render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.","imbracery":"Embracery. [Obs.]","sarsaparilla":"(a) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. (b) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc. Note: The name is also applied to many other plants and their roots, especially to the Aralia nudicaulis, the wild sarsaparilla of the United States.","castlebuilder":"Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas\"tle*build`ing, n.","covenant":"1. A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the \"Solemn League and Covenant.\" He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay. 3. (Theol.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc. I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7. 4. A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc. 5. (Law) (a) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement. (b) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; compact; bargain; arrangement; stipulation. -- Covenant, Contract, Compact, Stipulation. These words all denote a mutual agreement between two parties. Covenant is frequently used in a religious sense; as, the covenant of works or of grace; a church covenant; the Solemn League and Covenant. Contract is the word most used in the business of life. Crabb and Taylor are wrong in saying that a contract must always be in writing. There are oral and implied contracts as well as written ones, and these are equally enforced by law. In legal usage, the word covenant has an important place as connected with contracts. A compact is only a stronger and more solemn contract. The term is chiefly applied to political alliances. Thus, the old Confederation was a compact between the States. Under the present Federal Constitution, no individual State can, without consent of Congress, enter into a compact with any other State or foreign power. A stipulation is one of the articles or provisions of a contract.\n\nTo agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation. Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct. L'Estrange. And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver. Matt. xxvi. 15. Syn. -- To agree; contract; bargain; stipulate.\n\nTo grant or promise by covenant. My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you. Wyclif.","menagerie":"1. A piace where animals are kept and trained. 2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.","tarsal":"Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye). -- n. A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.\n\nSame as Tercel. [Obs.]","uchees":"A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.","hickup":"See Hiccough.","geten":"p. p. of Get. Chaucer.","erne":"A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla).","zulus":"The most important tribe belonging to the Kaffir race. They inhabit a region on the southeast coast of Africa, but formerly occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.","dervish":"A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.","half-ray":"A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.","osculatrix":"A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.","quorum":"Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present. Note: The term arose from the Latin words, Quorum aliquem vestrum . . . unum esse volumus (of whom we wish some one of you to be one), which were used in the commission formerly issued to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more of certain justices specially designated. Justice of the peace and of the quorum designates a class of justices of the peace in some of the United States.","match-coat":"A coat made of match-cloth.","misexpound":"To expound erroneously.","just":"1. Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things. \"O just but severe law!\" Shak. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Eccl. vii. 20. Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have. Lev. xix. 36. How should man be just with God Job ix. 2. We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright. Shak. 2. Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. Pope. The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. Shak. He was a comely personage, a little above just stature. Bacon. Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat. Jer. Taylor. When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. Addison. Their named alone would make a just volume. Burton. 3. Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge. Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament. H. W. Poole. Syn. -- Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.\n\n1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated. And having just enough, not covet more. Dryden. The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. Sir P. Sidney. To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. Shak. 2. Closely; nearly; almost. Just at the point of death. Sir W. Temple. 3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. Dryden. Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.\n\nTo joust. Fairfax.\n\nA joust. Dryden.","side":"1. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc. 3. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side. Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. Milton. 4. (a) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather. (b) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side. One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. John xix. 34. 5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. Along the side of yon small hill. Milton. 6. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. Landor. Sets the passions on the side of truth. Pope. 7. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another. To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father. Milton. 8. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty. By the side of, close at hand; near to. -- Exterior side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin. -- Interior side (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. H. L. Scott. -- Side by side, close together and abreast; in company or along with. -- To choose sides, to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side. -- To take sides, to attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral. One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. Dryden. 2. Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark. The law hath no side respect to their persons. Hooker. 3. Etym: [AS. sid. Cf Side, n.] Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] Shak. His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg. Laneham. Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise. -- Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc. -- Side ax, an ax of which the handle is bent to one side. -- Side-bar rule (Eng. Law.), a rule authorized by the courts to be granted by their officers as a matter of course, without formal application being made to them in open court; -- so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. Burril. -- Side box, a box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater. To insure a side-box station at half price. Cowper. -- Side chain, one of two safety chains connecting a tender with a locomotive, at the sides. -- Side cut, a canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.] -- Side dish, one of the dishes subordinate to the main course. -- Side glance, a glance or brief look to one side. -- Side hook (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench. -- Side lever, a working beam of a side-lever engine. -- Side-lever engine, a marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them. -- Side pipe (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine. -- Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock. -- Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc. -- Side rod. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine. (b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel. -- Side screw (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock. -- Side table, a table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table. -- Side tool (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point. -- Side wind, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. Wright.\n\n1. To lean on one side. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.\n\n1. To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. [Obs.] His blind eye that sided Paridell. Spenser. 2. To suit; to pair; to match. [Obs.] Clarendon. 3. (Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides. 4. To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.","confidant":"One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend. You love me for no other end Than to become my confidant and friend; As such I keep no secret from your sight. Dryden.","sinful":"Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Isa. i. 4. -- Sin\"ful*ly, adv. -- Sin\"ful*ness, n.","columnar":"Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.","crispin":"1. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft. 2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.","witch-hazel":"The wych-elm. (b) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.","anarchist":"An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.","cow parsley":"An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).","galliwasp":"A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.","synecdochical":"Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.","pullback":"1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance. 2. (Arch) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.","bee":"p. p. of Be; -- used for been. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ (the honeybees), or family Andrenidæ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee. Note: There are many genera and species. The common honeybee (Apis mellifica) lives in swarms, each of which has its own queen, its males or drones, and its very numerous workers, which are barren females. Besides the A. mellifica there are other species and varieties of honeybees, as the A. ligustica of Spain and Italy; the A. Indica of India; the A. fasciata of Egypt. The bumblebee is a species of Bombus. The tropical honeybees belong mostly to Melipoma and Trigona. 2. A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich. 3. pl. Etym: [Prob. fr. AS. beáh ring, fr. b to bend. See 1st Bow.] (Naut.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower (Bot.), an orchidaceous plant of the genus Ophrys (O. apifera), whose flowers have some resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects. -- Bee fly (Zoöl.), a two winged fly of the family Bombyliidæ. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on bees. -- Bee moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvæ feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. \"She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head.\" Sir W. Scott.","alkalamide":"One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.","devotionalist":"One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.","bootikin":"1. A little boot, legging, or gaiter. 2. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.","jungermannia":"A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.","poplitic":"Popliteal.","maki":"A lemur. See Lemur.","digitize":"To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation","kicksy-wicksy":"That which is restless and uneasy. Note: Kicky-wicky, or, in some editions, Kicksy-wicksy, is applied contemptuously to a wife by Shakespeare, in \"All's Well that Ends Well,\" ii. 3, 297.\n\nFantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.","requitable":"That may be requited.","basswood":"The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.","widespread":"Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.","syllabicate":"To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.","thermally":"In a thermal manner.","fluently":"In a fluent manner.","exoplasm":"See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.","mormondom":"The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.","amphigory":"A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]","elasmobranchiate":"Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. -- n. One of the Elasmobranchii.","latently":"In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.","subagitation":"Unlawful sexual intercourse. [Obs.]","epigeum":"See Perigee. [Obs.]","interplay":"Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.","basipodite":"The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.","joss":"A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol. \"Critic in jars and josses.\" Colman (1761). Joss house, a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship. -- Joss stick, a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; -- burned by the Chinese before an idol.","remediate":"Remedial. [R.] Shak.","spillet fishing":"A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.","kier":"A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.","mensurate":"To measure. [Obs.]","perioeci":"Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.","hymnist":"A writer of hymns.","phonoscope":"(a) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings. (b) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.","rabbinist":"One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.","magnifiable":"Such as can be magnified, or extolled.","aeolus":"The god of the winds.","amphilogism":"Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]","dolomize":"To convert into dolomite. -- Dol`o*mi*za\"tion, n.","ribaldish":"Like a ribald. Bp. Hall.","pentachord":"1. An ancient instrument of music with five strings. 2. An order or system of five sounds. Busby.","mariner":"One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.","recombine":"To combine again.","dowse":"1. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse. 2. Etym: [Cf. OD. doesen to strike, Norw. dusa to break.] To beat or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.\n\nTo use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully for more than a hundred wells. Eng. Cyc.\n\nA blow on the face. [Low] Colman.","sensori-volitional":"Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.","ratoon":"1. Same as Rattoon, n. 2. A rattan cane. [Obs.] Pepys.\n\nSame as Rattoon, v. i.","fling":"1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. Dryden. He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire. Addison. 2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope. 3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole. To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. -- To fling away, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak. --To fling down. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.\n\n1. To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling. 2. To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling. 3. To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste. And crop-full, out of doors he flings. Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.\n\n1. A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse. 2. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm. I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king. Swift. 3. A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling. 4. A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.] England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. Old Proverb. To have one's fling, to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. \"When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.\" D. Jerrold.","tumored":"Distended; swelled. [R.] \"His tumored breast.\" R. Junius.","detached":"Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. \"Extensive and detached empire.\" Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.","tersulphide":"A trisulphide.","acrisia":"1. Inability to judge. 2. (Med.) Undecided character of a disease. [Obs.]","biodynamical":"Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital forces or energy.","water plant":"A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.","sanguigenous":"Producing blood; as, sanguigenous food.","movent":"Moving. [R.] Grew.\n\nThat which moves anything. [R.]","cursorily":"In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.","formulary":"Stated; prescribed; ritual.\n\n1. A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaæ, etc.; a book of precedents. 2. Prescribed form or model; formula.","archchamberlain":"A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.","fringilline":"Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.","hippophagist":"One who eats horseflesh.","arbalister":"A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.","creant":"Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.","incursion":"1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot. 2. Attack; occurrence. [Obs.] Sins of daily incursion. South. Syn. -- Invasion; inroad; raid; foray; sally; attack; onset; irruption. See Invasion.","siderographical":"Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.","poor-john":"A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare. Sir J. Harrington.","undecisive":"Indecisive. [R.] Glanvill.","usself":"Ourselves. [Obs.] Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.","cassinette":"A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.","giggyng":"The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. [Obs.] \"Gigging of shields.\" Chaucer.","astrometry":"The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.","franklinic":"Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also statical electricity.","quits":"See the Note under Quit, a.","almain":"1. A German. Also adj., German. Shak. 2. The German language. J. Foxe. 3. A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.","janus-faced":"Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.","orbulina":"A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.","carthaginian":"Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Carthage.","dent":"1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] \"That dent of thunder.\" Chaucer. 2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.\n\nTo make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.\n\nA tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.","angoumois moth":"A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.","sealer":"One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.\n\nA mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.","huckster":"1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.\n\nTo deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.","zarthe":"A European bream (Abramis vimba). [Written also zaerthe.]","eldership":"1. The state of being older; seniority. \"Paternity an eldership.\" Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.","leafage":"Leaves, collectively; foliage.","outlook":"1. To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak. 2. To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] Cotton.\n\n1. The act of looking out; watch. 2. One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair. 3. The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. Young.","pittance":"1. An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole. \"A good pitaunce.\" Chaucer. One half only of this pittance was ever given him in money. Macaulay. 2. A meager portion, quality, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation. \"The small pittance of learning they received.\" Swift. The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. Fuller.","uplandish":"Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. [Obs.] Chapman. 2. Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. [Obs.] His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.","oracle":"1. The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle. Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand. Drayton. 2. Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given. The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Milton. 3. The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. The first principles of the oracles of God. Heb. v. 12. 4. (Jewish Antiq.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. 1 Kings vi. 19. Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. Milton. 5. One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet. God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will. Milton. 6. Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. \"Oracles of mode.\" Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay. 7. A wise sentence or decision of great authority.\n\nTo utter oracles. [Obs.]","actinometer":"(a) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. (b) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light.","parapeptone":"An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.","insufficient":"1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. \"Insufficient for His praise.\" Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office. Syn. -- Inadequate; scanty; incommensurate; unequal; unfit; incompetent; incapable; inefficient.","horsefly":"1. (Zoöl.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood. Note: Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly. 2. (Zoöl.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).","intercostal":"Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.","abbreviatory":"Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.","reprehension":"Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition.","monism":"1. (Metaph.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism. Note: The doctrine has been held in three generic forms: matter and its phenomena have been explained as a modification of mind, involving an idealistic monism; or mind has been explained by and resolved into matter, giving a materialistic monism; or, thirdly, matter, mind, and their phenomena have been held to be manifestations or modifications of some one substance, like the substance of Spinoza, or a supposed unknown something of some evolutionists, which is capable of an objective and subjective aspect. 2. (Biol.) See Monogenesis, 1.","rethor":"A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.] If a rethor couthe fair endite. Chaucer.","redisburse":"To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back. Spenser.","branchiogastropoda":"Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.","umbratious":"Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.","incense-breathing":"Breathing or exhaling incense. \"Incense-breathing morn.\" Gray.","-ster":"A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster. Note: Brewing, baking, and weaving were formerly feminine labors, and consequently brewster, baxter, and webster meant, originally, the woman (not the man) who brews, bakes, or weaves. When men began to perform these duties the feminine appellations were retained.","quadrigeminal":"Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. Quadrigeminal bodies (Anat.), two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes.","embattled":"1. Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Her.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. 3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.","gradation":"1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes. 2. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. 3. Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor. 4. (Fine Arts) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. 6. (Mus.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.\n\nTo form with gradations. [R.]","illustrator":"One who illustrates.","localize":"To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.","myrtiform":"Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf.","gyn":"To begin [Obs.] See Gin.","acidific":"Producing acidity; converting into an acid. Dana.","limewater":"Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.","weldable":"Capable of being welded.","hare brained":"Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. \"A mad hare-brained fellow.\" North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]","flip":"A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron. Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.\n\nTo toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent. As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. W. Browne.","fourscore":"Four times twenty; eighty.\n\nThe product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.","olfactive":"See Olfactory, a.","multiaxial":"Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to Ant: monoaxial.","nullification":"The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. Right of nullification (U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make void, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional.","monocle":"An eyeglass for one eye. Simmonds.","friendlily":"In a friendly manner. Pope.","parcase":"Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.","accelerando":"Gradually accelerating the movement.","petitor":"One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant. [R.] Fuller.","lignous":"Ligneous. [R.] Evelyn.","saut":"An assault. [Obs.]","cheiropterygium":"The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.","janitrix":"A female janitor.","ichthyotomy":"The anatomy or dissection of fishes. [R.]","intervention":"1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder. 2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple. 3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.","water thrush":"(a) A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis). (b) The European water ousel. (b) The pied wagtail.","transpadane":"Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.","coenoecium":"The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.","cofferer":"One who keeps treasures in a coffer. [R.]","heartfelt":"Hearty; sincere.","bilaminar":"Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.","nook-shotten":"Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.","havened":"Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.","heterotropal":"Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.","poecilopod":"One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.","zooemorphic":"Of or pertaining to zoömorphism.","biostatistics":"Vital statistics.","macroural":"Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.","catso":"A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson. CAT'S-PAW Cat's\"-paw`, n. 1. (Naut.) (a) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air. (b) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked. 2. A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes. Note: In this sense the term refers to the fable of the monkey using the cat's paw to draw the roasting chestnuts out of the fire. CAT'S-TAIL Cat's\"-tail, n. See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.","periderm":"1. (Bot.) The outer layer of bark. 2. (Zoöl.) The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc.","bristle":"1. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. 2. (Bot.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray.\n\n1. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak. 2. To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.\n\n1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. Sir W. Scott. 2. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay. 3. To show deflance or indignation. To bristle up, to show anger or deflance.","offend":"1. To strike against; to attack; to assail. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. 2. To displease; to make angry; to affront. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Prov. xviii. 19. 3. To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience. 4. To transgress; to violate; to sin against. [Obs.] Marry, sir, he hath offended the law. Shak. 5. (Script.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. [Obs.] Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O. Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Ps. cxix. 165.\n\n1. To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James ii. 10. If it be a sin to cevet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak. 2. To cause dislike, anger, or vexation; to displease. I shall offend, either to detain or give it. Shak. To offend against, to do an injury or wrong to; to commit an offense against. \"We have offended against the Lord already.\" 2 Chron. xxviii. 13.","ab-":"A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).","glossly":"Like gloss; specious. Cowley.","graffito":"Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.","inaniloquent":"Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]","cates":"Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.","steedless":"Having no steed; without a horse.","tightener":"That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.","perfecter":"One who, or that which, makes perfect. \"The . . . perfecter of our faith.\" Barrow.","balmily":"In a balmy manner. Coleridge.","reproachablr":"1. Deserving reproach; censurable. 2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot. -- Re*proach\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach\"a*bly, adv.","caducean":"Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.","omnipresent":"Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah. Prior.","disincarcerate":"To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.","dodkin":"A doit; a small coin. Shelton.","pedantize":"To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions. [R.]","forwhy":"Wherefore; because. [Obs.]","sken":"To squint. [Prov. Eng.]","subpolar":"Situated below the poles.","vortex tube":"An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.","astragalomancy":"Divination by means of small bones or dice.","dissidently":"In a dissident manner.","roysterer":"same as Roister, Roisterer.","inductor":"1. The person who inducts another into an office or benefice. 2. (Elec.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current.","fabricatress":"A woman who fabricates.","clayes":"Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]","torsion":"1. The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction. 2. (Mech.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. Angle of torsion (of a curve) (Geom.), the indefinitely small angle between two consecutive osculating planes of a curve of double curvature. -- Moment of torsion (Mech.) the moment of a pair of equal and opposite couples which tend to twist a body. -- Torsion balance (Physics.), an instrument for estimating very minute forces, as electric or magnetic attractions and repulsions, by the torsion of a very slender wire or fiber having at its lower extremity a horizontal bar or needle, upon which the forces act. -- Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by torsion.","had":"See Have. Had as lief, Had rather, Had better, Had as soon, etc., with a nominative and followed by the infinitive without to, are well established idiomatic forms. The original construction was that of the dative with forms of be, followed by the infinitive. See Had better, under Better. And lever me is be pore and trewe. [And more agreeable to me it is to be poor and true.] C. Mundi (Trans. ). Him had been lever to be syke. [To him it had been preferable to be sick.] Fabian. For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. Chaucer. Note: Gradually the nominative was substituted for the dative, and had for the forms of be. During the process of transition, the nominative with was or were, and the dative with had, are found. Poor lady, she were better love a dream. Shak. You were best hang yourself. Beau. & Fl. Me rather had my heart might feel your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy. Shak. I hadde levere than my scherte, That ye hadde rad his legende, as have I. Chaucer. I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. Shak. I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Shak. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Ps. lxxxiv.10.","evite":"To shun. [Obs.] Dryton.","geophagist":"One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.","irrevocable":"Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev\"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev\"o*ca*bly, adv.","resistive":"Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.","aard-wolf":"A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.","phenology":"The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log\"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol\"o*gist (#), n.","puppy":"1. (Zoöl.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp. 2. A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.\n\nTo bring forth whelps; to pup.","assimilation":"1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel. 2. (Physiol.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. Note: The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs.","worshipability":"The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. [R.] Coleridge.","insurrection":"1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19. 2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Obs.] Syn. -- Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon. He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh. Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton.","basso-rilievo":"Same as Bas-relief.","extruct":"To construct. [Obs.] Byrom.","epulotic":"Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n. An epulotic agent.","kithara":"See Cithara.","booming":"1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone. 2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]\n\nThe act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. Howitt.","falcade":"The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.","ingenite":"Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate. [Obs.] It is naturalor ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. Burton.","intemperant":"Intemperate. [Obs.] Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.","punicial":"Of a bright red or purple color. [R.]","electrum":"1. Amber. 2. An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients. 3. German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.","vent":"Sale; opportunity to sell; market. [Obs.] Shelton. There is no vent for any commodity but of wool. Sir W. Temple.\n\nTo sell; to vend. [Obs.] Therefore did those nations vent such spice. Sir W. Raleigh.\n\nA baiting place; an inn. [Obs.]\n\nTo snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\n1. A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent. Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents. Shak. Long't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent. Pope. 2. Specifically: --(a) (Zoöl.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes. (b) (Gun.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole. (c) (Steam Boilers) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet. 3. Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet. 4. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. Without the vent of words. Milton. Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel. Shak. To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger. -- To take vent, to escape; to be made public. [R.] -- Vent feather (Zoöl.), one of the anal, or crissal, feathers of a bird. -- Vent field (Gun.), a flat raised surface around a vent. -- Vent piece. (Gun.) (a) A bush. See 4th Bush, n, 2. (b) A breech block.\n\n1. To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to. 2. To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint. The queen of heaven did thus her fury vent. Dryden. 3. To utter; to report; to publish. [Obs.] By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies. Milton. Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations. Barrow. 4. To scent, as a hound. [Obs.] Turbervile. 5. To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.","specification":"1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer. 3. A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.","vinewed":"Same as Vinnewed.","sustentacular":"Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.","misarrangement":"Wrong arrangement.","percurrent":"Running through the entire length.","bronchic":"Bronchial.","pauciloquent":"Uttering few words; brief in speech. [R.]","definition":"1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of \"circle;\" the definition of \"wit;\" an exact definition; a loose definition. Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for. Locke. 3. Description; sort. [R.] \"A new creature of another definition.\" Jer. Taylor. 4. (Logic) An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. 5. (Opt.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail. Syn. -- Definition, Explanation, Description. A definition is designed to settle a thing in its compass and extent; an explanation is intended to remove some obscurity or misunderstanding, and is therefore more extended and minute; a description enters into striking particulars with a view to interest or impress by graphic effect. It is not therefore true, though often said, that description is only an extended definition. \"Logicians distinguish definitions into essential and accidental. An essential definition states what are regarded as the constituent parts of the essence of that which is to be defined; and an accidental definition lays down what are regarded as circumstances belonging to it, viz., properties or accidents, such as causes, effects, etc.\" Whately.","hydride":"A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.","undersign":"To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument. The undersigned, the person whose name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.","depredable":"Liable to depredation. [Obs.] \"Made less depredable.\" Bacon.","voluntary":"1. Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice. That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy. N. W. Taylor. 2. Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free. Our voluntary service he requires. Milton. She fell to lust a voluntary prey. Pope. 3. Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter. 4. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion. 5. Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent. God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary, agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker. 6. (Law) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration. 7. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church. Voluntary affidavit or oath (Law), an affidavit or oath made in extrajudicial matter. -- Voluntary conveyance (Law), a conveyance without valuable consideration. -- Voluntary escape (Law), the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff. -- Voluntary jurisdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See Contentious jurisdiction, under Contentious. -- Voluntary waste. (Law) See Waste, n., 4. Syn. -- See Spontaneous.\n\n1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. [R.] Shak. 2. (Mus.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service. 3. (Eccl.) One who advocates voluntaryism.","cephalaspis":"A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.","scheik":"See Sheik.","faultful":"Full of faults or sins. Shak.","spendthrift":"One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.\n\nProdigal; extravagant; wasteful.","dejected":"Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject\"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject\"ed*ness, n.","devilwood":"A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.","verein":"A union, association, or society; -- used in names of German organizations.","wroken":"p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.","shepherdly":"Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","rejuvenize":"To rejuvenate.","transact":"To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.\n\nTo conduct matters; to manage affairs. [R.] South.","exolution":"See Exsolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","scuff":"The back part of the neck; the scruff. [Prov. Eng.] Ld. Lytton.\n\nTo walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.","thundrous":"Thunderous; sonorous. \"Scraps of thunderous epic.\" Tennyson.","vaporimeter":"An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.","coursed":"1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.","current":"1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson. 2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month. 3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew. 4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged. 5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. Shak. Account current. See under Account. -- Current money, lawful money. Abbott.\n\n1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. Nichol. 2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide. Syn. -- Stream; course. See Stream.","kaleidophone":"An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations.","loss":"1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak. 2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss. Shak 3. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable. 4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel. 5. Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle. 6. Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time. 7. (Mil.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. 8. (Insurance) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty. Syn. -- Privation; detriment; injury; damage.","displicency":"Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent. [Obs.] W. Montagu.","multiped":"An insect having many feet, as a myriapod.\n\nHaving many feet.","articulus":"A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.","winninish":"The land-locked variety of the common salmon. [Canada]","effusion":"1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than sow. Eikon Basilike. The light effusions of a heedless boy. Byron. 3. (Pathol.) (a) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface. (b) The liquid escaping or exuded.","polyclinic":"A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease.","disavowal":"The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.","proleg":"One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvæ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.","monochromatic":"Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only. Monochromatic lamp (Opt.),a lamp whose flame yields rays of some one homogenous light. It is of great importance in optical experiments.","oxyhaemacyanin":"See Hæmacyanin.","crenulation":"1. A minute crenation. 2. The state of being minutely scalloped.","sculk":"See Skulk, Skulker.","underhangman":"An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.","charmless":"Destitute of charms. Swift.","nummular":"1. Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent. 2. (Pathol.) Having the appearance or form of a coin. \"Nummular sputa.\" Sir T. Watson.","striatum":"The corpus striatum.","degu":"A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidæ.","problematic":"Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at\"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.","trochilidist":"One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.","mabolo":"A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.","orthoptera":"An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect. Note: The anterior wings are usually thickened and protect the posterior wings, which are larger and fold longitudinally like a fan. The Orthoptera undergo no metamorphosis.","plumage":"The entire clothing of a bird. Note: It consist of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, with their coverts; and the down which lies beneath the contour feathers. See Illust. under Bird.","turn":"1. To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. Turn the adamantine spindle round. Milton. The monarch turns him to his royal guest. Pope. 2. To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat. 3. To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. \"Expert when to advance, or stand, or, turn the sway of battle.\" Milton. Thrice I deluded her, and turned to sport Her importunity. Milton. My thoughts are turned on peace. Addison. 4. To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David. 1 Chron. x. 14. God will make these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple. 5. To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindoo to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deut. xxx. 3. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Sam. xv. 31. Impatience turns an ague into a fever. Jer. Taylor. 6. To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned. Shak. 7. Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt. \"The poet's pen turns them to shapes.\" Shak. His limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread ! Pope. He was perfectly well turned for trade. Addison. 8. Specifically: -- (a) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown. Pope. (b) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly. (c) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach. To be turned of, be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty-six. -- To turn a cold shoulder to, to treat with neglect or indifference. -- To turn a corner, to go round a corner. -- To turn adrift, to cast off, to cease to care for. -- To turn a flange (Mech.), to form a flange on, as around a metal sheet or boiler plate, by stretching, bending, and hammering, or rolling the metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's arguments against himself. (b) To make unfavorable or hostile to; as, to turn one's friends against him. -- To turn a hostile army, To turn the enemy's flank, or the like (Mil.), to pass round it, and take a position behind it or upon its side. -- To turn a penny, or To turn an honest penny, to make a small profit by trade, or the like. -- To turn around one's finger, to have complete control of the will and actions of; to be able to influence at pleasure. -- To turn aside, to avert. -- To turn away. (a) To dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant. (b) To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil. -- To turn back. (a) To give back; to return. We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them. Shak. (b) To cause to return or retrace one's steps; hence, to drive away; to repel. Shak. -- To turn down. (a) To fold or double down. (b) To turn over so as to conceal the face of; as, to turn down cards. (c) To lower, or reduce in size, by turning a valve, stopcock, or the like; as, turn down the lights. -- To turn in. (a) To fold or double under; as, to turn in the edge of cloth. (b) To direct inwards; as, to turn the toes in when walking. (c) To contribute; to deliver up; as, he turned in a large amount. [Colloq.] -- To turn in the mind, to revolve, ponder, or meditate upon; -- with about, over, etc. \" Turn these ideas about in your mind.\" I. Watts. -- To turn off. (a) To dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or a parasite. (b) To give over; to reduce. (c) To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects; to turn off a joke. (d) To accomplish; to perform, as work. (e) (Mech.) To remove, as a surface, by the process of turning; to reduce in size by turning. (f) To shut off, as a fluid, by means of a valve, stopcock, or other device; to stop the passage of; as, to turn off the water or the gas. -- To turn on, to cause to flow by turning a valve, stopcock, or the like; to give passage to; as, to turn on steam. -- To turn one's coat, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. -- To turn one's goods or money, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. -- To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. -- To turn out. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. Shak. (b) to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. (c) To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. (d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence, to produce. (e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the lights. -- To turn over. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. \"We turned o'er many books together.\" Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] -- To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf. -- To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. -- To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. -- To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. -- To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. -- To turn the die or dice, to change fortune. -- To turn the edge or point of, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. -- To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. -- To turn the scale or balance, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. -- To turn the stomach of, to nauseate; to sicken. -- To turn the tables, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. -- To turn tippet, to make a change. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- To turn to profit, advantage, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. -- To turn up. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. -- To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. -- To turn upside down, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. Shak.\n\n1. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. Milton. 2. Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. Swift. 3. To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue. If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. Wake. 4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road. Turn from thy fierce wrath. Ex. xxxii. 12. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. Ezek. xxxiii. 11. The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations. Locke. 5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. I hope you have no intent to turn husband. Shak. Cygnets from gray turn white. Bacon. 6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well. 7. Specifically: -- (a) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc. (b) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn. Shak. (c) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. (d) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. (e) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. (f) (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. To turn about, to face to another quarter; to turn around. -- To turn again, to come back after going; to return. Shak. -- To turn against, to become unfriendly or hostile to. -- To turn aside or away. (a) To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. (b) To depart; to remove. (c) To avert one's face. -- To turn back, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction; to retrace one's steps. -- To turn in. (a) To bend inward. (b) To enter for lodgings or entertainment. (c) To go to bed. [Colloq.] -- To turn into, to enter by making a turn; as, to turn into a side street. -- To turn off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as, the road turns off to the left. -- To turn on or upon. (a) To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger. (b) To reply to or retort. (c) To depend on; as, the result turns on one condition. -- To turn out. (a) To move from its place, as a bone. (b) To bend or point outward; as, his toes turn out. (c) To rise from bed. [Colloq.] (d) To come abroad; to appear; as, not many turned out to the fire. (e) To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as, the cropsturned out poorly. -- To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble. -- To turn round. (a) To change position so as to face in another direction. (b) To change one's opinion; to change from one view or party to another. -- To turn to, to apply one's self to; have recourse to; to refer to. \"Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all occasions.\" Locke. -- To turn to account, profit, advantage, or the like, to be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the while. -- To turn under, to bend, or be folded, downward or under. -- To turn up. (a) To bend, or be doubled, upward. (b) To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur; to happen.\n\n1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. 2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide. At length his complaint took a favorable turn. Macaulay. The turns and varieties of all passions. Hooker. Too well the turns of mortal chance I know. Pope. 3. One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander. And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose. Some fresher beauty varying round. Byron. 4. A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll. Come, you and I must walk a turn together. Shak. I will take a turn in your garden. Dryden. 5. Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. \"Nobleness and bounty . . . had their turns in his [the king's] nature.\" His turn will come to laugh at you again. Denham . Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier. 6. Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn. Had I not done a friendes turn to thee Chaucer. thanks are half lost when good turns are delayed. Fairfax. 7. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn. I have enough to serve mine own turn. Shak. 8. Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation. The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious. Dryden. The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms. Addison. 9. A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn. [Colloq.] 10. A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. [Obs.] 11. A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat. 12. (Mining) A pit sunk in some part of a drift. 13. (Eng. Law) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. Blount. 14. pl. (Med.) Monthly courses; menses. [Colloq.] 15. (Mus.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, By turns. (a) One after another; alternately; in succession. (b) At intervals. \"[They] feel by turns the bitter change.\" Milton. -- In turn, in due order of succession. -- To a turn, exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit. -- To take turns, to alternate; to succeed one another in due order. -- Turn and turn about, by equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns. -- Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock makers and watchmakers. -- Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary. -- Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. Francis. -- Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change. -- Turn screw, a screw driver.","degeneration":"1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates. 2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. 3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4. The thing degenerated. [R.] Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. Sir T. Browne. Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.","insatiateness":"The state of being insatiate.","gavel":"A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.\n\nA small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright.\n\n1. The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc. 2. A mason's setting maul. Knight.\n\nTribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel. Cowell.","rurality":"1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. \"Leafy ruralities.\" Carlyle.","sauria":"A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.","telephotographic":"Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.","brushwood":"1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.","panslavonian":"See Panslavic.","myrobalan":"A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.","haunter":"One who, or that which, haunts.","thave":"Same as Theave. [Prov. Eng.]","inactuation":"Operation. [Obs.]","blackstrap":"1. A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd. 2. Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.","unauspicious":"Inauspicious. Rowe.","poltroonish":"Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.","goff":"A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.\n\nA game. See Golf. [Scot.] Halliwell.","sned":"To lop; to snathe. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nSee Snath.","electro-physiology":"That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.","balkingly":"In manner to balk or frustrate.","fainthearted":"Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint\"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint\"*heart`ed*ness, n.","cut-out":"(a) (Telegraphy) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. (b) (Elec.) A divice for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.","extend":"1. To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke. 2. To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them. 3. To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail. 4. To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand. His helpless hand extend. Dryden. 5. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering. 6. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham. 7. (Eng. Law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter (Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended type. Syn. -- To increase; enlarge; expand; widen; diffuse. See Increase.","island":"1. A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent. 2. Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice. 3. (Zoöl.) See Isle, n., 2. Islands of the blessed (Myth.), islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy.\n\n1. To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle. Shelley. 2. To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. Southey.","espiaille":"Espial. [Obs.]","iatromathematical":"Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.","ra-":"A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.","incensed":"1. Angered; enraged. 2. (Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.","plantigrada":"A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.","reredemain":"A backward stroke. [Obs.]","aline":"To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.","can":"an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. Note: [See Gan.] With gentle words he can faile gree. Spenser.\n\n1. A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. [Shak. ] Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson. 2. A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can. Note: A can may be a cylinder open at the top, as for receiving the sliver from a carding machine, or with a removable cover or stopper, as for holding tea, spices, milk, oysters, etc., or with handle and spout, as for holding oil, or hermetically sealed, in canning meats, fruits, etc. The name is also sometimes given to the small glass or earthenware jar used in canning.\n\nTo preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] \"Canned meats\" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.\n\n1. To know; to understand. [Obs.] I can rimes of Rodin Hood. Piers Plowman. I can no Latin, quod she. Piers Plowman. Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. Shak. 2. To be able to do; to have power or influence. [Obs.] The will of Him who all things can. Milton. For what, alas, can these my single arms Shak. Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar. Beau. & Fl. 3. To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to. Syn. -- Can but, Can not but. It is an error to use the former of these phrases where the sens requires the latter. If we say, \"I can but perish if I go,\" \"But\" means only, and denotes that this is all or the worst that can happen. When the apostle Peter said. \"We can not but speak of the things which we have seen and heard.\" he referred to a moral constraint or necessety which rested upon him and his associates; and the meaning was, We cannot help speaking, We cannot refrain from speaking. This idea of a moral necessity or constraint is of frequent occurrence, and is also expressed in the phrase, \"I can not help it.\" Thus we say. \"I can not but hope,\" \"I can not but believe,\" \"I can not but think,\" \"I can not but remark,\" etc., in cases in which it would be an error to use the phrase can but. Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque De Quincey. Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer. Dickens.","whitsunday":"1. (Eccl.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. 2. (Scots Law) See the Note under Term, n., 12.","fairyland":"The imaginary land or abode of fairies.","unmutable":"Immutable. [Obs.]","metastatic":"Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.","desultoriness":"The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.","fissility":"Quality of being fissile.","gritstone":"See Grit, n., 4.","hyporhachis":"The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum. [Written also hyporachis.]","hurry-skurry":"Confusedly; in a bustle. [Obs.] Gray.","erythronium":"A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium. [R.]","lazyback":"A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage. [Colloq.]","sclerous":"Hard; indurated; sclerotic.","restaurateur":"The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.","water thermometer":"A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.","analemma":"1. (Chem.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon. 2. An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems. 3. A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.","burg":"1. A fortified town. [Obs.] 2. A borough. [Eng.] See 1st Borough.","calumniation":"False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon.","mangrove":"1. (Bot.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant. Note: The fruit has a ruddy brown shell, and a delicate white pulp which is sweet and eatable. The bark is astringent, and is used for tanning leather. The black and the white mangrove (Avicennia nitida and A. tomentosa) have much the same habit. 2. (Zoöl.) The mango fish.","crakeberry":"See Crowberry.","tetraptote":"A noun that has four cases only. Andrews.","vestibular":"Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.","botuliform":"Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.","spooler":"One who, or that which, spools.","cyma":"1. (Arch.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form. 2. (Bot.) A cyme. See Cyme. Cyma recta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. -- Cyma reversa, or Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.","toff":"A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.","nutter":"A gatherer of nuts.","coloboma":"A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.","rostellar":"Pertaining to a rostellum.","nitty":"Full of nits. B. Jonson.\n\nShining; elegant; spruce. [Obs.] \"O sweet, nitty youth.\" Marston.","trimmer":"1. One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments. 2. One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver. Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle. Macaulay. 3. An instrument with which trimming is done. 4. (Arch.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.","amazedness":"The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder. Bp. Hall.","append":"1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column. 2. To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.","housework":"The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.","crotalum":"A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.","pastorless":"Having no pastor.","spotted":"Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. \"The spotted panther.\" Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.","utlary":"Outlawry. [Obs.] Camden.","pichurim bean":"The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.","shortage":"Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.","enaunter":"Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.","incivilization":"The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.","powderflask":"A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.","rasse":"A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.","rocking":"Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking. Rocking shaft. (Mach.) See Rock shaft.","receptary":"Generally or popularly admitted or received. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.\n\nThat which is received. [Obs.] \"Receptaries of philosophy.\" Sir T. Browne.","thereafter":"1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton. 3. Of that sort. [Obs.] \"My audience is not thereafter.\" Latimer.","nematelmia":"Same as Nemathelminthes.","inexist":"To exist within; to dwell within. [Obs.] Substances inexisting within the divine mind. A. Tucker.","synpelmous":"Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.","tormentress":"A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.","wonderstruck":"Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.","public-minded":"Public-spirited. -- Pub\"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.","fetuous":"Neat; feat. [Obs.] Herrick.","mustac":"A small tufted monkey.","silversmith":"One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.","nares":"The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.","subhyoidean":"Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.","mister":"A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr. To call your name, inquire your where, Or whet you think of Mister Some-one's book, Or Mister Other's marriage or decease. Mrs. Browning.\n\nTo address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way. [Colloq.]\n\n1. A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer. 2. Manner; kind; sort. [Obs.] Spenser. But telleth me what mester men ye be. Chaucer. 3. Need; necessity. [Obs.] Rom. of R.\n\nTo be needful or of use. [Obs.] As for my name, it mistereth not to tell. Spenser.","recoin":"To coin anew or again.","jeopardize":"To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard. That he should jeopardize his willful head Only for spite at me. H. Taylor.","glisteringly":"In a glistering manner.","perfection":"1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection. 2. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. Shak. What tongue can her perfections tell Sir P. Sidney. To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.\n\nTo perfect. [Obs.] Foote.","vivacity":"The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically: -- (a) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.] The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. Fuller. (b) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance. Syn. -- Liveliness; gayety. See Liveliness.","pedagog":"Pedagogue.","atamasco lily":"See under Lily.","forewarn":"To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.","midweek":"The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.","cymar":"A sight covering; a scarf. See Simar. Her body shaded with a light cymar. Dryden.","tuberculated":"Tubercled; tubercular.","liquescency":"The quality or state of being liquescent. Johnson.","flyte":"Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.] The bird of Pallas has also a good \"flyte\" on the moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands. Saintsbury.","soot":"A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.\n\nTo cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. Mortimer.\n\nSweet. [Obs.] \"The soote savour of the vine.\" Chaucer.","capitule":"A summary. [Obs.]","rationality":"The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure Gov. of Tongue. Well-directed intentions, whose rationalities will never bear a rigid examination. Sir T. Browne.","natant":"1. (Bot.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants. 2. (Her.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.","estafet":"A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.","inveigle":"To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.","intently":"In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed. Syn. -- Fixedly; steadfastly; earnestly; attentively; sedulously; diligently; eagerly.","logos":"1. A word; reason; speech. H. Bushell. 2. The divine Word; Christ.","easter":"1. An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, pâque, or pask. 2. The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day. Note: Easter is used either adjectively or as the first element of a compound; as, Easter day or Easter-day, Easter Sunday, Easter week, Easter gifts. Sundays by thee more glorious break, An Easter day in every week. Keble. Note: Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after. Eng. Cyc. Easter dues (Ch. of Eng.), money due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues, Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted. -- Easter egg. (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material, sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an Easter present.\n\nTo veer to the east; -- said of the wind. Russell.","qualified":"1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee (Law), a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale. -- Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument. Story. -- Qualified negative (Legislation), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive. Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment. Syn. -- Competent; fit; adapted. -- Qualified, Competent. Competent is most commonly used with respect to native endowments and general ability suited to the performance of a task or duty; qualified with respect to specific acquirements and training.","aphrodisian":"Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. \"Aphrodisian dames\" [that is, courtesans]. C. Reade.","subdolous":"Sly; crafty; cunning; artful. [R.]","tolerant":"Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.","mathematics":"That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations. Note: Mathematics embraces three departments, namely: 1. Arithmetic. 2. Geometry, including Trigonometry and Conic Sections. 3. Analysis, in which letters are used, including Algebra, Analytical Geometry, and Calculus. Each of these divisions is divided into pure or abstract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations.","maintop":"The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.","eagerly":"In an eager manner.","phylactery":"1. Any charm or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease. 2. A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13- 22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. 3. Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed.","water sail":"A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.","incapsulate":"To inclose completely, as in a membrane.","prepensely":"In a premeditated manner.","ake":"See Ache.","bink":"A bench. [North of Eng. & Scot.]","schismless":"Free from schism.","witing":"Knowledge. [Obs.] \"Withouten witing of any other wight.\" Chaucer.","cephalosome":"The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.","weaver":"1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. \"Weavers of linen.\" P. Plowman. 2. (Zoöl.) A weaver bird. 3. (Zoöl.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling. Weaver bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceidæ. Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill. They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials. In some of the species the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube. -- Weavers' shuttle (Zoöl.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.","anthypochondriac":"See Antihypochondriac.","xylotomist":"One versed or engaged in xylotomy.","shallow":"1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. \"Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.\" Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. [R.] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. Bacon. 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. Bacon. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.\n\n1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo make shallow. Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo become shallow, as water.","metallograph":"A print made by metallography.","scarmage":"A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.","aster":"1. (Bot.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy. 2. (Floriculture) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.","classis":"1. A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.] His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon. 2. (Eccl.) An ecclesiastical body or judicat","diagnostic":"Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.\n\nThe mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.","paraguay tea":"See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly.","smallsword":"A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.","sludger":"A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.\n\nA shovel for sludging out drains, etc.","araeosystyle":"See Intercolumniation.","leggy":"Having long legs. Thackeray.","foreshorten":"1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.","smuggler":"1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.","semioval":"Half oval.","terete":"Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.","attenuation":"1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.","magenta":"An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.","osmidrosis":"The secretion of fetid sweat.","detectable":"Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. \"Errors detectible at a glance.\" Latham.","quizzism":"The act or habit of quizzing.","drub":"To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.\n\nA blow with a cudgel; a thump. Addison.","wafer":"1. (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making B. Jonson. 2. (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents. Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. Shak. -- Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. -- Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl.\n\nTo seal or close with a wafer.","babbitt":"To line with Babbitt metal.","posting":"1. The act of traveling post. 2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. Posting house, a post house.","text-hand":"A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.","outfitter":"One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.","profundity":"The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. \"The vast profundity obscure.\" Milton.","mischief-maker":"One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.","aqua":"Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the \"royal\" metal. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. Francis. -- Aqua vitæ Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.","tryster":"One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.","supercilium":"The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.","triangled":"Having three angles; triangular.","deliber":"To deliberate. [Obs.]","recremental":"Recrementitious.","blore":"The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [Obs.] A most tempestuous blore. Chapman.","ten":"One more than nine; twice five. With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden. Note: Ten is often used, indefinitely, for several, many, and other like words. There 's proud modesty in merit, Averse from begging, and resolved to pay Ten times the gift it asks. Dryden.\n\n1. The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects. I will not destroy it for ten's sake. Gen. xviii. 32. 2. A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.","lister":"A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. [Scotland]\n\nOne who makes a list or roll.\n\nSame as Leister.","norie":"The cormorant. [Prov. Eng.]","mouth":"1. The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity. 2. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: (a) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. (b) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. (c) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. (d) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. (e) The entrance into a harbor. 3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. 4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. Addison. 5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] Dryden. 6. Speech; language; testimony. That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Matt. xviii. 16. 7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. Shak. Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Mouth friend, one who professes friendship insincerely. Shak. -- Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth. -- Mouth honor, honor given in words, but not felt. Shak. -- Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. -- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. -- To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Ps. lxiii. 11. Whose mouths must be stopped. Titus i. 11.\n\n1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. Dryden. 2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. \"Mouthing big phrases.\" Hare. Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. Tennyson. 3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne. 4. To make mouths at. [R.] R. Blair.\n\n1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant. I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison. 2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] Shak. 3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. Tennyson.","bilboquet":"The toy called cup and ball.","hypnotizer":"One who hypnotizes.","warm-blooded":"Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.","caned":"Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","unknight":"To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.","incompetent":"1. Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay. 2. (Law) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence. Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon. 3. Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible. Syn. -- Incapable; unable; inadequate; insufficient; inefficient; disqualified; unfit; improper. -- Incompetent, Incapable. Incompetent is a relative term, denoting a want of the requisite qualifications for performing a given act, service, etc.; incapable is absolute in its meaning, denoting want of power, either natural or moral. We speak of a man as incompetent to a certain task, of an incompetent judge, etc. We say of an idiot that he is incapable of learning to read; and of a man distinguished for his honor, that he is incapable of a mean action.","purl":"To decorate with fringe or embroidery. \"Nature's cradle more enchased and purled.\" B. Jonson.\n\n1. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl. Sir P. Sidney . 2. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. Purl stitch. Same as Purl, n., 2.\n\n1. To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope. 2. Etym: [Perh. fr. F. perler to pearl, to bead. See Pearl, v. & n.] To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. thin winding breath which purled up to the sky. Shak.\n\n1. A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls. Drayton. 2. A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook. 3. Etym: [Perh. from F.perler, v. See Purl to mantle.] Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. \"Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.\" Addison. \"Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes.\" Dickens. 4. (Zoöl.) A tern. [Prov. Eng.]","goodlyhood":"Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] Spenser.","spit-venom":"Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.","positive":"1. Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative. \"Positive good.\" Bacon. 2. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals. 3. Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise. Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward's son. Bacon. 4. Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof. \"'T is positive 'gainst all exceptions.\" Shak. 5. Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws. In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. Hooker. 6. Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons. Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always. Pope. 7. Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation. Swift. 8. (Photog.) Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture. 9. (Chem.) (a) Electro-positive. (b) Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals. Positive crystals (Opt.), a doubly refracting crystal in which the index of refraction for the extraordinary ray is greater than for the ordinary ray, and the former is refracted nearer to the axis than the latter, as quartz and ice; -- opposed to negative crystal, or one in which this characteristic is reversed, as Iceland spar, tourmaline, etc. -- Positive degree (Gram.), that state of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with silk, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery attached to the plate that is not attacked by the exciting liquid; -- formerly called vitreous electricity; -- opposed to Ant: negative electricity. -- Positive eyepiece. See under Eyepiece. -- Positive law. See Municipal law, under Law. -- Positive motion (Mach.), motion which is derived from a driver through unyielding intermediate pieces, or by direct contact, and not through elastic connections, nor by means of friction, gravity, etc.; definite motion. -- Positive philosophy. See Positivism. -- Positive pole. (a) (Elec.) The pole of a battery or pile which yields positive or vitreous electricity; -- opposed to Ant: negative pole. (b) (Magnetism) The north pole. [R.] -- Positive quantity (Alg.), an affirmative quantity, or one affected by the sign plus [+]. -- Positive rotation (Mech.), left-handed rotation. -- Positive sign (Math.), the sign [+] denoting plus, or more, or addition.\n\n1. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality. South. 2. That which settles by absolute appointment. 3. (Gram.) The positive degree or form. 4. (Photog.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative. R. Hunt. 5. (Elec.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.","attagen":"A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.","mise":"1. (Law) The issue in a writ of right. 2. Expense; cost; disbursement. [Obs.] 3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom. [Obs.]","brawl":"1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke. 2. To complain loudly; to scold. 3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth. Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend.\n\nA noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak . Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult.","parrel":"1. (Naut.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure. Totten. 2. A chimney-piece. Halliwell.","equator":"1. (Geog.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres. 2. (Astron.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution. -- Magnetic equator. See Aclinic.","yeorling":"The European yellow-hammer.","ambush":"1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton. 2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden. 3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.\n\n1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden. 2. To attack by ambush; to waylay.\n\nTo lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. Trumbull.","euritic":"Of or pelating to eurite.","paleographic":"Of or pertaining to paleography.","ephod":"A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12.","dijudicate":"To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] Hales.","punkling":"A young strumpet. [Obs.]","swimming":"1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.\n\nThe act of one who swims.\n\nBeing in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.\n\nVertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. Dryden.","revealability":"The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.","crustation":"An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.","ruination":"The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.","windrow":"1. A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. 2. Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. [Eng.] 3. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]\n\nTo arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. Forby.","acquaint":"Acquainted. [Obs.]\n\n1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3. 2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak. 3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. Syn. -- To inform; apprise; communicate; advise.","grangerism":"The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.","overscrupulous":"Scrupulous to excess.","indiscovery":"Want of discovery. [Obs.]","hylozoism":"The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.","risen":"1. p. p. & a. from Rise. \"Her risen Son and Lord.\" Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer.","merlon":"One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.","vitelline":"Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.","bank-sided":"Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.","ferric":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid. Ferric acid (Chem.), an acid, H2FeO4, which is not known in the free state, but forms definite salts, analogous to the chromates and sulphates. -- Ferric oxide (Chem.), sesquioxide of iron, Fe2O3; hematite. See Hematite.","intelligential":"1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. \"With act intelligential.\" Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.","adamantine":"1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. 2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.","tiling":"1. A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19. 2. Tiles, collectively.","gula":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat. (b) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum. 2. (Arch.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.","puncticular":"Comprised in, or like, a point; exact. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. Browne.","despeed":"To send hastily. [Obs.] Despeeded certain of their crew. Speed.","weeder":"One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.","moonglade":"The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]","reenjoyment":"Renewed enjoiment.","sempervive":"The houseleek.","grasper":"One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.","presentiality":"State of being actually present. [Obs.] South.","valetudinous":"Valetudinarian. [Obs.] \"The valetudinous condition of King Edward.\" Fuller.","bittacle":"A binnacle. [Obs.]","amburry":"Same as Anbury.","pyemia":"See PyÆmia.","concealer":"One who conceals.","primigenous":"First formed or generated; original; primigenial. Bp. Hall.","mammodis":"Coarse plain India muslins.","paxwax":"The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.","manteau":"1. A woman's cloak or mantle. 2. A gown worn by women. [Obs.]","pitheci":"A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.","fin de siecle":"Lit., end of the century; -- mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; \"up-to-date;\" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.","magnificent":"1. Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many. Massinger. 2. Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous. When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie. Addison. Syn. -- Glorious; majestic; sublime. See Grand.","mammetry":"See Mawmetry. [Obs.]","strabismus":"An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.","triumvir":"One of tree men united in public office or authority. Note: In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius Cæsar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last.","ettle":"To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn. Boucher.","innixion":"Act of leaning upon something; incumbency. [Obs.] Derham.","this":"1. As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched. Matt. xxiv. 43. 2. As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town. Note: This may be used as opposed or correlative to that, and sometimes as opposed to other or to a second this. See the Note under That, 1. This way and that wavering sails they bend. Pope. A body of this or that denomination is produced. Boyle. Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow. Hooker. Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him. Dryden. Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this will end. Addison. Note: This, like a, every, that, etc., may refer to a number, as of years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a whole. This twenty years have I been with thee.. Gen. xxxi. 38. I have not wept this years; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes. Dryden.","misstep":"A wrong step; an error of conduct.\n\nTo take a wrong step; to go astray.","superjacent":"Situated immediately above; as, superjacent rocks.","achlamydate":"Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.","relieving":"Serving or tending to relieve. Relieving arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t. -- Relieving tackle. (Naut.) (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel during gales or an action, in case of accident to the tiller ropes. (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in righting her. Totten. Craig.","bactericidal":"Destructive of bacteria.","immanence":"The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling. [Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world. A. V. G. Allen.","serrifera":"A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.","verine":"An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.","cops":"The connecting crook of a harrow. [Prov. Eng.]","unsay":"To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. You can say and unsay things at pleasure. Goldsmith.","abolitionism":"The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce.","costiveness":"1. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation. 2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.] A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.","intime":"Inward; internal; intimate. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.","invisibility":"The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible. \"Atoms and invisibilities.\" Landor.","underlying":"Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.","deprivation":"1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. 2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. 3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.","miscreancy":"The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith. [Obs.] Ayliffe.","plagiocephaly":"Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.","quacksalver":"One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.","pommage":"See Pomage.","astylar":"Without columns or pilasters. Weale.","cyamelide":"A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.","herr":"A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.","gigue":"A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.","inheritable":"1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone. 2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities. 3. Etym: [Cf. OF. enheritable, inheritable.] Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.","infraposition":"A situation or position beneath. Kane.","parmesan":"Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy. Parmesan cheese, a kind of cheese of a rich flavor, though from skimmed milk, made in Parma, Italy.","enucleate":"1. To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell. 2. (Med.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor). 3. To bring to light; to make clear. Sclater (1654).","splenoid":"Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.","haemotachometry":"Same as Hæmatachometry.","siesta":"A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.","mercership":"The business of a mercer.","desistive":"Final; conclusive; ending. [R.]","conjurement":"Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.","domesticate":"1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.","vaulty":"Arched; concave. [Obs.] \"The vaulty heaven.\" Shak.","topical":"1. Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege. 2. (Rhet. & logic) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics. 3. Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument. Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable. Sir M. Hale.","demibrigade":"A half brigade.","morus":"A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry. Note: Morus alba is the white mulberry, a native of India or China, the leaves of which are extensively used for feeding silkworms, for which it furnishes the chief food. -- Morus multicaulis, the many-stemmed or Chinese mulberry, is only a form of white mulberry, preferred on account of its more abundant leaves. -- Morus nigra, the black mulberry, produces a dark-colored fruit, of an agreeable flavor.","disinthrallment":"A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]","denounce":"1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.] Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18. 2. To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression. His look denounced desperate. Milton. 3. To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize. Denounced for a heretic. Sir T. More. To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar. Brougham.","embracery":"An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.","protuberous":"Protuberant. [R.]","rant":"To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.\n\nHigh-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics. This is a stoical rant, without any foundation in the nature of man or reason of things. Atterbury.","dew-point":"The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.","subsphenoidal":"Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.","malapropism":"A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.","pitch-faced":"Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.","stillhouse":"A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.","rimple":"A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.\n\nTo rumple; to wrinkle.","roynish":"Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. [Written also roinish.] [Obs.] \"The roynish clown.\" Shak.","crafty":"1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] \"Crafty work.\" Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. \"A pair of crafty knaves.\" Shak. With anxious care and crafty wiles. J. Baillie. Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; Cunning.","yellow book":"In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.","theosophize":"To practice theosophy. [R.]","zinnia":"Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.","conclavist":"One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.","landscape":"1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. 3. The pictorial aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.","hyperbolically":"1. (Math.) In the form of an hyperbola. 2. (Rhet.) With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth. Sir W. Raleigh.","fluviometer":"An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.","examinership":"The office or rank of an examiner.","koel":"Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.","mounch":"To munch. [Obs.]","cast-iron":"Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.","huer":"One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.","disinvestiture":"The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.","rabat":"A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.\n\n(a) A clerical linen collar. (b) A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.","naid":"Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chætopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochæta.","hematin":"1. Hematoxylin. 2. (Physiol. Chem.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.","mediaevals":"The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.","epistolize":"To write epistles.","twinkling":"1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland. 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. 3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52.","disprivilege":"To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]","enteric":"Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.","ideology":"1. The science of ideas. Stewart. 2. (Metaph.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation. Note: By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, idéologie . . . has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. Sir W. Hamilton.","satanical":"Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal. \"Satanic strength.\" \"Satanic host.\" Milton. Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined. Dr. T. Dwight. -- Sa*tan\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sa*tan\"ic*al*ness, n.","bailee":"The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone. Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Wharton.","unfertile":"Not fertile; infertile; barren. -- Un*fer\"tile*ness, n.","onagga":"The dauw.","northeaster":"A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.","populacy":"Populace. [Obs.] Feltham.","turmeric":"1. (Bot.) An East Indian plant of the genus Curcuma, of the Ginger family. 2. The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.\n\nOf or pertaining to turmeric; resembling, or obtained from, turmeric; specif., designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of turmerol. Turmeric paper (Chem.), paper impregnated with turmeric and used as a test for alkaline substances, by which it is changed from yellow to brown. -- Turmeric root. (Bot.) (a) Bloodroot. (b) Orangeroot.","ode":"A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.","swampy":"Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.","oscines":"Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.","rationally":"In a rational manner.","seniority":"The quality or state of being senior.","topet":"The European crested titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]","sematrope":"An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions. Knight.","sarkin":"Same as Hypoxanthin.","tarrier":"One who, or that which, tarries.\n\nA kind of dig; a terrier. [Obs.]","greeter":"One who greets or salutes another.\n\nOne who weeps or mourns. [Obs.]","corrival":"A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [R.] Shak.\n\nHaving rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.\n\nTo compete with; to rival. [R.]","miner":"1. One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies. (b) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula). Miner's elbow (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so called because of frequent occurrence in miners. -- Miner's inch, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied.","sequestration":"1. (a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d) (Intrnat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. Burrill. 2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak. 3. Disunion; disjunction. [Obs.] Boyle.","invigoration":"The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.","usitative":"Denoting usual or customary action. \"The usitative aorist.\" Alford.","fresh-water":"1. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. 3. Unskilled; raw. [Colloq.] \"Fresh-water soldiers.\" Knolles.","imbroglio":"1. An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction. 2. A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio. Carlyle.","vicinage":"The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage. \"To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage.\" Macaulay. Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.","rob":"The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. [Written also rhob, and rohob.]\n\n1. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak. 2. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear. 3. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight. I never robbed the soldiers of their pay. Shak.\n\nTo take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence. I am accursed to rob in that thief's company. Shak.","polyhedrical":"Having many sides, as a solid body. Polyhedral angle, an angle bounded by three or more plane angles having a common vertex.","stereogram":"A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.","teaze-hole":"The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.","ding":"1. To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.] To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton. 2. To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.\n\n1. To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman. 2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. W. Irving. 3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]\n\nA thump or stroke, especially of a bell.","ethenyl":"(a) A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C. (b) A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; - - called also vinyl. See Vinyl.","lionship":"The state of being a lion. LION'S LEAF Li\"on's leaf`. (Bot.) A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap. LION'S TAIL Li\"on's tail`. (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort. LION'S TOOTH Li\"on's tooth`; pl. Lions' teeth (. (Bot.) See Leontodon.","outcry":"1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor. 2. Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.","betterness":"1. The quality of being better or superior; superiority. [R.] Sir P. Sidney. 2. The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.","shittim wood":"The wood of the shittah tree.","phyllodineous":"Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.","sabianism":"The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry. [Written also Sabæanism.]","clansman":"One belonging to the same clan with another.","abovesaid":"Mentioned or recited before.","zoantharia":"Same as Anthozoa.","cacodoxical":"Heretical.","budding":"1. The act or process of producing buds. 2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea. 3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.","woodlander":"A dweller in a woodland.","water elephant":"The hippopotamus. [R.]","jangling":"Producing discordant sounds. \"A jangling noise.\" Milton.\n\n1. Idle babbling; vain disputation. From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. 1 Tim. i. 6. 2. Wrangling; altercation. Lamb.","mechanicalize":"To cause to become mechanical.","terpsichore":"The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.","moonstruck":"1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic. 2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. \"Moonstruck madness.\" Milton. 3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.","yajur-veda":"See Veda.","machining":"Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.","heterodromous":"1. (Bot.) Having spirals of changing direction. Gray. 2. (Mech.) Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.","genuflect":"To bend the knee, as in worship.","pens":"pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.","sarlyk":"The yak.","consentaneous":"Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta\"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta\"ne*ous*ness, n.","inspirationist":"One who holds to inspiration.","lope":"of Leap. [Obs.] And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.\n\n1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] \"He that lopes on the ropes.\" Middleton. 2. To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]\n\n1. A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.] 2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [U.S.] The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a crade. T. B. Thorpe.","gleg":"Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] Jamieson.","apprehension":"1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill. 4. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. Note: In this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue. To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension. South. 5. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension. 6. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison. Syn. -- Apprehension, Alarm. Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is calmer and more permanent; alarm is more agitating and transient.","imperfectness":"The state of being imperfect.","rice-shell":"Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.","horn-mad":"Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.","symmetrize":"To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry. Burke.","thuja":"A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also thuya.] See Thyine wood. Note: Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitæ of the Eastern and Northern United States. T. gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.","safeness":"The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.","torpedo tube":"A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect the torpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarine torpedo boats they are in the bow.","widower":"A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.","elinguate":"To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).","turtling":"The act, practice, or art of catching turtles. Marryat.","estrange":"1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker. 2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4. 3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay.","monosaccharid":"A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.","crackajack":"1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang] 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. [U. S.]\n\nOf marked ability or excellence. [Slang]","fluosilicate":"A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.","gyp":"A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]","apologetical":"Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. \"To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone.\" Macaulay.","fotive":"Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).","sexangularly":"Hexagonally. [R.]","beloochee":"Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.","contractility":"1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract. 2. (Physiol.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of the heart, it is involuntary contractility.","cooperative":"Operating jointly to the same end. Coöperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by a coöperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses.","theriacal":"Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. \"Theriacal herbs.\" Bacon.","melne":"A mill. [Obs.] Chaucer.","spherulate":"Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.","cornamute":"A cornemuse. [Obs.]","roller bearing":"A bearing containing friction rollers.","advantageously":"Profitably; with advantage.","photo-electrical":"Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.","foreship":"The fore part of a ship. [Obs.]","slipstring":"One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","christen":"1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. \"Christen the thing what you will.\" Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time. [Colloq.]","acetize":"To acetify. [R.]","inspired":"1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures.","tithonic":"Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]","angler":"1. One who angles. 2. (Zoöl.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.","helena":"See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.","antiquary":"Pertaining to antiquity. [R.] \"Instructed by the antiquary times.\" Shak.\n\nOne devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.","overmast":"To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.","miserableness":"The state or quality of being miserable.","sigmoid":"Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek s. Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. -- Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.","lunitidal":"Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.","infilter":"To filter or sift in.","mendiant":"See Mendinant. [Obs.]","recoup":"1. (Law) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction. 2. To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market. 3. To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive. Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost. Froude. Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom. Duke of Argyll.","sepal":"A leaf or division of the calyx. Note: When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.","blay":"A fish. See Bleak, n.","semiology":"The science or art of signs. Specifically: (a) (Med.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology. (b) The art of using signs in signaling.\n\nSame as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.","renitency":"The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.","bish":"Same as Bikh.","peruse":"1. To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. Milton. 2. To read through; to read carefully. Shak.","adminicular":"Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.","interlaminar":"Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.","inhumanity":"The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.","mountlet":"A small or low mountain. [R.]","lottery":"1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United States and of most of the States make lotteries illegal. 2. Allotment; thing allotted. [Obs.] Shak.","throw":"Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [Obs.] Spenser. Dryden.\n\nTime; while; space of time; moment; trice. [Obs.] Shak. I will with Thomas speak a little throw. Chaucer.\n\n1. To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl. 2. To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames. 3. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. 4. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. 5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. 6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. Set less than thou throwest. Shak. 7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. Pope. 8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. There the snake throws her enameled skin. Shak. 9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. 10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. Shak. 11. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. 12. To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. Tomlinson. To throw away. (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money. (b) To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer. -- To throw back. (a) To retort; to cast back, as a reply. (b) To reject; to refuse. (c) To reflect, as light. -- To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment. -- To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall. -- To throw in. (a) To inject, as a fluid. (b) To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment. (c) To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain. -- To throw off. (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.](e) To disconcert or confuse. Same as to throw out (f). -- To throw on, to cast on; to load. -- To throw one's self down, to lie down neglectively or suddenly. -- To throw one's self on or upon. (a) To fall upon. (b) To resign one's self to the favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose upon. -- To throw out. (a) To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel. \"The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile.\" Swift. \"The bill was thrown out.\" Swift. (b) To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. \"She throws out thrilling shrieks.\" Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind. Addison. (d) To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment. (e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. (f) To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator. -- To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties. -- To throw up. (a) To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. \"Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand.\" Addison. (b) To reject from the stomach; to vomit. (c) To construct hastily; as, to throw up a breastwork of earth.\n\nTo perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. [R.]\n\n1. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. Addison. 2. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser. 3. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. 4. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. 5. An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison. 6. (Mach.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston. 7. (Pottery) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). 8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov. Eng.] 9. (Mining) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.","ocellated":"1. Resembling an eye. 2. Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).","mannish":"1. Resembling a human being in form or nature; human. Chaucer. But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature. Gower. 2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine. Chaucer. A woman impudent and mannish grown. Shak. 3. Fond of men; -- said of a woman. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Man\"nish*ly,adv. -- Man\"nish*ness, n.","thaumaturgist":"One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. Carlyle.","bilaminate":"Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.","entasia":"Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.","lantern-jawed":"Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.","stagehouse":"A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.","dinosauria":"An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large \"bird tracks,\" so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.","bankrupt":"1. (Old Eng. Low) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. 2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. M 3. (Law) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities. Note: In England, until the year 1861 none but a \"trader\" could be made a bankrupt; a non-trader failing to meet his liabilities being an \"insolvent\". But this distinction was abolished by the Bankruptcy Act of 1861. The laws of 1841 and 1867 of the United States relating to bankruptcy applied this designation bankrupt to others besides those engaged in trade.\n\n1. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. 2. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. 3. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. 4. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). \"Bankrupt in gratitude.\" Sheridan. Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a.\n\nTo make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.","caboodle":"The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.","supawn":"Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn.] [Local, U.S.]","contradictoriness":"The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker.","racemed":"Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.","electro-positive":"1. (Physics) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative. Note: An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa. 2. (Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.\n\nA body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.","matriarchate":"The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.","lantanium":"See Lanthanum.","centumvir":"One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.","farstretched":"Stretched beyond ordinary limits.","abstersive":"Cleansing; purging. Bacon.\n\nSomething cleansing. The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. Milton.","oundy":"Wavy; waving [Obs.] \"Owndie hair.\" Chaucer.","dactylopterous":"Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.","potency":"The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. \"Drugs of potency.\" Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.","bureaucracy":"1. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. 2. Government officials, collectively.","contradicter":"one who contradicts. Swift.","arbitrariness":"The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny. Bp. Hall.","iconize":"To form an image or likeness of. [R.] Cudworth.","fritillaria":"A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.","justle":"To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle. Shak. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.\n\nTo push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle. We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while. Addison.\n\nAn encounter or shock; a jostle.","tableman":"A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.","coreopsis":"A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.","demagogy":"Demagogism.","pargeboard":"See Bargeboard.","syntonic":"Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton\"ic*al (#), a. --Syn*ton\"ic*al*ly, adv.","relaxable":"Capable of being relaxed.","serpentine":"Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine. Milton.\n\n1. (Min.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color. Note: Serpentine has been largely produced by the alteration of other minerals, especially of chrysolite. 2. (Ordnance) A kind of ancient cannon.\n\nTo serpentize. [R.] Lyttleton.","underbuilding":"Same as Substruction.","photonephograph":"A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.","bel-accoyle":"A kind or favorable reception or salutation. [Obs.]","mungoos":"See Mongoose.","profanation":"1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God. 2. The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy. 'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Donne.","blotting paper":"A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.","tidal":"Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches. -- Tidal basin, a dock that is filled at the rising of the tide. -- Tidal wave. (a) See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.","cerargyrite":"Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).","presbyterate":"A presbytery; also, presbytership. Heber.","chemosynthesis":"Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet\"ic (#), a.","discloak":"To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","quinquevalvular":"Having five valves, as a pericarp.","masorite":"One of the writers of the Masora.","ernestful":"Serious. [Obs.] Chaucer.","afflict":"1. To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] \"Reassembling our afflicted powers.\" Milton. 2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton. 3. To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment; wound; hurt.\n\nAfflicted. [Obs.] Becon.","-ably":"A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.","cremosin":"See Crimson. [Obs.]","pard":"A leopard; a panther. And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. Shak.","reverentially":"In a reverential manner.","gowk":"To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.\n\n1. The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky. 2. A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.","omnigraph":"A pantograph. [R.]","pardoning":"Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.","skillet":"A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.","discipless":"A female disciple. [Obs.]","marcian":"Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. [Obs.] Chaucer.","whitleather":"1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather. 2. (Anat.) The paxwax. See Paxwax.","backsettler":"One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.","soler":"A loft or garret. See Solar, n. Sir W. Scott.","tidily":"In a tidy manner.","waxwork":"1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. 2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.","accredit":"1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude. 3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey. 4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.","fantast":"One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.","psilanthropist":"One who believes that Christ was a mere man. Smart.","environment":"1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.","translocation":"removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.","velivolant":"Flying with sails; passing under full sail. [R.]","parietine":"A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [Obs.] Burton.","molder":"One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.\n\nTo crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.\n\nTo turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away. [Time's] gradual touch Has moldered into beauty many a tower. Mason.","pronely":"In a prone manner or position.","tongue-pad":"A great talker. [Obs.]","antinomist":"An Antinomian. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.","monte-acid":"An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.","pernicious":"Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.\n\nHaving the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott. Syn. -- Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- Per*ni\"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni\"cious*ness, n.","zamia":"A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.","inequity":"Want of equity; injustice; wrong. \"Some form of inequity.\" H. Spencer.","demency":"Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.","revest":"1. To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser. 2. To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.\n\nTo take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revels in A after alienation.","foussa":"A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.","transporting":"That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.","hendy":"See Hende.","longtail":"An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog. Note: A longtail was a gentleman's dog, or the dog of one qualified to bunt, other dogs being required to have their tails cut. Cut and longtail, all, gentlefolks and others, as they might come. Shak.","renascent":"1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced. 2. See Renaissant.","inculpate":"To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.","exacerbation":"1. The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion. 2. (Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.","allegorical":"Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. \"An allegoric tale.\" Falconer. \"An allegorical application.\" Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor\"ic*al*ness, n.","distressing":"Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.\n\nIn a distressing manner.","oust":"See Oast.\n\n1. To take away; to remove. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale. 2. To eject; to turn out. Blackstone. From mine own earldom foully ousted me. Tennyson.","decipherer":"One who deciphers.","sheldrake":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. Note: It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast, sides, and forward part of the back brown, the shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Called also shelduck, shellduck, sheldfowl, skeelduck, bergander, burrow duck, and links goose. Note: The Australian sheldrake (Tadorna radja) has the head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut sheldrake of Australia (Casarca tadornoides) is varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck (C. rutila), and the white-winged sheldrake (C. leucoptera), are related Asiatic species. 2. Any one of the American mergansers. Note: The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.","winkle-hawk":"A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.","almond furnace":"A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.","crept":"imp. & p. p. of Creep.","medicamental":"Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men\"tal*ly, adv.","cortex":"1. Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering. 2. (Med.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark. 3. (Anat.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.","forger":"One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. 2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.","arest":"A support for the spear when couched for the attack. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hence":"1. From this place; away. \"Or that we hence wend.\" Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21. 2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. \"Half an hour hence.\" Shak. 3. From this reason; as an inference or deduction. Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson. 4. From this source or origin. All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. Suckling. Whence come wars and fightings among you Come they not hence, even of your lusts James. iv. 1. Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. \"Hence with your little ones.\" Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden. Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow. Milton.\n\nTo send away. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.","amaritude":"Bitterness. [R.]","shrank":"imp. of Shrink.","gainsome":"1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. [Obs.] Massinger. 'GAINST; GAINST Gainst, prep. A contraction of Against.","progressist":"One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.","presignify":"To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.","hema-":"Same as Hæma-.","haematothermal":"Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.","rebate":"1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. Shak. 2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.\n\nTo abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] Foxe.\n\n1. Diminution. 2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. Bouvier.\n\n1. (Arch.) A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet. 2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes. 3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes. 4. Etym: [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] Elmes.\n\nTo cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.","diorama":"1. A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. 2. A building used for such an exhibition.","variably":"In a variable manner.","overbend":"To bend to excess.\n\nTo bend over. [R.]","inflex":"To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.","vidual":"Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","intercourse":"A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance.","marquetry":"Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.","cyclas":"A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.","nonmetallic":"1. Not metallic. 2. (Chem.) Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element.","set-off":"1. That which is set off against another thing; an offset. I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman. D. Jerrold. 2. That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament. 3. (Law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand. Note: Set-off differs from recoupment, as the latter generally grows out of the same matter or contract with the plaintiff's claim, while the former grows out of distinct matter, and does not of itself deny the justice of the plaintiff's demand. Offset is sometimes improperly used for the legal term set-off. See Recoupment. 4. (Arch.) Same as Offset, n., 4. 5. (Print.) See Offset, 7. Syn. -- Set-off, Offset. -- Offset originally denoted that which branches off or projects, as a shoot from a tree, but the term has long been used in America in the sense of set-off. This use is beginning to obtain in England; though Macaulay uses set-off, and so, perhaps, do a majority of English writers.","tonsure":"1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn. 2. (R. C. Ch.) (a) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders. (b) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank.","chlorite":"The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.\n\nAny salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.","centifolious":"Having a hundred leaves.","warrie":"See Warye. [Obs.]","s":"the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonanat, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a more hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, débris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, t\\'c5 255-261. Note: Both the form and the name of the letter S are derived from the Latin, which got the letter through the Greek from the Phænician. the ultimate origin is Egyptian. S is etymologically most nearly related to c, z, t, and r; as, in ice, OE. is; E. hence, OE. hennes; E. rase, raze; erase, razor; that, G. das; E. reason, F. raison, L. ratio; E. was, were; chair, chaise (see C, Z, T, and R.).","rustless":"Free from rust.","lignin":"A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents. Note: Recent authors have distinguished four forms of this substance, naming them lignose, lignin, lignone, and lignireose.","calumny":"False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. \"Infamouse calumnies.\" Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.","epichorial":"In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.","climacteric":"Relating to a climacteric; critical.\n\n1. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year. 2. Any critical period. It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.","clave":"imp. of Cleave. [Obs.]","nominalism":"The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.","bund":"League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.\n\nAn embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.","earable":"Arable; tillable. [Archaic]","bowery":"Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.\n\nA farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into \"villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.\" Bancroft.\n\nCharacteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.","inverness":"A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck. Robert's wind-blown head and tall form wrapped in an Inverness cape. Mrs. Humphry Ward.","evolation":"A flying out or up. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","sea gull":"Any gull living on the seacoast.","microbacteria":"In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. Note: In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes: 1. Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus. 2. Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form of short rods, including the genus Bacterium. 3. Desmobacteria, or bacteria in straight filaments, of which the genus Bacillus is a type. 4. Spirobacteria, or bacteria in spiral filaments, as the genus Vibrio.","rattlemouse":"A bat. [Obs.] Puttenham.","suspecter":"One who suspects.","attone":"See At one. [Obs.]","ambassadorial":"Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.","sweaty":"1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. \"The sweaty forge.\" Prior.","tricornigerous":"Having three horns.","irefulness":"Wrathfulness. Wyclif.","copelata":"See Larvalla.","rim":"1. The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin. 2. The lower part of the abdomen. [Obs.] Shak. Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate. -- Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge. -- Rim lock. See under Lock.\n\nTo furnish with a rim; to border.","ascititious":"Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.","amatorial":"Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.","sustentate":"To sustain. [R.] C. Reade.","hardwareman":"One who makes, or deals in, hardware.","adhesion":"1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey. 3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay. 4. (Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. 5. (Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process. 6. (Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. Syn. -- Adherence; union. See Adherence.","puttier":"One who putties; a glazier.","diarchy":"A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.","obstructionist":"One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a. Of or pertaining to obstructionists. [Recent]","alkahest":"The fabled \"universal solvent\" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes\"tic, a.","sadiron":"An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.","destination":"1. The act of destining or appointing. 2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design. 3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at. Syn. -- Appointment; design; purpose; intention; destiny; lot; fate; end.","prosaicism":"The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] Poe.","saxhorn":"A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.","low-churchmanship":"The state of being a low-churchman.","aphyllous":"Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.","maturation":"The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.","tithly":"Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] \"I have seen him trip it tithly.\" Beau. & Fl.","southmost":"Farthest toward the south; southernmost. [R.] Milton.","denote":"1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean. A general expression to denote wickedness of every sort. Gilpin.","twist":"1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope. 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. 3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. \"Longing to twist bays with that ivy.\" Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet. 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. 6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. Shak. 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story Shak. 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.\n\n1. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others. 2. To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.\n\n1. The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending. Not the least turn or twist in the fibers of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. Addison. 2. The form given in twisting. [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist. Arbuthnot. 3. That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts. Specifically: -- (a) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other. (b) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like. (c) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties. (d) A roll of twisted dough, baked. (e) A little twisted roll of tobacco. (f) (Weaving) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling. (g) (Firearms) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist. (h) (Firearms & Ord.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. (i) A beverage made of brandy and gin. [Slang] 4. Etym: [OE.; -- so called as being a two-forked branch. See Twist, v. t.] A twig. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax. Gain twist, or Gaining twist (Firearms), twist of which the pitch is less, and the inclination greater, at the muzzle than at the breech. -- Twist drill, a drill the body of which is twisted like that of an auger. See Illust. of Drill. -- Uniform twist (Firearms), a twist of which the spiral course has an equal pitch throughout.","cirripedia":"An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.","hollowness":"1. State of being hollow. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.","facient":"1. One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket. 2. (Mach.) (a) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient. (b) The multiplier. Note: The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or, in general, any mathematical operation. See Multiplication.","inhabitation":"1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. [Obs.] Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and of the world's inhabitation. Sir W. Raleigh.","phenakistoscope":"A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.","opinable":"Capable of being opined or thought. Holland.","gibe":"To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.\n\nTo reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock. Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them. Swift.\n\nAn expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer. Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns. Shak. With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me. Tennyson.","mongoos":"A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]","animative":"Having the power of giving life or spirit. Johnson.","kissing strings":"Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin. One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled. Pall Mall Mag.","auriphrygiate":"Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.","ebullition":"1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. 2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.] 3. A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.","souter":"A shoemaker; a cobbler. [Obs.] Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.","photolithographic":"Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.","pecora":"An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.","precipitant":"1. Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately. They leave their little lives Above the clouds, precipitant to earth. J. Philips. Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold, Precipitant in fear would wing their flight. Pope. 2. Unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless. Jer. Taylor. \"Precipitant rebellion.\" Eikon Basilike.\n\nAny force or reagent which causes the formation of a precipitate.","manuducent":"One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. [Obs.]","teste":"(a) A witness. (b) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like. Burrill.","cable":"1. A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. 2. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting, or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable. 3. (Arch) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. -- Cable's length, the length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or more; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). -- Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. -- Submarine cable. See Telegraph. -- To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. -- To serve the cable, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. -- To slip the cable, to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.\n\n1. To fasten with a cable. 2. (Arch.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.\n\nTo telegraph by a submarine cable [Recent]","monstrously":"In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. \"Who with his wife is monstrously in love.\" Dryden.","trachelorrhaphy":"The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.","flexible":"1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak. 3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers. Syn. -- Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex\"i*ble*ness, n. -- Flex\"i*bly, adv.","bathybius":"A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.","abegge":"Same as Aby. [Obs.] Chaucer.","acidify":"1. To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar. 2. To sour; to imbitter. His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle.","attendance":"1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding. 3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker. 4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.","equitation":"A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving.","analogicalness":"Quality of being analogical.","latirostres":"The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.","stramazoun":"A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","excommunicator":"One who excommunicates.","fricace":"1. Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. [Obs.] King. 2. An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.","gallstone":"A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.","algerine":"Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.\n\nA native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.","psychozoic":"Designating, or applied to the Era of man; as, the psychozoic era.","senescence":"The state of growing old; decay by time.","pilwe":"A pillow. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rudderless":"Without a rudder.","embryogenic":"Pertaining to the development of an embryo.","supercelestial":"1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.","sealing wax":"A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.","depart":"1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak. 3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison. 4. To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21. 5. To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29. To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer. 2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer. 3. To leave; to depart from. \"He departed this life.\" Addison. \"Ere I depart his house.\" Shak.\n\n1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon. 2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] At my depart for France. Shak. Your loss and his depart. Shak.","barbarian":"1. A foreigner. [Historical] Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 2. A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. 3. A person destitute of culture. M. Arnold. 4. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. \"Thou fell barbarian.\" Philips.\n\nOf, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.","lexicon":"A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.","garboil":"Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.","ruff":"(a) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares. (b) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.\n\nTo trump.\n\n1. A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. Here to-morrow with his best ruff on. Shak. His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff. Howell. 2. Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name. I reared this flower; . . . Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread. Pope. 3. An exhibition of pride or haughtiness. How many princes . . . in the ruff of all their glory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot! L'Estrange. 4. Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct. [Obs.] To ruffle it out in a riotous ruff. Latimer. 5. (Mil.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle. 6. (Mach.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar. 7. (Zoöl.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird. 8. (Zoöl.) (a) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, or Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve. (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.\n\n1. To ruffle; to disorder. Spenser. 2. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 3. (Hawking) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.\n\nA small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, or striped, perch.","lincture":"Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.","obsignatory":"Ratifying; confirming by sealing. [Obs.] Samuel Ward (1643)","isocyanuric":"Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuric acid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric.","clumpy":"Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.","kismet":"Destiny; fate. [Written also kismat.] [Oriental]","soupcon":"A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry.","stomatoscope":"An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.","aketon":"See Acton.","crump":"1. Crooked; bent. [Obs.] Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.","atomic":"1. Of or pertaining to atoms. 2. Extremely minute; tiny. Atomic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. -- Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.","phoebe":"The pewee, or pewit.","ptenoglossate":"Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.","meccawee":"Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Mecca.","quadriceps":"The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.","pragmatize":"To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize. [R.] \"A pragmatized metaphor.\" Tylor.","e-":"A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-.","sticked":"Stuck. And in the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne.","inorganical":"Inorganic. Locke.","press revise":"A proof for final revision.","carron oil":"A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.","disappointment":"1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble. 2. That which disappoints. Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk.","ipecac":"An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use.","relessee":"See Releasee.","dilaniation":"A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]","ethereally":"In an ethereal manner.","oestrian":"Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n. A gadfly.","desertrix":"A feminine deserter. Milton.","appropriament":"What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.","disobliger":"One who disobliges.","oblateness":"The quality or state of being oblate.","dissilient":"Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.","anagrammatic":"Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat\"ic*al*ly, adv.","astacus":"A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.","demure":"1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave. Sober, steadfast, and demure. Milton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black. 2. Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.\n\nTo look demurely. [Obs.] Shak.","berate":"To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.","tanka":"A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. S. W. Williams.","antipodagric":"Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout.","way shaft":"1. (Mach.) A rock shaft. 2. (Mining) An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Raymond.","laundering":"The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.","hydrophid":"Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.","irreligiousness":"The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.","virgo":"(a) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [ (b) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.","gamogenetic":"Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net\"ic*al*ly, adv.","mavournin":"My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. \"Erin mavournin.\" Campbell.","denomination":"1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke. 3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians. Syn. -- Name; appellation; title. See Name.","terrestrify":"To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","facingly":"In a facing manner or position.","religionism":"1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.","disenchant":"To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.","tolylene":"A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.","hatchettite":"Mineral t","whisperously":"Whisperingly. [R.]","overhaste":"Too great haste.","antinomian":"Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.\n\nOne who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.","dwale":"1. (Bot.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities. 2. (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures. 3. A sleeping potion; an opiate. Chaucer.","-one":"A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.\n\nA termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbonsl as, nonone.","lactim":"One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.","foxlike":"Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.","forlie":"See Forlie.","breathe":"1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. \"I am in health, I breathe.\" Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.\n\n1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden. 2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7. 3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow. He softly breathed thy name. Dryden. Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak. 4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes. 5. To express; to manifest; to give forth. Others articles breathe the same severe spirit. Milner. 6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. \"They breathe the flute.\" Prior. 7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise. And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. Shak. 8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott. 9. To put out of breath; to exhaust. Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens. 10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged Note: [in whispering]. H. Sweet. To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business. -- To breathe one's last, to die; to expire. -- To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood. Dryden.","nexus":"Connection; tie. Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.","cadastral":"Of or pertaining to landed property. Cadastral survey, or Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.","youthly":"Young; youthful. [Obs.] \"All my youthly days.\" Spenser.","incensebreathing":"Breathing or exhaling incense. \"Incense-breathing morn.\" Gray.","sain":"Said. Shak.\n\nTo sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence. [R.] Sir W. Scott.","decalcify":"To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.","movement":"1. The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement. 2. Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion. 3. Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement. 4. (Mus.) (a) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece. \"Any change of time is a change of movement.\" Busby. (b) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony. 5. (Mech.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement (Med.), an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement of the bowels, an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge. Syn. -- Motion. -- Movement, Motion. Motion expresses a general idea of not being at rest; movement is oftener used to express a definite, regulated motion, esp. a progress.","incommiscible":"Not commiscible; not mixable.","decalcification":"The removal of calcareous matter.","coiffeur":"A hairdresser.","sanctimony":"Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness. Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished. Shak.","destructively":"In a destructive manner.","unde":"Waving or wavy; -- applied to ordinaries, or division lines.","biogenist":"A believer in the theory of biogenesis.","heptylene":"A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.","inharmony":"Want of harmony.","travesty":"Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]\n\nA burlesque translation or imitation of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.\n\nTo translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.","dross":"1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. [R.] Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.","disfancy":"To dislike. [Obs.]","local":"Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. -- Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard. -- Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. -- Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. -- Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. -- Local option, the right or obligation of determining by popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall be allowed.\n\n1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.] 2. On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]","jacksaw":"The merganser.","pumpernickel":"A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.","negligence":"The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair. 3. (Law) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. Contributory negligence. See under Contributory. Syn. -- Neglect; inattention; heedlessness; disregard; slight. -- Negligence, Neglect. These two words are freely interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of leaving things undone or unattended to. We are negligent as a general trait of character; we are guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference to individuals who had a right to our attentions.","moon-eye":"1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.","nauseate":"To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.\n\n1. To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust. 2. To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. Blackmore.","imperiously":"In an imperious manner.","witwal":"(a) The golden oriole. (b) The greater spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]","fatuous":"1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill. 2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.","pinetum":"A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.","brayer":"An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.\n\nOne that brays like an ass. Pope.","crustal":"Relating to a crust.","dern":"A gatepost or doorpost. [Local Eng.] C. Kingsley.\n\n1. Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] \"Ye must be full dern.\" Chaucer. 2. Solitary; sad. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","rhizine":"A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.","salep":"The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water. U. S. Disp.","concatenate":"To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More","banisher":"One who banishes.","clatch":"1. A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud. 2. Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.\n\nTo daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]","moreness":"Greatness. [Obs.] Wyclif.","misy":"An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.","zoographer":"One who describes animals, their forms and habits.","eared":"1. Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long- eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared. 2. (Zoöl.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.","fructiferuos":"Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.","ornithologist":"One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.","vociferant":"Noisy; clamorous. Gauden. R. Browning.","coll":"To embrace. [Obs.] \"They coll and kiss him.\" Latimer.","bass-relief":"Some as Bas-relief.","fissiparism":"Reproduction by spontaneous fission.","divertible":"Capable of being diverted.","sleuth":"The track of man or beast as followed by the scent. [Scot.] Halliwell.","turatt":"The hare kangaroo.","counterirritate":"To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.","sleight":"1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] \"His sleight and his covin.\" Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. Chaucer. \"The juggler's sleight.\" Hudibras. Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation.","imbrocata":"A hit or thrust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","auricular":"1. Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves. 2. Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton. 3. Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence. \"Auricular assurance.\" Shak. 4. Received by the ear; known by report. \"Auricular traditions.\" Bacon. 5. (Anat.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart. Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.","moot-house":"A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] \"The moot-hall of Herod.\" Wyclif.","ret":"See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.","tupian":"Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes. Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest. The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called Tupi-Guaranian.","edentalous":"See Edentate, a.","huckstress":"A female huckster.","palesie":"Palsy. [Obs.] Wyclif.","esophagus":"That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also .]","malign":"1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon. 2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. 3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.\n\nTo treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.] The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser. 2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.\n\nTo entertain malice. [Obs.]","typal":"Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.","miscomfort":"Discomfort. [Obs.]","sauvegarde":"The monitor.","combustibleness":"Combustibility.","disobedience":"Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.","fleam":"A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.","granger stocks":"Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.","cafenet":"A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]","amorosity":"The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.","transcendence":"1. The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen. 2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] \"Where transcendencies are more allowed.\" Bacon.","turko":"One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk. [Written also Turco.]","sulphocyanogen":"See Persulphocyanogen. [Obs.]","roman":"1. Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art. 2. Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion. 3. (Print.) (a) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters. (b) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc. Roman alum (Chem.), a cubical potassium alum formerly obtained in large quantities from Italian alunite, and highly valued by dyers on account of its freedom from iron. -- Roman balance, a form of balance nearly resembling the modern steelyard. See the Note under Balance, n., 1. -- Roman candle, a kind of firework (generally held in the hand), characterized by the continued emission of shower of sparks, and the ejection, at intervals, of brilliant balls or stars of fire which are thrown upward as they become ignited. -- Roman Catholic, of, pertaining to, or the religion of that church of which the pope is the spiritual head; as, a Roman Catholic priest; the Roman Catholic Church. -- Roman cement, a cement having the property of hardening under water; a species of hydraulic cement. -- Roman law. See under Law. -- Roman nose, a nose somewhat aquiline. -- Roman ocher, a deep, rich orange color, transparent and durable, used by artists. Ure. -- Roman order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite, a., 2.\n\n1. A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred. 2. Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.","backsaw":"A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.","-mancy":"A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.","bestrew":"To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.","patent-hammered":"Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.","jugger":"An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.","petong":"See Packfong.","trubtall":"A short, squat woman. [Obs.] Ainsworth.","vulnerary":"Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. \"Such vulnerary remedies.\" Sir W. Scott. -- n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulnéraire.] (Med.) A vulnerary remedy.","scrimpness":"The state of being scrimp.","benzile":"A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.","ptyxis":"The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.","agnostic":"Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos\"tic*al*ly, adv.\n\nOne who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.","gynecology":"The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women. -- Gyn`e*col\"o*gist.","bonbon":"Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.","murrelet":"One of several species of sea birds of the genera Synthliboramphus and Brachyramphus, inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.","tride":"Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.","panspermic":"Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.","amends":"Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] \"An honorable amends.\" Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.","dawe":"Day. [Obs.] Chaucer.","gorgonize":"To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [R.]","fabric":"1. The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric. 2. That which is fabricated; as : (a) Framework; structure; edifice; building. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. Milton. (b) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics. 3. The act of constructing; construction. [R.] Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabricof the churches for the poor. Milman. 4. Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.\n\nTo frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] \"Fabric their mansions.\" J. Philips.","demolisher":"One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.","hornfish":"The garfish or sea needle.","lucidly":"In a lucid manner.","rightwisely":"Righteously. [Obs.]","tene":"See 1st and 2d Teen. [Obs.]","crossruff":"The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.","anthology":"1. A discourses on flowers. [R.] 2. A collection of flowers; a garland. [R.] 3. A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams. 4. (Gr. Ch.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.","disarrayment":"Disorder. [R.] Feltham.","nitro-chloroform":"Same as Chlorpicrin.","anybody":"1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay. 2. A person of consideration or standing. [Colloq.] All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.","virgularian":"Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidæ. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.","pneumogastric":"Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.","bayard":"1. Etym: [OF. bayard, baiart, bay horse; bai bay + -ard. See Bay, a., and -ard.] Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips. 2. Etym: [Cf. F. bayeur, fr. bayer to gape.] A stupid, clownish fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","levigable":"Capable of being levigated.","penetratingly":"In a penetrating manner.","bullfighting":"A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull\"fight`er (, n.","snarler":"One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.\n\nOne who makes use of a snarling iron.","bismuthine":"Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.","piprine":"Of or pertaining to the pipras, or the family Pipridæ.","misesteem":"Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.","pyrocoll":"A yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained by the distillation of gelatin.","compound control":"A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.","lymphated":"Frightened into madness; raving. [Obs.]","heroess":"A heroine. [Obs.] Dryden.","stultiloquy":"Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.","boroughmongering":"The practices of a boroughmonger.","panshon":"An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","indeliberated":"Indeliberate. [Obs.]","urn-shaped":"Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.","intemperament":"A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [R.] Harvey.","directly":"1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. \"To run directly on.\" Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means. 3. Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker. 4. Exactly; just. Stand you directly in Antonius' way. Shak. 5. Straightforwardly; honestly. I have dealt most directly in thy affair. Shak. 6. Manifestly; openly. [Obs.] Desdemona is directly in love with him. Shak. 7. Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. \"Will she go now to bed' Directly.'\" Shak. 8. Immediately after; as soon as. Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed. Dickens. Note: This use of the word is common in England, especially in colloquial speech, but it can hardly be regarded as a well-sanctioned or desirable use. Directly proportional (Math.), proportional in the order of the terms; increasing or decreasing together, and with a constant ratio; -- opposed to inversely proportional. Syn. -- Immediately; forthwith; straightway; instantly; instantaneously; soon; promptly; openly; expressly. -- Directly, Immediately, Instantly, Instantaneously. Directly denotes, without any delay or diversion of attention; immediately implies, without any interposition of other occupation; instantly implies, without any intervention of time. Hence, \"I will do it directly,\" means, \"I will go straightway about it.\" \"I will do it immediately,\" means, \"I will do it as the very next thing.\" \"I will do it instantly,\" allows not a particle of delay. Instantaneously, like instantly, marks an interval too small to be appreciable, but commonly relates to physical causes; as, the powder touched by fire instantaneously exploded.","pasteurize":"1. To subject to pasteurization. 2. To treat by pasteurizm.","upgaze":"To gaze upward. Byron.","summersault":"See Somersault, Somerset.","glumpy":"Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] \"He was glumpy enough.\" T. Hook.","toged":"Togated. [Obs. or R.] Shak.","gerah":"A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel. Note: The silver gerah is supposed to have been worth about three cents; the gold about fifty-four cents; the weight equivalent to about thirteen grains.","way-going":"Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. Way-going crop (Law of Leases), a crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease. Burrill.","alluring":"That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur\"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur\"ing*ness, n.","box-iron":"A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.","intent":"1. Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement. 2. Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure. \"Intent on mischief.\" Milton. Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker. I. Watts.\n\nThe act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim. Be thy intents wicked or charitable. Shak. The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the Hooker. To all intents, and purposes, in all applications or senses; practically; really; virtually; essentially. \"He was miserable to all intents and purpose.\" L'Estrange. Syn. -- Design; purpose; intention; meaning; purport; view; drift; object; end; aim; plan.","presphenoid":"Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the presphenoid bone). Presphenoid bone (Anat.), the anterior part of the body of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young or fetus, but becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.\n\nThe presphenoid bone.","principality":"1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. Jer. Taylor. 2. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. \"Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime.\" Milton. 3. The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.","loathy":"Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.","reflexed":"Bent backward or outward.","fan-nerved":"Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.","lagarto":"An alligator. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.","countryman":"1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.","alkargen":"Same as Cacodylic acid.","klamaths":"A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.","redemptive":"Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.","coinheritor":"A coheir.","crocin":"(a) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts. (b) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.","portuary":"A breviary. [Eng.]","whim":"The European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice. Let every man enjoy his whim. Churchill. 2. (Mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey. Whim gin (Mining), a whim. See Whim, 2. -- Whim shaft (Mining), a shaft through which ore, water, etc., is raised from a mine by means of a whim. Syn. -- Freak; caprice; whimsey; fancy. -- Whim, Freak, Caprice. Freak denotes an impulsive, inconsiderate change of mind, as by a child or a lunatic. Whim is a mental eccentricity due to peculiar processes or habits of thought. Caprice is closely allied in meaning to freak, but implies more definitely a quality of willfulness or wantonness.\n\nTo be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish. [R.] Congreve.","sea heath":"A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.","volatility":"Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.","sopition":"The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.] Dementation and sopition of reason. Sir T. Browne.","mete":"Meat. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo meet. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] \"I mette of him all night.\" Chaucer.\n\nTo find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.\n\nTo measure. [Obs.] Mark iv. 24.\n\nMeasure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.","abnegator":"One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]","violin":"A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle. Note: The violin is distinguished for the brilliancy and gayety, as well as the power and variety, of its tones, and in the orchestra it is the leading and most important instrument.","striate":"To mark with striaæ. \"Striated longitudinally.\" Owen.\n\nMarked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.","gawntree":"See Gauntree.","frondation":"The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.","terma":"The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.","cenogamy":"The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.","glauberite":"A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime. GLAUBER'S SALT; GLAUBER'S SALTS Glau\"ber's salt` or; Glau\"ber's salts` (. Etym: [G. glaubersalz, from Glauber, a German chemist who discovered it. See Glauberite.] Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called \"salts.\" Note: It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as the mineral mirabilite. It is manufactured in large quantities as an intermediate step in the \"soda process,\" and also for use in glass making.","annotine":"A bird one year old, or that has once molted.","fiacre":"A kind of French hackney coach.","hemiditone":"The lesser third. Busby.","carnin":"A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.","demosthenic":"Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.","tasty":"1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.","smoke":"1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like. Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. Shak. 4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.] Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self- explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke- stained, etc. Smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive. -- Smoke ball (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke. -- Smoke black, lampblack. [Obs.] -- Smoke board, a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room. -- Smoke box, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney. -- Smoke sail (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck. -- Smoke tree (Bot.), a shrub (Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke. -- To end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. Syn. -- Fume; reek; vapor.\n\n1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton. 2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man. Deut. xxix. 20. 3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. Dryden. 4. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner. 5. To suffer severely; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shak.\n\n1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation. 2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. \"Smoking the temple.\" Chaucer. 3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison. 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang] 5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar. 6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.","bondholder":"A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.","incurvity":"A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards. Sir T. Browne.","caudate":"Having a taill; having a termination like a tail.","whitworth ball":"A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.","alphabetics":"The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.","bilsted":"See Sweet gum.","quadratrix":"A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.","strategetics":"Strategy.","soullessly":"In a soulless manner. Tylor.","labiatifloral":"Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.\n\nHaving labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.","margaritiferous":"Producing pearls.","bullweed":"Knapweed. Prior.","blowse":"See Blowze.","subserous":"Situated under a serous membrane.","preteriteness":"Same as Preteritness.","gue":"A sharper; a rogue. [Obs.] J. Webstar.","mortifying":"1. Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh. 2. Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances. 3. Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.","clearing":"1. The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South. 2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. J. Burroughs. 3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts. Note: In England, a similar method has been adopted by railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other. 4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.","refringency":"The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.","suffocating":"from Suffocate, v. -- Suf\"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.","jeremiad":"A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically. He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad. Lamb.","champ":"1. To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden. 2. To bite into small pieces; to crunch. Steele.\n\nTo bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.\n\nThe field or ground on which carving appears in relief.","ferity":"Wildness; savageness; fierceness. [Obs.] Woodward.","enseam":"To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain. Camden.\n\nTo cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [Obs.] In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak.","fonge":"To take; to receive. [Obs.] Chaucer.","kirmess":"In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined.","mispend":"See Misspell, Misspend, etc.","rock shaft":"A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.","schemist":"A schemer. [R.] Waterland.","symmetry":"1. A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole. 2. (Biol.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or two-sidedness, in vertebrates, etc., is that in which the body can be divided into symmetrical halves by a vertical plane passing through the middle; radial symmetry, as in echinoderms, is that in which the individual parts are arranged symmetrically around a central axis; serial symmetry, or zonal symmetry, as in earthworms, is that in which the segments or metameres of the body are disposed in a zonal manner one after the other in a longitudinal axis. This last is sometimes called metamerism. 3. (Bot.) (a) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower. (b) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity. Axis of symmetry. (Geom.) See under Axis. -- Respective symmetry, that disposition of parts in which only the opposite sides are equal to each other.","ungracious":"1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling. Shak. 2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. [Obs.] Shak. 3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra\"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra\"cious*ness, n.","summerliness":"The quality or state of being like summer. [R.] Fuller.","syrian":"Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n. A native of Syria.","chivy":"To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.","thermoneurosis":"(a) A neurosis caused by exposure to heat. (b) A neurosis causing rise or fall of a body's temperature.","porbeagle":"A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark. [Written also probeagle.]","eat":"1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. \"To eat grass as oxen.\" Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray. 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie. See under Humble. -- To eat of (partitive use). \"Eat of the bread that can not waste.\" Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. \"Eat out the heart and comfort of it.\" Tillotson. -- To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn. -- To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.\n\n1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13. 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. 3. To make one's way slowly. To eat, To eat in or into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. \"A sword laid by, which eats into itself.\" Byron. -- To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.","divedapper":"A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.","curialist":"One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.","metoche":"(a) The space between two dentils. (b) The space between two triglyphs.","pruner":"1. One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.","vanadium":"A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Sumbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.","skein":"1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot. Note: A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel. 2. (Wagon Making) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.\n\nA flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like). [Prov. Eng.]","nidorous":"Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter. [R.]","sienite":"See Syenite.","lanyer":"See Lanier.","impounder":"One who impounds.","testaceography":"The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]","vasoformative":"Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.","newfangle":"Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.\n\nTo change by introducing novelties. [Obs.]","knopweed":"Same as Knapweed.","wardship":"1. The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone. 2. The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship. B. Jonson.","froggy":"Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.","gasoline":"A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.","trifoliated":"Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.","crail":"A creel or osier basket.","exoteric":"External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.","bordeller":"A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.","preconcerted":"Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert\"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert\"ed*ness, n.","holostomate":"Same as Holostomatous.","sklere":"To shelter; to cover. [Obs.]","homoorgan":"Same as Homoplast.","rallentando":"Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.","benzoate":"A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.","mirificent":"Wonderful. [Obs.]","ospray":"The fishhawk.","abiogenesis":"The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.","inturbidate":"To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. [R.] The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.","cultural":"Of or pertaining to culture.","otozoum":"An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.","spilth":"Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion. [Archaic] \"With drunken spilth of wine.\" Shak. Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth. R. Browning.","vex":"1. To to White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. Pope. 2. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. \"I will not vex your souls.\" Shak. Then thousand torments vex my heart. Prior. 3. To twist; to weave. [R.] Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom. Dryden. Syn. -- See Tease.\n\nTo be irritated; to fret. [R.] Chapman.","disquieter":"One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.","lingam":"The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power. Whitworth. E. Arnold.","welsher":"One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it. [Written also welcher.] [Slang, Eng.]","nard":"1. (Bot.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery. 2. An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard. 3. (Bot.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.","caloriduct":"A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.","symphyla":"An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.","block system":"A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.","couch":"1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak. 2. To arrauge or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. T. Burnet. 3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. Bacon. 4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. 5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange. 6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] Chaucer. 7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. A well-couched invective. Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. Blackw. Mag. 8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. To couch a spear or lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.\n\n1. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand. Shak. If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men. Shak. 2. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor. 3. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. [Obs.] An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield three-square. Spenser.\n\n1. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. 2. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. 3. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt. 4. (Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.","inserted":"Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.","adnoun":"An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.","excerp":"To pick out. [Obs.] Hales.","surety":"1. The state of being sure; certainty; security. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. Gen. xv. 13. For the more surety they looked round about. Sir P. Sidney. 2. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. [We] our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none. Milton. 3. Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act. There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us. Shak. 4. (Law) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15. 5. Hence, a substitute; a hostage. Cowper. 6. Evidence; confirmation; warrant. [Obs.] She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself. Shak.\n\nTo act as surety for. [Obs.] Shak.","harken":"To hearken. Tennyson.","versal":"Universal. [Obs. or Colloq.] Shak.","vinatico":"Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.","discurrent":"Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.","beete":"1. To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To renew or enkindle (a fire). [Obs.] Chaucer.","disquietive":"Tending to disquiet. [R.]","dalf":"imp. of Delve. [Obs.] Chaucer.","capitan pacha":"The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.","ossiculum":"Same as Ossicle.","catpipe":"See Catcall.","quet":"The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]","agronomics":"The science of the distribution and management of land.","hippocentaur":"Same as Centaur.","nondecane":"A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.","metallurgical":"Of or pertaining to metallurgy.","contract system":"1. The sweating system. 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.","manurable":"1. Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale. 2. Capable of receiving a fertilizing substance.","parallactic":"Of or pertaining to a parallax.","ascensive":"1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. Owen. 2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive. Ellicott.","cowslipped":"Adorned with cowslips. \"Cowslipped lawns.\" Keats. COW'S LUNGWORT Cow's\" lung\"wort` (kouz\" lng\"wrt`). Mullein.","ablastemic":"Non-germinal.","bivious":"Having, or leading, two ways. Bivious theorems and Janus-faced doctrines. Sir T. Browne.","dead-stroke":"Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.","procerebrum":"The prosencephalon.","sleep-charged":"Heavy with sleep.","interlucation":"Act of thinning a wood to let in light. [Obs.] Evelyn.","loricate":"To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.\n\nCovered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.\n\nAn animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.","preconcert":"To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.\n\nSomething concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.","subquinquefid":"Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.","cetacea":"An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.","gasalier":"A chandelier arranged to burn gas.","warp knitting":"A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side.","postdiluvial":"Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.","debenture":"1. A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due. 2. A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill. Note: It is applied in England to deeds of mortgage given by railway companies for borrowed money; also to municipal and other bonds and securities for money loaned.","sophism":"The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or \"fallacy\". I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. I. Taylor.","strewn":"p. p. of Strew.","spongin":"The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.","bedel":",n.Same as Beadle.","quillback":"An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, or Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.","dickcissel":"The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).","freebootery":"The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.","photolithography":"The art or process of producing photolithographs.","tentacular":"Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.","calceiform":"Shaped like a plipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.","centrum":"The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.","circulary":"Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] \"Cross and circulary speeches.\" Hooker.","whiskey ring":"A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.","vitrify":"To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.\n\nTo become glass; to be converted into glass. Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire. Arbuthnot.","motherland":"The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.","sloat":"A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.","lustless":"1. Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. Free from sexual lust.","quarrellous":"Quarrelsome. [Obs.] [Written also quarrellous.] Shak.","nigritic":"Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.","belamy":"Good friend; dear friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.","zooeloger":"A zoölogist. Boyle.","suberate":"A salt of suberic acid.","wizard":"1. A wise man; a sage. [Obs.] See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! Milton. 2. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.\n\n1. Enchanting; charming. Collins. 2. Haunted by wizards. Where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Milton.","actiniform":"Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.","draconic":"Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.","erasion":"The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.","pregravate":"To bear down; to depress. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","raid":"1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids. H. Spenser. Note: A Scottish word which came into common use in the United States during the Civil War, and was soon extended in its application. 2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]\n\nTo make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.","contestingly":"In a contending manner.","saveloy":"A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.","sneck":"To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck up, be silent; shut up; hold your peace. Shak.\n\nA door latch. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck band, a latchstring. Burns. -- Sneck drawer, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly person; a cozener; a cheat; -- called also sneckdraw. -- Sneck drawing, lifting the latch.","decedent":"Removing; departing. Ash.\n\nA deceased person. Bouvier.","pavilion":"1. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. \"[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions.\" Shak. 2. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. 3. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. 4. (Her.) Same as Tent (Her.) 5. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. 6. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. 7. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. The pavilion of heaven is bare. Shelley.\n\nTo furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. Milton.","surstyle":"To surname. [R.]","inhibition":"1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo. 2. (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. 3. (Law) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.","turtle":"The turtledove.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) Any one of the numerous species of Testudinata, especially a sea turtle, or chelonian. Note: In the United States the land and fresh-water tortoises are also called turtles. 2. (Printing) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press. Alligator turtle, Box turtle, etc. See under Alligator, Box, etc. -- green turtle (Zoöl.), a marine turtle of the genus Chelonia, having usually a smooth greenish or olive-colored shell. It is highly valued for the delicacy of its flesh, which is used especially for turtle soup. Two distinct species or varieties are known; one of which (Chelonia Midas) inhabits the warm part of the Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes weighs eight hundred pounds or more; the other (C. virgata) inhabits the Pacific Ocean. Both species are similar in habits and feed principally on seaweed and other marine plants, especially the turtle grass. -- Turtle cowrie (Zoöl.), a large, handsome cowrie (Cypræa testudinaria); the turtle-shell; so called because of its fancied resemblance to a tortoise in color and form. -- Turtle grass (Bot.), a marine plant (Thalassia testudinum) with grasslike leaves, common about the West Indies. -- Turtle shell, tortoise shell. See under Tortoise.","pestilence":"1. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6. 2. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers. I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. Shak. Pestilence weed (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot (Petasites vulgaris), so called because formerly considered a remedy for the plague. Dr. Prior.","comfrey":"A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum. Note: A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the \"common comfrey\" (S. officinale) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic \"prickly comfrey\" (S. asperrimum) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant.","internuncius":"Internuncio.","orthotropic":"Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems. Encyc. Brit.","woul":"To howl. [Obs.] Wyclif.","crownlet":"A coronet. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott.","apheliotropic":"Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.","bom":"A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.","mexicanize":"To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country, esp. in respect of frequent revolutions of government.\n\nTo become like the Mexicans, or their country or government.","sedulity":"The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness. The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter. Feltham.","intendedly":"Intentionally. [R.] Milton.","congeries":"A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.","externality":"State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation from the perceiving mind. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. A. Smith.","myomancy":"Divination by the movements of mice.","twin":"1. Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister. 2. Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with. Shak. 3. (Bot.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts. 4. (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4. Twin boat, or Twin ship (Naut.), a vessel whose deck and upper works rest on two parallel hulls. -- Twin crystal. See Twin, n., 4. -- Twin flower (Bot.), a delicate evergreen plant (Linnæa borealis) of northern climates, which has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk. -- Twin-screw steamer, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel.\n\n1. One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young. 2. pl. (Astron.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini. 3. A person or thing that closely resembles another. 4. (Crystallog.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other. Note: The relative position of the parts of a twin may be explained by supposing one part to be revolved 180º about a certain axis (called the twinning axis), this axis being normal to a plane (called the twinning plane) which is usually one of the fundamental planes of the crystal. This revolution brings the two parts into parallel position, or vice versa. A contact twin is one in which the parts are united by a plane surface, called the composition face, which is usually the same as the twinning plane. A penetration twin is one in which the parts interpenetrate each other, often very irregularly. Twins are also called, according to form, cruciform, geniculated, etc.\n\n1. To bring forth twins. Tusser. 2. To be born at the same birth. Shak.\n\n1. To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way. Shak. Still we moved Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye. Tennyson. 2. To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. [Obs.] The life out of her body for to twin. Chaucer.\n\nTo depart from a place or thing. [Obs.] \"Ere that we farther twin.\" Chaucer.","festucous":"Formed or consisting of straw. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","ignatius bean":"See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint.","semiovate":"Half ovate.","shadowish":"Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.","textural":"Of or pertaining to texture.","hunter":"1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman. 2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak. 3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. 4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson. 5. (Zoöl.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.","cabiri":"Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.","exhibit":"1. To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope. 2. (Law) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon. 3. (Med.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel. To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates. -- To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]\n\n1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit. 2. (Law) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.","sepon":"See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]","cyclostomi":"A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.","countersecure":"To give additional security to or for. Burke.","emu":"A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.] Note: The name is sometimes erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the rhea, or South American ostrich. Emu wren. See in the Vocabulary.","spinulous":"Covered with small spines.","whiggism":"The principles of the Whigs.","smeller":"1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. 2. The nose. [Pugilists' Slang]","censorial":"1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius. 2. Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.","luting":"See Lute, a cement.","transit":"1. The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke. 2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country. 3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit. E. G. Squier. 4. (Astron.) (a) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. (b) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary. 5. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit. Note: The surveyor's transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the telescope which is not mounted in Y's and can be turned completely over about the axis. Lower transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is below the polar axis. -- Surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above. -- Transit circle (Astron.), a transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination at one observation. See Circle, n., 3. -- Transit compass. See Transit, 5, above. -- Transit duty, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country. -- Transit instrument. (Astron.) (a) A telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, -- used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above. -- Transit trade (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their destination. -- Upper transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is above the polar axis.\n\nTo pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).","indevotion":"Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion. \"An age of indevotion.\" Jer. Taylor.","ministry":"1. The act of ministering; ministration; service. \"With tender ministry.\" Thomson. 2. Hence: Agency; instrumentality. The ordinary ministry of second causes. Atterbury. The wicked ministry of arms. Dryden. 3. The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession. 4. The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body. 5. Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.","cowhage":"A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]","loathful":"1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. \"Loathful eyes.\" Spenser. 2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. Spenser.","sidesaddle":"A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.","ossiferous":"Containing or yielding bone.","asoak":"Soaking.","anatron":"1. Native carbonate of soda; natron. 2. Glass gall or sandiver. 3. Saltpeter. Coxe. Johnson.","consummate":"Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect. \"A man of perfect and consummate virtue.\" Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley\n\nTo bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve. To consummate this business happily. Shak.","axiomatical":"Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. \"Axiomatical truth.\" Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.","trolley wire":"A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current.","sarracenia":"A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. Note: They have hollow pitcher-shaped or tubular leaves, and solitary flowers with an umbrella-shaped style. Sarracenia purpurea, the sidesaddle flower, is common at the North; S. flava, rubra, Drummondii, variolaris, and psittacina are Southern species. All are insectivorous, catching and drowning insects in their curious leaves. See Illust. of Sidesaddle flower, under Sidesaddle.","revisable":"That may be revised.","heptachord":"1. (Anc. Mus.) (a) A system of seven sounds. (b) A lyre with seven chords. 2. (Anc. Poet.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (Encyc. of Music).","nof":"Not of; nor of. [Obs.]","easting":"The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.","fat-kidneyed":"Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.","proverbialize":"To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.","lardry":"A larder. [Obs.]","eschaunge":"Exchange. [Obs.]","geloscopy":"Divination by means of laughter.","lysis":"The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change. Note: It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.","unsceptered":"1. Etym: [Pref. un- not + sceptered.] Having no scepter. 2. Etym: [1st pref. un- + scepter.] Deprived of a scepter.","unsonable":"Incapable of being sounded. [Obs.]","vastidity":"Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] \"All the world's vastidity.\" Shak.","elul":"The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.","bipinnate":"Twice pinnate.","truthful":"Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth\"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth\"ful*ness, n.","lethargize":"To make lethargic. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.","geogony":"The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.","megaric":"Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece. Megarian, or Megaric, school, a school of philosophy established at Megara, after the death of Socrates, by his disciples, and remarkable for its logical subtlety.","peccantly":"In a peccant manner.","rajpoot":"A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.","oscillating":"That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.","foxish":"Foxlike. [Obs.]","temptability":"The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.","wrawness":"Peevishness; ill temper; anger. [Obs.] Chaucer.","impartment":"The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. [R.] It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.","respire":"1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser. Here leave me to respire. Milton. From the mountains where I now respire. Byron. 2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.\n\n1. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe. A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while. Byron. 2. To breathe out; to exhale. [R.] B. Jonson.","timmer":"Same as 1st Timber. [Scot.]","trustily":"In a trusty manner.","dispauper":"To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.","itchiness":"The state of being itchy.","parqueted":"Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. Evelyn.","reclining":"(a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. (b) Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).","forgetful":"1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2. 3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic or Poetic] \"The forgetful wine.\" J. Webster.","defence":"See Defense.\n\n1. The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger. In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. Shak. 2. That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak. 3. Protecting plea; vindication; justification. Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense. Acts xxii. 1. 4. (Law) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. A man of great defense. Spenser. By how much defense is better than no skill. Shak. 6. Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.] Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. Sir W. Temple.","held":"imp. & p. p. of Hold.","sniveler":"One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.","topic":"(a) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory. (b) pl. A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic, but a transcendent that runs through all topics. Jer. Taylor. 2. An argument or reason. [Obs.] Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins. 3. The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head. 4. (Med.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.\n\nTopical. Drayton. Holland.","prelect":"To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.\n\nTo discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.","arguer":"One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.","discretionally":"At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.","barger":"The manager of a barge. [Obs.]","recouch":"To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.","snowy":"1. White like snow. \"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.\" Shak. 2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. \"The snowy top of cold Olympus.\" Milton. 3. Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. There did he lose his snowy innocence. J. Hall (1646). Snowy heron (Zoöl.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chili; -- called also plume bird. -- Snowy lemming (Zoöl.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. -- Snowy owl (Zoöl.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl. -- Snowy plover (Zoöl.), a small plover (Ægialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.","fiducially":"With confidence. South.","bogie engine":"A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.","sordid":"1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. \"To scorn the sordid world.\" Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. Sir J. Denham.","defoul":"1. To tread down. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. To make foul; to defile. [Obs.] Wyclif.","doko":"See Lepidosiren.","melodize":"To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.\n\nTo make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.","squintifego":"Squinting. [Obs. & R.]","retrocession":"1. The act of retroceding. 2. The state of being retroceded, or granted back. 3. (Med.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.","contumacy":"1. Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype. 2. (Law) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. Syn. -- Stubbornness; perverseness; obstinacy.","sea room":"Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.","velours":"One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.","trey":"Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips. Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey. Chaucer.","esthesiometer":"An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.\n\nSame as Æsthesiometer.","toponymy":"A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms. -- To*pon\"y*mal (#), Top`o*nym\"ic (#), Top`o*nym\"ic*al (#), a.","pessimist":"1. (Metaph.) One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist. 2. One who looks on the dark side of things.\n\nOf or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. \"Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt.\" Encyc. Brit.","phenicious":"Of a red color with a slight mixture of gray. Dana.","undergrub":"To undermine. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","wringer":"1. One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner. 2. A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.","offscouring":"That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.","free-minded":"Not perplexed; having a mind free from care. Bacon.","blackcap":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. (b) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. 2. (Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. 3. The black raspberry.","refragate":"To oppose. [R.] Glanvill.","inodorous":"Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o\"dor*ous*ness, n.","nomen":"of Nim. Chaucer.","dustpan":"A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.","fertilize":"1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace.","cathead":"A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.","parallelogrammic":"Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]","plain-spoken":"Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.","treasure-trove":"Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.","duskiness":"The state of being dusky.","projectment":"Design; contrivance; projection. [Obs.] Clarendon.","terminer":"A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.","engrain":"1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott. 3. To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.","unto":"1. To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To. 2. Until; till. [Obs.] \"He shall abide it unto the death of the priest.\" Num. xxxv. 25.\n\nUntil; till. [Obs.] \"Unto this year be gone.\" Chaucer.","metate":"A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle. [Southwestern U. S. & Sp. Amer.]","nodosarine":"Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. -- n. (Zoöl.) A foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or of an allied genus.","osiery":"An osier bed.","zygobranchiate":"Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.","irrelation":"The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.","cataphysical":"Unnatural; contrary to nature. [R.] Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.","tonguester":"One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.","except":"1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. Except thou wilt except against my love. Shak.\n\nWith exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. Milton. Syn. -- Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides. Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. \"I have finished all the letters except one,\" is more marked than \"I have finished all the letters but one.\" Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. \"There is no one here except or but him,\" means, take him away and there is nobody present. \"There is nobody here besides him,\" means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. \"Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.\" In this example, besides should be used, not except.\n\nUnless; if it be not so that. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen. xxxii. 26. But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. Tennyson. Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.","hyndreste":"See Hinderest. [Obs.]","pyrotic":"Caustic. See Caustic. -- n. (Med.) A caustic medicine.","dislikelihood":"The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.","mistook":"of Mistake.","garlic":"1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable. 2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] Taylor (1630). Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.","canadian":"Of or pertaining to Canada. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Canada. Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.","hike":"To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] \"If you persist in heaving and hiking like this.\" Kipling. It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went. Scribner's Mag.\n\nTo move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. [Dial. or Colloq.]\n\nThe act of hiking; a tramp; a march. [Dial. or Colloq.] With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed. Scribner's Mag.","mulattress":"A female mulatto. G. W. Gable.","slightful":"See Sleightful. [Obs.]","gazelle":"One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.] Note: The common species of Northern Africa (Gazella dorcas); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel (G. Arabica); the mohr of West Africa (G. mohr); the Indian (G. Bennetti); the ahu or Persian (G. subgutturosa); and the springbok or tsebe (G. euchore) of South Africa, are the best known.","amentiferous":"Bearing catkins. Balfour.","cerebro-spinal":"Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid secreted by the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.","involuntariness":"The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.","acquirer":"A person who acquires.","clinker-built":"Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.","experiencer":"1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. [Obs.] Sir. K. Gigby.","gyrose":"Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro. Loudon.","octoate":"A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.","subscriber":"1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing. 2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. Dryden.","jar":"A turn. [Only in phrase.] On the jar, on the turn, ajar, as a door.\n\n1. A deep, broad-mouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar. Dryden. 2. The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves. Bell jar, Leyden jar. See in the Vocabulary.\n\n1. To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony Shak. A string may jar in the best master's hand. Roscommon. 2. To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute. When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar. Spenser. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.\n\n1. To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith. 2. To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off. [Obs.] My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes. Shak.\n\n1. A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds. 2. Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement. And yet his peace is but continual jar. Spenser. Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace. Shak. 3. A regular vibration, as of a pendulum. I love thee not a jar of the clock. Shak. 4. pl. In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.","mugginess":"The condition or quality of being muggy.","ubiquist":"One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.","toxiphobia":"An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.","inducteous":"Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.","goblet":"A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham.","scathless":"Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson. He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott.","ancestress":"A female ancestor.","stage director":"One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.","ultraviolet":"Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.","klipdachs":"A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit.","britannic":"Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.","pseudo-":"A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo- clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.","transduction":"The act of conveying over. [R.] Entick.","skun":"See Scum.","cespititious":"Same as Cespitious. [R.] Gough.","admirably":"In an admirable manner.","fungilliform":"Shaped like a small fungus.","evergreen state":"Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.","incompetency":"1. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. \"Some inherent incompetency.\" Gladstone. 2. (Law) Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause. Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.","ulcuscle":"A little ulcer. [R.]","hunkers":"In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.] Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge. Kipling.","sick-brained":"Disordered in the brain.","ulluco":"See Melluc.","electrolyzation":"The act or the process of electrolyzing.","reflected":"1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. 2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. 3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.","volador":"(a) A flying fish of California (Exocoetus Californicus): -- called also volator. (b) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.","organific":"Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. Prof. Park.","perturber":"One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.","granitoid":"Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.","opisthoglypha":"A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.","matt":"See Matte. Knight.","embower":"To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] \"In their wide boughs embow'ring. \" Spenser.","discontinuee":"One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.","ecclesiology":"The science or theory of church building and decoration.","above-mentioned":"Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.","overcoming":"Conquering; subduing. -- O`ver*com\"ing*ly, adv.","viscidity":"The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.","alphabet":"1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.\n\nTo designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]","wrap":"To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.\n\n1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. John xx. 6, 7. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. Milton. 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. Locke.\n\nA wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.","pott":"A size of paper. See under Paper.","ecrasement":"The operation performed with an écraseur.","nucellus":"See Nucleus, 3 (a).","dysenteric":"Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. \"Dysenteric symptoms.\" Copland.","fisk":"To run about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer.","various":"1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable. A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden. The names of mixed modes . . . are very various. Locke. 3. Variegated; diversified; not monotonous. A happy rural seat of various view. Milton.","barbicel":"One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.","partisanship":"The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.","abalienation":"The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]","shiraz":"A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.","piqueerer":"See Pickeerer. [R.]","timidity":"The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.","acromial":"Of or pertaining to the acromion. Dunglison.","shipbuilder":"A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.","combinate":"United; joined; betrothed. [R.]","intext":"The text of a book. [R.] Herrick.","systole":"1. (Gram.) The shortening of the long syllable. 2. (Physiol.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.","althorn":"An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.","momentally":"For a moment. [Obs.]","angina":"Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.","water leg":"See Leg, 7.","enterdeal":"Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.","orientness":"The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. [Obs.] Fuller.","dartoid":"Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.","defiler":"One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.","ataunt":"Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.","spitalhouse":"A hospital. [Obs.]","nobbler":"A dram of spirits. [Australia]","epitrope":"A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., \"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.\"","jantu":"A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.","clavated":"Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. Note: [See Illust. of Antennae.]","buttonball":"See Buttonwood.","abraxas":"A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.","luffa":"(a) A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Ægyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds. (b) Any plant of this genus, or its fruit. (c) The fibrous skeleton of the fruit, used as a sponge and in the manufacture of caps and women's hats; -- written also loofah.","presential":"Implying actual presence; present, immediate. [Obs.] God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen\"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.]","uterus":"1. (Anat.) The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more or less completely united into one. In many male mammals there is a small vesicle, opening into the urinogenital canal, which corresponds to the uterus of the female and is called the male uterus, or Etym: [NL.] uterus masculinus. 2. (Zoöl.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.","aurate":"A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.","girasole":"1. (Bot.) See Heliotrope. [Obs.] 2. (Min.) A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.","labrus":"A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.","eruption":"1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving. 2. That which bursts forth. 3. A violent exclamation; ejaculation. He would . . . break out into bitter and passionate eruditions. Sir H. Wotton. 4. (Med.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.","prothorax":"The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.","diffluency":"A flowing off on all sides; fluidity. [R.]","tameless":"Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. -- Tame\"less*ness, n.","cudgeler":"One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]","rehypothecate":"To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca\"tion, n.","allhallowtide":"The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.","permit":"1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive. Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Acis xxvi. 1. 3. To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit. Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things. Addison. Syn. -- To allow; let; grant; admit; suffer; tolerate; endure; consent to. -- To Allow, Permit, Suffer, Tolerate. To allow is more positive, denoting (at least originally and etymologically) a decided assent, either directly or by implication. To permit is more negative, and imports only acquiescence or an abstinence from prevention. The distinction, however, is often disregarded by good writers. To suffer has a stronger passive or negative sense than to permit, sometimes implying against the will, sometimes mere indifference. To tolerate is to endure what is contrary to will or desire. To suffer and to tolerate are sometimes used without discrimination.\n\nTo grant permission; to allow.\n\nWarrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.","roommate":"One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.","bowsprit":"A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.","recognizable":"Capable of being recognized. [Written also recognisable.] -- Rec\"og*ni`za*bly, adv.","coulomb meter":"Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs. COULOMB'S LAW Cou`lomb's\" law. (Physics) The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.","achylous":"Without chyle.","weather-bit":"A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.","curricle":"1. A small or short course. Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. Sir T. Browne. 2. A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.","millioned":"Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.","knitch":"A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland.","surbased":"(a) Having a surbase, or molding above the base. (b) Etym: [F. surbaissé.] Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased.","evolute":"A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent. Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.","sarcasm":"A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire; irony; ridicule; taunt; gibe.","alto-cumulus":"A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.","presswork":"The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.","crare":"A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.","fred":"Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.","beefy":"Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.","craftsman":"One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.","apocryphalness":"The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.","jet-black":"Black as jet; deep black. JET D'EAU Jet` d'eau\", pl. Jets d'eau (. Etym: [F., a throw of water. See Jet a shooting forth.] A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.","pyrotechnian":"A pyrotechnist.","ruffler":"1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.","foreshow":"To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.","outguard":"A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.","parfitly":"Perfectly. [Obs.] Chaucer.","veinless":"Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.","earshot":"Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard. Dryden.","twey":"Two. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tetradynamous":"Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.","debauchness":"Debauchedness. [Obs.]","reaumur":"Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. -- n. A Réaumur thermometer or scale. Note: The Réaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0º marks the freezing point and 80º the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R. Cf. Centigrade, and Fahrenheit. See Illust. of Thermometer.","naphthalate":"A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. [Obs.]","mammonize":"To make mammonish.","shanny":"The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head. SHAN'T Shan't. A contraction of shall not. [Colloq.]","stereoelectric":"Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.","sabrebill":"The curlew.","holour":"A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.","meerschaum":"1. (Min.) A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite. 2. A tobacco pipe made of this mineral.","cloudiness":"The state of being cloudy.","nundinate":"To buy and sell at fairs or markets. [Obs.]","gaudful":"Joyful; showy. [Obs.]","irreversibly":"In an irreversible manner.","crisply":"In a crisp manner.","piccage":"Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.","resorcylic":"Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.","lackaday":"Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.","obtainable":"Capable of being obtained.","zygapophysis":"One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. -- Zyg`ap*o*phys\"i*al, a.","ethiopian":"A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.\n\nOf or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.","bearable":"Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear\"a*bly, adv.","bimedial":"Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).","rejuvenation":"Rejuvenescence.","tussocky":"Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.","rebuttal":"The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.","climacter":"See Climacteric, n.","frostbow":"A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.","invertible":"1. Capable of being inverted or turned. 2. (Chem.) Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar.\n\nIncapable of being turned or changed. An indurate and invertible conscience. Cranmer.","apathist":"One who is destitute of feeling.","owch":"See Ouch. [Obs.] Speser.","roundfish":"(a) Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. (b) A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.","glucinum":"A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. [Formerly written also glucinium.]","coalsack":"Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.","nonalienation":"Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.","waterflood":"A flood of water; an inundation.","perstreperous":"Noisy; obstreperous. [Obs.] Ford.","exterraneous":"Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.","alife":"On my life; dearly. [Obs.] \"I love that sport alife.\" Beau. & Fl.","siderealize":"To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.","left-off":"Laid a side; cast-off.","difficile":"Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn. [Obs.] -- Dif\"fi*cile*ness, n. [Obs.] Bacon.","cleverish":"Somewhat clever. [R.]","ambulatorial":"Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.","unimpeachable":"Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`im*peach\"a*bly, adv.","mentionable":"Fit to be mentioned.","fellness":"The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.","bethlehem":"1. A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam. 2. (Arch.) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.","chronical":"Chronic. Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander.","palladiumize":"To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]","astronomer":"1. An astrologer. [Obs.] Shak. 2. One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.","supratrochlear":"Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.","betrust":"To trust or intrust. [Obs.]","planimetry":"The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.","shern":"See Shearn. [Obs.]","fuliginously":"In a smoky manner.","gradin":"Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. \"The gradines of the amphitheeater.\" Layard.","dactylitis":"An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.","reliant":"Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.","ochery":"Ocherous. [Written also ochrey, ochry.]","village":"A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.","threepence":"A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]","improvvisatrice":"A female improvvisatore. [Written also improvisatrice.]","emancipist":"A freed convict. [Australia]","unguinous":"Consisting of, or resembling, fat or oil; oily; unctuous; oleaginous.","blague":"Mendacious boasting; falcefood; humbug.","stringiness":"Quality of being stringy.","third rail":"(a) The third rail used in the third-rail system. (b) An electric railway using such a rail. [Colloq.]","van-courier":"One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.","clumsiness":"The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.","pack":"1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. Shak. 2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. 3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope. 4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes. The expected council was dwindling into . . . a packed assembly of Italian bishops. Atterbury. 5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller. 6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. Shack. 7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. He . . . must not die Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. Shak. 8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). [Western U.S.] 9. (Hydropathy) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. 10. (Mech.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.\n\n1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. 2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well. 3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. [Eng.] 4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. Tennyson. 5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] \"Go pack with him.\" Shak. To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. \"The parliament . . . presently sent him packing. South.","weetless":"Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] Spenser.","conferree":"Same as Conferee.","loyally":"In a loyal manner; faithfully.","radicate":"Radicated.\n\nTo take root; to become rooted. Evelyn.\n\nTo cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. Time should . . . rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness. Barrow.","reiteratedly":"Repeatedly.","upskip":"An upstart. [Obs.] Latimer.","scrat":"To scratch. [Obs.] Burton.\n\nTo rake; to search. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.\n\nAn hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.","mercaptide":"A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.","alecost":"The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.","artiad":"Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.","participant":"Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.\n\nA participator; a partaker. Participants in their . . . mysterious rites. Bp. Warburton.","faradize":"To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far\"a*diz`er (#), n.","mandingos":"; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.","spary":"Sparing; parsimonious. [Obs.]","thetine":"Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.","uncorrect":"Incorrect. Dryden.","spectatress":"A female beholder or looker-on. \"A spectatress of the whole scene.\" Jeffrey.","punctually":"In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.","snuff":"The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift.\n\nTo crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.\n\n1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden. 2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.\n\n1. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses. Dryden. 2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff Bp. Hall.\n\n1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff. 2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once. 3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.] Snuff dipping. See Dipping, n., 5. -- Snuff taker, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the nose. -- To take it in snuff, to be angry or offended. Shak. -- Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute. [Slang]","semi-pelagianism":"The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.","hydrosulphuret":"A hydrosulphide. [Archaic]","meroistic":"Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.","polystyle":"Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n. A polystyle hall or edifice.","orology":"The science or description of mountains.","costlewe":"Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dinosaurian":"One of the Dinosauria. [Written also deinosaur, and deinosaurian.]","gad":"1. The point of a spear, or an arrowhead. 2. A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak. 3. A sharp-pointed rod; a goad. 4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Fairholt. 5. A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. [Obs.] Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads. Moxon. 6. A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] \"All this done upon the gad!\" Shak.\n\nTo walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. \"The gadding vine.\" Milton. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way Jer. ii. 36.","sea ginger":"A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.","boughten":"Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.","heraud":"A herald. [Obs.] Chaucer.","auditive":"Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.","fint":"3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.","wesh":"Washed. Chaucer.","rowel":"1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper. 2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser. 3. (Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.\n\nTo insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.","soberness":"The quality or state of being sober.","squamella":"A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.","prepared":"Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par\"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par\"ed*ness, n.","vulcanism":"Volcanism.","null":"Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.\n\n1. Something that has no force or meaning. 2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.\n\nTo annul. [Obs.] Milton.\n\nOne of the beads in nulled work.","water hammer":"1. A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. 2. A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.","idioelectric":"Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n. An idioelectric substance.","esculin":"A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]","nurl":"To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.","cacaemia":"A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.","autocrat":"1. An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar). 2. One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.","capsulitis":"Inflammation of a capsule, as that of the crystalline lens.","morphonomy":"The laws of organic formation.","spectrology":"The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.","anthocyanin":"Same as Anthokyan.","fulgurate":"To flash as lightning. [R.]","athrepsia":"Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp\"tic (#), a.","orvietan":"A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue. [Obs.]","jowler":"A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.","cark":"A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.\n\nTo be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.\n\nTo vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. South.","regressively":"In a regressive manner.","dibble":"A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.\n\nTo dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Walton.\n\n1. To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting. 2. To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble. The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. H. Miller.","subdiversify":"To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.","sea fight":"An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.","proces verbal":"An authentic minute of an official act, or statement of facts.","martingal":"1. A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings, through which the reins pass. It is intended to hold down the head of the horse, and prevent him from rearing. 2. (Naut.) A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself. 3. (Gambling) The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.","egoism":"1. (Philos.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for. 2. Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.","footrope":"(a) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. (b) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.","otorrhoea":"A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.","sowle":"To pull by the ears; to drag about. [Obs.] hak.","sciential":"Pertaining to, or producing, science. [R.] Milton.","magneto-electricity":"1. Electricity evolved by the action of magnets. 2. (Physics) That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro- magnetism.","eros":"Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.","spiculispongiae":"A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.","jailer":"The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]","psychian":"Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidæ). The larvæ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.","insearch":"To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]","libel":"1. A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer. A libel of forsaking [divorcement]. Wyclif (Matt. v. 31). 2. Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire. 3. (Law) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more extended sense, includes the publication of such writings, pictures, and the like, as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene character. These also are indictable at common law. 4. (Law) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication. 5. (Civil Law & Courts of Admiralty) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.\n\n1. To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon. Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair. Pope. 2. (Law) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.\n\nTo spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against. [Obs.] What's this but libeling against the senate Shak. [He] libels now 'gainst each great man. Donne.","hamel":"Same as Hamele.","refined":"Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin\"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin\"ed*ness, n.","crispate":"Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.","glyoxal":"A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.","reductively":"By reduction; by consequence.","sangreal":"See Holy Grail, under Grail.","miscreated":"Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. Spenser. Milton.","roscoelite":"A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.","vitellus":"1. (Biol.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum. 2. (Bot.) Perisperm in an early condition.","cropper":"1. One that crops. 2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. 3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. 4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]","basilisk":"1. A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak. 2. (Zoöl.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ. Note: This genus is remarkable for a membranous bag rising above the occiput, which can be filled with air at pleasure; also for an elevated crest along the back, that can be raised or depressed at will. 3. (Mil.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size. [Obs.]","jutlander":"A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.","meed":"1. That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense. A rosy garland was the victor's meed. Spenser. 2. Merit or desert; worth. My meed hath got me fame. Shak. 3. A gift; also, a bride. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. To reward; to repay. [Obs.] Waytt. 2. To deserve; to merit. [Obs.] Heywood.","xenelasia":"A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.","chap":"1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly. 2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]\n\n1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. 2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]\n\n1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller. 3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]\n\n1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak. 2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.\n\n1. A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] If you want to sell, here is your chap. Steele. 2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]\n\nTo bargain; to buy. [Obs.]","croise":"1. A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.] 2. A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. Burke.","imitate":"1. To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc. Despise wealth and imitate a dog. Cowlay. 2. To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy. A place picked out by choice of best alive The Nature's work by art can imitate. Spenser. This hand appeared a shining sword to weild, And that sustained an imitated shield. Dryden. 3. (Biol.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.","contrariness":"state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinancy.","upflow":"To flow or stream up. Southey.","imperatively":"In an imperative manner.","tairn":"See Tarn. Coleridge.","pentalpha":"A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.","neoterist":"One ho introduces new word Fitzed Hall.","benthos":"The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.","cross-pawl":"Same as Cross-spale.","cirrose":"(a) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. (b) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]","ecballium":"A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.","autograph":"That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.\n\nIn one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.","abluvion":"That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.","flix":"Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.] J. Dyer.\n\nThe flux; dysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.","hirling":"The young of the sea trout. [Prov. Eng.]","strouding":"Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.","lophophore":"A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.","steeple":"A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. \"A weathercock on a steeple.\" Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. -- Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. -- Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. -- Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. -- Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","aguise":"Dress. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.\n\nTo dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.","digestor":"See Digester.","wellhead":"A source, spring, or fountain. At the wellhead the purest streams arise. Spenser. Our public-school and university life is a great wellhead of new and irresponsible words. Earle.","coinitial":"Having a common beginning.","martlet":"1. (Zoöl.) The European house martin. 2. Etym: [Cf. F. merlette.] (Her.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.","barmecidal":"Unreal; illusory. \"A sort of Barmecidal feast.\" Hood.","aleutic":"Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.","bovey coal":"A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.","prelatically":"In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates. Milton. The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Æneis.","syndic":"1. An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate. 2. (Law) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee. Note: In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property. Almost all the companies in Paris, the university, and the like, have their syndics. The university of Cambridge, Eng., has its syndics, who are chosen from the senate to transact special business, such as the regulation of fees, the framing of laws, etc.","tenebrificous":"Tenebrific. Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.","vexillation":"A company of troops under one vexillum.","awkward":"1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden. 2. Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith. 3. Perverse; adverse; untoward. [Obs.] \"Awkward casualties.\" \"Awkward wind.\" Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall. Syn. -- Ungainly; unhandy; clownish; lubberly; gawky; maladroit; bungling; inelegant; ungraceful; unbecoming. -- Awkward, Clumsy, Uncouth. Awkward has a special reference to outward deportment. A man is clumsy in his whole person, he is awkward in his gait and the movement of his limbs. Clumsiness is seen at the first view. Awkwardness is discovered only when a person begins to move. Hence the expressions, a clumsy appearance, and an awkward manner. When we speak figuratively of an awkward excuse, we think of a want of ease and grace in making it; when we speak of a clumsy excuse, we think of the whole thing as coarse and stupid. We apply the term uncouth most frequently to that which results from the want of instruction or training; as, uncouth manners; uncouth language. -- Awk\"ward*ly (, adv. -- Awk\"ward*ness, n.","assentive":"Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent\"ive*ness, n.","planometry":"The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.","bdellomorpha":"An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.","curly":"Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.","lactucin":"A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.","lambdoid":"Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.","eisteddfod":"Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.","pustulate":"To form into pustules, or blisters.\n\nCovered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.","shortcoming":"The act of falling, or coming short; as: (a) The failure of a crop, or the like. (b) Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.","clod":"1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. \"Clods of a slimy substance.\" Carew. \"Clods of iron and brass.\" Milton. \"Clods of blood.\" E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon. 2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift. 3. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet. 4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden. 5. A pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.\n\nTo collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.\n\n1. To pelt with clods. Jonson. 2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","orthoceratite":"An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.","ejector":"1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. 2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.","gangliform":"Having the form of a ganglion.","word method":"A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.","colonist":"A member or inhabitant of a colony.","inhibitory-motor":"A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.","hesperid":"Same as 3d Hesperian.","vilayet":"One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.","dairymaid":"A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.","sea lettuce":"The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.","scratcher":"One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zoöl.), any rasorial bird.","appliable":"Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.","shuttle":"1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys. 2. The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch. 3. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [R.] Shuttle box (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven. -- Shutten race, a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine. -- Shuttle shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle- shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end.\n\nTo move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. Carlyle.","immorality":"1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.","subrogation":"The act of subrogating. Specifically: (Law) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor. Bouvier. Burrill. Abbott.","bona peritura":"Perishable goods. Bouvier.","kendal":"A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.","tu-whoo":"Words imitative of the notes of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.","shearer":"1. One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32. 2. A reaper. [Scot.] Jamieson.","seemly":"Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous. He had a seemly nose. Chaucer. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker. Syn. -- Becoming; fit; suitable; proper; appropriate; congruous; meet; decent; decorous.\n\nIn a decent or suitable manner; becomingly. Suddenly a men before him stood, Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad, As one in city or court or place bred. Milton.","incrassate":"To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo become thick or thicker.\n\n1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated. 2. (Bot.) Thickened; becoming thicker. Martyn. 3. (Zoöl.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennæ of certain insects.","peristyle":"A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.","taking":"1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- Tak\"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak\"ing*ness, n.\n\n1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension. 2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.] What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket! Shak. 3. Malign influence; infection. [Obs.] Shak.","trivalve":"Anything having three valves, especially a shell.","panurgic":"Skilled in all kinds of work. \"The panurgic Diderot.\" J. Morley.","tipple":"To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.\n\n1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. Dryden. 2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.\n\nLiquor taken in tippling; drink. Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. S. B. Griffin.","writative":"Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. [R.] Pope.","carucate":"A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.","fluorescent":"Having the property of fluorescence.","shiner":"That which shines. Specifically: (a) A luminary. (b) A bright piece of money. [Slang] Has she the shiners, d' ye think Foote. black eye. (c) (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada. (d) (Zoöl.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug. Blunt-nosed shiner (Zoöl.), the silver moonfish.","slope":"1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.). Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity. Slope of a plane (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.\n\nSloping. \"Down the slope hills.\" Milton. A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.\n\nIn a sloping manner. [Obs.] Milton.\n\nTo form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.\n\n1. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes. 2. To depart; to disappear suddenly. [Slang]","leontodon":"A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.","autophony":"An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.","thallus":"A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.","isoperimetry":"The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.","lactobutyrometer":"An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk.","separate":"1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. 9. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. viii. 35. 2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. 3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem. Acts xiii. 2. Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.\n\nTo part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.\n\n1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. Gen. xlix. 26. 2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. Heb. vii. 26. 3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband. -- Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. -- Sep\"a*rate*ly, adv. -- Sep\"a*rate*ness, n.","interpubic":"Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.","pavonine":"1. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. 2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.","volti":"Turn, that is, turn over the leaf. Volti subito Etym: [It.] (Mus.), turn over quickly.","photochemical":"Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.","prolicide":"The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. Bouvier.","arboretum":"A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.","evincement":"The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.","kernel":"1. The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel Shak. 2. A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn. 3. A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh. 4. The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.\n\nTo harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.","blindness":"State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.","polander":"A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.","anabranch":"A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia] Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might be coined, anabranches, and the islands they form branch islands. Col. Jackson.","fast":"1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. Milton. 2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.\n\n1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nounrishment. Surfeit is the father of much fast. Shak. 2. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation. 3. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast. Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God. -- To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. Shak.\n\n1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door. There is an order that keeps things fast. Burke. 2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser. 3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend. 4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors. 5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon. 6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound. All this while in a most fast sleep. Shak. 7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse. 8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another \"Play fast and loose with faith.\" Shak. Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. -- Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable. -- To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.\n\n1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13. 2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast. Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand. He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. Milton. Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.\n\nThat which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.","ambitionless":"Devoid of ambition. Pollok.","moistureless":"Without moisture.","clangous":"Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]","heartener":"One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.","garniture":"That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.","eyesore":"Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish. Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange.","sauerkraut":"Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.","safely":"In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.","smaragd":"The emerald. [Obs.] Bale.","conicalness":"State or quality of being conical.","spatial":"Of or pertaining to space. \"Spatial quantity and relations.\" L. H. Atwater.","counterchanged":"1. Exchanged. 2. (Her.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.","fossane":"A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.","inclaudent":"Not closing or shutting.","neuron":"The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon. B. G. Wilder.","thak":"To thwack. [Obs.] Chaucer.","worriment":"Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]","arthrodynia":"An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.","a-":"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. ofdüne 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 à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-. Note: Besides these, there are other sources from which the prefix a takes its origin. A 1 A 1. A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3. Note: A 1 is also applied colloquially to other things to imply superiority; prime; first-class; first-rate.","zygodactylic":"Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; -- applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc.","oftenness":"Frequency. Hooker.","birthwort":"A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.","sublapsarianism":"Infralapsarianism.","prick":"1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5. 2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. \"The pricks of conscience.\" A. Tucker. 3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: (a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [Obs.] \"The prick of noon.\" Shak. (b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. \"They that shooten nearest the prick.\" Spenser. (c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [Obs.] \"To prick of highest praise forth to advance.\" Spenser. (d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. (e) The footprint of a hare. [Obs.] 4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.\n\n1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. 2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys. 3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. Some who are pricked for sheriffs. Bacon. Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. Sir W. Scott. Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. Shak. 4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper. 5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. The season pricketh every gentle heart. Chaucer. My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shak. 6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. \"I was pricked with some reproof.\" Tennyson. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. 7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. \"The courser . . . pricks up his ears.\" Dryden. 8. To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] Hudibras. 9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [Obs.] 10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. 11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick.\n\n1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. 2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser. 3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. 4. To aim at a point or mark. Hawkins.","hun":"One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.","zenik":"See Zenick.","liberate":"To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn. -- To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.","arsenic":"1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight. Symbol As. 2. (Com.) Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.\n\nPertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.","gutwort":"A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.","galactophagous":"Feeding on milk.","exceptioner":"One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] Milton.","perpend stone":"See Perpender.","purplewood":"Same as Purpleheart.","trapeze":"1. (Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1. 2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.","coleperch":"A kind of small black perch.","edgingly":"Gradually; gingerly. [R.]","frenzied":"Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren\"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.","extrusive":"Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.","clubbish":"1. Rude; clownish. [Obs.] 2. Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.","cisleithan":"On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.","ametropia":"Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop\"ic, a.","inquination":"A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.","tralatitiously":", adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.","tuner":"One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.","well-seen":"Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Well-seen in arms and proved in many a fight. Spenser.","theiform":"Having the form of tea.","gemellipa-rous":"Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.","ultroneous":"Spontaneous; voluntary. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Ul*tro\"ne*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Ul*tro\"ne*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]","decision":"1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. The decision of some dispute. Atterbury. 3. An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. 4. The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. Syn. -- Decision, Determination, Resolution. Each of these words has two meanings, one implying the act of deciding, determining, or resolving; and the other a habit of mind as to doing. It is in the last sense that the words are here compared. Decision is a cutting short. It implies that several courses of action have been presented to the mind, and that the choice is now finally made. It supposes, therefore, a union of promptitude and energy. Determination is the natural consequence of decision. It is the settling of a thing with a fixed purpose to adhere. Resolution is the necessary result in a mind which is characterized by firmness. It is a spirit which scatters (resolves) all doubt, and is ready to face danger or suffering in carrying out one's determinations. Martin Luther was equally distinguished for his prompt decision, his steadfast determination, and his inflexible resolution.","taskwork":"Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.","suave":"Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland. -- Suave\"ly, adv.","forepast":"Bygone. [Obs.] Shak.","malkin":"1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer. 2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant. 3. A scarecrow.[Prov. Eng.] 4. (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.","ghastliness":"The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.","sonant":"1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. 2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n. A sonant letter.","bashi-bazouk":"A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.","paralogism":"A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulæ; a formal fallacy, or pseudo- syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.","femme":"A woman. See Feme, n. Femme de chambre. Etym: [F.] A lady's maid; a chambermaid.","anthropophagic":"Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.","euclidian":"Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid. Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.","photozincography":"A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.","pitahaya":"A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.","alatern":"An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.","lovesome":"Lovely. [Obs.]","wurraluh":"The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza albipennis).","kinepox":"See Cowpox. Kin\"e*scope (, n. See Kinetoscope.","methodic":"1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. \"Methodical regularity.\" Addison. 2. Proceeding with regard to method; systematic. \"Aristotle, strict, methodic, and orderly.\" Harris. 3. Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists. Johnson. -- Me*thod\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Me*thod\"ic*al*ness, n.","commencement":"1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed \"modern history.\" 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.","coincidently":"With coincidence.","distributary":"Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.","endoblastic":"Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.","experimentarian":"Relying on experiment or experience. \"an experimentarian philosopher.\" Boyle. -- n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [Obs.]","beastlihead":"Beastliness. [Obs.] Spenser.","semiquintile":"An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.","paternity":"1. The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child. 3. Origin; authorship. The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.","elongate":"1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. 2. To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]\n\nDrawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. \"An elongate form.\" Earle.","gipsy":"See Gypsy.","probator":"1. An examiner; an approver. Maydman. 2. (O. Eng. Law) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.","enrobe":"To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.","winter-rig":"To fallow or till in winter. [Prov. Eng.] WINTER'S BARK Win\"ter's bark`. (Bot.) The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, or Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.","interfusion":"The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused. Coleridge.","trigintal":"A trental.","skimmington":"A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.","impetus":"1. A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum. Note: Momentum is the technical term, impetus its popular equivalent, yet differing from it as applied commonly to bodies moving or moved suddenly or violently, and indicating the origin and intensity of the motion, rather than its quantity or effectiveness. 2. Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force. Buckle. 3. (Gun.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.","sacculus":"A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.","mugger":"The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.","pythagorical":"See Pythagorean, a.","cucurbitive":"Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.","exoterics":"The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.","ductile":"1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden. -- Duc\"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc\"tile*ness, n.","sumpitan":"A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.","apocalyptic":"Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.\n\nThe writer of the Apocalypse.","interviewer":"One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.","corsak":"A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia. [Written also corsac.]","strict":"1. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden. 2. Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber. 3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. Shak. It shall be still in strictest measure. Milton. 4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. \"Through the strict senteries.\" Milton. 5. Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense. 6. (Bot.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts to a principle or code by which he is bound; severe is strict with an implication often, but not always, of harshness. Strict is opposed to lax; severe is opposed to gentle. And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line. Pope. Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: -\"What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!\" Milton. The Strict Observance, or Friars of the Strict Observance. (R. C. Ch.) See Observance.","redfish":"(a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback. (b). (b) The rosefish. (c) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead. (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.","carbonatation":"The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.","trimyarian":"A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.","rhopalic":"Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.","convallamarin":"A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.","glaringness":"A dazzling luster or brilliancy.","lengthiness":"The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.","impersonate":"1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. 2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. 3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.","boughty":"Bending. [Obs.] Sherwood.","malleableize":"To make malleable.","reculement":"Recoil. [Obs.]","uppertendom":"The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]","bristol":"A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in the mountain limestone near Bristol, and used in making ornaments, vases, etc. When polished, it is called Bristol diamond.","wishedly":"According to wish; conformably to desire. [Obs.] Chapman.","intextured":"Inwrought; woven in.","mnemosyne":"The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.","hagiology":"The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.","inopportunely":"Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.","speck":"The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.\n\n1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. \"Gray sand, with black specks.\" Anson. 2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. Landor. 3. (Zoöl.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.\n\nTo cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. Milton.","sey":"of See. Chaucer.","carnation":"1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton. 2. pl. (Paint.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt. 3. (Bot.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.","parasiticide":"Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.","hypocaust":"A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.","valerianate":"A valerate.","paradoxer":"One who proposes a paradox.","broadaxe":"1. An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax. 2. An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.","desquamative":"Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.","urinator":"One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver. [R.] Ray.","buffoonly":"Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.","deconcentrate":"To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize. [R.]","stunning":"1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise. 2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang] C. Kingsley. -- Stun\"ning*ly, adv. [Slang]","anchored":"1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. 2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]","self-righteousness":"The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.","volatilize":"To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor. The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. Sir I. Newton.","doleritic":"Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.","almagest":"The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.","casuarina":"A genus of leafles trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.","somniative":"Somnial; somniatory. [R.]","bloodshedding":"Bloodshed. Shak.","concrescive":"Growing together, or into union; uniting. [R.] Eclec. Rev.","affamish":"To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.","imposthume":"A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.\n\nSame as Imposthumate.","postumous":"See Posthumous. [R.]","subtilty":"1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. 3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer. 4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10. Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.","underthing":"Something that is inferior and of little worth. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","sorely":"In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.","murder":"The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. \"Mordre will out.\" Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. Dryden. Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. Wharton.\n\n1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n. 2. To destroy; to put an end to. [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word Shak. 3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. Syn. -- To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.","teaseling":"The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]","hydrostat":"A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.","jesuitism":"1. The principles and practices of the Jesuits. 2. Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.","communication":"1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. 2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak. 3. Association; company. Evil communications corrupt manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. 4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot. 5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. 6. Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. Pearson. 7. (Rhet.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse.","philosophical":"Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool. -- Phil`o*soph\"ic*al*ly, adv.","implantation":"The act or process of implantating.","exotery":"That which is obvious, public, or common. Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker.","preventional":"Tending to prevent. [Obs.]","galvanize":"1. To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents. 2. To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity. 3. To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity. 4. To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron. Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.","herisson":"A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.","hollowly":"Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.","multiplicative":"Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers.","prief":"Proof. [Obs.] Spenser. Lydgate.","dependancy":"See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency. Note: The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing it from the adjective, usually written dependent.","maieutical":"1. Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth. 2. Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language. Payne.","spouse":"1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won. Spenser. 2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.] At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. Fabyan.\n\nTo wed; to espouse. [Obs.] This markis hath her spoused with a ring. Chaucer. Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize. Spenser. She was found again, and spoused to Marinell. Spenser.","foundry":"1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.","bruit":"1. Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak. 2. [French pron. (Med.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.\n\nTo report; to noise abroad. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.","peirastic":"Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.","diorism":"Definition; logical direction. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","consubstantial":"Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential. Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost. Foxe.","pinery":"1. A pine forest; a grove of pines. 2. A hothouse in which pineapples are grown.","scripturian":"A Scripturist. [Obs.]","mortiferous":"Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. Gov. of Tongue.","incorporative":"Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham.","unethes":"With difficulty; scarcely. See Uneath. [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.","ectomere":"The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.","assertive":"Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill. As*sert\"ive*ly, adv. -- As*sert\"ive*ness, n.","teg":"A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","base":"1. Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak. 2. Low in place or position. [Obs.] Shak. 3. Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. [Archaic] \"A pleasant and base swain.\" Bacon. 4. Illegitimate by birth; bastard. [Archaic] Why bastard wherefore base Shak. 5. Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals. 6. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion. 7. Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. \"A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind.\" Robynson (More's Utopia). \"Base ingratitude.\" Milton. 8. Not classical or correct. \"Base Latin.\" Fuller. 9. Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.] 10. (Law) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal. Syn. -- Dishonorable; worthless; ignoble; low-minded; infamous; sordid; degraded. -- Base, Vile, Mean. These words, as expressing moral qualities, are here arranged in the order of their strength, the strongest being placed first. Base marks a high degree of moral turpitude; vile and mean denote, in different degrees, the want of what is valuable or worthy of esteem. What is base excites our abhorrence; what is vile provokes our disgust or indignation; what is mean awakens contempt. Base is opposed to high-minded; vile, to noble; mean, to liberal or generous. Ingratitude is base; sycophancy is vile; undue compliances are mean.\n\n1. The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. \"The base of mighty mountains.\" Prescott. 2. Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork. 3. (Arch.) (a) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented. (b) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration. 4. (Bot.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support. 5. (Chem.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids. 6. (Pharmacy) The chief ingredient in a compound. 7. (Dyeing) A substance used as a mordant. Ure. 8. (Fort.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions. 9. (Geom.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand. 10. (Math.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms. 11. Etym: [See Base low.] A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden. 12. (Mil.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc. 13. (Mil.) The smallest kind of cannon. [Obs.] 14. (Zoöl.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ. 15. (Crystallog.) The basal plane of a crystal. 16. (Geol.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline. 17. (Her.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon. 18. The housing of a horse. [Obs.] 19. pl. A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. [Obs.] 20. The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.] 21. An apron. [Obs.] \"Bakers in their linen bases.\" Marston. 22. The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games. To their appointed base they went. Dryden. 23. (Surv.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. Lyman. 24. A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. \"To run the country base.\" Shak. 25. (Baseball) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. Altern base. See under Altern. -- Attic base. (Arch.) See under Attic. -- Base course. (Arch.) (a) The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones of a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course. (b) The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above. -- Base hit (Baseball), a hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out. -- Base line. (a) A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations. (b) A line traced round a cannon at the rear of the vent. -- Base plate, the foundation plate of heavy machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate. -- Base ring (Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. H. L. Scott.\n\nTo put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon. Bacon.\n\n1. To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North. 2. To reduce the value of; to debase. [Obs.] Metals which we can not base. Bacon.","leden":"Language; speech; voice; cry. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","profilist":"One who takes profiles.","externalize":"To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.","emasculate":"1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. 2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.\n\nDeprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. \"Emasculate slave.\" Hammond.","warlockry":"Impishness; magic.","wealthiness":"The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.","width":"The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.","argumentable":"Admitting of argument. [R.] Chalmers.","contrariously":"Contrarily; oppositely. Shak.","protocol":"1. The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument. Burrill. 2. The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction. 3. (Diplomacy) (a) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on. (b) A convention not formally ratified. (c) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.\n\nTo make a protocol of.\n\nTo make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.","-ish":"A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.\n\nA verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.","atheroma":"(a) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. (b) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.","water ordeal":"Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.","yare":"Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move. [Obs.] \"Be yare in thy preparation.\" Shak. The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow. Sir W. Raleigh.\n\nSoon. [Obs.] Cursor Mundi.","demirelievo":"Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.","associative":"Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.","measure":"1. A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged. 2. An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like. False ells and measures be brought all clean adown. R. of Gloucester. 3. The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. Job xi. 9. 4. The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount. It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal. Luke xiii. 21. 5. Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure. Is. v. 14. 6. Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. Ps. xxxix. 4. 7. The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure. 8. Undefined quantity; extent; degree. There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession. Jer. Taylor. 9. Regulated division of movement: (a) (Dancing) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dane, like the minuet. (b) (Mus.) (1) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats. (2) The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. (c) (Poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure. 10. (Arith.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers. 11. A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon. 12. The act of measuring; measurement. Shak. 13. pl. (Geol.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures. Lineal, or Long, measure, measure of length; the measure of lines or distances. -- Liquid measure, the measure of liquids. -- Square measure, the measure of superficial area of surfaces in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc. -- To have hard measure, to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with. -- To take measures, to make preparations; to provide means. -- To take one's measure, to measure one, as for a garment; hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character, ability, etc. -- To tread a measure, to dance in the style so called. See 9 (a). Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass. Shak.\n\n1. To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise. Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite Thy power! what thought can measure thee Milton. 2. To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature. 3. To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance. A true devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps. Shak. 4. To adjust by a rule or standard. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires. Jer. Taylor. 5. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matt. vii. 2. That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun. Addison. To measure swords with one, to try another's skill in the use of the sword; hence, figuratively, to match one's abilities against an antagonist's.\n\n1. To make a measurement or measurements. 2. To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally. 3. To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.","deauration":"Act of gilding. [Obs.]","misadvertence":"Inadvertence.","colophony":"Rosin.","pipefish":"Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.","reduct":"To reduce. [Obs.] W. Warde.","trindle":"See Trundle.","gradatory":"1. Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward. 2. (Zoöl.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.\n\nA series of steps from a cloister into a church.","maidenly":"Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.\n\nIn a maidenlike manner. \"Maidenly demure.\" Skelton.","embodiment":"1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied. 2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.","zillah":"A district or local division, as of a province. [India]","delirancy":"Delirium. [Obs.] Gauden.","exhaustibility":"Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.","splenius":"A flat muscle of the back of the neck.","unsad":"Unsteady; fickle. [Obs.] O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue. Chaucer.","benzonaphthol":"A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.","greco-roman":"Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.","cornbind":"A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus. [Prov. Eng.]","octagonal":"Having eight sides and eight angles.","thermovoltaic":"Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.","topgallant":"1. (Naut.) Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. \"The consciences of topgallant sparks.\" L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.\n\n1. (Naut.) A topgallant mast or sail. 2. Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. Bacon.","hegelian":"Pertaining to Hegelianism. -- n. A follower of Hegel.","obtend":"1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. [Obs.] Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. [Obs.] Dryden","cipherer":"One who ciphers.","monembryony":"The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on\"ic, a.","bandana":"1. A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form. 2. A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.","consistorial":"Of or pertaining to a consistory. \"Consistorial laws.\" Hooker. \"Consistorial courts.\" Bp. Hoadley.","spew":"1. To eject from the stomach; to vomit. 2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject. Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Rev. ii. 16.\n\n1. To vomit. Chaucer. 2. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.\n\nThat which is vomited; vomit.","maleconformation":"Malconformation.","cuteness":"Acuteness; cunning. [Colloq.]","multiversant":"Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.","pericranial":"Of or pertaining to the pericranium.","sebiparous":"Same as Sebiferous.","-blast":"A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.","apostemate":"To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.","cross-birth":"Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.","tripody":"Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.","deinotherium":"See Dinotherium.","scincoidian":"Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidæ or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.","comprobation":"1. Joint attestation; proof. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 2. Approbation. [Obs.] Foxe.","rown":"To whisper. [obs.] Gower. Another rouned to his fellow low. Chaucer.\n\nsee Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.","nefand":"Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] \"Nefand adominations.\" Sheldon. \"Nefandous high treason.\" Cotton Mather.","peremptorily":"In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively. Bacon.","vexillar":"1. Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation (Bot.), a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.","disbend":"To unbend. [Obs.] Stirling.","pericarditus":"Inflammation of the pericardium. Dunglison.","bywork":"Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.","knee-crooking":"Obsequious; fawning; cringing. \"Knee-crooking knave.\" Shak.","dispute":"To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.\n\n1. To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss. The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein. Milton. 2. To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments. To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance. Bancroft. 3. To strive or contend about; to contest. To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards. Prescott. 4. To struggle against; to resist. [Obs.] Dispute it [grief] like a man. Shak. Syn. -- To controvert; contest; gainsay; doubt; question; argue; debate; discuss; impugn. See Argue.\n\n1. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate. Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute. Milton. 2. Contest; struggle; quarrel. De Foe. Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly. Syn. -- Altercation; controversy; argumentation; debate; discussion; quarrel; disagreement; difference; contention; wrangling. See Altercation.","ekaluminium":"The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.","tenace":"The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.","mescal":"A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.","overlooker":"One who overlooks.","quinquevir":"One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.","pteridologist":"One who is versed in pteridology.","bitterish":"Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.","columbium":"A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.","dab":"A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.] One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.\n\nA name given to several species of Pleuronectes . TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.\n\n1. To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber. A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint. S. Sharp. 2. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. \"To dab him in the neck.\" Sir T. More.\n\n1. A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne. 2. A small mass of anything soft or moist.","vicuna":"A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.","radii":"pl. of Radius.","sote":"Sweet. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax.","pictura":"Pattern of coloration.","rebound":"1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Sir I. Newton. 2. To give back an echo. [R.] T. Warton. 3. To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse. Pope. Rebounding lock (Firearms), one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.\n\nTo send back; to reverberate. Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound. Dryden.\n\nThe act of rebounding; resilience. Flew . . . back, as from a rock, with swift rebound. Dryden.","maundy money":"Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.","tappis":"See Tapish.","inquietation":"Disturbance. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","handfastly":"In a handfast or publicly pledged manner. [Obs.] Holinshed.","philo-":"A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.","scaffolding":"1. A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body. Pope. 2. Materials for building scaffolds.","tallwood":"Firewood cut into billets of a certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]","hypethral":"Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building. Gwilt.","grinte":"imp. of Grin, v. i., 1. [He] grinte with his teeth, so was he wroth. Chaucer.","mebles":"See Moebles. [Obs.]","spongiose":"Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.","suradanni":"A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.","easy-going":"Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.","mykiss":"A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. S. purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.","apara":"See Mataco.","perspicacity":"The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.","aryanize":"To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.","featherness":"The state or condition of being feathery.","blunt-witted":"Dull; stupid. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor! Shak.","presumptuously":"In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.","impressionability":"The quality of being impressionable.","speckt":"A woodpecker. See Speight.","glockenspiel":"An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.","hoopoo":"A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.","hesperus":"1. Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper. 2. Evening. [Poetic] The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus. Milton.","parting":"1. Serving to part; dividing; separating. 2. Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute. \"Give him that parting kiss.\" Shak. 3. Departing. \"Speed the parting guest.\" Pope. 4. Admitting of being parted; partible. Parting fellow, a partner. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. -- Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.\n\n1. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. \"The parting of the way.\" Ezek. xxi. 21. 2. A separation; a leave-taking. Shak. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron. 3. A surface or line of separation where a division occurs. 4. (Founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section. 5. (Chem.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button. 6. (Geol.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam. 7. (Naut.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence. 8. (Min.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.","hygienics":"The science of health; hygiene.","concluder":"One who concludes.","radiatiform":"Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.","undulant":"Undulating. [R.]","centimetre":"The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.","oysterling":"A young oyster.","photoheliograph":"A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.","propend":"To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.","rubellite":"A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.","incloud":"To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure. Milton.","anisopetalous":"Having unequal petals.","clubfist":"1. A large, heavy fist. 2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.","bheesty":"A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [India]","martyrologe":"A martyrology. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","slidegroat":"The game of shovelboard. [Obs.]","levitate":"To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. Sir. J. Herschel.\n\nTo make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. [Cant]","entertissued":"Same as Intertissued.","pathos":"That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.","tough-cake":"See Tough-pitch (b).","urethroscope":"An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.","seraphina":"A seraphine.","apozemical":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.","basommatophora":"A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.","dissiliency":"The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.","orectic":"Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.","canard":"An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.","hydramine":"One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.","physically":"In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke. 2. According to the rules of medicine. [Obs.] He that lives physically must live miserably. Cheyne.","apostemation":"The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.","thewy":"Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.","mushroom":"1. (Bot.) (a) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn. (b) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous. 2. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. Bacon.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. Mushroom anchor, an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls. -- Mushroom coral (Zoöl.), any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia. -- Mushroom spawn (Bot.), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.","youngish":"Somewhat young. Tatler.","spoondrift":"Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.","margaritic":"Margaric.","drachma":"1. A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents. 2. A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents. 3. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.","lankly":"In a lank manner.","underjoin":"To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.","both":"The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either. Note: It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of. Note: It frequently stands as a pronoun. She alone is heir to both of us. Shak. Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen. xxi. 27. He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both. Bolingbroke. Note: It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns. Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes. Shak. This said, they both betook them several ways. Milton. Note: Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes. Note: Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of) being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.\n\nAs well; not only; equally. Note: Both precedes the first of two coördinate words or phrases, and is followed by and before the other, both . . . and . . . ; as well the one as the other; not only this, but also that; equally the former and the latter. It is also sometimes followed by more than two coördinate words, connected by and expressed or understood. To judge both quick and dead. Milton. A masterpiece both for argument and style. Goldsmith. To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene. Chaucer. Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. Goldsmith. He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. Coleridge.","abirritate":"To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.","ramoon":"A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.","cacogastric":"Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.","montant":"1. (Fencing) An upward thrust or blow. Shak. 2. (Arch.) An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile. [R.] See Stile.","sea pudding":"Any large holothurian. [Prov. Eng.]","unbeat":"To deliver from the form or nature of a beast.","catechumenist":"A catechumen. Bp. Morton.","eradicate":"1. To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated. 2. To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment. Southey. Syn. -- To extirpate; root out; exterminate; destroy; annihilate.","swingdevil":"The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]","theriaca":"1. (Old Med.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle. 2. Treacle; molasses. British Pharm.","brand":"1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey. 2. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton. 3. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour. 4. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma. The brand of private vice. Channing. 5. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron. 6. (Bot.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniæi.\n\n1. To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict). 2. To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc. 3. Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon. The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy. Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South. 4. To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron. As if it were branded on my mind. Geo. Eliot. Brand\"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron. [Scot.]","fantasticly":"Fantastically. [Obs.]","epithumetical":"Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual. Sir T. Browne.","overlogical":"Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.","convictive":"Convincing. [R.] The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict\"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict\"ive*ness, n.","binding post":"A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.","diprismatic":"Doubly prismatic.","van":"The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. Standards and gonfalons, twixt van and rear, Stream in the air. Milton.\n\nA shovel used in cleansing ore.\n\nTo wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. Raymond.\n\n1. A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. [Eng.] 2. A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition. 3. A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2. [Eng.]\n\n1. A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain. 2. Etym: [OF. vanne, F. vanneau beam feather (cf. It. vanno a wing) fr. L. vannus. See Etymology above.] A wing with which the air is beaten. [Archaic] \"[\/Angels] on the air plumy vans received him. \" Milton. He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain. Dryden.\n\nTo fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow. [Obs.] Bacon.","sundart":"Sunbeam. [R.] Mrs. Hemans.","pressing":"Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. -- Press\"ing*ly, adv.","aphthoid":"Of the nature of aphthæ; resembling thrush.","uncoffle":"To release from a coffle.","horsefish":"(a) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). (b) The sauger.","lapidify":"To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.\n\nTo become stone or stony","connascent":"Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.","ragnarok":"The so-called \"Twilight of the Gods\" (called in German Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).\n\nThe so-called \"Twilight of the Gods\" (called in German Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).","gunocracy":"See Gyneocracy.","geotropism":"A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ. Note: In plants, organs which grow towards the center of the earth are said to be positively geotropic, and those growing in the opposite direction negatively geotropic. In animals, geotropism is supposed by some to have an influence either direct or indirect on the plane of division of the ovum.","racemose":"Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. Gray.","anecdotic":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. \"Anecdotical traditions.\" Bolingbroke.","apocrisiary":"A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.","oxyphenic":"Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.","tenuirostral":"Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.","skunkhead":"(a) The surf duck. (b) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.","accumb":"To recline, as at table. [Obs.] Bailey.","xanthorhamnin":"A glucoside extracted from Persian berries as a yellow crystalline powder, used as a dyestuff.","bluecap":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) The bluepoll. (b) The blue bonnet or blue titmouse. 2. A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] Shak.","dyspepsia":"A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.","unrealize":"To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.","bregma":"The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.","vineyard":"An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.","disquietous":"Causing uneasiness. [R.] So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.","buz":"See Buzz. [Obs.]","obscurer":"One who, or that which, obscures.","tobacco":"1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco (Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco (Nicotiana Persica). 2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. -- Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] -- Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. -- Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite. -- Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zoöl.) See Pipemouth. -- Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked. -- Tobacco worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.","relight":"To light or kindle anew.","sanskrit":"The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.\n\nOf or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.","unstrained":"1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.","glyphography":"A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.","periwinkle":"Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina. Note: In America the name is often applied to several large univalves, as Fulgur carica, and F. canaliculata.\n\nA trailing herb of the genus Vinca. Note: The common perwinkle (Vinca minor) has opposite evergreen leaves and solitary blue or white flowers in their axils. In America it is often miscalled myrtle. See under Myrtle.","notself":"The negative of self. \"A cognizance of notself.\" Sir. W. Hamilton.","service":"A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree. In British America the name is especially applied to that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush (Amelanchier.)\n\nA name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree. In British America the name is especially applied to that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush (Amelanchier.)\n\n1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper. slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. \"O God . . . whose service is perfect freedom.\" Bk. of Com. Prayer. Madam, I entreat true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my duteous service. Shak. God requires no man's service upon hard and unreasonable terms. Tillotson. 2. The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office. I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. Shak. This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor Macaulay. 3. Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service. The outward service of ancient religion, the rites, ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law. Coleridge. 4. Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. 5. Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier. When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . . ne maketh a worthy soldier. Spenser. 6. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail. The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. L'Estrange. 7. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. \"Pray, do my service to his majesty.\" Shak. 8. The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass. There was no extraordinary service seen on the board. Hakewill. 9. (Law) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. 10. (Naut.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. 11. (Tennis) The act of serving the ball. 12. Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. Service book, a prayer book or missal. -- Service line (Tennis), a line parallel to the net, and at a distance of 21 feet from it. -- Service of a writ, process, etc. (Law), personal delivery or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual place of abode. -- Service of an attachment (Law), the seizing of the person or goods according to the direction. -- Service of an execution (Law), the levying of it upon the goods, estate, or person of the defendant. -- Service pipe, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as in gas pipes, and the like. Tomlinson. -- To accept service. (Law) See under Accept. -- To see service (Mil.), to do duty in the presence of the enemy, or in actual war.","synesis":"A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in \"Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them.\"","bloodwit":"A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.","alternately":"1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. 2. (Math.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.","knap":"A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop. The highest part and knap of the same island. Holland.\n\n1. To bite; to bite off; to break short. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth. Dr. H. More. He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder. Ps. xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer.) 2. To strike smartly; to rap; to snap. Bacon.\n\nTo make a sound of snapping. Wiseman.\n\nA sharp blow or slap. Halliwell.","floriferous":"Producing flowers. Blount.","splendor":"1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. \"Rejoice in splendor of mine own.\" Shak. 3. Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory. Syn. -- Luster; brilliancy; magnifience; gorgeousness; display; showiness; pomp; parade; grandeur.","forspent":"Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.","uncombine":"To separate, as substances in combination; to release from combination or union. [R.] Daniel.","eurasian":"1. A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other. 2. One born of European parents in Asia.\n\nOf European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.","demarch":"March; walk; gait. [Obs.]\n\nA chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.","fly-catching":"Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.","catagmatic":"Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.","volyer":"A lurcher. [Prov. Eng.]","ablepsy":"Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.","sincere":"1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere till now. Dryden. 2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.] The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden. 3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. Law. 4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person. The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account. Waterland. Syn. -- Honest; unfeigned; unvarnished; real; true; unaffected; inartificial; frank; upright. See Hearty.","perineum":"The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.","roughsetter":"A mason who builds rough stonework.","geometrician":"One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.","myroxylon":"A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum.","choking coil":"A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.","whisking":"1. Sweeping along lightly. 2. Large; great. [Prov. Eng.]","pooh-pooh":"To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] Thackeray.","cleanlily":"In a cleanly manner.","exclusionary":"Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.","girth":"1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse. 2. The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison. 3. A small horizontal brace or girder.\n\nTo bind as with a girth. [R.] Johnson.","monomorphic":"Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.","chopboat":"A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.","pyrite":"A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide. Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends. E. Darwin.","acauline":"Same as Acaulescent.","pastureless":"Destitute of pasture. Milton.","enerve":"To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.","cold-short":"Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.","novennial":"Done or recurring every ninth year.","slazy":"See Sleazy.","denay":"To deny. [Obs.] That with great rage he stoutly doth denay. Spenser.\n\nDenial; refusal. [Obs.] Shak.","ejaculate":"1. To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical] Its active rays ejaculated thence. Blackmore. 2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.\n\nTo utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] \"Ejaculating to himself.\" Sir W. Scott.","inch":"An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. [Scot.]\n\n1. A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds ('\\'b7), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic. 12 seconds ('\\'b7) make 1 inch or prime. 12 inches or primes (') make 1 foot. B. Greenleaf. Note: The meter, the accepted scientific standard of length, equals 39.37 inches; the inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters. See Metric system, and Meter. 2. A small distance or degree, whether or time Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch. Shak. By inches, by slow degrees, gradually. -- Inch of candle. See under Candle. -- Inches of pressure, usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge. -- Inch of water. See under Water. -- Miner's inch, (Hydraulic Mining), a unit for the measurement of water. See Inch of water, under Water.\n\n1. To drive by inches, or small degrees. [R.] He gets too far into the soldier's grace And inches out my master. Dryden. 2. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [R.]\n\nTo advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly. With slow paces measures back the field, And inches to the walls. Dryden.\n\nMeasurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four- inch plank. Inch stuff, boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.","street":"Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton. Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare. His deserted mansion in Duke Street. Macaulay. The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds. -- Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc. -- Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street. Syn. -- See Way.","hedonist":"One who believes in hedonism.","ingeniosity":"Ingenuity; skill; cunning. [Obs.] Cudworth.","hairdresser":"One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.","sherbet":"1. A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc. 2. A flavored water ice. 3. A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.","vulturine":"Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. C. Kingsley.","denudation":"1. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare. 2. (Geol.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.","necessarianism":"The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. Hixley.","omer":"A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah. Ex. xvi. 36.","corky":"1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak. 2. Tasting of cork.","nymphal":"Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.","contemplance":"Contemplation. [Obs.] Chaucer.","isotrimorphic":"Isotrimorphous.","trophic":"Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.","waldenses":"A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.","square":"1. (Geom.) (a) The corner, or angle, of a figure. [Obs.] (b) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. 2. Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as: (a) A square piece or fragment. He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. Sir W. Scott. (b) A pane of glass. (c) (Print.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers. (d) (Carp.) One hundred superficial feet. 3. An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets. The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. Addison. 4. (Mech. & Joinery) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. [Obs.] 6. (Arith. & Alg.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 × 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2. 7. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak. 8. (Mil.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron. \"The brave squares of war.\" Shak. 9. Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level. We live not on the square with such as these. Dryden. 10. (Astrol.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.] 11. The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel. [R.] 12. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. [Obs.] Shak. Geometrical square. See Quadrat, n., 2. -- Hollow square (Mil.), a formation of troops in the shape of a square, each side consisting of four or five ranks, and the colors, officers, horses, etc., occupying the middle. -- Least square, Magic square, etc. See under Least, Magic, etc. -- On the square, or Upon the square, in an open, fair manner; honestly, or upon honor. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- On, or Upon, the square with, upon equality with; even with. Nares. -- To be all squares, to be all settled. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- To be at square, to be in a state of quarreling. [Obs.] Nares. -- To break no square, to give no offense; to make no difference. [Obs.] -- To break squares, to depart from an accustomed order. To see how the squares go, to see how the game proceeds; -- a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chessboard being formed with squares. [Obs.] L'Estrange.\n\n1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure. 2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. 3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame. 4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak. 5. Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing. 6. Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square. 7. Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous. By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. Beau. & Fl. 8. (Naut.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced. Note: Square is often used in self-explaining compounds or combination, as in square-built, square-cornered, square-cut, square- nosed, etc. Square foot, an area equal to that of a square the sides of which are twelwe inches; 144 square inches. -- Square knot, a knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other; a reef knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- Square measure, the measure of a superficies or surface which depends on the length and breadth taken conjointly. The units of square measure are squares whose sides are the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc. -- Square number. See square, n., 6. -- Square root of a number or quantity (Math.), that number or quantity which, multiplied by itself produces the given number or quantity. -- Square sail (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail boomed out. See Illust of Sail. -- Square stern (Naut.), a stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom. -- Three-square, Five-square, etc., having three, five, etc., equal sides; as, a three-square file. -- To get square with, to get even with; to pay off. [Colloq.]\n\n1. To form with four sides and four right angles. Spenser. 2. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work. 3. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard. Shak. 4. To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others. Square my trial To my proportioned strength. Milton. 5. To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts. 6. (Math.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity. 7. (Astrol.) To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. Creech. 8. (Naut.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards. To square one's shoulders, to raise the shoulders so as to give them a square appearance, -- a movement expressing contempt or dislike. Sir W. Scott. -- To square the circle (Math.), to determine the exact contents of a circle in square measure. The solution of this famous problem is now generally admitted to be impossible.\n\n1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper. 2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel. [Obs.] Are you such fools To square for this Shak. 3. To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off. [Colloq.] Dickens.","inclemently":"In an inclement manner.","recenter":"To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.","antecede":"To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.","reorganize":"To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.","mineralist":"One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]","rouse":"To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.\n\n1. A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.] Shak. 2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.\n\n1. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope. 2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly. 3. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury. 4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. Milton. 5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.\n\n1. To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.] Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Shak. 2. To awake from sleep or repose. Morpheus rouses from his bed. Pope. 3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.","tetanization":"The production or condition of tetanus.","summerset":"See Somersault, Somerset.","staminate":"(a) Furnished with stamens; producing stamens. (b) Having stamens, but lacking pistils.\n\nTo indue with stamina. [R.]","playtime":"Time for play or diversion.","defense":"1. The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger. In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. Shak. 2. That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak. 3. Protecting plea; vindication; justification. Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense. Acts xxii. 1. 4. (Law) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. A man of great defense. Spenser. By how much defense is better than no skill. Shak. 6. Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.] Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. Sir W. Temple.\n\nTo furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.] Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.","sudorous":"Consisting of sweat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","mentum":"The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.","bittersweet":"Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.\n\n1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. 3. (Bot.) (a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara. (b) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.","arid":"Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. \"An arid waste.\" Thomson.","deprehension":"A catching; discovery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","circularly":"In a circular manner.","pestilential":"1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. \"Sends the pestilential vapors.\" Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.","calyx":"1. (Bot.) The covering of a flower. See Flower. Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal. 2. (Anat.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papilæ.","stultify":"1. To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. Burke. 2. To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.] The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own. Hazlitt. 3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.","deadlatch":"A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.","ranger":"1. One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber. 2. That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] \"The tamis ranger.\" Holland. 3. A dog that beats the ground in search of game. 4. One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot. 5. The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [Eng.]","xylic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, xylene; specifically, designating any one of several metameric acids produced by the partial oxidation of mesitylene and pseudo-cumene.","politicly":"In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.","frenetical":"Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet\"ic*al*ly, adv.","trampler":"One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.","adaptability":"The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. \"General adaptability for every purpose.\" Farrar.","confidentially":"In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.","paltry":"Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible.","rosolic":"Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.","impugner":"One who impugns.","lepidodendrid":"One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.","tubiporite":"Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.","quadroxide":"A tetroxide. [R.]","malleable":"Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.","medallic":"Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. \"Our medallic history.\" Walpole.","strappado":"A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated. Shak.\n\nTo punish or torture by the strappado. Milton.","quieter":"One who, or that which, quiets.","tetany":"A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.","spirillum":"A genus of common motile microörganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.","portico":"A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.","sprigged":"Having sprigs.","steem":"See Esteem. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nSee 1st and 2nd Stem. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.\n\nA gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]","squarish":"Nearly square. Pennant.","mollifier":"One who, or that which, mollifies. Bacon.","siderosis":"A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.","chironomy":"The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture [Obs.]","aubin":"A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.","deflate":"To reduce from an inflated condition.","wing-footed":"1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. (b) Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.","nowhere":"Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.","silicium":"See Silicon.","autotypy":"The art or process of making autotypes.","enteralgia":"Pain in the intestines; colic.","northerly":"Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.\n\nToward the north.","enneahedron":"A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.","poultry":"Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.","ance":"A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy. Note: All recently adopted words of this class take either -ance or - ence, according to the Latin spelling.","lava":"The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and according to the material of which they consist, as doleritic, trachytic, etc. Lava millstone, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine. -- Lava ware, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in appearance.","chalaziferous":"Having or bearing chalazas.","adenography":"That part of anatomy which describes the glands.","mite":"1. (Zoöl.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina. 2. Etym: [D. mijt; prob. the same word.] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. Two mites, which make a farthing. Mark xii. 49. 3. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain. 4. Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. For in effect they be not worth a myte. Chaucer.","photolithographer":"One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.","sennachy":"See Seannachie.","garganey":"A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.","loimic":"Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.","exode":"1. Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.] L. Coleman. Bolingbroke. 2. (Gr. Drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe. 3. (Rom. Antig.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.","hopplebush":"Same as Hobblebush.","savvy":"To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]\n\nComprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp. [Slang, U. S.]","termless":"1. Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time. [R.] \"Termless joys.\" Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Inexpressible; indescribable. [R.] Shak.","prizer":"One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.\n\nOne who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger. [Obs.] Shak. Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer. B. Jonson.","congree":"To agree. [bs.] Shak.","utilitarian":"1. Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art. 2. Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society. J. S. Mill.\n\nOne who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism. The utilitarians are for merging all the particular virtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred. Chalmers. But what is a utilitarian Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not Sir W. Hamilton.","miscontent":"Discontent. [Obs.]","bedrabble":"To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.","scarification":"The act of scarifying.","giddy-head":"A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. [Colloq.] Burton.","hymenogeny":"The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.","berg":"A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .","post note":"A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.","sawmill":"A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.","matter":"1. That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. He is the matter of virtue. B. Jonson. 2. That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance. Note: Matter is usually divided by philosophical writers into three kinds or classes: solid, liquid, and aëriform. Solid substances are those whose parts firmly cohere and resist impression, as wood or stone. Liquids have free motion among their parts, and easily yield to impression, as water and wine. Aëriform substances are elastic fluids, called vapors and gases, as air and oxygen gas. 3. That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme. \"If the matter should be tried by duel.\" Bacon. Son of God, Savior of men ! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton. Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge. Ex. xviii. 22. 4. That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business. To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology. Bacon. Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice. Spectator. 5. Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter no matter, and the like. A prophet some, and some a poet, cry; No matter which, so neither of them lie. Dryden. 6. Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble. And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton. 7. Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton. 8. Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance. 9. (Metaph.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. 10. (Print.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing. Dead matter (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution. -- Live matter (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from. -- Matter in bar, Matter of fact. See under Bar, and Fact. -- Matter of record, anything recorded. -- Upon the matter, or Upon the whole matter, considering the whole; taking all things into view. Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot. Clarendon.\n\n1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. [R.] \"Each slight sore mattereth.\" Sir P. Sidney.\n\nTo regard as important; to take account of; to care for. [Obs.] He did not matter cold nor hunger. H. Brooke.","mezza voce":"With a medium fullness of sound.","oynoun":"Onion. [Obs.] Chaucer.","xylographical":"Of or pertaining to xylography, or wood engraving.","aphaeresis":"Same as Apheresis.","creditably":"In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.","bespirt":"Same as Bespurt.","stoor":"To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nStrong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.] O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou Chaucer.","thrall-less":"(a) Having no thralls. (b) Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.","ambustion":"A burn or scald. Blount.","detention":"1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. 2. The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity. 3. Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.","gasoscope":"An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.","inexactitude":"Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude.","jerquing":"The searching of a ship for unentered goods. [Eng.] [Written also jerguer.]\n\nThe searching of a ship for unentered goods. [Eng.]","intellectualize":"1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.","burrstone":"See Buhrstone.","plower":"One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.","zizith":"The tassels of twisted cords or threads on the corners of the upper garment worn by strict Jews. The Hebrew for this word is translated in both the Authorized and Revised Versions (Deut. xxii. 12) by the word \"fringes.\"","northwestward":"Toward the northwest.","instrumentalism":"The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men\"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas are biological functions of our organisms, and psychological functions whereby we direct our choices and attain our successes. Josiah Royce.","placeman":"One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.","belles-lettres":"Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.","polyloquent":"Garrulous; loquacious. [R.]","taper":"1. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak. 2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.\n\nRegularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.\n\nTo become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.\n\nTo make or cause to taper.","disentitle":"To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.","buke muslin":"See Book muslin.","oneirocritical":"Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.","verecundious":"Verecund. [Obs.] \"Verecundious generosity.\" Sir H. Wotton.","protozoon":"(a) One of the Protozoa. (b) A single zooid of a compound protozoan.","supramaxilla":"The upper jaw or maxilla.","orle":"1. (Her.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border. 2. (Her.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.","set-stitched":"Stitched according to a formal pattern. \"An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs.\" Sterne.","headborrow":"1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone. 2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]","desperado":"A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.","decipheress":"A woman who deciphers.","wore":"imp. of Wear.\n\nimp. of Ware.","metacetone":"A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.","bribe":"1. A gift begged; a present. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe. Hobart. 3. That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.\n\n1. To rob or steal. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to. Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience. F. W. Robertson. 3. To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.\n\n1. To commit robbery or theft. [Obs.] 2. To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. An attempt to bribe, though unsuccessful, has been holden to be criminal, and the offender may be indicted. Bouvier. The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe. Goldsmith.","remeant":"Coming back; returning. [R.] \"Like the remeant sun.\" C. Kingsley.","shark":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark, grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and related genera. They have several rows of large sharp teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias, or Rondeleti) of tropical seas, and the great blue shark (Carcharhinus glaucus) of all tropical and temperate seas. The former sometimes becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most voracious and dangerous species known. The rare man-eating shark of the United States coast (Charcarodon Atwoodi) is thought by some to be a variety, or the young, of C. carcharias. The dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), and the smaller blue shark (C. caudatus), both common species on the coast of the United States, are of moderate size and not dangerous. They feed on shellfish and bottom fishes. 2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.] 3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark. [Obs.] South. Baskin shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark, Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking, Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish, Notidanian, and Tope. -- Gray shark, the sand shark. -- Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead. -- Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont. -- Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. -- Shark ray. Same as Angel fish (a), under Angel. -- Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, voracious shark. See Thrasher. -- Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length, but has very small teeth.\n\nTo pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. Bp. Earle. 2. To live by shifts and stratagems. Beau & Fl.","escarpment":"A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.","tuff":"Same as Tufa.","cog":"1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak. 2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.\n\nTo deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.\n\nA trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.\n\n1. (Mech.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel. 2. (Carp.) (a) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface. (b) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight. 3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.\n\nTo furnish with a cog or cogs. Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.\n\nA small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","tectonic":"Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.","lockage":"1. Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks. 2. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal. 3. Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal. The entire lock will be about fifty feet. De Witt Clinton.","plantar":"Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.","sarcastic":"Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting. What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world! South.","architect":"1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. 2. A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.","thrivingness":"The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase. THRO' Thro'. A contraction of Through.","ballistic":"1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. 2. Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile. Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it.","grindle":"The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle. [Local, U. S.]","catechism":"1. A form of instruction by means of questions answers. 2. A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms. Hooker. The Larger Catechism, The Shorter Catechism. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.","freewheel":"A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedaling.\n\n1. (a) Of a freewheel cycle, to run on while the pedals are held still. (b) Of a person, to ride a cycle of this manner. To ride a freewheel cycle. 2. (Mach.) To operate like a freewheel, so that one part moves freely over another which normally moves with it; -- said of a clutch.","ubication":"The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.","remuneration":"1. The act of remunerating. 2. That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings. Shak. Syn. -- Reward; recompense; compensation; pay; payment; repayment; satisfaction; requital.","sauropoda":"An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the Largest Known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and alied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.","salam":"A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. [Written also salaam.]","joinhand":"Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters. Addison.","panoistic":"Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.","loculus":"1. (Zoöl.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. 2. (Bot.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.","stupefy":"1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South. 2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.","maestricht monitor":"The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.","injudicable":"Not cognizable by a judge. [Obs.] Bailey.","tuck-net":"See Tuck, n., 2.","marbled":"1. Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] \"The marbled mansion.\" Shak. 2. Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. \"Marbled paper.\" Boyle. 3. (zoöl.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.","impavid":"Fearless. -- Im*pav\"id*ly, adv.","sorrow":"The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler. Syn. -- Grief; unhappiness; regret; sadness; heaviness; mourning; affliction. See Affliction, and Grief.\n\nTo feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry. Sorrowing most of all . . . that they should see his face no more. Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Sir J. Hayward.","tomentum":"The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.","gadre":"To gather. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tewan":"A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.","aflush":"In a flushed or blushing state.\n\nOn a level. The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne.","allspice":"The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.","villanousness":"See Villainous, etc.","ritratto":"A picture. Sterne.","bays":"See Baize. [Obs.]","pillage":"1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak. Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. -- Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.\n\nTo strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot.\n\nTo take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.","heathenishness":"The state or quality of being heathenish. \"The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks.\" Prynne.","antholite":"A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.","rigorist":"One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.","willowed":"Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. \"Willowed meads.\" Collins.","renne":"To plunder; -- only in the phrase \"to rape and renne.\" See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo run. [Obs.] Chaucer.","leaden":"1. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. 2. Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. 3. Heavy; dull; sluggish. \"Leaden slumber.\" Shak.","knitting":"1. The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting. 2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.","impercipient":"Not perceiving, or not able to perceive. A. Baxter.","sickly":"1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble. 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.\n\nIn a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.\n\nTo make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.","rangership":"The office of the keeper of a forest or park. [Eng.]","termly":"Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. [R.] Bacon.\n\nTerm by term; every term. [R.] \"Fees . . . that are termly given.\" Bacon.","slippered":"Wearing slippers. Shak.","morbific":"Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.","warmly":"In a warm manner; ardently.","proficience":"The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.","condemnation":"1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. 2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. 3. The state of being condemned. His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. 4. The ground or reason of condemning. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19.","clench":"See Clinch. CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE Cle`o*pa\"tra's nee\"dle. [So named after Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.] Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York. Some writers consider that only the obelisk now in Central Park is properly called Cleopatra's needle.","roxburgh":"A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.","millier":"A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.","columelliform":"Shaped like a little column, or columella.","pressitant":"Gravitating; heavy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","secretitious":"Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.","forayer":"One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.","pleuronectoid":"Pertaining to the Pleuronectidæ, or Flounder family.","fruity":"Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.","intuitionist":"Same as Intuitionalist. Bain.","epilogistic":"Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue. T. Warton.","weight":"1. The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc. Note: Weight differs from gravity in being the effect of gravity, or the downward pressure of a body under the influence of gravity; hence, it constitutes a measure of the force of gravity, and being the resultant of all the forces exerted by gravity upon the different particles of the body, it is proportional to the quantity of matter in the body. 2. The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds. For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes. Shak. 3. Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business. \"The weight of this said time.\" Shak. For the public all this weight he bears. Milton. [He] who singly bore the world's sad weight. Keble. 4. Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight. In such a point of weight, so near mine honor. Shak. 5. A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight. 6. A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight. A man leapeth better with weights in his hands. Bacon. 7. A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight. 8. (Mech.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. [Obs.] Atomic weight. (Chem.) See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of observation (Astron. & Physics), a number expressing the most probable relative value of each observation in determining the result of a series of observations of the same kind. Syn. -- Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness; pressure; burden; load; importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness.\n\n1. To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. Coleridge. 2. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.","citrate":"A salt of citric acid.","hopeless":"1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak. 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of \"never to return\" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak. 3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] Marston. -- Hope\"less*ly, adv. -- Hope\"less*ness, n.","kalong":"A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).","statism":"The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.] The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. South.","ochreate":"1. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted. A scholar undertook...to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. Fuller. 2. (Bot.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.","numeric":"1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement. Note: Numerical, as opposed to algebraical, is used to denote a value irrespective of its sign; thus, -5 is numerically greater than -3, though algebraically less. 2.2. The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical; as, the same numerical body. [Obs.] South. Would to God that all my fellow brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, . . . might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes. Fuller. Numerical equation (Alg.), an equation which has all the quantities except the unknown expressed in numbers; -- distinguished from literal equation. -- Numerical value of an equation or expression, that deduced by substituting numbers for the letters, and reducing.\n\nAny number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nsq. root-1, where m and n are real numerics.","contestable":"Capable of being contested; debatable.","conceptious":"Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.","babyship":"The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.","grillage":"A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.","archetypally":"With reference to the archetype; originally. \"Parts archetypally distinct.\" Dana.","typhoid":"Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's glands. -- Typhoid state, a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.","braize":"A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. [Also written brazier.]\n\n1. Charcoal powder; breeze. 2. (Cookery) Braised meat.\n\nSee Braise.","nigger":"A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.","reviviscence":"The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.","skeleton":"1. (Anat.) (a) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: [See Illust. of the Human Skeleton, in Appendix.] (b) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective- tissue framework with the integument and its appendages. See Endoskeleton, and Exoskeleton. 2. Hence, figuratively: (a) A very thin or lean person. (b) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale. (c) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.\n\nConsisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal. Skeleton bill, a bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount or payee, but signed by the acceptor. [Eng.] -- Skeleton key, a key with nearly the whole substance of the web filed away, to adapt it to avoid the wards of a lock; a master key; -- used for opening locks to which it has not been especially fitted. -- Skeleton leaf, a leaf from which the pulpy part has been removed by chemical means, the fibrous part alone remaining. -- Skeleton proof, a proof of a print or engraving, with the inscription outlined in hair strokes only, such proofs being taken before the engraving is finished. -- Skeleton regiment, a regiment which has its complement of officers, but in which there are few enlisted men. -- Skeleton shrimp (Zoöl.), a small crustacean of the genus Caprella. See Illust. under Læmodipoda.","alleger":"One who affirms or declares.","lipothymic":"Tending to swoon; fainting. [Written also leipothymic.]","segno":"A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.","surfer":"The surf duck. [U. S.]","capucine":"See Capuchin, 3.","fougade":"A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.","meacock":"An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man. [Obs.] Johnson.","supervision":"The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.","christian seneca":"Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.","dinothere":"A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.","quasi":"As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.","taperness":"The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. Shenstone.","amphistomous":"Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.","sea colewort":"Sea cabbage.","gnow":"Gnawed. Chaucer.","high-minded":"1. Proud; arrogant. [Obs.] Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20. 2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. A. Norton.","ullmannite":"A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.","lex":"Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terræ, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.","untruthful":"Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth\"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth\"ful*ness, n.","scoke":"Poke (Phytolacca decandra).","barbule":"1. A very minute barb or beard. Booth. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.","humorousness":"1. Moodiness; capriciousness. 2. Facetiousness; jocularity.","gallant":"1. Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak. 2. Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller. Syn. -- Gallant, Courageous, Brave. Courageous is generic, denoting an inward spirit which rises above fear; brave is more outward, marking a spirit which braves or defies danger; gallant rises still higher, denoting bravery on extraordinary occasions in a spirit of adventure. A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict.\n\nPolite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.\n\n1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. Shak. 2. One fond of paying attention to ladies. 3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison. Note: In the first sense it is by some orthoëpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.\n\n1. To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play. 2. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. [Obs.] Addison.","abreption":"A snatching away. [Obs.]","infrasternal":"Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.","sappodilla":"See Sapodilla.","ravage":"Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison. Syn. -- Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.\n\nTo lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already Cæsar Has ravaged more than half the globe. Addison. His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. Macaulay. Syn. -- To despoil; pillage; plunger; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.","atlantean":"1. Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean. 2. Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton.","enwomb":"1. To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.","slash pine":"A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in \"slashes.\"","amphiscians":"The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.","denim":"A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.","applicatory":"Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n. That which applies.","eger":"Sharp; bitter; acid; sour. [Obs.] The egre words of thy friend. Chaucer.\n\nAn impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.","novelty":"1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.","anelace":"Same as Anlace.","effectively":"With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.","hydrobarometer":"An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.","mimically":"In an imitative manner.","vivify":"To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.","communicator":"One who communicates. Boyle.","garron":"Same as Garran. [Scot.]","savoury":"An aromatic labiate plant (Satireia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory. [Written also savoury.]","abnet":"The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.","fraternation":"Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.","jetton":"A metal counter used in playing cards.","georgium sidus":"The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel.","quadrat":"1. (Print.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines. [Abbrev. quad.] 2. An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.","amphigenesis":"Sexual generation; amphigony.","cabeca":"The finest kind of silk received from India.","folliful":"Full of folly. [Obs.]","metasilicic":"Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid. Note: The salts of metasilicic acid are often called bisilicates, in mineralogy, as Wollastonite (CaSiO3). Metasilicic acid (Chem.), a gelatinous substance, or white amorphous powder, analogous to carbonic acid, and forming many stable salts.","flair":"1. Smell; odor. [Obs.] 2. Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.","aquatile":"Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","imbricate":"1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile. 2. Lying over each other in regular order, so as to \"break joints,\" like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation. 3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.\n\nTo lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.","occupant":"1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. 2. A prostitute. [Obs.] Marston.","anear":"Near. [R.] \"It did not come anear.\" Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.\n\nTo near; to approach. [Archaic]","ceroplastic":"(a) Relating to the art of modeling in wax. (b) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.","laced":"1. Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t. 2. Decorated with the fabric lace. A shirt with laced ruffles. Fielding. Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.","alloyage":"The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.","squawweed":"The golden ragwort. See under Ragwort.","regreet":"To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.\n\nA return or exchange of salutation.","whereupon":"Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.","solidist":"An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.","broad church":"A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship. Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another party of a different character has always existed in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.","gelose":"An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.","attester":"One who attests.","abstemiousness":"The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.","goutwort":"A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.","schist":"Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.","vellon":"A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.","air bladder":"1. (Anat.) An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus. 2. A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.","rosary":"1. A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. \"Thick rosaries of scented thorn.\" Tennyson. 2. (R.C.Ch.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted. His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers. Milton. Note: A rosary consists of fifteen decades. Each decade contains ten Ave Marias marked by small beads, preceded by a Paternoster, marked by a larger bead, and concluded by a Gloria Patri. Five decades make a chaplet, a third part of the rosary. Bp. Fitzpatrick. 3. A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night. Jer. Taylor. 4. A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny. Rosary shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.","mislin":"See Maslin.","algazel":"The true gazelle.","laryngismus":"A spasmodic state of the glottis, giving rise to contraction or closure of the opening.","granilla":"Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.","quietude":"Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.","misbehavior":"Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.","verse":"1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules. Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe. 2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne. 3. A short division of any composition. Specifically: -- (a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses. Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is objectionable, because not always distinguishable from the stricter use in the sense of a line. (b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments. Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551. (c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. 4. A piece of poetry. \"This verse be thine.\" Pope. Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes. -- Heroic verse. See under Heroic.\n\nTo tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.] Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. Shak.\n\nTo make verses; to versify. [Obs.] It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. Sir P. Sidney.","sarcosin":"A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.","restem":"1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak. 2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.","sophime":"Sophism. [Obs.] I trow ye study aboute some sophime. Chaucer.","oleic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14","intangle":"See Entangle.","taxgatherer":"One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax\"gath`er*ing, n.","muser":"One who muses.","spicula":"(a) A little spike; a spikelet. (b) A pointed fleshy appendage.","mulish":"Like a mule; sullen; stubborn. -- Mul\"ish*ly, adv. -- Mul\"ish*ness, n.","adight":"To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]","tremulant":"Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] \" With tremulent white rod.\" Carlyle.","tetric":"Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged. [Obs.] -- Tet\"ric*al*ness, n.","buffoonism":"The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.","diphygenic":"Having two modes of embryonic development.","intertwist":"To twist together one with another; to intertwine.","ambassadorship":"The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.","bail bond":"(a) A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ. (b) Special bail in court to abide the judgment. Bouvier.","genetically":"In a genetical manner.","downgyved":"Hanging down like gyves or fetters. [Poetic & Rare] Shak.","cerberean":"Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.","theocrat":"One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.","nauseous":"Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau\"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau\"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.","complotment":"A plotting together. [R.]","precede":"1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. \"Harm precedes not sin.\" Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.] It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration. Kent.","hawk":"One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk. Note: Among the common American species are the red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis); the red-shouldered (B. lineatus); the broad-winged (B. Pennsylvanicus); the rough-legged (Archibuteo lagopus); the sharp-shinned Accipiter fuscus). See Fishhawk, Goshawk, Marsh hawk, under Marsh, Night hawk, under Night. Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Eagle hawk. See under Eagle. -- Hawk eagle (Zoöl.), an Asiatic bird of the genus Spizætus, or Limnætus, intermediate between the hawks and eagles. There are several species. -- Hawk fly (Zoöl.), a voracious fly of the family Asilidæ. See Hornet fly, under Hornet. -- Hawk moth. (Zoöl.) See Hawk moth, in the Vocabulary. -- Hawk owl. (Zoöl.) (a) A northern owl (Surnia ulula) of Europe and America. It flies by day, and in some respects resembles the hawks. (b) An owl of India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.\n\n1. To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry. A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks. Prior. 2. To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.\n\nTo clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.\n\nTo raise by hawking, as phlegm.\n\nAn effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.\n\nTo offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets. His works were hawked in every street. Swift.\n\nA small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar. Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.","neolithic":"Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone. The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the \"Stone age;\" the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or \"crannogs,\" of the British Isles, belong to this era. Lubbock.","gerundively":"In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.","keloid":"Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. -- n. A keloid tumor.","solecism":"1. An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more. Johnson. 2. Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners. Cæsar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics. C. Middleton. The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Barbarism; impropriety; absurdity.","puristic":"Of or pertaining to purists or purism.","deperdit":"That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] Paley.","isotropy":"Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.","munchausenism":"An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.","frogmouth":"One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidæ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.","oordoba":"The monetary unit of Nicaragua, equivalent to the United States gold dollar.","rhomb spar":"A variety of dolomite.","agiotage":"Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.","monopodium":"A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.","haversian":"Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.","autopathic":"Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.","mesne":"Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution. Blackstone. Burrill. -- Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burrill.","arapaima":"A large fresh-water food fish of South America.","copy":"1. An abundance or plenty of anything. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. B. Jonson. 2. An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue. I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original. Denham. 3. An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison. 4. That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters. Holder. 5. (print.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy. 6. A writing paper Bastard. See under Paper. 7. Copyhold; tenure; lease. [Obs.] Shak. Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. -- Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals. -- Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court. -- Certified or Office copies, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. Abbot. Syn. -- Imitation; transcript; duplicate; counterfeit.\n\n1. To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off. I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied. Shak. Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance. Shak. 2. To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life. We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation. Stewart.\n\n1. To make a copy or copies; to imitate. 2. To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well. Some . . . never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good things. Dryden.","nervomuscular":"Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.","odometry":"Measurement of distances by the odometer.","slaveholder":"One who holds slaves.","in posse":"In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.","spake":"imp. of Speak.","hyacinthian":"Hyacinthine. [R.]","poind":"1. To impound, as cattle. [Obs. or Scot.] Flavel. 2. To distrain. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","floyte":"A variant of Flute. [Obs.]","provisor":"1. One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] \"The chief provisor of our horse.\" Ford. 2. (R. C. Ch.) (a) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. Cowell. (b) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5. P. Plowman. 3. (Eng. Hist.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.","manche":"A sleeve. [Obs.]","disguise":"1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. Macaulay. 2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. All God's angels come to us disguised. Lowell. 3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator. Syn. -- To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.\n\n1. A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties. There is no passion steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. Addison. 2. Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. That eye which glances through all disguises. D. Webster. 3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. Shak. 4. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.] Disguise was the old English word for a masque. B. Jonson.","wantonize":"To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. [R.] Lamb.","reguerdon":"To reward. [Obs.] Shak.","rosier":"A rosebush; roses, collectively. [Obs.] Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier. Spenser.","surgeful":"Abounding in surges; surgy. \"Tossing the surgeful tides.\" Drayton.","air sac":"One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.","graham bread":"Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [U. S.] Bartlett.","alembroth":"The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.","allegheny":"1. Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al\"le*gha`ny. 2. [From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania.] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure.","deploitation":"Same as Exploitation.","ictus":"1. (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis. 2. (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.","upstand":"To stand up; to be erected; to rise. Spenser. Milton. At once upstood the monarch, and upstood The wise Ulysses. Cowper.","implicit":"1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.","plano-convex":"Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.","mahout":"The keeper and driver of an elephant. [East Indies]","freeman":"1. One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal. 2. A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison.","exogenetic":"Arising or growing from without; exogenous.","whitewood":"The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. Note: Several other kinds of light-colored wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolor in Tasmania, etc. Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella.","reprimer":"A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.","squinting":"a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint\"ing*ly, adv.","sunshiny":"1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. \"Her sunshiny face.\" Spenser.","alphol":"A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.","genu":"(a) The knee. (b) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.","swath":"1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. 2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath. 3. A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]","whereat":"1. At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended","fluegel":"A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.","glomerate":"Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.\n\nTo gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.","merestead":"The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.","pyral":"Of or pertaining to a pyre. [R.]","visibility":"The quality or state of being visible.","dedolent":"Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.","uraeus":"A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.","granddaughter":"The daughter of one's son or daughter.","stile":"1. A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style. Moxon. 2. Mode of composition. See Style. [Obs.] May I not write in such a stile as this Bunyan.\n\n1. A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall. There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way. Shak. Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle. Bunyan. 2. (Arch.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised. Note: In an ordinary door the principal upright pieces are called stiles, the subordinate upright pieces mullions, and the crosspieces rails. In wainscoting the principal pieces are sometimes called stiles, even when horizontal. Hanging stile, Pulley stile. See under Hanging, and Pulley.","arctation":"Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.","viced":"Vicious; corrupt. [Obs.] Shak.","unboundably":"Infinitely. [Obs.] I am . . . unboundably beholding to you. J. Webster (1607).","gradine":"Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. \"The gradines of the amphitheeater.\" Layard.\n\nA toothed chised by sculptors.","unpursed":"1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. [R.] Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. [Obs.] Gower.","mutilate":"1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne. 2. (Zoöl.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.\n\nA cetacean, or a sirenian.\n\n1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements.","argosy":"A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.","desuete":"Disused; out of use. [R.]","ineffervescent":"Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.","centumviral":"Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.","hornwork":"An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.","rhinocerote":"A rhinoceros. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","rantingly":"In a ranting manner.","agha":"In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.","stillage":"A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.","click beetle":"See Elater.","comet-finder":"A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.","pyrogen":"1. Electricity. [R.] 2. (Physiol. Chem.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.","rectal":"Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.","peterero":"See Pederero.","copple-crown":"A created or high-topped crown or head. \"Like the copple-crown the lapwing has.\" T. Randolph. -- Cop\"ple-crowned`, a.","coal":"1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal. 2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc. Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals on the fire. In the United States the singular in a collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of coal. Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen. -- Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite. -- Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous. -- Blind coal. See under Blind. -- Brown coal, or Lignite. See Lignite. -- Caking coal, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left. -- Cannel coal, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal. -- Coal bed (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal. -- Coal breaker, a structure including machines and machinery adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal. -- Coal field (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and are hence called coal basins. See Basin. -- Coal gas, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc., and for cooking and heating. -- Coal heaver, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in putting it in, and discharging it from, ships. -- Coal measures. (Geol.) (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks. (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between the millstone grit below and the Permian formation above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds of the world. -- Coal oil, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum. -- Coal plant (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of plants found in the strata of the coal formation. -- Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. -- To haul over the coals, to call to account; to scold or censure. [Colloq.] -- Wood coal. See Lignite.\n\n1. To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.] Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces. Bacon. 2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. Camden. 3. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.\n\nTo take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.","unnest":"To eject from a nest; to unnestle. [R.] T. Adams.","deadhead":"1. One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.] 2. (Naut.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.","jambes":"In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees. [Written also giambeux.] Chaucer.","plebs":"1. The commonalty of ancient Rome who were citizens without the usual political rights; the plebeians; -- distinguished from the patricians. 2. Hence, the common people; the populace; --construed as a pl.","taxidermic":"Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.","gladiatorship":"Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.","alexiterical":"Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.","monoplegia":"Paralysis affecting a single limb.","paigle":"A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]","anagrammatism":"The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.","hesper":"The evening; Hesperus.","jeerer":"A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.","panorpid":"Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice.","plutocratic":"Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas. Bagehot.","morendo":"Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.","reentrant":"Reëntering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re angle.","macrodome":"A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.","renege":"To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith and thee unholy leagued. Sylvester.\n\n1. To deny. [Obs.] Shak. 2. (Card Playing) To revoke. [R.]","physiology":"1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life. Note: It is divided into animal and vegetable physiology, dealing with animal and vegetable life respectively. When applied especially to a study of the functions of the organs and tissues in man, it is called human physiology. 2. A treatise on physiology. Mental physiology, the science of the functions and phenomena of the mind, as distinguished from a philosophical explanation of the same.","ascessant":"See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]","abjunctive":"Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.","viny":"Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.","decapodous":"Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.","ring armature":"An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.","etamine":"A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting.","rhythmic":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm DAy and night I worked my rhythmic thought. Mrs. Browning. Rhythmical accent. (Mus.) See Accent, n., 6 (c).","aria":"An air or song; a melody; a tune. Note: The Italian term is now mostly used for the more elaborate accompanied melodies sung by a single voice, in operas, oratorios, cantatas, anthems, etc., and not so much for simple airs or tunes.","ceduous":"Fit to be felled. [Obs.] Eyelyn.","menhaden":"An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.","spynace":"See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).","flittiness":"Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. [Obs.] Bp. Hopkins.","parachronism":"An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence. [R.]","heliolite":"A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.","gaby":"A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]","sluggard":"A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; considered her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.\n\nSluggish; lazy. Dryden.","citied":"1. Belonging to, or resembling, a city. \"Smoky, citied towns\" [R.] Drayton. 2. Containing, or covered with, cities. [R.] \"The citied earth.\" Keats.","triplicate":"Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.\n\nA third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.","utro":"- (connection with, or relation to, the uterus; as in utro- ovarian.","shortener":"One who, or that which, shortens.","physiographic":"Of or pertaining to physiography.","overgarrison":"To garrison to excess.","somnambulation":"The act of walking in sleep.","ulmus":"A genus of trees including the elm.","immolator":"One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.","impatient":"1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay. 2. Not to be borne; unendurable. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies. Shak. Syn. -- Restless; uneasy; changeable; hot; eager; fretful; intolerant; passionate.\n\nOne who is impatient. [R.]","lingism":"A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.","agal-agal":"Same as Agar-agar.","stature":"The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.","scorpionwort":"A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpides) of Southern Europe, having curved pods.","aspectable":"Capable of being; visible. \"The aspectable world.\" Ray. \"Aspectable stars.\" Mrs. Browning.","heterophagi":"Altrices.","platyhelmia":"Same as Platyelminthes. [Written also Platyelmia.]","ouster":"A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. Blackstone.","infrequent":"Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.","involuntary":"1. Not having will of the power of choice. 2. Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers. 3. Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.","epagogic":"Inductive. Latham.","sibilancy":"The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.","mulier":"1. A woman. 2. (Law) (a) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son. (b) (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother. Blount. Cowell.","fireplace":"The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.","supermaxillary":"Supermaxillary.","loper":"1. One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [U.S.] 2. (Rope Making) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.","cockroach":"An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. Note: The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug (Ectobia Germanica).","arpeggio":"The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.","deliverance":"1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden. 2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak. 3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak. Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. 4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak. 5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.] 6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.","thundercloud":"A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.","vasectomy":"Resection or excision of the vas deferens.","paracentric":"Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called also a paracentric. -- Paracentric motton or velocity, the motion or velocity of a revolving body, as a planet, by which it approaches to, or recedes from, the center, without reference to its motion in space, or to its motion as reckoned in any other direction.","battlement":"(a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.","rallies":"A French political group, also known as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.","scintillant":"Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling. M. Green.","begohm":"A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.","refrigerative":"Cooling; allaying heat. -- n. A refrigerant. Crazed brains should come under a refrigerative treatment. I. Taylor.","insignificance":"1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. 3. Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.","afterbirth":"The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.","nova":"A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No\"va Co*ro\"næ Bo`re*a\"lis [1866]; No\"va Cyg\"ni [1876]; No\"va An*dro\"me*dæ [1885]; No\"va Au*ri\"gæ [1891-92]; No\"va Per\"se*i [1901]. There are two novæ called Nova Persei. They are: (a) A small nova which appeared in 1881. (b) An extraordinary nova which appeared in Perseus in 1901. It was first sighted on February 22, and for one night (February 23) was the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredible velocity.","puddock":"A small inclosure. [Written also purrock.] [Prov. Eng.]","stichwort":"A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea). [Written also stitchwort.]","incorruptible":"1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake. 2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.\n\nOne of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.\n\nThe quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.","paratactic":"Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.","spoilful":"Wasteful; rapacious. [Poetic]","cola seed":"The bitter fruit of Cola acuminata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.","strapwork":"A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.","goutiness":"The state of being gouty; gout.","kiver":"To cover. -- n. A cover. [Disused except in illiterate speech.]","lyrist":"A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.","mission":"1. The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak. 2. That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission. How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton. 3. Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy. In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house. Bacon. 4. An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries. 5. An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches. 6. A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers. Addis & Arnold. 7. Dismission; discharge from service. [Obs.] Mission school. (a) A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges. Syn. -- Message; errand; commission; deputation.\n\nTo send on a mission. [Mostly used in the form of the past participle.] Keats.","turbo":"Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidæ, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.","appointment":"1. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. 2. The state of being appointed to somappointment of treasurer. 3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. 4. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9. 5. (Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a \"power of appointment\") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl. 7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield. 8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.] Syn. -- Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment.","dayfly":"A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.","hyoscyamine":"An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.","slich":"See Schlich.","saccade":"A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.","sermonet":"A short sermon. [Written also sermonette.]","equivoke":"1. An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge. 2. An equivocation; a guibble. B. Jonson.","alogian":"One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.","pleadable":"Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.","diamond":"1. A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness. Note: The diamond is native carbon in isometric crystals, often octahedrons with rounded edges. It is usually colorless, but some are yellow, green, blue, and even black. It is the hardest substance known. The diamond as found in nature (called a rough diamond) is cut, for use in jewelry, into various forms with many reflecting faces, or facets, by which its brilliancy is much increased. See Brilliant, Rose. Diamonds are said to be of the first water when very transparent, and of the second or third water as the transparency decreases. 2. A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge. 3. One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond. 4. (Arch.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups. 5. (Baseball) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles. 6. (Print.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen. Note: * This line is printed in the type called Diamond. Black diamond, coal; (Min.) See Carbonado. -- Bristol diamond. See Bristol stone, under Bristol. -- Diamond beetle (Zoöl.), a large South American weevil (Entimus imperialis), remarkable for its splendid luster and colors, due to minute brilliant scales. -- Diamond bird (Zoöl.), a small Australian bird (Pardalotus punctatus, family Ampelidæ.). It is black, with white spots. -- Diamond drill (Engin.), a rod or tube the end of which is set with black diamonds; -- used for perforating hard substances, esp. for boring in rock. -- Diamond finch (Zoöl.), a small Australian sparrow, often kept in a cage. Its sides are black, with conspicuous white spots, and the rump is bright carmine. -- Diamond groove (Iron Working), a groove of V-section in a roll. -- Diamond mortar (Chem.), a small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances. -- Diamond-point tool, a cutting tool whose point is diamond-shaped. -- Diamond snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of Australia (Morelia spilotes); the carpet snake. -- Glazier's diamond, a small diamond set in a glazier's tool, for cutting glass.\n\nResembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.","disgregate":"To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.]","haplessly":"In a hapless, unlucky manner.","coequality":"The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.","expiable":"Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.","perfricate":"To rub over. Bailey.","low-lived":"Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.","phantastic":"See Fantastic.","grogshop":"A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.","sothic":"Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. Sothiac, or Sothic, year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139.","thereunto":"Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.","hindu calendar":"A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows: Baisakh . . . . . . . . . . April-May Jeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-June Asarh . . . . . . . . . . . . June-July Sawan (Sarawan) . . . . . . . July-Aug. Bhadon . . . . . . . . . . . Aug.-Sept. Asin (Kuar). . . . . . . . . . Sept.-Oct. Katik (Kartik) . . . . . . . . Oct.-Nov. Aghan . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov.-Dec. Pus . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec.-Jan. Magh . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan.-Feb. Phagun (Phalgun) . . . . . . . Feb.-March Chait . . . . . . . . . . . . March-April","trencher-man":"1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak. 2. A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney. 3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.","erasure":"The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.","physnomy":"Physiogmony. [Obs.]","bombycinous":"1. Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles. 2. Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.","circumrotatory":"turning, rolling, or whirling round.","talpa":"A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.","anthotaxy":"The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.","hieroglyphist":"One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.","pyogenic":"Producing or generating pus.","burnable":"Combustible. Cotgrave.","consistent":"1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory. Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour. Pope. With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent. South. 3. Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions. It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator. Macaulay.","godless":"Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked. -- God\"less*ly, adv. -- God\"less*ness, n.","silicoidea":"An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.","aglitter":"Clittering; in a glitter.","sidereal":"1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc. -- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.","short-jointed":"Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.","ministrant":"Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate. \"Princedoms and dominations ministrant.\" Milton. -- n. One who ministers.","subtriplicate":"Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios. Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cube roota\/b.","nonsubmission":"Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.","etymic":"Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.","menow":"A minnow.","flexicostate":"Having bent or curved ribs.","triphane":"Spodumene.","speciosity":"1. The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance. Carlyle. 2. That which is specious. Dr. H. More.","baraesthesiometer":"An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met\"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met\"ric (#), a.","overhip":"To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass. [Obs.] \"When the time is overhipt.\" Holland.","rebuild":"To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.","worshiper":"One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores. [Written also worshipper.]","hangmanship":"The office or character of a hangman.","epulosity":"A feasting to excess. [Obs.]","inductive":"1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. [R.] They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning. 4. (Physics) (a) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. (b) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity. Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. -- Inductive philosophy or method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. -- Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.","chocard":"The chough.","frigidity":"1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc. 3. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.","hayloft":"A loft or scaffold for hay.","ballet":"1. An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. 2. The company of persons who perform the ballet. 3. (Mus.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. 4. (Her.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.","restaurate":"To restore. [Obs.]","facultative":"1. Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to. 2. Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; specif.: (Biol.) Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate. 3. (Physiol.) Pertaining to a faculty or faculties. In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or practical. J. Martineau.","coralligenous":"producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.","stilling":"A stillion. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","overblow":"1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] Spenser. 2. (Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.\n\nTo blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller.","centuriate":"Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.\n\nTo divide into hundreds. [Obs.]","canoeist":"A canoeman.","screaming":"1. Uttering screams; shrieking. 2. Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp. The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry. Dryden.","bedbug":"A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.","furzechat":"The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.","tankard":"A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover. Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus. Arbuthnot.","doltish":"Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt\"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt\"ish*ness, n.","cotenant":"A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.","thiller":"The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.","denunciate":"To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.","delphinoidea":"The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.","katabolism":"Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.","tarn":"A mountain lake or pool. A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below. Wordsworth.","bailiwick":"The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.","beakhead":"1. (Arch.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker. 2. (Naut.) (a) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. (b) (Antiq.) Same as Beak, 3.","pomey":"A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.","lenticellate":"Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.","pullulate":"To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.","swanimote":"See Swainmote.","unshell":"To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.","epitithides":"The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.","ligniform":"Like wood.","torchon lace":"a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.","retinalite":"A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.","athlete":"1. (Antiq.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome. 2. Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion. 3. One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.","christian":"1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26. 2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. 3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, kris\"chan.\n\n1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone. 4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.","piffle":"To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]\n\nAct of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle. [Dial. or Slang] \"Futile piffle.\" Kipling.","abidance":"The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.","consequentially":"1. With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison. 2. By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. South. 3. In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously. 4. With assumed importance; pompously.","reichstag":"The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.","a cappella":"(a) In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal. (b) A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.","dissimile":"Comparison or illustration by contraries.","phase":"1. That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object. 2. Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases. 3. (Astron.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon. 4. (Physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.","restrain":"1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak. 2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] Shak. 3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon. 4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. Trench. Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate. I. Watts. 5. To withhold; to forbear. Thou restrained prayer before God. Job. xv. 4. Syn. -- To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb; suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.","feud":"1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. 2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas. Syn. -- Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife.\n\nA stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.","hobo":"A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho\"bo*ism (#), n.","mickle":"Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] \"A man of mickle might.\" Spenser.","swimbel":"A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough. [Obs.] Chaucer.","motorize":"To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.). - -Mo`tor*i*za\"tion (#), n.","maximum":"The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery. P. Colquhoun. Maximum thermometer, a thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since its last adjustment.\n\nGreatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.","goosefoot":"A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.","bullen-nail":"A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.","anteriorly":"In an anterior manner; before.","co-meddle":"To mix; to mingle, to temper. [Obs.] Shak.","mammonish":"Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.","puet":"The pewit.","ravishing":"Rapturous; transporting.","parde":"Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath. [Written also pardee, pardieux, perdie, etc.] [Obs.] He was, parde, an old fellow of yours. Chaucer.","caliginous":"Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. [R.] Blount. The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell. -- Ca*lig\"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig\"i*nous*ness, n.","omnipotency":"1. The state of being omnipotent; almighty power; hence, one who is omnipotent; the Deity. Will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave Pope. 2. Unlimited power of a particular kind; as, love's omnipotence. Denham.","slippy":"Slippery.","concise":"Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts. Syn. -- Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See Laconic, and Terse.","ruleless":"Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.","bollen":"See Boln, a.\n\nSwollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.","collector":"1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. 2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. 3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.","incoacted":"Not compelled; unconstrained. [Obs.] Coles.","mislay":"1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. Hallam.","poignancy":"The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. Swift.","tapinage":"A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] Gower.","presbyterianism":"That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.","dative":"1. (Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. 2. (Law) (a) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. (b) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer. (c) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier. Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.\n\nThe dative case. See Dative, a., 1.","uncork":"To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.","radiometry":"The use of the radiometer, or the measurement of radiation. -- Ra`di*o*met\"ric (#), a.","thunderer":"One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.","enchylemma":"The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.","licorous":"See Lickerish. -- Lic\"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.] Herbert.","sirt":"A quicksand. [Obs.]","light-hearted":"Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light\"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light\"-heart\"ed*ness, n.","invert":"1. To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper. 2. (Mus.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony. 3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] Knolles. 4. (Chem.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.\n\nTo undergo inversion, as sugar.\n\nSubjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar. Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.\n\nAn inverted arch.","intensely":"1. Intently. [Obs.] J. Spencer. 2. To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.","irrepressibly":"In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.","outkeeper":"An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.","urcelate":"Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.","toxodonta":"An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.","superiority":"The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.","hoodcap":"See Hooded seal, under Hooded.","lamellibranchiate":"Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. One of the Lamellibranchia.","dele":"Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .\n\nTo erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.\n\nTo deal; to divide; to distribute. [Obs.] Chaucer.","color":"1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. 2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. 3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak. 4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. 5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. Shak. 6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak. 7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow. 8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. Body color. See under Body. -- Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism. -- Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. -- Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. -- Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors. -- Subjective or Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regulary subdiveded, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth, of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental.\n\n1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton. 2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden. 3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser.\n\nTo acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.","correctioner":"One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [Obs.] Shak.","denationalization":"The or process of denationalizing.","semidiapason":"An imperfect octave.","augmentative":"Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment\"a*tive*ly, adv.\n\nA word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.","torsion meter":"An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also torsimeter, torsiometer, torsometer.","exactness":"1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment. 2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have made him a respectable antiquary. Macaulay.","self-admiration":"Admiration of one's self.","wedded":"1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. \"Wedded love.\" Milton.","fluty":"Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.","rep-silver":"Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.","awkward squad":"A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.","outport":"A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.","phenicopter":"A flamingo.","unearthly":"Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth\"li*ness, n.","clasp":"1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp). 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. \"Clasping ivy.\" Milton.\n\n1. An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc. 2. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.","depredator":"One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.","first-rate":"Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).\n\nA war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.","ulotrichous":"Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.","amphibium":"An amphibian.","crenel":"See Crenelle.\n\n1. An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement. 2. (Bot.) Same as Crenature.","emend":"To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal. Syn. -- To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.","fitchy":"Having fitches or vetches.\n\nFitché.","haste":"1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals. The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8. 2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. I said in my haste, All men are liars. Ps. cxvi. 11. To make haste, to hasten. Syn. -- Speed; quickness; nimbleness; swiftness; expedition; dispatch; hurry; precipitance; vehemence; precipitation. -- Haste, Hurry, Speed, Dispatch. Haste denotes quickness of action and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes a confusion and want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed denotes the actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude and rapidity with which things are done. A man may properly be in haste, but never in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.\n\nTo hasten; to hurry. [Archaic] I 'll haste the writer. Shak. They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.","homologize":"To determine the homologies or structural relations of.","domical":"Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.","traps":"Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]","dibasic":"Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic. Note: In the case of certain acids dibasic and divalent are not synonymous; as, tartaric acid is tetravalent and dibasic, lactic acid is divalent but monobasic.","corruption":"1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to \"generation\". Bacon. 2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. 3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft. Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott. 4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone. Syn. -- Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity.","loyal":"1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do. Shak. 2. True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle. Your true and loyal wife. Shak. Unhappy both, but loyaltheir loves. Dryden.","coquina":"A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.","stemple":"A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.","addression":"The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.","impingent":"Striking against or upon.","dietetics":"That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.","precellent":"Excellent; surpassing. [Obs.] Holland.","utilization":"The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.","underfurnish":"To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.","granite":"A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure. Note: Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also the Note under Mica. Gneissoid granite, granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement. -- Graphic granite, granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters. -- Porphyritic granite, granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals. -- Hornblende granite, or Syenitic granite, granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica. -- Granite ware. (a) A kind of stoneware. (b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.","skirmisher":"One who skirmishes. Specifically: pl. (Mil.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.","cubatory":"Lying down; recumbent. [R.]","number":"1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures. 2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. Addison. 3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. 4. Numerousness; multitude. Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. Bacon. 5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable. Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. 2 Esdras iii. 7. 6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. 7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope. 8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one. 9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.\n\n1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate. If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Gen. xiii. 16. 2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. He was numbered with the transgressors. Is. liii. 12. 3. To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building. 4. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc. Syn. -- To count; enumerate; calculate; tell.","dialyze":"To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also dialyse.]","stagirite":"A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle. [Written also Stagyrite.]","elevatory":"Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.\n\nSee Elevator, n. (e). Dunglison.","see":"1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. [Obs.] Chaucer. Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser. 2. Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome. Apostolic see. See under Apostolic.\n\n1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view. I will new turn aside, and see this great sight. Ex. iii. 3. 2. To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain. Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 14. Jesus saw that he answered discreetly. Mark xii. 34. Who 's so gross That seeth not this palpable device Shak. 3. To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after. Shak. I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for centradicting him. Addison. 4. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend. And Samuel came no more to see Saul untill the day of his death. 1 Sam. xv. 35. 5. To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Ps. xc. 15. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John viii. 51. Improvement in visdom and prudence by seeing men. Locke. 6. To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars. God you (him, or me, etc.) see, God keep you (him, me, etc.) in his sight; God protect you. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To see (anything) out, to see (it) to the end; to be present at, or attend, to the end. -- To see stars, to see flashes of light, like stars; -- sometimes the result of concussion of the head. [Colloq.] -- To see (one) through, to help, watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking.\n\n1. To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly. Whereas I was blind, now I see. John ix. 25. 2. Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into. For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. John ix. 39. Many sagacious persons will find us out, . . . and see through all our fine pretensions. Tillotson. 3. To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house. See that ye fall not out by the way. Gen. xiv. 24. Note: Let me see, Let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation. Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, -To get his place. Shak. Note: See is sometimes used in the imperative for look, or behold. \"See. see! upon the banks of Boyne he stands.\" Halifax. To see about a thing, to pay attention to it; to consider it. -- To see on, to look at. [Obs.] \"She was full more blissful on to see.\" Chaucer. -- To see to. (a) To look at; to behold; to view. [Obs.] \"An altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to\" Josh. xxii. 10. (b) To take care about; to look after; as, to see to a fire.","dreamy":"Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. \"The dreamy dells.\" Tennyson.","aforesaid":"Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.","morris-chair":"A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.","enmanche":"Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.","yardarm":"Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end. Note: Ships are said to be yardarm and yardarm when so near as to touch, or interlock yards.","intreat":"See Entreat. Spenser.","dyscrasy":"Dycrasia. Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. Jer. Taylor.","hard-handed":"Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. Hard-handed men that work in Athens here. Shak.","moray":"A muræna.","isonandra":"A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.","squirrel":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the famly Sciuridæ. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows. Note: Among the common North American squirrels are the gray squirrel (Scirius Carolinensis) and its black variety; the fox, or cat, sqirrel (S. cinereus, or S. niger) which is a large species, and variable in color, the southern variety being frequently black, while the northern and western varieties are usually gray or rusty brown; the red squirrel (see Chickaree); the striped, or chipping, squirrel (see Chipmunk); and the California gray squirrel (S. fossor). Several other species inhabit Mexico and Central America. The common European species (Sciurus vulgaris) has a long tuft of hair on each ear. the so-called Australian squirrels are marsupials. See Petaurist, and Phalanger. 2. One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. Barking squirrel (Zoöl.), the prairie dog. -- Federation squirrel (Zoöl.), the striped gopher. See Gopher, 2. -- Flying squirrel (Zoöl.). See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary. -- Java squirrel (Zoöl.). See Jelerang. -- Squirrel corn (Bot.), a North American herb (Dicantra Canadensis) bearing little yellow tubers. -- Squirrel cup (Bot.), the blossom of the Hepatica triloba, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. -- Squirrel fish (Zoöl.) (a) A sea bass (Serranus fascicularis) of the Southern United States. (b) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). (c) The redmouth, or grunt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda (Holocentrum Ascensione). -- Squirrel grass (Bot.), a pestiferous grass (Hordeum murinum) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. -- Squirrel hake (Zoöl.), a common American hake (Phycis tenuis); -- called also white hake. -- Squirrel hawk (Zoöl.), any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species Archibuteo ferrugineus. -- Squirrel monkey. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus Calithrix. They are noted for their graceful form and agility. See Teetee. (b) A marmoset. -- Squirrel petaurus (Zoöl.), a flying phalanger of Australia. See Phalanger, Petaurist, and Flying phalanger under Flying. -- Squirrel shrew (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus Tupaia. They are allied to the shrews, but have a bushy tail, like that of a squirrel. -- Squirrel-tail grass (Bot.), a grass (Hordeum jubatum) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns.","wherethrough":"Through which. [R.] \"Wherethrough that I may know.\" Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.","bilcock":"The European water rail.","detailer":"One who details.","tomb":"1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak. 2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. \"In tomb of marble stones.\" Chaucer. 3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak. Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).\n\nTo place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb. I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. Chapman.","unjoint":"To disjoint.","topmost":"Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree. The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. Cowper.","ponderousness":"The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.","shropshire":"An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.","suprarenal":"Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys. -- n. A suprarenal capsule. Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies.","lapponian":"Laplandish; Lappish.","manganesian":"Manganic. [R.]","cockerel":"A young cock.","whey-faced":"Having a pale or white face, as from fright. \"Whey-faced cavaliers.\" Aytoun.","pyritohedral":"Like pyrites in hemihedral form.","autonomist":"One who advocates autonomy.","oblivion":"1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. Shak. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion. W. Irving. 2. Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion. Sir J. Davies. Syn. -- See Forgetfulness.","organon":"An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (\"Novum Organon\") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.","paynim":"See Painim.","residentiaryship":"The office or condition of a residentiary.","dandi":"A boatman; an oarsman. [India]","latitudinarian":"1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. 2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone. 3. Lax in moral or religious principles.\n\n1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. They were called \"men of latitude;\" and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet. 3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.","wasteness":"1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15. 2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste. [R.] Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought. Spenser.","venerability":"The quality or state of being venerable; venerableness. Dr. H. More.","ellipsoid":"A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a). Note: The ellipsoid has three principal plane sections, a, b, and c, each at right angles to the other two, and each dividing the solid into two equal and symmetrical parts. The lines of meeting of these principal sections are the axes, or principal diameters of the ellipsoid. The point where the three planes meet is the center. Ellipsoid of revolution, a spheroid; a solid figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. It is called a prolate spheroid, or prolatum, when the ellipse is revolved about the major axis, and an oblate spheroid, or oblatum, when it is revolved about the minor axis.\n\nPertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.","malefaction":"A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.","tetraphyllous":"Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.","hew":"1. To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off. Shak. 2. To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope. 3. To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack. Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder. Shak.\n\nDestruction by cutting down. [Obs.] Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew. Spenser.\n\n1. Hue; color. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Shape; form. [Obs.] Spenser.","mineralizer":"An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.","rasure":"1. The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration. 2. A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.","sheol":"The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave. For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheel. Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.)","corymbosely":"In corymbs.","pyrometric":"Pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as, pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements.","auroral":"Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.","madrague":"A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.","befool":"1. To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. Fuller. 2. To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. \"Some befooling drug.\" G. Eliot.","irresistible":"That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.","toot":"1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell. 2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.\n\nTo see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.\n\nTo blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. \"A tooting horn.\" Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.\n\nTo cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.","menstrue":"The menstrual flux; menses. [Obs.]","portcluse":"A portcullis. [Obs.]","high-church":"Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.","feminize":"To make womanish or effeminate. Dr. H. More.","translucently":"In a translucent manner.","superordination":"The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.","xanthochroic":"Having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or pertaining to the Xanthochroi.","proproctor":"A assistant proctor. Hook.","extispicious":"Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","outbow":"To excel in bowing. Young.","brontozoum":"An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone. Note: The tracks made by these reptiles are found eighteen inches in length, and were formerly referred to gigantic birds; but the discovery of large bipedal three-toed dinosaurs has suggested that they were made by those reptiles.","felonwort":"The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.","haemo-":"Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope. Note: Words from Gr. (hema-, hemato-, hemo-, as well as hæma-, hæmato-, hæmo-.\n\nSee Hæma-.","beetlehead":"1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Zoöl.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.","iambically":"In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.","detortion":"The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.","gyle":"Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.","postman":"1. A post or courier; a letter carrier. 2. (Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman. Whishaw.","mistreatment":"Wrong treatment.","senna":"1. (Med.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia. C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine. 2. (Bot.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.","chic":"Good form; style. [Slang]","murk":"Dark; murky. He can not see through the mantle murk. J. R. Drake.\n\nDarkness; mirk. [Archaic] Shak.\n\nThe refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.","juise":"Judgment; justice; sentence. [Obs.] Up [on] pain of hanging and high juise. Chaucer.","begod":"To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] \"Begodded saints.\" South.","castle":"1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shak. Note: Originally the mediæval castle was a single strong tower or keep, with a palisaded inclosure around it and inferior buidings, such as stables and the like, and surrounded by a moat; then such a keep or donjon, with courtyards or baileys and accessory buildings of greater elaboration a great hall and a chapel, all surrounded by defensive walls and a moat, with a drawbridge, etc. Afterwards the name was retained by large dwellings that had formerly been fortresses, or by those which replaced ancient fortresses. A Donjon or Keep, an irregular building containing the dwelling of the lord and his family; B C Large round towers ferming part of the donjon and of the exterior; D Square tower, separating the two inner courts and forming part of the donjon; E Chapel, whose apse forms a half-round tower, F, on the exterior walls; G H Round towers on the exterior walls; K Postern gate, reached from outside by a removable fight of steps or inclined plane for hoisting in stores, and leading to a court, L (see small digagram) whose pavement is on a level with the sill of the postern, but below the level of the larger court, with which it communicates by a separately fortified gateway; M Turret, containing spiral stairway to all the stories of the great tower, B, and serving also as a station for signal fire, banner, etc.; N Turret with stairway for tower, C; O Echauguettes; P P P Battlemants consisting of merlons and crenels alternately, the merlons being pierced by loopholes; Q Q Machicolations (those at Q defend the postern K); R Outwork defending the approach, which is a road ascending the hill and passing under all four faces of the castle; S S Wall of the outer bailey. The road of approach enters the bailey at T and passes thence into the castle by the main entrance gateway (which is in the wall between, and defended by the towers, C H) and over two drawbridges and through fortified passages to the inner court. 2. Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion. 3. A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back. 4. A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook. Castle in the air, a visionary project; a baseless scheme; an air castle; -- sometimes called a castle in Spain (F. Château en Espagne). Syn. -- Fortress; fortification; citadel; stronghold. See Fortress.\n\nTo move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.","chalice":"A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.","gondola":"1. A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now. 2. A flat-bottomed boat for freight. [U. S.] 3. A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads. [U. S.]","niggerhead":"A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head.","thick wind":"A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.","logomachy":"1. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. The discussion concerning the meaning of the word \" justification\" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott. 2. A game of word making.","carapato":"A south American tick of the genus Amblyamma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast.","tridentate":"Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.","mesocuniform":"One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.","oop":"To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite. [Scot.] Jamieson.","miliolitic":"Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.","congener":"A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action. The cherry tree has been often grafted on the laurel, to which it is a congener. P. Miller. Our elk is more polygamous in his habits than any other deer except his congener, the red deer of Europe. Caton.","cycloganoid":"Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.\n\nOne of the Cycloganoidei.","laudableness":"The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.","mesdames":"pl. of Madame and Madam.","sundown":"1. The setting of the sun; sunset. \"When sundown skirts the moor.\" Tennyson. 2. A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.","grouse":") Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet. Note: Among the European species are the red grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) and the hazel grouse (Bonasa betulina). See Capercaidzie, Ptarmigan, and Heath grouse. Among the most important American species are the ruffed grouse, or New England partridge (Bonasa umbellus); the sharp-tailed grouse (Pediocætes phasianellus) of the West; the dusky blue, or pine grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) of the Rocky Mountains; the Canada grouse, or spruce partridge (D. Canadensis). See also Prairie hen, and Sage cock. The Old World sand grouse (Pterocles, etc.) belong to a very different family. See Pterocletes, and Sand grouse.\n\nTo seek or shoot grouse.","maudeline":"An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.","algebraize":"To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.","cart":"1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. \"Phoebus' cart.\" Shak. 2. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden. 3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc. 4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads. -- Cart load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.\n\n1. To carry or convey in a cart. 2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.\n\nTo carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.","gibberish":"Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.\n\nUnmeaning; as, gibberish language.","veinous":"Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.","theft":"1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery. 2. The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.","myelonal":"Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves.","westwardly":"In a westward direction.","tang":"A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Dr. Prior. Tang sparrow (Zoöl.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask. 2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang. Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny. Fuller. A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics. Jeffrey. 3. Etym: [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. tangi a projecting point; akin to E. tongs. See Tongs.] A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: -- (a) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. (b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. (c) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. (d) The tongue of a buckle. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nA sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.\n\nTo cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak. To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.\n\nTo make a ringing sound; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak.","rhythmometer":"An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.","veltfare":"The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]","circumciser":"One who performs circumcision. Milton.","sieva":"A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).","intercommunicable":"Capable of being mutually communicated.","overproduction":"Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.","dissuader":"One who dissuades; a dehorter.","formidableness":"The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. Boyle.","antihysteric":"Counteracting hysteria. -- n. A remedy for hysteria.","sequester":"1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone. 2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him. South. 3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. Bacon. 4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. When men most sequester themselves from action. Hooker. A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation. Bacon.\n\n1. To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton. 2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.\n\n1. Sequestration; separation. [R.] 2. (Law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. Bouvier. 3. (Med.) Same as Sequestrum.","intraaxillary":"Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.","lemurine":"Lemuroid.","rollejee":"A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.","spurge":"To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.\n\nAny plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Daphne oleoides) found in the Mediterranean region.","tussac grass":"Tussock grass.","intercollegiate":"Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.","paleocrinoidea":"A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.","metergram":"A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.","deipnosophist":"One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.","cyclopic":"Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.","floe":"A low, flat mass of floating ice. Floe rat (Zoöl.), a seal (Phoca foetida).","calamite":"A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.","preternaturalism":"The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.","seismometer":"An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.","hedger":"One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.","notch":"1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.\n\n1. To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick. 2. To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string. God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow. Herrick.","recency":"The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.","infinitely":"1. Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity. 2. Very; exceedingly; vastly; highly; extremely. \"Infinitely pleased.\" Dryden.","anaks":"A race of giants living in Palestine.","lienal":"Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.","livelihood":"Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance. The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood. Addison. It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South.\n\nLiveliness; appearance of life. [Obs.] Shak.","dishonorary":"Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.","nuthook":"1. A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts. 2. A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. Shak.","forcipal":"Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.","plattdeutsch":"The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.","hoopoe":"A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.","flowery-kirtled":"Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.","upspurner":"A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.","ciderkin":"A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.","gastrocnemius":"The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.","sea snipe":"(a) A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin. (b) The bellows fish.","skirt":"1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle. 2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.] A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison. 3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything \"Here in the skirts of the forest.\" Shak. 4. A petticoat. 5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.\n\n1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton. 2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. \"When sundown skirts the moor.\" Tennyson.\n\nTo be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.","porthors":"See Portass. [Obs.] Chaucer.","martineta":"A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.","cascade":"A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cawper.\n\n1. To fall in a cascade. Lowell. 2. To vomit. [Slang] Smollett.","derain":"To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.]","bion":"The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.","pustulation":"The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.","misthrow":"To throw wrongly.","pinxter":"See Pinkster.","reconcile":"1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop. Chaucer. We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. 2 Cor. v. 20. 2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions. 3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to. The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state. Locke. Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. Pope. 4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences. Syn. -- To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.\n\nTo become reconciled. [Obs.]","crescive":"Increasing; growing. [R.] Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. Shak.","quackle":"To suffocate; to choke. [Prov. Eng.]","reillumine":"To illumine again or anew; to reillume.","vill":"A small collection of houses; a village. \"Every manor, town, or vill.\" Sir M. Hale. Not should e'er the crested fowl From thorp or vill his matins sound for me. Wordsworth. Note: A word of various significations in English, law; as, a manor; a tithing; a town; a township; a parish; a part of a parish; a village. The original meaning of vill, in England, seems to have been derived from the Roman sense of the term villa, a single country residence or farm; a manor. Later, the term was applied only to a collection of houses more than two, and hence came to comprehend towns. Burrill. The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I., mentions entire- vills, demivills, and hamlets.","bromal":"An oily, colorless fluid, CBr","morphology":"That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.","retortion":"1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. [Written also retorsion.] It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. (Law) Retaliation. Wharton.","decretive":"Having the force of a decree; determining. The will of God is either decretive or perceptive. Bates.","lammas":"The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.","seductively":"In a seductive manner.","hydrochlorate":"Same as Hydrochloride.","water-bound":"Prevented by a flood from proceeding.","waterfowl":"Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively. Note: Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with long legs; others are swimmers, or furnished with webbed feet.","paraventure":"Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.","despotize":"To act the despot.","split stuff":"Timber sawn into lengths and then split.","biding":"Residence; habitation. Rowe. BIELA'S COMET Bie\"la's com\"et. (Astron.) A periodic coment, discovered by Biela in 1826, which revolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.","tomjohn":"A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.","septennial":"1. Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments. 2. Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.","effectualness":"The quality of being effectual.","apron man":"A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.","assoilment":"Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.\n\nA soiling; defilement.","millenarism":"The doctrine of Millenarians.","thunderclap":"A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. \"Thunderclaps that make them quake.\" Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.","cogman":"A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright.","gump":"A dolt; a dunce. [Low.] Holloway.","firmity":"Strength; firmness; stability. [Obs.] Chillingworth.","leaseholder":"A tenant under a lease. -- Lease\"hold`ing, a. & n.","multiplicity":"The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. \"A multiplicity of goods.\" South.","improving":"Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better. -- Im*prov\"ing*ly, adv. Improving lease (Scots Law), an extend lease to induce the tenant to make improvements on the premises.","murrayin":"A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance.","farctate":"Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]","palato-":"A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.","noctidial":"Comprising a night and a day; a noctidial day. [R.] Holder.","outname":"1. To exceed in naming or describing. [R.] 2. To exceed in name, fame, or degree. [Obs.] And found out one to outname thy other faults. Beau. & Fl.","puffball":"A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.","dendroid":"Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.","urostyle":"A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.","vergeboard":"The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.","kauri":"A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]","legendary":"Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. \"Legendary writers.\" Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.\n\n1. A book of legends; a tale or parrative. Read the Countess of Pembroke's \"Arcadia,\" a gallant legendary full of pleasurable accidents. James I. 2. One who relates legends. Bp. Lavington.","whip-shaped":"Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.","croatian":"Of or pertaining to Croatia. -- n. A Croat.","glibness":"The quality of being glib.","rhombic":"1. Shaped like a rhomb. 2. (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic.","pulpiter":"A preacher. [Obs.]","banquetter":"One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.","polypifera":"The Anthozoa.","spaad":"A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus. [Obs.] oodward.","goral":"An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.","strengthful":"Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength\"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.","archiannelida":"A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.","indistinction":"Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being agreeable to the will of God. Sprat.","chitterling":"The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [Obs.] Gascoigne.","able-bodied":"Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. \"Able-bodied vagrant.\" Froude. -- A`ble-bod\"ied*ness, n..","publican":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak. 2. The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.","braziletto":"See Brazil wood.","hydromagnesite":"A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.","pedanticly":"Pedantically. [R.]","loxodromy":"The science of loxodromics. [R.]","avoidance":"1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller. 3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal. 4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. \"The avoidance of pain.\" Beattie. 5. The courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.","reinforcement":"See Reënforcement.","opacular":"Opaque. [Obs.] Sterne.","resistless":"1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist\"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist\"less*ness, n.","diazeuctic":"Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]","anourous":"See Anurous.","well-liking":"Being in good condition. [Obs. or Archaic] They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. xcii.).","grounden":"p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.","teleophore":"Same as Gonotheca.","pomology":"The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.","damned":"1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition. 2. Hateful; detestable; abominable. But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. Shak.","prophylactic":"A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.\n\nDefending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.","sustaltic":"Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks. Busby.","magazine camera":"A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.","ostrea":"A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.","silva":"(a) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively. (b) A description or history of the forest trees of a country.","mistressship":"1. Female rule or dominion. 2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. [Obs.] Massinger.","trichoscolices":"An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.","natka":"A species of shrike.","ancle":"See Ankle.","cirriped":"One of the Cirripedia.","pallidity":"Pallidness; paleness.","phantom circuit":"The equivalent of an additional circuit or wire, in reality not existing, obtained by certain arrangements of real circuits, as in some multiplex telegraph systems.","sharptail":"(a) The pintail duck. (b) The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.","dolomite":"A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.","interdigital":"Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.","waiter":"1. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, \"Make room,\" as if a duke were passing by. Swift. 2. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.","diedral":"The same as Dihedral.","tanagroid":"Tanagrine.","indigitation":"The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","divinify":"To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] \"Blessed and divinified soul.\" Parth. Sacra (1633).","codling":"(a) An apple fit to stew or coddle. (b) An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.\n\nA young cod; also, a hake.","chesstree":"A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.","foraminated":"Having small opening, or foramina.","insectile":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.","greeve":"See Grieve, an overseer.\n\nA manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.","delph":"Delftware. Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift.\n\nThe drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.","distrouble":"To trouble. [Obs.] Spenser.","betrothment":"The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.","predestinate":"Predestinated; foreordained; fated. \"A predestinate scratched face.\" Shak.\n\nTo predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29. Syn. -- To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine; foredoom.","wonger":"See Wanger. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tarnisher":"One who, or that which, tarnishes.","soggy":"Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.","parrotry":"Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. \"The supine parrotry.\" Fitzed. Hall. PARROT'S-BILL Par\"rot's-bill`, n. Etym: [So called from the resemblance of its curved superior petal to a parrot's bill.] (Bot.) The glory pea. See under Glory.","countingroom":"The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.","figure":"1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon. 2. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble. A coin that bears the figure of an angel. Shak. 3. A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure. 4. (Geom.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc. 5. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure. I made some figure there. Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. Blackstone. 6. Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show. That he may live in figure and indulgence. Law. 7. A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc. 8. Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. Thackeray. 9. A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. Who is the figure of Him that was to come. Rom. v. 14. 10. (Rhet.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. Macaulay. 11. (Logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. 12. (Dancing) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. 13. (Astrol.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. Johnson. 14. (Music) (a) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. Grove. (b) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment. Note: Figures are often written upon the staff in music to denote the kind of measure. They are usually in the form of a fraction, the upper figure showing how many notes of the kind indicated by the lower are contained in one measure or bar. Thus, 2\/4 signifies that the measure contains two quarter notes. The following are the principal figures used for this purpose: --2\/22\/42\/8 4\/22\/44\/8 3\/23\/43\/8 6\/46\/46\/8 Academy figure, Canceled figures, Lay figure, etc. See under Academy, Cancel, Lay, etc. -- Figure caster, or Figure flinger, an astrologer. This figure caster.\" Milton. -- Figure flinging, the practice of astrology. -- Figure-of-eight knot, a knot shaped like the figure 8. See Illust. under Knot. -- Figure painting, a picture of the human figure, or the act or art of depicting the human figure. -- Figure stone (Min.), agalmatolite. -- Figure weaving, the art or process of weaving figured fabrics. -- To cut a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.\n\n1. To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior. 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak. 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. Dryden. 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. Shak. 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. In this the heaven figures some event. Shak. 6. (Mus.) (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. (b) To embellish. To figure out, to solve; to compute or find the result of. -- To figure up, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.\n\n1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination. [Colloq.]","plenishing":"Household furniture; stock. [Scot.]","haemocytotrypsis":"A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.","commiserator":"One who pities.","endamnify":"To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.","point alphabet":"An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.","annual":"1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak. 2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.\n\n1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year. 2. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.","adhamant":"Clinging, as by hooks.","gravidity":"The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [R.]","to-rend":"To rend in pieces. [Obs.] The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer.","freelte":"Frailty. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dempne":"To damn; to condemn. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rot":"1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope. 2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay. Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. Thackeray. Syn. -- To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.\n\n1. To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber. 2. To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.\n\n1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction. 2. (Bot.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below. 3. Etym: [Cf. G. rotz glanders.] A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2. His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton. Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Læstadia Bidwellii. F. L. Scribner. -- Dry rot (Bot.) See under Dry. -- Grinder's rot (Med.) See under Grinder. -- Potato rot. (Bot.) See under Potato. -- White rot (Bot.), a disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniothyrium diplodiella. F. L. Scribner.","antihemorrhagic":"Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n. A remedy for hemorrhage.","ingraft":"1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Burke. 2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.","fusil":"1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] \"A kind of fusil marble\" Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] \"A fusil sea.\" J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [Obs.] Milton.\n\nA light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.\n\nA bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. Note: It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.","multiferous":"Bearing or producing much or many. [R.]","scotch-hopper":"Hopscotch.","acetometer":"Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.","collum":"1. (Anat.) A neck or cervix. Dunglison. 2. (Bot.) Same as Collar. Gray.","millennialism":"Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.","reforger":"One who reforges.","masseuse":"One who performs massage.","artilize":"To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.","specht":"A woodpecker. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] Sherwood.","leon":"A lion. [Obs.] Chaucer.","quitch":"1. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass. 2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him. Tennyson .","substanceless":"Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.","academician":"1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. 2. A collegian. [R.] Chesterfield.","bafta":"A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.","beggar":"1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson.\n\n1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton. 2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. It beggared all description. Shak.","benzosol":"Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.","irisated":"Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.","oppositeness":"The quality or state of being opposite.","obtemperate":"To obey. [Obs.] Johnson.","sonorific":"Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body. [R.] I. Watts.","countenancer":"One who countenances, favors, or supports.","monothelite":"One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite. Gibbon.","impenetrable":"1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton. 2. (Physics) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart. They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. Jer. Taylor.","cystolith":"1. (Bot.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant. 2. (Med.) A urinary calculus.","zooemelanin":"A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.","perchlorate":"A salt of perchloric acid.","encyclopedism":"The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.","sandemanianism":"The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller.","suasion":"The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.","imping":"1. The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic] 2. (Falconry) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.","compensator":"1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices. 2. (Naut.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.","drawable":"Capable of being drawn.","gammadion":"A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.","plight":"imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.\n\nimp. & p. p. of Pluck. Chaucer.\n\nTo weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.[Obs.] \"To sew and plight.\" Chaucer. A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.\n\nA network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. [Obs.] \"Many a folded plight.\" Spenser.\n\n1. That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. \"That lord whose hand must take my plight.\" Shak. 2. Etym: [Perh. the same word as plight a pledge, but at least influenced by OF. plite, pliste, ploit, ploi, a condition, state; cf. E. plight to fold, and F. pli a fold, habit, plier to fold, E. ply.] Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight. \"Your plight is pitied.\" Shak. To bring our craft all in another plight Chaucer.\n\n1. To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods. \" To do them plighte their troth.\" Piers Plowman. He plighted his right hand Unto another love, and to another land. Spenser. Here my inviolable faith I plight. Dryden. 2. To promise; to engage; to betroth. Before its setting hour, divide The bridegroom from the plighted bride. Sir W. Scott.","trillachan":"The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]","sadden":"To make sad. Specifically: (a) To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer. (b) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth. (c) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Pope.\n\nTo become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.","klopemania":"See Kleptomania.","tappit hen":"1. A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.] Jamieson. 2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, though to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.] Jamieson.","styrolene":"An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.","dimeter":"Having two poetical measures or meters. -- n. A verse of two meters.","feminine rhyme":"See Female rhyme, under Female, a. Syn. -- See Female, a.","geyser":"A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. Note: Geysers were first known in Iceland, and later in New Zealand. In the Yellowstone region in the United States they are numerous, and some of them very powerful, throwing jets of boiling water and steam to a height of 200 feet. They are grouped in several areas called geyser basins. The mineral matter, or geyserite, with which geyser water is charged, forms geyser cones about the orifice, often of great size and beauty.","redintegration":"1. Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More. 2. (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [Achaic.] Coxe. 3. (Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.","eunuch":"A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.\n\nTo make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.","thereabouts":"1. Near that place. 2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling. 3. Concerning that; about that. [R.] What will ye dine I will go thereabout. Chaucer. They were much perplexed thereabout. Luke xxiv. 4.","undercurrent":"1. A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten. 2. Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner. All the while there was a busy undercurrent in her. G. Eliot.\n\nRunning beneath the surface; hidden. [R.] \"Undercurrent woe.\" Tennyson.","plurilocular":"Having several cells or loculi; specifically (Bot.), having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.","nosologist":"One versed in nosology.","platinum":"A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina. Platinum black (Chem.), a soft, dull black powder, consisting of finely divided metallic platinum obtained by reduction and precipitation from its solutions. It absorbs oxygen to a high degree, and is employed as an oxidizer. -- Platinum lamp (Elec.), a kind of incandescent lamp of which the luminous medium is platinum. See under Incandescent. -- Platinum metals (Chem.), the group of metallic elements which in their chemical and physical properties resemble platinum. These consist of the light platinum group, viz., rhodium, ruthenium, and palladium, whose specific gravities are about 12; and the heavy platinum group, viz., osmium, iridium, and platinum, whose specific gravities are over 21. -- Platinum sponge (Chem.), metallic platinum in a gray, porous, spongy form, obtained by reducing the double chloride of platinum and ammonium. It absorbs oxygen, hydrogen, and certain other gases, to a high degree, and is employed as an agent in oxidizing.","knacker":"1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. Mortimer. 2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper. Halliwell.\n\n1. a harness maker. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat. [Eng.]","through":"1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship. 2. Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue. Through the gate of ivory he dismissed His valiant offspring. Dryden. 3. By means of; by the agency of. Through these hands this science has passed with great applause. Sir W. Temple. Material things are presented only through their senses. Cheyne. 4. Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account. 5. Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket. 6. From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.\n\n1. From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through. 2. From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through. 3. To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through. Note: Through was formerly used to form compound adjectives where we now use thorough; as, through-bred; through-lighted; through-placed, etc. To drop through, to fall through; to come to naught; to fail. -- To fall through. See under Fall, v. i.\n\nGoing or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. -- Through bridge, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them. Cf. Deck bridge, under Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also through stane.] Sir W. Scott. -- Through ticket, a ticket for the whole journey. -- Through train, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long route.","illude":"To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.","graphite":"Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other exciting liquid.","learned":"Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words of learned length and thundering sound. Goldsmith. The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. -- Learn\"ed*ly, adv. Learn\"ed*ness, n. Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they. Swift.","indisposedness":"The condition or quality of being indisposed. [R.] Bp. Hall.","teleostean":"Of or pertaining to the teleosts. -- n. A teleostean fish.","deadworks":"The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.","practick":"Practice. [Obs.] Chaucer.","seawife":"A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).","tabasco sauce":"A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.","rache":"A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.[Obs.]","transfusible":"Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.","verisimilitude":"The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir. W. Scott.","fictionist":"A writer of fiction. [R.] Lamb.","astigmatism":"A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision. Note: The term is applied especially to the defect causing images of lines having a certain direction to be indistinct, or imperfectly seen, while those of lines transverse to the former are distinct, or clearly seen.","cyclical":"Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.","noonday":"Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.\n\nOf or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat. \"Noonday walks.\" Addison.","riotry":"The act or practice of rioting; riot. \"Electioneering riotry.\" Walpole.","piston":"A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. Piston head (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. -- Piston rod, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. -- Piston valve (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.","starcher":"One who starches.","prefinition":"Previous limitation. [Obs.] Fotherby.","cataphractic":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.","diametrically":"In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.","hockday":"A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]","transgressive":"Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -","looper":"1. An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc. 2. (Zoöl.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.","namelessly":"In a nameless manner.","cateran":"A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","westering":"Passing to the west. Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.","aggroup":"To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.","cryal":"The heron [Obs.] Ainsworth.","triclinium":"(a) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. (b) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.","uphasp":"To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.","parentele":"Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] Chaucer.","harlech group":"A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.","tempting":"Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt\"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt\"ing*ness, n.","recuperable":"Recoverable. Sir T. Elyot.","plane-parallel":"Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.","tenne":"A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.","distention":"1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. 2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.","daysman":"An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.","self-centering":"Centering in one's self.","inviolated":"1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon. 2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. \"Inviolate truth.\" Denham. There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.","trigram":"Same as Trigraph.","facing":"1. A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface. 2. A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection. 3. (Arch.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used. 4. (Founding) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting. 5. (Mil.) (a) pl. The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat. (b) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl. Facing brick, front or pressed brick.","missingly":"With a sense of loss. [Obs.] Shak.","pattypan":"1. A pan for baking patties. 2. A patty. [Obs.]","overstate":"To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. Fuller.","redif":"A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.","fumade":"A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.","tenrec":"A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.","munificent":"Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor. -- Mu*nif\"i*cent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.","preexist":"To exist previously; to exist before something else.","temple":"A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.\n\n1. (Anat.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear. 2. One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.\n\n1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. \"The temple of mighty Mars.\" Chaucer. 2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23. 3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer Buckminster. 4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. \"The temple of his body.\" John ii. 21. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. iii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. Bryant. Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.\n\nTo build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.","dureful":"Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.","propitiatorily":"By way of propitiation.","malaxation":"The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]","inacquaintance":"Want of acquaintance. Good.","germicide":"Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. -- n. A germicide agent.","mesmerist":"One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.","promerit":"1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. [Obs.] Davenant.","concessionaire":"The beneficiary of a concession or grant.","intensation":"The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.","flotten":"Skimmed. [Obs.]","faille":"A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.","hider":"One who hides or conceals.","windlestrae":"A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.","hetaera":"A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ\"ric, He*tai\"ric (#), a.","nether":"Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.","gigantesque":"Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.","octo-":"A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.","foreleader":"One who leads others by his example; aguide.","praeoral":"Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.","madrilenian":"Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Madrid.","cavilous":"Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. [R.] -- Cav\"il*ous*ly, adv. [R.] -- Cav\"il*ous*ness, n. [R.]","crud":"See Curd. [Obs.]","amazing":"Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace. -- A*maz\"ing*ly, adv.","assaulter":"One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant. E. Hall.","judge":"1. (Law) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence. Bacon. 2. One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. Dryden. 3. A person appointed to decide in aas, a judge in a horse race. 4. (Jewish Hist.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. 5. pl. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. Judge Advocate (Mil. & Nav.), a person appointed to act as prosecutor at a court-martial; he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. -- Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached to the Navy Department and having the rank of colonel of marines or captain in the navy. The first is chief of the Bureau of Military Justice of the army, the other performs a similar duty for the navy. In England, the designation of a member of the ministry who is the legal adviser of the secretary of state for war, and supreme judge of the proceedings of courts-martial. Syn. -- Judge, Umpire, Arbitrator, Referee. A judge, in the legal sense, is a magistrate appointed to determine questions of law. An umpire is a person selected to decide between two or more who contend for a prize. An arbitrator is one chosen to allot to two contestants their portion of a claim, usually on grounds of equity and common sense. A referee is one to whom a case is referred for final adjustment. Arbitrations and references are sometimes voluntary, sometimes appointed by a court.\n\n1. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. The Lord judge between thee and me. Gen. xvi. 5. Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right! Milton. 2. To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Shak. 3. To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. She is wise if I can judge of her. Shak.\n\n1. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. \"Chaos [shall] judge the strife.\" Milton. 2. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Eccl. iii. 7. To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be judged by him. Shak. 3. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matt. vii. 1. 4. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord. Acts xvi. 15. 5. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. [Obs.] Make us a king to judge us. 1 Sam. viii. 5.","kedlock":"See Charlock.","laocoon":"1. (Class. Myth.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) 2. (Sculp.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.","polymyodae":"Same as Oscines.","water mill":"A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.","physicologic":"Logic illustrated by physics.","hydrargyrism":"A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.","casing":"1. The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc. 2. An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat. 3. An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.","epicranium":"1. (Anat.) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc. 2. (Zoöl.) The dorsal wall of the head of insects.","stearic":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow. Stearic acid (Chem.), a monobasic fatty acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69°C.C18H36O2, CH3.(CH2)16.COOH; sodium stearate, with sodium palmitate, is the main component of ordinary bar soaps (Such as Ivory soap).","clay":"1. A soft earth, which is plastuc, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of alumunium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. 2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. Byron. Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. -- Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. -- Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. -- Fire clay , a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. -- Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. -- Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.\n\n1. To cover or manure with clay. 2. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.","rubidium":"A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.","contra":"A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.","acclimatizable":"Capable of being acclimatized.","chronometer":"1. An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. 2. A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc. 3. (Mus.) A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.","coversed sine":"The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.","catalepsis":"A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.","imprescriptibly":"In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.","unhoused":"1. Etym: [Properly p. p. of unhouse.] Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: [Pref. un- + housed.] Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless.","magazining":"The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine. [Colloq.] Byron.","weregild":"The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld, weregelt, etc.] Blackstone.","bituminous":"Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.","confutement":"Confutation. [Obs.] Milton.","samarskite":"A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.","corrodent":"Corrosive. [R.] Bp. King.\n\nAnything that corrodes. Bp. King.","lizard":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria. Note: Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs, and a long tail; but there are some without legs, and some with a short, thick tail. Most have scales, but some are naked; most have eyelids, but some do not. The tongue is varied in form and structure. In some it is forked, in others, as the chameleons, club-shaped, and very extensible. See Amphisbæna, Chameleon, Gecko, Gila monster, Horned toad, Iguana, and Dragon, 6. 2. (Naut.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends. R. H. Dana, Ir. 3. A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field. Lizard fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike. -- Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis). -- Lizard stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes. LIZARD'S TAIL Liz\"ard's tail`. (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.","rebrace":"To brace again. Gray.","ichthyomorphic":"Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.","reliance":"1. The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority. In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value. Macaulay. 2. Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. Richardson.","stellate":"1. Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star. 2. (Bot.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.","vasodilator":"Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso- inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.","insusceptibility":"Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.","nomadic":"Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad\"ic*al*ly, adv.","interarboration":"The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","collodion":"A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Styptic collodion, collodion containing an astringent, as tannin.","burgamot":"See Bergamot.","slaveborn":"Born in slavery.","valuableness":"The quality of being valuable.","tangent wheel":"(a) A worm or worm wheel; a tangent screw. (b) A wheel with tangent spokes.","undervaluer":"One who undervalues.","peytrel":"The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rebuker":"One who rebukes.","discussion":"1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties. Macaulay. Discussion of a problem or an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. Math. Dict.","oligo-":"A combining form from Gr. few, little, small.","cinefaction":"Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]","isocrymic":"Isocrymal.","execratory":"Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. -- n. A formulary of execrations. L. Addison.","saymaster":"A master of assay; one who tries or proves. [Obs.] \"Great saymaster of state.\" D. Jonson.","elwand":"See Ellwand.","jetsam":"1. (Mar. Law) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy. 2. Jettison. See Jettison, 1.","pask":"See Pasch.","rootery":"A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.","hendiadys":"A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.","putridity":"The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.","infractible":"Capable of being broken.[R.]","discontinuor":"One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.","loathing":"Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.","hatband":"A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.","bonnetless":"Without a bonnet.","maithes":"Same as Maghet.","sea bream":"Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.","goramy":"Same as Gourami.","devil bird":"A small water bird. See Dabchick.","troad":"See Trode. [Obs.]","built":"Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.\n\nFormed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor.","ammunition":"1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.] 2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. 3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]\n\nTo provide with ammunition.","academism":"The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.","carbonometer":"An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.","demicircle":"An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles","statelily":"In a stately manner.","pyrgom":"A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.","cnidoblast":"One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.","boulder":"Same as Bowlder.\n\n1. A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble. 2. (Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.","fash":"To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]\n\nVexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.","haloid":"Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n. A haloid substance.","indorsation":"Indorsement. [Obs.]","discalced":"Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced. \"The foundation of houses of discalced friars.\" Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.","incommutable":"Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another. Cudworth. -- In`com*mut\"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mut\"a*bly, adv.","flincher":"One who flinches or fails.","irresistibly":"In an irrestible manner.","glyphic":"Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.","curled":"Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.","undispensable":"1. Indispensable. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller. 3. Not to be freed by dispensation. [Obs.]","bubo":"An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.","saracenic":"Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. \"Saracenic music.\" Sir W. Scott.","tomentous":"Tomentose.","springlet":"A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.","pyrophosphate":"A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.","di-":"A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice; (Chem.) denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.\n\nA prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia- becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.","snowl":"The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]","torula":"(a) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.","asiatic":"Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native, or one of the people, of Asia.","foreadvise":"To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.","caudated":"Having a taill; having a termination like a tail.","hylopathist":"One who believes in hylopathism.","lubricitate":"See Lubricate.","abator":"(a) One who abates a nuisance. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.","difficult":"1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author. There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. Hawthorne. 2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person. Syn. -- Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See Arduous.\n\nTo render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] Sir W. Temple.","iwis":"Indeed; truly. See Ywis. [Written also iwys, iwisse, etc.] [Obs.] Ascham. I. W. W. I. W. W. (Abbrev.) Industrial Workers of the World (the name of two American labor organizations, one of which advocates syndicalism).","iliacal":"Iliac. [R.]","utricularia":"A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,","insincerity":"The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Blair.","spokesman":"One who speaks for another. He shall be thy spokesman unto the people. Ex. iv. 16.","disheveled":"1. Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair. 2. Having the hair in loose disorder. The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds.","pragmatism":"The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.","tergiversator":"One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.","traverser":"1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like. 2. (Law) One who traverses, or denies. 3. (Railroad) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.","unship":"1. To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods. 2. (Naut.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.","bicorn":"Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.","bequest":"1. The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B. 2. That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.\n\nTo bequeath, or leave as a legacy. [Obs.] \"All I have to bequest.\" Gascoigne.","plucky":"Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.","frogbit":"(a) A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers. (b) An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.","plaited":"Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.","metasternum":"1. (Anat.) The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum. 2. (Zoöl.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.","antarchistic":"Opposed to all human government. [R.]","humor":"1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc. Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended. 2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. \"A body full of humors.\" Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor. Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind. Roscommon. A prince of a pleasant humor. Bacon. I like not the humor of lying. Shak. 4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion Has he not humors to be endured South. 5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness. For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind. Syn. -- Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.\n\n1. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden. 2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please. You humor me when I am sick. Pope. Syn. -- To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify.","coulisse":"1. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides. 2. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.","mockage":"Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.","poco":"A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco più allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow. Poco a poco Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Little by little; as, poco a poco crescendo, gradually increasing in loudness.","mauger":"In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.","sylvate":"A salt of sylvic acid.","regress":"1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. \"The progress or regress of man\". F. Harrison. 2. The power or liberty of passing back. Shak.\n\nTo go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T. Browne.","deservedness":"Meritoriousness.","sickliness":"The quality or state of being sickly.","sketcher":"One who sketches.","revolvement":"Act of revolving. [R.]","author":"1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2. One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson. 3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.] 4. An informant. [Archaic] Chaucer.\n\n1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman. 2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.] More of him I dare not author. Massinger.","alterant":"Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.\n\nAn alterative. [R.] Chambers.","torved":"Stern; grim. See Torvous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).","fossorious":"Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.","subtilizer":"One who subtilizes.","jolt":"To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.\n\nTo cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.\n\nA sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground. The first jolt had like to have shaken me out. Swift.","floriation":"1. Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized. 2. Any floral ornament or decoration. Rock.","vitrella":"One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.","disestimation":"Disesteem.","swish":"1. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge. 2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] Thackeray.\n\nTo dash; to swash.\n\n1. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [Colloq.] 2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.]","geranine":"1. (Med.) A valuable astringet obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill. 2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also geranium.]","wifelike":"Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. \" Wifelike government.\" Shak.","immanation":"A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.","scrotiform":"Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped.","sulpharsenate":"A salt of sulpharsenic acid.","fellifluous":"Flowing with gall. [R.] Johnson.","locate":"1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott. 2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. H. Spencer.\n\nTo place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]","iowas":"; sing. Iowa. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region now included in the State of Iowa.","geniting":"A species of apple that ripens very early. Bacon.","elucidate":"To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.","teathe":"See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]","saunterer":"One who saunters.","sharpen":"To make sharp. Specifically: (a) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. (b) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far. Milton. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke. (c) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires. Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Shak. (d) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease. (e) To make biting, sarcastic, or severe. \"Sharpen each word.\" E. Smith. (f) To render more shrill or piercing. Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon. (g) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar. (h) (Mus. ) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.\n\nTo grow or become sharp.","eyebar":"A bar with an eye at one or both ends.","shivery":"1. Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.","indetermination":"1. Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor. 2. Want of fixed or stated direction. Abp. Bramhall.","nonsonant":"Not sonant. -- n. A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant.","prepostor":"See Prepositor.","papillose":"Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.","gallnut":"A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.","chirrup":"To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.\n\nTo chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.\n\nThe act of chirping; a chirp. The sparrows' chirrup on the roof. Tennyson.","pornerastic":"Lascivious; licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.","lavisher":"One who lavishes.","cross-fertilize":"To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.","king":"A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.\n\n1. A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince. \"Ay, every inch a king.\" Shak. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Burke. There was a State without king or nobles. R. Choate. But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east Thomson. 2. One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts. 3. A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds. 4. The chief piece in the game of chess. 5. A crowned man in the game of draughts. 6. pl. The title of two historical books in the Old Testament. Note: King is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote preëminence or superiority in some particular; as, kingbird; king crow; king vulture. Apostolic king.See Apostolic. -- King-at-arms, or King-of-arms, the chief heraldic officer of a country. In England the king-at-arms was formerly of great authority. His business is to direct the heralds, preside at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of armory. There are three principal kings-at- arms, viz., Garter, Clarencieux, and Norroy. The latter (literally north roy or north king) officiates north of the Trent. -- King auk (Zoöl.), the little auk or sea dove. -- King bird of paradise. (Zoöl.), See Bird of paradise. -- King card, in whist, the best unplayed card of each suit; thus, if the ace and king of a suit have been played, the queen is the king card of the suit. -- King Cole , a legendary king of Britain, who is said to have reigned in the third century. -- King conch (Zoöl.), a large and handsome univalve shell (Cassis cameo), found in the West Indies. It is used for making cameos. See Helmet shell, under Helmet. -- King Cotton, a popular personification of the great staple production of the southern United States. -- King crab. (Zoöl.) (a) The limulus or horseshoe crab. See Limulus. (b) The large European spider crab or thornback (Maia sguinado). -- King crow. (Zoöl.) (a) A black drongo shrike (Buchanga atra) of India; -- so called because, while breeding, they attack and drive away hawks, crows, and other large birds. (b) The Dicrurus macrocercus of India, a crested bird with a long, forked tail. Its color is black, with green and blue reflections. Called also devil bird. -- King duck (Zoöl.), a large and handsome eider duck (Somateria spectabilis), inhabiting the arctic regions of both continents. -- King eagle (Zoöl.), an eagle (Aquila heliaca) found in Asia and Southeastern Europe. It is about as large as the golden eagle. Some writers believe it to be the imperial eagle of Rome. -- King hake (Zoöl.), an American hake (Phycis regius), fond in deep water along the Atlantic coast. -- King monkey (Zoöl.), an African monkey(Colobus polycomus), inhabiting Sierra Leone. -- King mullet (Zoöl.), a West Indian red mullet (Upeneus maculatus); -- so called on account of its great beauty. Called also goldfish. -- King of terrors, death. -- King parrakeet (Zoöl.), a handsome Australian parrakeet (Platycercys scapulatus), often kept in a cage. Its prevailing color is bright red, with the back and wings bright green, the rump blue, and tail black. -- King penguin (Zoöl.), any large species of penguin of the genus Aptenodytes; esp., A. longirostris, of the Falkland Islands and Kerguelen Land, and A. Patagonica , of Patagonia. -- King rail (Zoöl.), a small American rail (Rallus elegans), living in fresh-water marshes. The upper parts are fulvous brown, striped with black; the breast is deep cinnamon color. -- King salmon (Zoöl.), the quinnat. See Quinnat. -- King's, or Queen's, counsel (Eng. Law), barristers learned in the law, who have been called within the bar, and selected to be the king's or gueen's counsel. They answer in some measure to the advocates of the revenue (advocati fisci) among the Romans. They can not be employed against the crown without special license. Wharton's Law Dict. -- King's cushion, a temporary seat made by two persons crossing their hands. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- The king's English, correct or current language of good speakers; pure English. Shak. -- King's or Queen's, evidence, testimony in favor of the Crown by a witness who confesses his guilt as an accomplice. See under Evidence. [Eng.] -- King's evil, scrofula; -- so called because formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of a king. -- King snake (Zoöl.), a large, nearly black, harmless snake (Ophiobolus getulus) of the Southern United States; -- so called because it kills and eats other kinds of snakes, including even the rattlesnake. -- King's spear (Bot.), the white asphodel (Asphodelus albus). -- King's yellow, a yellow pigment, consisting essentially of sulphide and oxide of arsenic; -- called also yellow orpiment. -- King tody (Zoöl.), a small fly-catching bird (Eurylaimus serilophus) of tropical America. The head is adorned with a large, spreading, fan-shaped crest, which is bright red, edged with black. -- King vulture (Zoöl.), a large species of vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa), ranging from Mexico to Paraguay, The general color is white. The wings and tail are black, and the naked carunculated head and the neck are briliantly colored with scarlet, yellow, orange, and blue. So called because it drives away other vultures while feeding. -- King wood, a wood from Brazil, called also violet wood, beautifully streaked in violet tints, used in turning and small cabinetwork. The tree is probably a species of Dalbergia. See Jacaranda.\n\nTo supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty. [R.] Shak. Those traitorous captains of Israel who kinged themselves by slaying their masters and reigning in their stead. South.","buffeter":"One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.","water sapphire":"A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.","concessory":"Conceding; permissive.","heniquen":"See Jeniquen.","y level":"See under Y, n.","cropful":"Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Milton.","feathering":"1. (Arch.) Same as Foliation. 2. The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t. 3. A covering of feathers. Feathering float (Naut.), the float or paddle of a feathering wheel. -- Feathering screw (Naut.), a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone. -- Feathering wheel (Naut.), a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.","missificate":"To perform Mass. [Obs.] Milton.","overlap":"To lap over; to lap.\n\n1. The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof. 2. (Geol.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.","subcylindric":"Imperfectly cylindrical; approximately cylindrical.","subtiliate":"To make thin or rare. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Sub`til*i*a\"tion, n. [Obs.] Boyle.","catoptrical":"Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. Catoptric light, a light in which the rays are concentrated by reflectors into a beam visible at a distance.","perissodactyla":"A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.","asseverative":"Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.","hartbeest":"A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]","hilding":"A base, menial wretch. -- a. Base; spiritless. [Obs.] Shak.","revoluble":"Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.] Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not. Chapman.","impunibly":"Without punishment; with impunity. [Obs.] J. Ellis.","amontillado":"A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.","substitutional":"Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted. -- Sub`sti*tu\"tion*al*ly, adv.","metamorphize":"To metamorphose.","cannele":"A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.","infrabranchial":"Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.","lectual":"Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.","spate":"A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.","femininely":"In a feminine manner. Byron.","imbibe":"1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to imbue. [Obs.] \"Earth, imbibed with . . . acid.\" Sir I. Newton.","aurum":"Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. -- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.","irp":"A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.] Smirks and irps and all affected humors. B. Jonson .\n\nMaking irps. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","ovant":"Exultant. [Obs.] Holland.","laureate":"Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]\n\nOne crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. \"A learned laureate.\" Cleveland.\n\nTo honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.","werrey":"To warray. [Obs.] Chaucer.","scrod":"A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]","barbarize":"1. To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. 2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.\n\nTo make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.","hallelujatic":"Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. [R.]","oarsman":"One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower. At the prow of the boat, rose one of the oarsmen. Longfellow.","aphrite":"See under Calcite.","contingently":"In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.","pernoctalian":"One who watches or keeps awake all night.","sagittated":"Sagittal; sagittate.","macro-":"A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.","capsheaf":"The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.","otorrhea":"A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.","adunque":"Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.","unruly":"Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.","uncomprehend":"To fail to comprehend. [R.] Daniel.","intrusive":"Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome. Intrusive rocks (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted with effusive or volcanic rocks. -- In*tru\"sive*ly, adv. -- In*tru\"sive*ness, n.","cylindraceous":"Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.","gymnasiarch":"An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.","make-game":"An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.","sasse":"A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable. [Obs.] Pepys.","approbatory":"Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.","phyllous":"Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.","spawn":"1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. 2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.\n\n1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. 2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.\n\n1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. 2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. 3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems. 4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. Spawn eater (Zoöl.), a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.","industrially":"With reference to industry.","mohicans":"A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. [Written also Mohegans.]","cablegram":"A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note: [A recent hybrid, sometimes found in the newspapers.]","plurifarious":"Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.","bluestocking":"1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.] Note: As explained in Boswell's \"Life of Dr. Johnson\", this term is derived from the name given to certain meetings held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for his conversational powers that his absence at any time was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became common, \"We can do nothing without the blue stockings.\" Hence these meetings were sportively called bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them, bluestockings. 2. (Zoöl.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).","dress circle":"A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.","madjoun":"An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. [Written also majoun.]","strucken":"p. p. of Strike. Shak.","selenium":"A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic- looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.","cheese":"1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. 2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese. 3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.] 4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.","quartering":"1. (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object. 2. (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.\n\n1. A station. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu. 2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters. 3. (Her.) (a) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. (b) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. 4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.) Gwilt. Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Macaulay.","viripotent":"Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. [Obs.] Being not of ripe years, not viripotent. Holinshed.","concionate":"To preach. [Obs.] Lithgow.","touchily":"In a touchy manner.","rootcap":"A mass of parenchym","-ance":"A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy. All recently adopted words of this class take either -ance or -ence, according to the Latin spelling.","wowke":"Week. [Obs.] Chaucer.","bimanous":"Having two hands; two-handed.","phenanthroline":"Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly nitrogenized.","nowthe":"Just now; at present. [Obs.] But thereof needeth not to speak as nouthe. Chaucer.\n\nSee Nouthe. [Obs.] Chaucer.","somite":"One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.","princelet":"A petty prince. [R.]","norweyan":"Norwegian. [Obs.] Shak.","lowlihood":"A lowly state. [R.] Tennyson.","remissible":"Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.","confixure":"Act of fastening. [Obs.]","precious":"1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. \"The precious bane.\" Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid. Hooker. Note: Also used ironically; as, a precious rascal. 3. Particular; fastidious; overnice. [Obs.] Lest that precious folk be with me wroth. Chaucer. Precious metals, the uncommon and highly valuable metals, esp. gold and silver. -- Precious stones, gems; jewels.","obstructionism":"The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.","cabirean":",n.One of the Cabiri.","neologize":"1. To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words. 2. To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.","peery":"Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] \"Two peery gray eyes.\" Sir W. Scott.","indicatrix":"A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.","babist":"A believer in Babism.","phlogistic":"1. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence. 2. (Med.) Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.","hasten":"To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.\n\nTo move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly. I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. D","tangibility":"The quality or state of being tangible.","zufolo":"A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds. [Written also zuffolo.]","barleycorn":"1. A grain or \"corn\" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.","eighthly":"As the eighth in order.","aproctous":"Without an anal office.","sketchbook":"A book of sketches or for sketches.","grisliness":"The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.","chaffwax":"Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.","parenthood":"The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.","dedication":"1. The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. 2. A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use. 3. An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.","foolhardy":"Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.","apposed":"Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.","fulminating":"1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.","block tin":"See under Tin.","dynamiter":"One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.","pensioner":"1. One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay. 2. One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses. 3. Etym: [Cf. F. pensionnaire one who pays for his board. Cf. Pensionary, n.] In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. Ld. Lytton.","ligation":"1. The act of binding, or the state of being bound. 2. That which binds; bond; connection. Tied with tape, and sealed at each fold and ligation. Sir W. Scott.","peruvian":"Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Peru. Peruvian balsam. See Balsam of Peru, under Balsam. -- Peruvian bark, the bitter bark of trees of various species of Cinchona. It acts as a powerful tonic, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also Jesuit's bark, and cinchona. See Cinchona.","photochronography":"Art of recording or measuring intervals of time by the photochronograph. -- Pho`to*chron`o*graph\"ic (#), -graph\"ic*al (#), a. -- -graph\"ic*al*ly, adv.","reng":"1. A rank; a row. [Obs.] \"In two renges fair.\" Chaucer. 2. A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.","struma":"1. (Med.) Scrofula. 2. (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.","water locust":"A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.","traducent":"Slanderous. [R.] Entick.","corradial":"Radiating to or from the same point. [R.] Coleridge.","liberator":"One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.","multiphase":"Having many phases; specif. (Elec.), pertaining to, or designating, a generator producing, or any system conveying or utilizing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase.","proliferous":"1. (Bot.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmæ. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) Producing young by budding. (b) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid. (c) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals. Proliferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly- organized or even vascular structures. Paget. -- Pro*lif\"er*ous*ly, adv.","advantageousness":"Profitableness.","nodosous":"Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]","wierangle":"Same as Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","narrower":"One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.","hexacid":"Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.","spermatogenetic":"Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.","anhelation":"Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.","baenomere":"One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.","multidentate":"Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.","laker":"(a) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. (b) (Zoöl.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. (c) A lake steamer or canal boat. The bridge tender . . . thought the Cowies \"a little mite\" longer than that laker. The Century.","burganet":"See Burgonet.","upcast":"Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. Addison.\n\n1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. Shak. 2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft. 3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.] 4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.\n\n1. To cast or throw up; to turn upward. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [Scot.]","quadratojugal":"(a) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones. (b) Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone. -- n. The quadratojugal bone. Quadratojugal bone (Anat.), a bone at the base of the lower jaw in many animals.","adipogenous":"Producing fat.","nubian":"Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa. -- n. A native of Nubia.","condurrite":"A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.","define":"1. To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end. \"To define controversies.\" Barrow. 2. To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country. 3. To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument. Rings . . . very distinct and well defined. Sir I. Newton. 4. To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).\n\nTo determine; to decide. [Obs.]","washtub":"A tub in which clothes are washed.","coracle":"A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.","playa":"A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.","peer":"1. To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic] So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson. 2. Etym: [Perh. a different word; cf. OE. piren, LG. piren. Cf. Pry to peep.] To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.\n\n1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate. In song he never had his peer. Dryden. Shall they consort only with their peers I. Taylor. 2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. He all his peers in beauty did surpass. Spenser. 3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm. A noble peer of mickle trust and power. Milton. House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords. See Parliament. -- Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.\n\nTo make equal in rank. [R.] Heylin.\n\nTo be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]","solas":"Solace. [Obs.] Chaucer.","optometry":"1. (Med.) Measurement of the range of vision, esp. by means of the optometer. 2. As defined (with minor variations) in the statutes of various States of the United States: (a) \"The employment of subjective and objective mechanical means to determine the accomodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its function in general.\" (b) \"The employment of any means, other than the use of drugs, for the measurement of the powers of vision and adaptation of lenses for the aid thereof.\"","machinery":"1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope. 4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. An indispensable part of the machinery of state. Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).","dian":", Diana. [Poetic]","guardfish":"The garfish.","pantheress":"A female panther.","equalization":"The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.","dismally":"In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.","wake":"The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.\n\n1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. The father waketh for the daughter. Ecclus. xlii. 9. Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. Milton. I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke. 2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. Shak. 3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. G. Eliot. 4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. Milton. Then wake, my soul, to high desires. Keble.\n\n1. To rouse from sleep; to awake. The angel . . . came again and waked me. Zech. iv. 1. 2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. \"I shall waken all this company.\" Chaucer. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. J. R. Green. 3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. Milton. 4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.\n\n1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. Shak. Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. Dryden. 2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. Dryden. The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. Milton. 3. Specifically: (a) (Ch. of Eng.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess. Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. Ld. Berners. And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. Drayton. (b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. \"Blithe as shepherd at a wake.\" Cowper. Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer.","precalculate":"To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.","titularly":"In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.","excitatory":"Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.","cerebrum":"The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.","blankness":"The state of being blank.","desultory":"1. Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White. 2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay. 3. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark. Syn. -- Rambling; roving; immethodical; discursive; inconstant; unsettled; cursory; slight; hasty; loose.","glove":"1. A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finder. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten. 2. A boxing glove. Boxing glove. See under Boxing. -- Glove fight, a pugilistic contest in wich the fighters wear boxing gloves. -- Glove money or silver. (a) A tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with. (b) (Eng. Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a country to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed. -- Glove sponge (Zoöl.), a fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis). -- To be hand and glove with, to be intimately associated or on good terms with. \"Hand and glove with traitors.\" J. H. Newman. -- To handle without gloves, to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with. [Colloq.] -- To take up the glove, to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel. -- To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.\n\nTo cover with, or as with, a glove.","puckfist":"A puffball.","terre-verte":"An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.","sesquitertianal":"Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).","coinage":"1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. \"Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.\" Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.","shriek":"To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. It was the owl that shrieked. Shak. At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train Echoed her grief. Dryden.\n\nTo utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks. On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note. Spenser. She shrieked his name To the dark woods. Moore.\n\nA sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. Shrieks, clamors, murmurs, fill the frighted town. Dryden. Shriek owl. (Zoöl.) (a) The screech owl. (b) The swift; -- so called from its cry.","bladesmith":"A sword cutler. [Obs.]","dipteran":"An insect of the order Diptera.","overhold":"To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate. [Obs.] Shak.","petrologist":"One who is versed in petrology.","water murrain":"A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.","obstetricate":"To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] \"Nature does obstetricate.\" Evelyn.\n\nTo assist as a midwife. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.","illuminer":"One who, or that which, illuminates.","polyphotal":"Pertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.","recriminate":"To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.\n\nTo accuse in return. South.","tetradon":"See Tetrodon.","brunt":"1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle. 2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. \"And heavy brunt of cannon ball.\" Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.","giblets":"The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.","sestuor":"A sestet.","emulge":"To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.","evilly":"In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] \"Good deeds evilly bestowed.\" Shak.","sateless":"Insatiable. [R.] Young.","hexametrical":"Consisting of six metrical feet.","indolent":"1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [Obs.] 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope. 3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle.","defilement":"The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.\n\nThe act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.","pickup":"1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground. 2. That which picks up; specif.: (Elec.) = Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.","anemogram":"A record made by an anemograph.","denary":"Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.\n\n1. The number ten; a division into ten. 2. A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.","roture":"1. The condition of being a roturier. 2. (Fr. & Canadian Law) A feudal tenure of lands by one who has no privileges of nobility, but is permitted to discharge all his obligations to his feudal lord or superior by a payment of rent in money or kind and without rendering any personal services.","vitrified":"Converted into glass.","internally":"1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.","misreport":"To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.\n\nAn erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given. Denham. South.","anaesthetic":"(a) Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents. (b) Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.\n\nThat which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.","mossiness":"The state of being mossy.","terrible":"1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21. 2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.] The terrible coldness of the season. Clarendon. Syn. -- Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful; horrible; shocking; awful. -- Ter\"ri*ble*ness, n. -- Ter\"ri*bly, adv.","anyways":"Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.","erebus":"1. (Greek Myth.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's \"Paradise Lost,\" Book II., line 883. 2. (Greek Myth.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus. To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile. Shak.","scalp":"A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]\n\n1. That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction! Shak. 2. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory. 3. Fig.: The top; the summit. Macaulay. Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians.\n\n1. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of. 2. (Surg.) To remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells. 3. (Milling.) To brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Knight.\n\nTo make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account. [Cant]","aristarch":"A severe critic. Knowles.","corallaceous":"Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.","leggiadro":"Light or graceful; in a light, delicate, and brick style.","univocacy":"The quality or state of being univocal. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","diagnose":"To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.","admittable":"Admissible. Sir T. Browne.","prevailment":"Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. [Obs.] Shak.","rotular":"Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.","hektoliter":"Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.","turf":"1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. Milton. 2. Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat. 3. Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the. \"We . . . claim the honors of the turf.\" Cowper. Note: Turf is often used adjectively, or to form compounds which are generally self-explaining; as, turf ashes, turf cutter or turf- cutter, turf pit or turf-pit, turf-built, turf-clad, turf-covered, etc. Turf ant (Zoöl.), a small European ant (Formica flava) which makes small ant-hills on heaths and commons. -- Turf drain, a drain made with turf or peat. -- Turf hedge, a hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds. -- Turf house, a house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe. -- Turf moss a tract of turfy, mossy, or boggy land. -- Turf spade, a spade for cutting and digging turf, longer and narrower than the common spade.\n\nTo cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace. A. Tucker.","elumbated":"Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]","fronton":"Same as Frontal, 2.","polythalamous":"Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.","compense":"To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.","indebt":"To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.","pituitous":"Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus. Pituitous fever (Med.), typhoid fever; enteric fever.","mysteriarch":"One presiding over mysteries. [Obs.]","crithomancy":"A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.","misinterpretable":"Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.","problematist":"One who proposes problems. [R.] Evelyn.","capot":"A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.\n\nTo win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.","squamigerous":"Bearing scales.","transversion":"The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.","white plague":"Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.","proleptics":"The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock.","decalcomania":"The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.","porthole":"An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.","sayman":"One who assays. [Obs.]","confession":"1. Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak. 2. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Rom. x. 10. 3. (Eccl.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith. 5. (Law) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted. Wharton. Confession and avoidance (Law), a mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. Mozley & W. Confession of faith, a formulary containing the articles of faith; a creed. -- General confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer. -- Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.","roman calendar":"The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days. Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the year, and Februarius at the end, making in all 355 days. He also ordered an intercalary month, Mercedinus, to be inserted every second year. Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February. Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed, this calendar fell into confusion. It was replaced by the Julian calendar. In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months. The nones came on the eighth day (the ninth, counting the ides) before the ides. Thus, Jan. 13 was called the ides of January, Jan. 12, the day before the ides, and Jan. 11, the third day before the ides (since the ides count as one), while Jan. 14 was the 19th day before the calends of February.","porridge":"A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.","maltin":"The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.","familiarize":"1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.","monitorial":"1. Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors. 2. Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.","fatalistic":"Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.","divisor":"The number by which the dividend is divided. Common divisor. (Math.) See under Common, a.","hullo":"See Hollo.","weakly":"In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.\n\nNot strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.","brinjaree":"A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.","pupe":"A pupa.","closer":"1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes or terminates. 3. (Masonry) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt.","inconvincibly":"In a manner not admitting of being convinced.","kneadable":"That may be kneaded; capable of being worked into a mass.","tactical":"Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.","porphyrogenitism":"The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.","decentralization":"The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. \"The decentralization of France.\" J. P. Peters.","cobalt":"1. (Chem.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co. Note: It occurs in nature in combination with arsenic, sulphur, and oxygen, and is obtained from its ores, smaltite, cobaltite, asbolite, etc. Its oxide colors glass or any flux, as borax, a fine blue, and is used in the manufacture of smalt. It is frequently associated with nickel, and both are characteristic ingredients of meteoric iron. 2. A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. -- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite. -- Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also Rinman's green. -- Cobalt yellow (Chem.), a yellow crystalline powder, regarded as a double nitrite of cobalt and potassium.","nematocalyx":"One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.","buckety":"Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.","stola":"A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women. The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands. Fairholt.","zeolitiform":"Having the form of a zeolite.","redoubtable":"Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also redoutable.]","basipterygium":"A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg\"i*al (, a.","breadstuff":"Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.","contrabandism":"Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.","jugement":"Judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer.","stercoranist":"A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.","confabulate":"To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.","fusarole":"A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.","martialism":"The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war. [Obs.]","posteriors":"The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.","pseudo-hyperthophic":"Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.","boatswain":"1. (Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) The jager gull. (b) The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.","hematic":"Same as Hæmatic.\n\nA medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.","myohaematin":"A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.","lester":"A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.","energetic":"1. Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. \"A Being eternally energetic.\" Grew. 2. Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws. Syn. -- Forcible; powerful; efficacious; potent; vigorous; effective; strenuous. -- En`er*get\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- En`er*get\"ic*al*ness, n.","indistancy":"Want of distance o [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.","bakehouse":"A house for baking; a bakery.","oxheal":"Same as Bear's-foot.","circumposition":"The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.","any":"1. One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be. Note: Any is often used in denying or asserting without limitation; as, this thing ought not be done at any time; I ask any one to answer my question. No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son. Matt. xi. 27. 2. Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present are there any other houses like it \"Who will show us any good\" Ps. iv. 6. Note: It is often used, either in the singular or the plural, as a pronoun, the person or thing being understood; anybody; anyone; (pl.) any persons. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, . . . and it shall be given him. Jas. i. 5. That if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. Acts ix. 2. At any rate, In any case, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.\n\nTo any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.","tideway":"Channel in which the tide sets.","derby":"1. A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. Derby Day, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide. 2. A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.","indefiniteness":"The quality of being indefinite.","thana":"A police station. [India] Kipling.","in commendam":"See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership.","evidentness":"State of being evident.","mollifiable":"Capable of being mollified.","ouananiche":"A small landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ounaniche) of Lake St. John, Canada, and neighboring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.","athanasia":"The quality of being deathless; immortality. Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none Lowell.","-ward":"Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.","warely":"Cautiously; warily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.","hoax":"A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. Macaulay.\n\nTo deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. Lamb.","trustiness":"The quality or state of being trusty.","gang-flower":"The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.","nowch":"See Nouch. [Obs.] Chaucer.","reconjoin":"To join or conjoin anew. Boyle.","witfish":"The ladyfish (a).","connector":"One who, or that which, connects; as: (a) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. (b) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.","putty":"A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.\n\nTo cement, or stop, with putty.","skittle-dog":"The piked dogfish.","ceylonese":"Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Ceylon. C.G.S. C.G.S. An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much empoyed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time. C. G. S. C. G. S. An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time. C. G. T. C. G. T. An abbreviation for Confédération Générale du Travail (the French syndicalist labor union).","eccritic":"A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.","catery":"The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]","dynamical":"1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile. 2. Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology. As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history. Prof. Shedd. Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.","orthostichy":"A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.","dendriform":"Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.","hot pot":"See Semi-diesel, below.","judger":"One who judges. Sir K. Digby.","undefatigable":"Indefatigable. [Obs.] \"Undefatigable pains.\" Camden.","idiomuscular":"Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.","incuriosity":"Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.","amel":"Enamel. [Obs.] Boyle.\n\nTo enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.","mutually":"In a mutual manner.","atmological":"Of or pertaining to atmology. \"Atmological laws of heat.\" Whewell.","efficacy":"Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. \"Of noxious efficacy.\" Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force; energy; potency; efficiency.","electro-kinetics":"That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.","platetrope":"One of a pair of a paired organs.","porphyrization":"The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.","disannul":"To annul completely; to render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27. Note: The prefix in this word an its derivatives is intensive, and not negative.","carpological":"Of or pertaining to carpology.","trucking":"The business of conveying goods on trucks.","upridged":"Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper.","diviningly":"In a divining manner.","shearbill":"The black skimmer. See Skimmer.","anthropophaginian":"One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.","blackwood":"A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.","wrong-timed":"Done at an improper time; ill-timed.","satin weave":"A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.","denegate":"To deny. [Obs.]","eductor":"One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts. Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether. E. Darwin.","thumbbird":"The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]","gaelic":"Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.\n\nThe language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.","endysis":"The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.","children":"pl. of Child.","manless":"1. Destitute of men. Bakon. 2. Unmanly; inhuman. [Obs.] Chapman.","unbowel":"To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.","unreputable":"Disreputable.","inmesh":"To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.","lubber":"A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida. -- Lubber's hole (Naut.), a hole in the floor of the \"top,\" next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtock shrouds. It is considered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers. Totten. -- Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.","dysphony":"A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.","intropression":"Pressure acting within. [R.]","housewifery":"The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.","do-naught":"A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.","dicrotal":"Dicrotic.","hautpas":"A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.","rudimental":"Rudimentary. Addison.","digladiate":"To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.","indictment":"1. The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted. 2. (Law) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury. Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand jury is essential, while an information rests only on presentation by the prosecuting authority. 3. An accusation in general; a formal accusation. Bill of indictment. See under Bill.","hydrophoby":"See Hydrophobia.","prognathism":"Projection of the jaws. -- Prog\"na*thy, n.","haffle":"To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.","anthropic":"Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.","frictional":"Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required.","araba":"A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental] The araba of the Turks has its sides of latticework to admit the air Balfour (Cyc. of India).","receivability":"The quality of being receivable; receivableness.","second":"1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. Landor. 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! Shak. Second Adventist. See Adventist. -- Second cousin, the child of a cousin. -- Second-cut file. See under File. -- Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.] -- Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers. -- Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. -- Second intention. See under Intention. -- Second story, Story floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor. -- Second thought or thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. Dickens.\n\n1. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power. Man an angel's second, nor his second long. Young. 2. One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel. Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Aid; assistance; help. [Obs.] Give second, and my love Is everlasting thine. J. Fletcher. 4. pl. An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour. 5. Etym: [F. seconde. See Second, a.] The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place. 6. In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8. 7. (Mus.) (a) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it. (b) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto. Second hand, the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock.\n\n1. To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate. [R.] In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. Fuller. Sin is seconded with sin. South. 2. To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage. We have supplies to second our attempt. Shak. In human works though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. Pope. 3. Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.","myronic":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.","ennuyee":"A woman affected with ennui. Mrs. Jameson.","keeled":"1. (Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf. 2. (Zoöl.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.","bannition":"The act of expulsion.[Obs.] Abp. Laud.","tented":"Covered with tents.","fagot":"1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak. 2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile. 3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto. 4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison. 5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]\n\nTo make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.","monogyny":"1. Marriage with the one woman only. 2. (Bot.) The state or condition of being monogynous.","mill":"A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.\n\n1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. 2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. 3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. 4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. 5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. 6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. 7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot. 8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. 9. A pugilistic. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore. Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. -- Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth. -- Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. -- Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. -- To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.\n\n1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. 2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. 3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. 4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray. 6. To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.\n\nTo swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.","unpredict":"To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.","persevering":"Characterized by perseverance; persistent. -- Per`se*ver\"ing*ly, adv.","pentastich":"A composition consisting of five verses.","pargetory":"Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] Milton.","cherubic":"Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic. \"The cherubic host.\" Milton.","doughnut":"A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.","renowmed":"Renowned. [Obs.]","fratricelli":"(a) The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. (b) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.","panelation":"The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written also panellation.] Wood.","neonomianism":"The doctrines or belief of the neonomians.","appurtenant":"Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.\n\nSomething which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge.","hour":"1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour At what hour shall we meet 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4. This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke xxii. 53. 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. 5. A measure of distance traveled. Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. J. P. Peters. After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor. -- Canonical hours. See under Canonical. -- Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place. -- Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15º, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe. -- Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece. -- Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. -- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. Locke. -- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. -- Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day. -- The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc. -- To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early.","legibleness":"The state or quality of being legible.","evidencer":"One whi gives evidence.","rankle":"1. To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke. 2. To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.\n\nTo cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame. [R.] Beau. & Fl.","anacanths":"A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.","gangrel":"Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","infiltration":"1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.","preferential voting":"A system of voting, as at primaries, in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates for an office, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together in nominated or elected.","ranterism":"The practice or tenets of the Ranters.","chaliced":"Having a calyx or cup; cupshaped. \"Chaliced flowers.\" Shak.","deer-neck":"A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.","flax-plant":"A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.","indigency":"Indigence. New indigencies founded upon new desires. South.","sky pilot":"A person licensed as a pilot. [Slang]","demobilization":"The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.","outwell":"To pour out. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo issue forth. Thomson.","bicipital":"1. (Anat.) (a) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. (b) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. 2. (Bot.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.","elleck":"The red gurnard or cuckoo fish. [Prov. Eng.]","scoat":"To prop; to scotch. [Prov. Eng.]","handiness":"The quality or state of being handy.","tipstock":"The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.","beneficient":"Beneficent. [Obs.]","capsicum":"A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce. Note: The most important species are Capsicum baccatum or birs pepper. C, annuum or chili pepper, C. frutesens or spur pepper, and C. annuum or Guinea pepeer, which includes the bell pepper and other common garden varieties. The fruit is much used, both in its green and ripe state, in pickles and in cookery. See Cayenne pepper.","zincide":"A binary compound of zinc. [R.]","bicker":"A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland. 2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow. 3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.\n\n1. A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.] 2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson. 3. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.","mahovo":"A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.","whiggish":"Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.","picoline":"Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.","micrological":"Of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination. -- Mi`cro*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","electrizer":"One who, or that which, electrizes.","paludicolae":"A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.","parsonage":"1. (Eng. Eccl. Law) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish. 2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor. 3. Money paid for the support of a parson. [Scot.] What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for Sir W. Scott.","ombre":"A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons. Pope. When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. Young.\n\nA large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.","pentelican":"Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.","alla breve":"With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by","scaphocerite":"A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennæ of many Crustacea.","semipenniform":"Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.","microtomical":"Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices.","dissonance":"1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton. 2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.","semblance":"1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. 2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of shells. Woodward.","salience":"1. That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. 2. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Sir W. Hamilton.","elaqueate":"To disentangle. [R.]","silico-":"A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.","marginally":"In the margin of a book.","ditheistical":"Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.","stored":"Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.","batture":"An elevated river bed or sea bed.","blatantly":"In a blatant manner.","underfringe":"A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.","assumed":"1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.","preexistence":"1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet. 2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers. Addison.","outpass":"To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.","topau":"The rhinocerous bird (a).","undercraft":"A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors. [R.] Sterne.","overtedious":"Too tedious.","supralapsarian":"One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.","imbuement":"The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.","dulcimer":"(a) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer. (b) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.","specter":"1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) The tarsius. (b) A stick insect. Specter bat (Zoöl.), any phyllostome bat. -- Specter candle (Zoöl.), a belemnite. -- Specter shrimp (Zoöl.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.","mademoiselle":"1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith. 2. (Zoöl.) A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.","cognizor":"One who ackowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant. Blackstone.","dithyrambic":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. \"Dithyrambic sallies.\" Longfellow. -- n. A dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.","phototropic":"Same as Heliotropic.","isotropous":"Isotropic.","here-at":"At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker.","impurely":"In an impure manner.","corbie":"1. (Zoöl.) The raven. [Scot.] 2. (her.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]","hornet":"A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white- faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits. Hornet fly (Zoöl.), any dipterous insect of the genus Asilus, and allied genera, of which there are numerous species. They are large and fierce flies which capture bees and other insects, often larger than themselves, and suck their blood. Called also hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]","diversivolent":"Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).","sea term":"A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.","sulphotungstic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.","umbonated":"Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss.","synonymist":"One who collects or explains synonyms.","whirlwig":"A whirligig.","hymenopteral":"Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.","deodorization":"The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.","preoccupancy":"The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.","antiparallel":"Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.","sisyphean":"Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.","pseudo-bulb":"An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.","found":"imp. & p. p. of Find.\n\nTo form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. \"Whereof to found their engines.\" Milton.\n\nA thin, single-cut file for combmakers.\n\n1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25. 2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton. Syn. -- To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate.","significative":"1. Betokening or representing by an external sign. The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative. Brerewood. 2. Having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant. Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words. Camden. -- Sig*nif\"i*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- Sig*nif\"i*ca*tive*ness, n.","shrink":"1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. Dryden. All the boards did shrink. Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] Shak.\n\n1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. 2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. Milton. To shrink on (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.\n\nThe act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt.","delinquently":"So as to fail in duty.","trugging-house":"A brothel. [Obs.] Robert Greene.","everlasting":"1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. \"The Everlasting God.\" Gen. xx1. 33. 2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope. Syn. -- Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. - Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. Shak. Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. -- Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.\n\n1. Eternal duration, past of future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. xc. 2. 2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. 3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc. 4. A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting.","rentier":"One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.","binturong":"A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.","scarcity":"The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier. Syn. -- Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.","frump":"To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.\n\n1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.","coldish":"Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.","velutina":"Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.","cotquean":"1. A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison. 2. A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.] What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.","exhilaration":"1. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. 2. The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon. Syn. -- Animation; joyousness; gladness; cheerfulness; gayety; hilarity; merriment; jollity.","mediastinum":"A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.","smart":"1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. Chaucer. Shak. 2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.\n\nTo cause a smart in. \"A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.\" T. Adams.\n\n1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. \"In pain's smart.\" Chaucer. 2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton. Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser. 3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] Fielding. 4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]\n\n1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste. How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. Shak. 2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain. 3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. \"Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.\" Clarendon. 4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.] 5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. \"The stars shine smarter.\" Dryden. 6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying. Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart Young. A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. Addison. 7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown. 8. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze. Smart money. (a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation. (b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service. (c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. Burrill. Greenleaf. -- Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] Brande & C. Syn. -- Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively; brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy. -- Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.","snapping":"a. & n. from Snap, v. Snapping beetle. (Zoöl.) See Snap beetle, under Snap. -- Snapping turtle. (Zoöl.) (a) A large and voracious aquatic turtle (Chelydra serpentina) common in the fresh waters of the United States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle. (b) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.","survivance":"Survivorship. [R.] His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.","dismortgage":"To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.","remise":"To send, give, or grant back; torelease a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.\n\nA giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.","reflow":"To flow back; to ebb.","yedding":"The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. [Obs.] Chaucer.","lote":"A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree. Eng. Cyc.\n\nThe European burbot.\n\nTo lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] Chaucer.","idolater":"1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan. 2. An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd.","ligature":"1. The act of binding. 2. Anything that binds; a band or bandage. 3. (Surg.) (a) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage. (b) A thread or wire used to remove tumors, etc. 4. The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint. 5. Impotence caused by magic or charms. [Obs.] 6. (Mus.) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur. 7. (Print.) A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as æ, fi, ffl.\n\nTo ligate; to tie.","annuloida":"A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]","ideality":"1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. 3. (Phren.) The conceptive faculty.","rescribe":"1. To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe. 2. To write over again. Howell.","vacher":"A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.","stagnancy":"State of being stagnant.","hawm":"See Haulm, straw.\n\nTo lounge; to loiter. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.","pernancy":"A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.","marl":"To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. Marling spike. (Naut.) See under Marline.\n\nA mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.\n\nTo overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.","honorary":"1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow. 2. (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.\n\n1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. \"Honorary arches.\" Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.","misborn":"Born to misfortune. Spenser.","whomsoever":"The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever. The Most High ruleth in the kingdow of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Dan. iv. 17.","volume":"1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.] The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen). Encyc. Brit. 2. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. Franklin. 4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving. 4. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas. 5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question. -- Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific gravity is referred to water at 4º C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.","gayne":"To avail. [Obs.]","fixative":"That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.","yester-morning":"The morning of yesterday. Coleridge.","clang":"To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.\n\nTo give out a clang; to resound. \"Clanging hoofs.\" Tennyson.\n\n1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Mus.) Qualyty of tone.","prolapsus":"Prolapse.","moonrise":"The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.","sisel":"The suslik.","triacle":"See Treacle. [Obs.] Chaucer.","craftiness":"Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.","otherwhile":"At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.","whack":"To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. G. W. Cable.\n\nTo strike anything with a smart blow. To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. [Colloq.]\n\nA smart resounding blow. [Colloq.]","province":"1. (Roman Hist.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy. Wyclif (Acts xiii. 34). Milton. 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. \"Kingdoms and provinces.\" Shak. 3. A region of country; a tract; a district. Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts. 4. A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority. 5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection. Tattler. 6. Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.","modally":"In a modal manner. A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally ... by the particles \"as\" and \"so.\" Gibbs.","cumin":"A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella sativa) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.","addorsed":"Set or turned back to back.","aluminium":"The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.","sebat":"The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. W. Smith (Bibl. Dict. ).","alkaloidal":"Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.","rill":"1. A very small brook; a streamlet. 2. (Astron.) See Rille.\n\nTo run a small stream. [R.] Prior.","avie":"Emulously. [Obs.]","nictate":"To wink; to nictitate.","dreye":"Dry. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rivery":"Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.","wilful":"See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.","bibliotaph":"One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.","ichnolithology":"Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.","dracontic":"Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] \"Dracontic month.\" Crabb.","shelduck":"The sheldrake. [Written also shellduck.]","neurochord":"See Neurocord.","posthetomy":"Circumcision. Dunglison.","co-lessee":"A partner in a lease taen.","finnic":"Of or pertaining to the Finns.","testamentary":"1. Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary. 2. Bequeathed by will; given by testament. How many testamentary charities have been defeated by the negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury. 3. Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age.","resorption":"The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.","hyperchloric":"See Perchloric.","blunder":"1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.\n\n1. To cause to blunder. [Obs.] \"To blunder an adversary.\" Ditton. 2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.\n\n1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.] 2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.","finished":"Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work (Mach.), work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.","routinary":"Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [R.] Emerson.","academist":"1. An Academic philosopher. 2. An academician. [Obs.] Ray.","tube":"1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. 2. A telescope. \"Glazed optic tube.\" Milton. 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. 6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. 7. (Zoöl.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary. -- Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. -- Tube coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Tubipore. -- Tube foot (Zoöl.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. -- Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under Flue. -- Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. -- Tube spinner (Zoöl.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera. -- Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.\n\nTo furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.","scissors-tailed":"Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.","flat-footed":"1. Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep. 2. Firm-footed; determined. [Slang, U.S.]","muckle":"Much. [Obs.]","novitiate":"1. The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments. 2. Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows. 3. One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice. Addison. 4. The place where novices live or are trained. [R.]","slippage":"The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.","andromed":"A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name. A shower of these meteors takes place every year on November 27th or 28th. The Andromedes are also called Bielids, as they are connected with Biela's comet and move in its orbit.","flatulency":"The state or quality of being flatulent.","split infinitive":"A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.","staffier":"An attendant bearing a staff. [Obs.] \"Staffiers on foot.\" Hudibras.","tirrit":"A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.","mich":"To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also meach and meech.] Spenser.","slipper":"1. One who, or that which, slips. 2. A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe. 3. A kind of apron or pinafore for children. 4. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. 5. (Mach.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule (Zoöl.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort. -- Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zoöl.), a boat shell.\n\nSlippery. [Obs.] O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men. Spenser.","procerite":"The segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of Crustacea.","spinetail":"(a) Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chætura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines. (b) Any one of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the family Dendrocolaptidæ. They are allied to the ovenbirds. (c) The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]","hemelytron":"One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.","lumbric":"An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.","quidnunc":"One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. \"The idle stories of quidnuncs.\" Motley.","clawed":"Furnished with claws. N. Grew.","speechful":"Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. [R.]","vocalness":"The quality of being vocal; vocality.","delimitation":"The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.","merulidan":"A bird of the Thrush family.","sewe":"To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer. [Obs.]","envoy":"1. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador. 2. Etym: [F. envoi, fr. envoyer to send.] An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the \"sending\" of it forth. Skeat.","haik":"A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.","mercurialism":"The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.","accusingly":"In an accusing manner.","invertebrate":"Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n. One of the Invertebrata. Age of invertebrates. See Age, and Silurian.","slipperiness":"The quality of being slippery.","criticism":"1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the final end or object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden. 2. The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure. About the plan of \"Rasselas\" little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism. Macaulay.","intoxication":"1. (Med.) A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness. That secret intoxication of pleasure. Spectator. Syn. -- Drunkenness; inebriation; inebriety; ebriety; infatuation; delirium. See Drunkenness.","coscinomancy":"Divination by means of a suspended sieve.","oaf":"Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.","imaginability":"Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.","lacrymose":"See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.","biformity":"A double form.","valve":"1. A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed. Pope. Heavily closed, . . . the valves of the barn doors. Longfellow. 2. A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. Note: A valve may act automatically so as to be opened by the effort of a fluid to pass in one direction, and closed by the effort to pass in the other direction, as a clack valve; or it may be opened or closed by hand or by mechanism, as a screw valve, or a slide valve. 3. (Anat.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves. 4. (Bot.) (a) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. (b) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. (c) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. 5. (Zoöl.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. Air valve, Ball valve, Check valve, etc. See under Air. Ball, Check, etc. -- Double-beat valve, a kind of balance valve usually consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats when the valve is closed. -- Equilibrium valve. (a) A balance valve. See under Balance. (b) A valve for permitting air, steam, water, etc., to pass into or out of a chamber so as to establish or maintain equal pressure within and without. -- Valve chest (Mach.), a chamber in which a valve works; especially (Steam Engine), the steam chest; -- called in England valve box, and valve casing. See Steam chest, under Steam. -- Valve face (Mach.), that part of the surface of a valve which comes in contact with the valve seat. -- Valve gear, or Valve motion (Steam Engine), the system of parts by which motion is given to the valve or valves for the distribution of steam in the cylinder. For an illustration of one form of valve gear, see Link motion. -- Valve seat. (Mach.) (a) The fixed surface on which a valve rests or against which it presses. (b) A part or piece on which such a surface is formed. -- Valve stem (Mach.), a rod attached to a valve, for moving it. -- Valve yoke (Mach.), a strap embracing a slide valve and connecting it to the valve stem.","sagoin":"A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.","a priori":"1. (Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori. 3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.","lionly":"Like a lion; fierce. [Obs.] Milton. LION'S EAR Li\"on's ear`. (Bot.) A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia. LION'S FOOT Li\"on's foot`. (Bot.) (a) A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. (b) The edelweiss.","growlingly":"In a growling manner.","mooruk":"A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.","diacoustic":"Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.","sanidine":"A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.","tousle":"To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse. [Colloq.]","puncture":"1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.\n\nTo pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.","elucidation":"A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.","pasteurism":"1. A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength. 2. Pasteurization.","appetence":"A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.","pyrethrine":"An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).","loiter":"1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser. Syn. -- To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.","ames-ace":"Same as Ambs-ace.","vitrics":"1. The art or study of the manufacture and decoration of glassware. 2. pl. Articles of glassware, glassware in general.","courtly":"1. Relating or belonging to a court. 2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak. 3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.\n\nIn the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden","nebulosity":"1. The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli. 2. (Astron.) (a) The stuff of which a nebula is formed. (b) A nebula.","recurvate":"Recurved.\n\nTo bend or curve back; to recurve. Pennant.","undestroyable":"Indestructible.","nurse":"1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. 2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke. 3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. 4. (Zoöl.) (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. (b) Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse shark. (Zoöl.) (a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. -- To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse. -- Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.\n\n1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden. 2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. \"To nurse the saplings tall.\" Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion Locke. 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. A. Trollope. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.","reactionary":"Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.\n\nOne who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.","ejulation":"A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] \"Ejulation in the pangs of death.\" Philips.","etymologist":"One who investigates the derivation of words.","verifier":"One who, or that which, verifies.","peloponnesian":"Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.","rachis":"1. (Anat.) The spine; the vertebral column. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Same as Rhachis.","simonious":"Simoniacal. [Obs.] Milton.","cooling":"Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. \"The cooling brook.\" Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.","cuddle":"To She cuddles low beneath the brake; Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly. Prior.\n\nTo embrace closely; to foundle. Forby.\n\nA close embrace.","formic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. Amido formic acid, carbamic acid. -- Formic acid, a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid.","petulcous":"Wanton; frisky; lustful. [Obs.] J. V. Cane.","upswarm":"To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [R.] Shak. Cowper.","four-wheeler":"A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]","hyperthyrion":"That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.","congratulator":"One who offers congratulation. Milton.","steed":"A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. \"A knight upon a steed.\" Chaucer. Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed. Shak.","gilt-edged":"1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper. 2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc. [Slang, U. S.]","giant":"1. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. Milton. 2. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. 3. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.\n\nLike a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax. -- Giant clam (Zoöl.), a bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water. -- Giant heron (Zoöl.), a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known. -- Giant kettle, a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole. -- Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin. -- Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zoöl.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.","solicitate":"Solicitous. [Obs.] Eden.","unsymmetrical":"1. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts. 2. (Biol.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry. 3. (Chem.) Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom. Unsymmetrical carbon atom (Chem.), one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.","imaginant":"Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n. An imaginer. [Obs.] Glanvill.","feastful":"Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. \"Feastful days.\" Milton. -- Feast\"ful*ly, adv.","cancriform":"1. Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped. 2. Like a cancer; cancerous.","refortification":"A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.","sea monk":"See Monk seal, under Monk.","coxcombry":"The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.","keynote":"1. (Mus.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone. 2. The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.","gromwell":"A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]","diversion":"1. The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. 2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. \"Public diversions.\" V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison. 3. (Mil.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts. Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment.","enjail":"To put into jail; to imprison. [R.] Donne.","surement":"A making sure; surety. [Obs.] Every surement and every bond. Chaucer.","nehiloth":"A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).","entomologic":"Of or relating to entomology. -- En`to*mo*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","marmoraceous":"Pertaining to, or like, marble.","unbody":"To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.\n\nTo leave the body; to be disembodied; -- said of the soul or spirit. [R.] Chaucer.","homopteran":"An homopter.","prelatical":"Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority. Macaulay.","reimbursement":"The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.","polverine":"Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine glass.","presentive":"Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word \"will\" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- Pre*sent\"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent\"ive*ness, n.","crebritude":"Frequency. [Obs.] Bailey.","disregarder":"One who disregards.","evict":"1. (Law) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. Sir. J. Davies. 2. To evince; to prove. [Obs.] Cheyne.","loop":"A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also loup.]\n\n1. A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak. 2. A small, narrow opening; a loophole. And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence The eye of Reason may pry in upon us. Shak. 3. A curve of any kind in the form of a loop. 4. (Telegraphy) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts. 5. (Acoustics) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment. Loop knot, a single knot tied in a doubled cord, etc. so as to leave a loop beyond the knot. See Illust. of Knot.\n\nTo make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.","trochanter":"1. (Anat.) One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter. 2. (Zoöl.) The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.","hyphenated":"United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.","russety":"Of a russet color; russet.","amia":"A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.","quadragesimal":"Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.","vanillin":"A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.","yghe":"Eye. [Obs.] Chaucer.","girlish":"Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief. -- Girl\"ish*ly, adv. -- Girl\"ish*ness, n.","sarcode":"A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.","toxotes":"A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.","inion":"The external occipital protuberance of the skull.","paduasoy":"A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]","sceneshifter":"One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.","annuller":"One who annuls. [R.]","fireside":"A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.","carcinosys":"The affection of the system with cancer.","touchhole":"The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.","vicarious":"1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. 2. Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . in the hands of the Almighty. Sir M. Hale. 3. Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer. I. Taylor. 4. (Med.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.","vociferous":"Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif\"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif\"er*ous*ness, n.","naphthalic":"(a) Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- used specifically to denote any one of a series of acids derived from naphthalene, and called naphthalene acids. (b) Formerly, designating an acid probably identical with phthalic acid.","amblyopic":"Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain.","rickety":"1. Affected with rickets. 2. Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.","scammoniate":"Made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient.","proboscidate":"Having a proboscis; proboscidial.","asiphonata":"A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.","reciprocally":"1. In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually. These two particles to reciprocally affect each other with the same force. Bentley. 2. (Math.) In the manner of reciprocals. Reciprocally proportional (Arith. & Alg.), proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other.","hapless":"Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.","apronful":"The quality an apron can hold.","retort":"1. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey. 2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To the first giver. Shak. 3. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity. And with retorted scorn his back he turned. Milton.\n\nTo return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply. Pope.\n\n1. The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response. This is called the retort courteous. Shak. 2. Etym: [F. retorte (cf. Sp. retorta), fr. L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere. So named from its bent shape. See Retort, v. t.] (Chem. & the Arts) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works. Tubulated retort (Chem.), a retort having a tubulure for the introduction or removal of the substances which are to be acted upon. Syn. -- Repartee; answer. -- Retort, Repartee. A retort is a short and pointed reply, turning back on an assailant the arguments, censure, or derision he had thrown out. A repartee is usually a good-natured return to some witty or sportive remark.","wifehood":"1. Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.","ursula":"A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, or Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.","flexor":"A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.","aerial sickness":"A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.","allopathic":"Of or pertaining to allopathy.","acanthopodious":"Having spinous petioles.","conusant":"See Cognizant.","madame":"My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.","bridal":"Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.\n\nA nuptia; festival or ceremony; a marriage. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.","interpretatively":"By interpretation. Ray.","vinette":"A sprig or branch. [Archaic] Halliwell.","biliprasin":"A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.","moggan":"A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material. [Scot.]","epiboly":"Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.","mouth-footed":"Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.","multilineal":"Having many lines. Steevens.","confidential":"1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. 2. Communicated in confidence; secret. \"Confidential messages.\" Burke. Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts. McElrath.","cutwal":"The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]","musquaw":"The American black bear. See Bear.","bejape":"To jape; to laugh at; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hawkweed":"(a) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision. (b) A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius). Loudon.","bottler":"One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.","album":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. 2. A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. 3. A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.","languishness":"Languishment. [Obs.]","maidan":"In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade. A gallop on the green maidan. M. Crawford.","stert":"Started. Chaucer.","moesogothic":"Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.\n\nThe language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.","handsomeness":"The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.","achromaticity":"Achromatism.","insecable":"Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.","misbeliever":"One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.","ethnically":"In an ethnical manner.","zooenite":"(a) One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal. (b) One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.","intirely":"See Entire, a., Entirely, adv.","mercurial":"1. Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron. 2. Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [Obs.] Chillingworth. 3. Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money- making; crafty. The mercurial wand of commerce. J. Q. Adams. 4. Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2. 5. (Med.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.\n\n1. A person having mercurial qualities. Bacon. 2. (Med.) A preparation containing mercury.","amoebaeum":"A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.","coryphaenoid":"Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin.","dissension":"Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).","quash":"Same as Squash.\n\nTo abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.\n\n1. To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller. 2. To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion. Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief. Barrow.\n\nTo be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.","semimonthly":"Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n. Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical. -- adv. In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.","commission":"1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. 3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. 4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. Let him see our commission. Shak. 5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. 6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. Prescott. 7. (Com.) (a) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. (b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. (c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankrupty, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. -- Commission of lunacy, a commission authoring and inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. -- Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. -- Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distingtion from a noncommossioned or warrant officer. -- Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [Eng.] -- To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a goverment vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp., the formal act of tacking command of a vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc. -- To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. -- To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War. Syn. -- Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment.\n\n1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer. 2. To send out with a charge or commission. A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. Dryden. Syn. -- To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute; ordain.","arrogantness":"Arrogance. [R.]","nixie":"See Nix.","pile":"1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper. 2. (Zoöl.) A covering of hair or fur.\n\nThe head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] Chapman.\n\n1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used. 2. Etym: [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. -- Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. -- Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile. -- Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake. -- Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling. -- Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic. -- Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure.\n\nTo drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.\n\n1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. Dryden. 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. Dryden. 5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. 6. (Elec.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile. Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile. 7. Etym: [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Cross and pile. See under Cross. -- Dry pile. See under Dry.\n\n1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood. \"Hills piled on hills.\" Dryden. \"Life piled on life.\" Tennyson. The labor of an age in piled stones. Milton. 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To pile arms or muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.","bulla":"1. (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid. 2. (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla. 3. A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it. 4. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.","stearone":"The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.","extendlessness":"Unlimited extension. [Obs.] An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.","instead":"1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii. 25. 2. Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [R.] This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. Tillotson.","geometry":"1. That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space. 2. A treatise on this science. Analytical, or Coördinate, geometry, that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes. -- Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems involving three dimensions. -- Elementary geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone. -- Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.","acerate":"A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.\n\nAcerose; needle-shaped.","conciseness":"The quality of being concise.","half-tone":"1. (Fine Arts) (a) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. (b) A half-tone photo-engraving. 2. (Music) A half step.\n\nHaving, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones; specif. (Photo-engraving), pertaining to or designating plates, processes, or the pictures made by them, in which gradation of tone in the photograph is reproduced by a graduated system of dotted and checkered spots, usually nearly invisible to the unaided eye, produced by the interposition between the camera and the object of a screen. The name alludes to the fact that this process was the first that was practically successful in reproducing the half tones of the photograph.","carpophyte":"A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc. Note: The division of alge and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oöphytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or Carposporeæ, Oösporeæ, Protophyta, and Zygosporeæ) was proposed by Sachs about 1875.","guest":"1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.\n\nTo receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.\n\nTo be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. Chapman.","chick-pea":"1. (Bot.) A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram. 2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.","observer":"1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift. 2. One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice. \"Diligent observers of old customs.\" Spenser. These... hearkend unto observers of times. Deut. xviii. 14. 3. One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises. 4. A sycophantic follower. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","servite":"One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.","womanly":"Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.\n\nIn the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. Gascoigne. WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Woman's Christian Temperance Union. An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.","idealization":"1. The act or process of idealizing. 2. (Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.","antitypal":"Antitypical. [R.]","incrassative":"Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.\n\nA substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Harvey.","toothed":"1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. \"Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl.\" Herrick. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale (Zoöl.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. -- Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.","mardi gras":"The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.","bioplastic":"Bioplasmic.","compile":"1. To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.] Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser. 2. To contain or comprise. [Obs.] Which these six books compile. Spenser. 3. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay. 4. To write; to compose. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.","farcin":"Same as Farcy.","fireless":"Destitute of fire.","hithe":"A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. Pennant.","lacquering":"The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.","granuliferous":"Full of granulations.","lender":"One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.","priest":"1. (Christian Church) A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: (a) (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock. (b) (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation. 2. One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests. \"The priests of Dagon.\" 1 Sam. v. 5. Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts xiv. 13. Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Heb. v. 1. Note: In the New Testament presbyters are not called priests; but Christ is designated as a priest, and as a high priest, and all Christians are designated priests.\n\nTo ordain as priest.","huddle":"To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.\n\n1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion. Locke. 2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together. \"Huddle up a peace.\" J. H. Newman. Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone. Swift.\n\nA crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion. \"A huddle of ideas.\" Addison.","profferer":"One who proffers something.","stupor":"1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.","weanedness":"Quality or state of being weaned.","prorate":"To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata. [U.S.]","ostentatious":"Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta\"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta\"tious*ness, n.","monodelphous":"Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.","wynkernel":"The European moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]","ergotized":"Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.","cadmean":"Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.","jackeen":"A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.","corbelling":"Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.","distemper":"1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.] When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer. 2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster. 3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. \"Distempered spirits.\" Coleridge. 4. To intoxicate. [R.] The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger. 5. (Paint.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. [R.]\n\n1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon. Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four \"humors\" in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind. 2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh. 3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling. 4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor. [Obs.] Little faults proceeding on distemper. Shak. Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan. 5. Political disorder; tumult. Waller. 6. (Paint.) (a) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms. (b) A painting done with this preparation. Syn. -- Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady; indisposition; ailment. See Disease.","empeople":"To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. [Obs.] We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne.","opal":"A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity. Note: The precious opal presents a peculiar play of colors of delicate tints, and is highly esteemed as a gem. One kind, with a varied play of color in a reddish ground, is called the harlequin opal. The fire opal has colors like the red and yellow of flame. Common opal has a milky appearance. Menilite is a brown impure variety, occurring in concretions at Menilmontant, near Paris. Other varieties are cacholong, girasol, hyalite, and geyserite.","stylopodium":"An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.","dummerer":"One who feigns dumbness. [Obs.] Burton.","maltreat":"To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.","actuality":"The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.","hearse":"A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.\n\n1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss. 2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] \"Underneath this marble hearse.\" B. Johnson. Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow. 3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. Shak. 4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.\n\nTo inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] \"Would she were hearsed at my foot.\" Shak.","johnson grass":"A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.","sulphydric":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.","slitting":"from Slit. Slitting file. See Illust. (i) of File. -- Slitting mill. (a) A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like. (b) A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder. -- Slitting roller, one of a pair of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting like shears, -- used in slitting metals.","zoospore":"1. (Bot.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoöspores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algæ. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoöspores and the smaller microzoöspores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore. 2. (Zoöl.) See Swarmspore.","gee":"1. To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq. or Prov. Eng.] Forby. 2. Etym: [Cf. G. jü, interj., used in calling to a horse, It. giò, F. dia, used to turn a horse to the left.] To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.] Note: In England, the teamster walks on the right-hand side of the cattle; in the United States, on the left-hand side. In all cases, however, gee means to turn from the driver, and haw to turn toward him. Gee ho, or Gee whoa. Same as Gee.\n\nTo cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver. [Written also jee.]","amomum":"A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.","bed-moulding":"The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.","durable":"Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey. Syn. -- Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting.","dramatize":"To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. They dramatized tyranny for public execration. Motley.","incise":"1. To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew. 2. To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.","fibrinogenous":"Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.","polariscope":"An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.","latterly":"Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.","sinologue":"A student of Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, and history.","territorialize":"1. To enlarge by extension of territory. 2. To reduce to the condition of a territory.","capulin":"The Mexican chery (Prunus Capollin).","peripheral":"1. Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric. 2. (Anat.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.","tetrasyllabical":"Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.","grooper":"See Grouper.","calabar":"A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.","lime":"A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Halliwell.\n\nThe linden tree. See Linden.\n\nA fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.\n\n1. Birdlime. Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with. Wordsworth. 2. (Chem.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.CaO Note: Lime is the principal constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, bones, shells, etc. Caustic lime, calcium hydrate or slacked lime; also, in a less technical sense, calcium oxide or quicklime. -- Lime burner, one who burns limestone, shells, etc., to make lime. -- Lime light. See Calcium light under Calcium. -- Lime pit, a limestone quarry. -- Lime rod, Lime twig, a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare. Chaucer.\n\n1. To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange. 2. To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. Tennyson. 3. To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child. 4. To cement. \"Who gave his blood to lime the stones together.\" Shak.","philander":"To make love to women; to play the male flirt. You can't go philandering after her again. G. Eliot.\n\nA lover. [R.] Congreve.\n\n(a) A South American opossum (Didelphys philander). (b) An Australian bandicoot (Perameles lagotis).","occupancy":"The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent.","christophany":"An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion. CHRIST'S-THORN Christ's-thorn`, n. (Bot.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.","ne":"Not; never. [Obs.] He never yet no villany ne said. Chaucer. Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See Negative, 2.\n\nNor. [Obs.] Shak. No niggard ne no fool. Chaucer. Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.] Chaucer.","infoldment":"The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.","tranquillize":"To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify.","varicose":"1. Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers. 2. (Med.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.","anthropidae":"The group that includes man only.","neuropterous":"Neuropteral.","miscolor":"To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts. C. Kingsley.","racking":"Spun yarn used in racking ropes.","bachelorism":"Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving. BACHELOR'S BUTTON Bach\"e*lor's but\"ton , (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers \"from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom\", according to Johnson's Gerarde, p.472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to \"a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts.\" Dr. Prior.","twirl":"To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.\n\nTo revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.\n\n1. The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation. 2. A twist; a convolution. Woodward.","average":"1. (OLd Eng. Law) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: [Cf. F. avarie damage to ship or cargo.] (Com.) (a) A tariff or duty on goods, etc. [Obs.] (b) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. (c) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils. (d) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. -- Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, \"primage and average accustomed,\" average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips. 3. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10. 4. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. \"The average of sensations.\" Paley. 5. pl. In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.\n\n1. Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp. 2. According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.\n\n1. To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean. 2. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss. 3. To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.\n\nTo form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an ~; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.","hawkeye state":"Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.","maturely":"1. In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely. 2. With caution; deliberately. Dryden. 3. Early; soon. [A Latinism, little used] Bentley.","fettered":"Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.","interpret":"1. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech. Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. i. 23. And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. Gen. xli. 8. 2. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape. Syn. -- To translate; explain; solve; render; expound; elucidate; decipher; unfold; unravel.\n\nTo act as an interpreter. Shak.","spetches":"Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.","cantine":"See Canteen.","tapper":"The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]","varsity":"Colloq. contr. of University.","leaves":"pl. of Leaf.","grosgrain":"Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.","submission":"1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means. Shak. 2. The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation. In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness. Shak. No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things. Sir W. Temple. 3. Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error. Be not as extreme in submission As in offense. Shak. 4. (Law) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier.","pompoleon":"See Pompelmous.","hen-hearted":"Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.","teraphim":"Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).","pyro":"Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid. [Colloq.]","sculptural":"Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot.","bookbinding":"The art, process, or business of binding books.","papain":"A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.","whot":"Hot. [Obs.] Spenser.","indivisibleness":"The state of being indivisible; indivisibility. W. Montagu.","mythologize":"1. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths. 2. To construct and propagate myths.","spoony":"Same as Spooney.","symbolical":"Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge. -- Sym*bol\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*bol\"ic*al*ness, n. The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed. Jer. Taylor. Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.","pier":"1. (Arch.) (a) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings. (b) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress. 2. A projecting wharf or landing place. Abutment pier, the pier of a bridge next the shore; a pier which by its strength and stability resists the thrust of an arch. -- Pier glass, a mirror, of high and narrow shape, to be put up between windows. -- Pier table, a table made to stand between windows.","syncopate":"1. (Gram.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, \"Gloster\" is a syncopated form of \"Gloucester.\" 2. (Mus.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.","tamandu":"A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America. Note: It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout, small ears, and short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end. Called also tamandua, little ant-bear, fourmilier, and cagouare. The collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety.","quiddler":"One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.","ruthenious":"Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.","infantile paralysis":"An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.","hybernation":"See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.","seyen":"of See.","badaud":"A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler. A host of stories . . . dealing chiefly with the subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic to the badauds of Paris. Pall Mall Mag.","polarity":"1. (Physics) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc. 2. (Geom.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.","ultimatum":"A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms a negotiator can offer, the rejection of which usually puts an end to the hesitation.","oxycaproic":"See Leucic.","oppugnant":"Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring. \"Oppugnant forces.\" I. Taylor. -- n. An opponent. [R.] Coleridge.","tithable":"Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.","desidious":"Idle; lazy. [Obs.]","graveling":"1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).\n\nA salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.","quarl":"A medusa, or jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.","hereby":"1. By means of this. And hereby we do know that we know him. 1 John ii. 3. 2. Close by; very near. [Obs.] Shak.","forthright":"Straight forward; in a straight direction. [Archaic] Sir P. Sidney.\n\nDirect; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.\n\nA straight path. [Archaic] Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! Shak.","lethargical":"Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. -- Le*thar\"gic*al*ly, v. -- Le*thar\"gic*al*ness, n. -- Le*thar\"gic*ness, n.","squeakingly":"In a squeaking manner.","limpsy":"Limp; flexible; flimsy. [Local, U. S.]","erminois":"See Note under Ermine, n., 4.","osmium":"A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.","tiercelet":"The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.","eclogite":"A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.","missish":"Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss\"ish*ness, n.","deline":"1. To delineate. [Obs.] 2. To mark out. [Obs.] R. North.","gastroraphy":"The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen. Quincy.","amid":"See Amidst.\n\nIn the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. \"This fair tree amidst the garden.\" \"Unseen amid the throng.\" \"Amidst thick clouds.\" Milton. \"Amidst acclamations.\" \"Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court.\" Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak. Syn. -- Amidst, Among. These words differ to some extent from each other, as will be seen from their etymology. Amidst denotes in the midst or middle of, and hence surrounded by; as, this work was written amidst many interruptions. Among denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects; as, \"He fell among thieves.\" \"Blessed art thou among women.\" Hence, we say, among the moderns, among the ancients, among the thickest of trees, among these considerations, among the reasons I have to offer. Amid and amidst are commonly used when the idea of separate or distinguishable objects is not prominent. Hence, we say, they kept on amidst the storm, amidst the gloom, he was sinking amidst the waves, he persevered amidst many difficulties; in none of which cases could among be used. In like manner, Milton speaks of Abdiel, -- The seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he, because he was then considered as one of the angels. But when the poet adds, -- From amidst them forth he passed, we have rather the idea of the angels as a collective body. Those squalid cabins and uncleared woods amidst which he was born. Macaulay.","cannel coal":"A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.","tinstone":"Cassiterite.","ligsam":"Same as Ligan. Brande & C.","serry":"To crowd; to press together. Note: [Now perhaps only in the form serried, p. p. or a.]","gonimous":"Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.","obsecration":"1. The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with \"By.\" Bp. Stillingfeet. Shipley. 2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.","corregidor":"The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.","subahship":"The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.","limicolae":"A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.","shillalah":"An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. [Irish] [Written also shillaly, and shillely.]","long-stop":"One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.","enthelmintha":"Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.","encouraging":"Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour\"a*ging*ly, adv.","stercoration":"Manuring with dung. [Obs.] Bacon.","fo":"The Chinese name of Buddha.","spectrophotometry":"The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of two spectra, wave length by wave length; the use of the spectrophotometer. --Spec`tro*pho`to*met\"ric (#), a.","merrymake":"Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. [Written also merrimake.]\n\nTo make merry; to be jolly; to feast. [Written also merrimake.]","petroleum":"Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc. Petroleum spirit, a volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude petroleum at a temperature of 170° Fahr., or below. The term is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The terms petroleum ether, and naphtha, are sometimes applied to the still more volatile products, including rhigolene, gasoline, cymogene, etc.","timeserving":"Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.\n\nAn obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity. Syn. -- Temporizing. -- Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible. Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. South. [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. Shak.","accustomarily":"Customarily. [Obs.]","sexdigitism":"The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.","metazoic":"Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.","howp":"To cry out; to whoop. [Obs.] Chaucer.","plasmatic":"1. Forming; shaping; molding. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. 2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to plasma; having the character of plasma; containing, or conveying, plasma.","chlorometer":"An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.","hernani":"A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.","marginella":"A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.","iamb":"An iambus or iambic. [R.]","elengeness":"Loneliness; misery. [Obs.]","phase angle":"The angle expressing phase relation.","entremets":"1. (Cookery) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner. 2. Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]","secret":"1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. xxix. 29. 2. Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded. There, secret in her sapphire cell, He with the Naïs wont to dwell. Fenton. 3. Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive. [R.] Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. 4. Separate; distinct. [Obs.] They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter. Cudworth. Syn. -- Hidden; concealed; secluded; retired; unseen; unknown; private; obscure; recondite; latent; covert; clandestine; privy. See Hidden.\n\n1. Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler. 2. A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery. All secrets of the deep, all nature's works. Milton 3. pl. The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs. In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately. Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Prov. ix. 17.\n\nTo keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon.","embrawn":"To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.","distraction":"1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. \"Domestic distractions.\" G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.] His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species. Shak. 4. State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1 Cor. vii. 3 5. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. Never was known a night of such distraction. Dryden. 6. Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler. 7. Derangement of the mind; madness. Atterbury. Syn. -- Perplexity; confusion; disturbance; disorder; dissension; tumult; derangement; madness; raving; franticness; furiousness.","glabrous":"Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.","consenter":"One who consents.","probeagle":"See Porbeagle.","suprapubic":"Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.","chromoblast":"An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.","sill":"The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like. Hence: (a) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold. (b) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame. (c) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine. (d) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against. Sill course (Arch.), a horizontal course of stone, terra cotta, or the like, built into a wall at the level of one or more window sills, these sills often forming part of it.\n\nThe shaft or thill of a carriage. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nA young herring. [Eng.]","enantiomorphous":"Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.","presidiary":"Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell.\n\nA guard. [Obs.] \"Heavenly presidiaries.\" Bp. Hall.","terbium":"A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.","imprejudicate":"Not prejuged; unprejudiced; impartial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","insensate":"Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen\"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen\"sate*ness, n.","glombe":"To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.","floccus":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds. 2. (Bot.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.","tubfish":"The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard. [Prov. Eng.]","unbereaven":"Unbereft. [R.]","nitrose":"See Nitrous.","coadjutive":"Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.","drave":", old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]","ladyclock":"See Ladyrird.","detrite":"Worn out.","iotacism":"The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.","velveting":"The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.","brettice":"The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.","sardonic":"Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. Sir H. Wotton. The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. Burke. Sardonic grin or laugh, an old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.\n\nOf, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.","beautiless":"Destitute of beauty. Hammond.","sincerity":"The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.","anthophore":"The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.","authorization":"The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.","pawnbroking":"The business of a pawnbroker.","charmful":"Abounding with charms. \"His charmful lyre.\" Cowley.","nonstriated":"Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.","poh":"An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !","air line":"A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.","nibbed":"Having a nib or point.","enoint":"Anointed. [Obs.] Chaucer.","pyramidic":"Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. \" A pyramidical rock.\" Goldsmith. \"Gold in pyramidic plenty piled.\" Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid\"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild\"ic*al*ness, n.","embay":"To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.","undraw":"To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.","dove":"1. (Zoöl.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous. Note: The domestic dove, including the varieties called fantails, tumblers, carrier pigeons, etc., was derived from the rock pigeon (Columba livia) of Europe and Asia; the turtledove of Europe, celebrated for its sweet, plaintive note, is C. turtur or Turtur vulgaris; the ringdove, the largest of European species, is C. palumbus; the Carolina dove, or Mourning dove, is Zenaidura macroura; the sea dove is the little auk (Mergulus alle or Alle alle). See Turtledove, Ground dove, and Rock pigeon. The dove is a symbol of innocence, gentleness, and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the typical symbol of the Holy Ghost. 2. A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. O my dove, . . . let me hear thy voice. Cant. ii. 14. Dove tick (Zoöl.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]","metagnathous":"Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.","moderatress":"A female moderator. Fuller.","rowdydow":"Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar]","sphygmometer":"An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.","marshy":"1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.","heliocentrical":"pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical. Heliocentric parallax. See under Parallax. -- Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.","skirmish":"To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.\n\n1. A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops. 2. A slight contest. They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit. Shak.","tournery":"Work turned on a lathe; turnery.[Obs.] See Turnery. Evelyn.","trinominal":"Trinomial.","haematoid":"Same as Hematoid.","calvish":"Like a calf; stupid. Sheldon.","minikin":"1. A little darling; a favorite; a minion. [Obs.] Florio. 2. A little pin. [Obs.]\n\nSmall; diminutive. Shak.","pincpinc":"An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).","half-bred":"1. Half-blooded. [Obs.] 2. Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.","irritably":"In an irritable manner.","discommunity":"A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.","suaviloquent":"Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech. [R.]","mizzle":"1. To rain in very fine drops. Spenser. 2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.\n\nMist; fine rain.","mosasauria":"An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.","tentmaker":"One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts xviii. 3.","octroi":"1. A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession. 2. A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls. [Written also octroy.]","bioblast":"Same as Bioplast.","slowback":"A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang] Dr. Favour.","foulness":"The quality or condition of being foul.","hedonic":"1. Pertaining to pleasure. 2. Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.","primeness":"1. The quality or state of being first. 2. The quality or state of being prime, or excellent.","unspell":"To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant. [R.] Such practices as these, . . . The more judicious Israelites unspelled. Dryden.","scandalously":"1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift. 2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.","planing":"a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. Planing machine. (a) See Planer. (b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.","syndicalist":"One who advocates or practices syndicalism. --Syn`dic*al*is\"tic (#), a.","russophobe":"One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]","disertitude":"Eloquence. [Obs.]","mammifer":"A mammal. See Mammalia.","glyptic":"1. Of or pertaining to gem engraving. 2. (Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.","gastrurous":"Pertaining to the Gastrura.","psychomancy":"Necromancy.","heterocarpism":"The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.","brotel":"Brittle. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dissatisfaction":"The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison. Syn. -- Discontent; discontentment; displeasure; disapprobation; distaste; dislike.","moll":"Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.","startful":"Apt to start; skittish. [R.]","hornbook":"1. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. \"He teaches boys the hornbook.\" Shak. 2. A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.","dowlas":"A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. Shak.","cautionary block":"A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.","shepherdism":"Pastoral life or occupation.","archducal":"Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.","attributively":"In an attributive manner.","moccasin":"1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. 2. (Zoöl.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles. Moccasin flower (Bot.), a species of lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule) found in North America. The lower petal is two inches long, and forms a rose-colored moccasin-shaped pouch. It grows in rich woods under coniferous trees.","sluttery":"The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.","usnic":"Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).","suck":"1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air. 2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. 3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. 4. To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson. 5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden. To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.\n\n1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. Where the bee sucks, there suck I. Shak. 2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. 3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less. Bacon.\n\n1. The act of drawing with the mouth. 2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. Shak. 3. A small draught. [Colloq.] Massinger. 4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]","drest":"of Dress.","pantometer":"An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.","exactress":"A woman who is an exactor. [R.] B. Jonson.","morbosity":"A diseased state; unhealthiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","nephelodometer":"An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.","gonoph":"A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.","diswont":"To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.","combing":"1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded. 2. pl. (a) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. (b) Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor. (c) (Naut.) See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.","viticulturist":"One engaged in viticulture.","youth":"1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. \"In my flower of youth.\" Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton. 2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler. 3. A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. Dryden. 4. Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. B. Jonson.","noninhabitant":"One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.","pirry":"A rough gale of wind. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","ambi-":"A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.","coloration":"The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.","fault":"1. Defect; want; lack; default. One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak. 2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak. 3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. 4. (Geol. & Mining) (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. Raymond. 5. (Hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. 6. (Tennis) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. At fault, unable to find the scent and continue chase; hance, in trouble ot embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thhrown off the track. -- To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. \"Matter to find fault at.\" Robynson (More's Utopia). Syn. -- -- Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness; blunder; failing; vice. -- Fault, Failing, Defect, Foible. A fault is positive, something morally wrong; a failing is negative, some weakness or failling short in a man's character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also negative, and as applied to character is the absence of anyything which is necessary to its completeness or perfection; a foible is a less important weakness, which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or explained away into mere defects, and the defects or foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. \"I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless.\" Fox. \"Presumption and self-applause are the foibles of mankind.\" Waterland.\n\n1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. [Obs.] For that I will not fault thee. Old Song. 2. (Geol.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p.p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.\n\nTo err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.","allegge":"See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]","antisepalous":"Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.","carving":"1. The act or art of one who carves. 2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. \"Carving in wood.\" Sir W. Temple. 3. The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.","gunnel":"1. A gunwale. 2. (Zoöl.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Murænoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.","leucomaine":"An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.","sinewous":"Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.","ichthyopsida":"A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.","cachaemia":"A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.\n\nA degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ\"mic, Ca*che\"mic (#), a.","denudate":"To denude. [Obs. or R.]","sententiary":"One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine. R. Henry.","gearing":"1. Harness. 2. (Mach.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.","perusal":"1. The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler. 2. The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. Woodward.","self-condemnation":"Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.","vaunce":"To advance. [Obs.] Spenser.","pursiveness":"Pursiness. [Obs. & R.]","squacco":"A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.","oxyphony":"Acuteness or shrillness of voice.","trigastric":"Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle. Dunglison.","zantiot":"A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.","terutero":"The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.","gyri":"See Gyrus.","inker":"One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.","vility":"Vileness; baseness. [Obs.] Kennet.","burnettize":"To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.","araroba":"1. Goa powder. 2. A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.","foregift":"A premium paid by","dissembling":"That dissembles; hypocritical; false. -- Dis*sem\"bling*ly, adv.","ignivomous":"Vomiting fire. [R.]","hexeikosane":"A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]","adder":"One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.\n\n1. A serpent. [Obs.] \"The eddre seide to the woman.\" Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. ) 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho. (b) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc. (c) Same as Sea Adder. Note: In the sculptures the appellation is given to several venomous serpents, -- sometimes to the horned viper (Cerastles).","coefficacy":"Joint efficacy.","pavian":", n. See Pavan.","reata":"A lariat.","intersert":"To put in between other things; to insert. [Obs.] Brerewood.","senatorious":"Senatorial. [Obs.]","laughter":"A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. Longfellow.","bifoliate":"Having two leaves; two-leaved.","falser":"A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.","bellibone":"A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.","sexualist":"One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.","quick-sighted":"Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern. Locke. --Quick\"-sight`ed*ness, n.","prevention":"1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.] The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [Obs.] Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. South. Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. Shak. 4. Prejudice; prepossession. [A Gallicism] Dryden.","sudorific":"Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n. A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.","peninsular":"Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.","foreground":"On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.","applicability":"The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.","imporosity":"The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness. \"The . . . imporosity betwixt the tangible parts.\" Bacon.","nebulated":"Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.","kriegsspiel":"A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow.","thready":"1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.","quadricornous":"Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.","tilde":"The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.","propugner":"A defender; a vindicator. \"Zealous propugners.\" Gov. of Tongue.","laidly":"Ugly; loathsome. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] This laidly and loathsome worm. W. Howitt.","betulin":"A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.","devoutful":"1. Full of devotion. [R.] 2. Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.","messidor":"The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.","portesse":"See Porteass. [Obs.] Tyndale.","oxytone":"Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.\n\n1. An acute sound. 2. (Gr. Gram.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.","encyclopedical":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.","roquelaure":"A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]","knighthead":"A bollard timber. See under Bollard.","knee-high":"Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee- high.","biography":"1. The written history of a person's life. 2. Biographical writings in general.","retention":"1. The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined. 2. The power of retaining; retentiveness. No woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention. Shak. 3. That which contains something, as a tablet; a [R.] Shak. 4. The act of withholding; retraint; reserve. Shak. 5. Place of custody or confinement. 6. (Law) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.","tubulous":"1. Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower. 2. Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower. Tubulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.","adopted":"Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt\"ed*ly, adv.","insteep":"To steep or soak; to drench. [R.] \"In gore he lay insteeped.\" Shak.","insociate":"Not associate; without a companion; single; solitary; recluse. [Obs.] \"The insociate virgin life.\" B. Jonson.","philanthropinism":"A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.","architeuthis":"A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.","surculation":"Act of purning. [Obs.]","light-heeled":"Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.","irreverently":"In an irreverent manner.","souke":"To suck. [Obs.] Chaucer.","corage":"See Courage [Obs.] To Canterbury with full devout corage. Chaucer.","niobite":"Same as Columbite.","sheaf":"A sheave. [R.]\n\n1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. Dryden. 2. Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.\n\nTo gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.\n\nTo collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak.","extensor":"A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.","ruffianly":"Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.","noght":"Not. [Obs.] Chaucer.","candicant":"Growing white. [Obs.]","hemihedral":"Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron. -- Hem`i*he\"dral*ly, adv.","confectionery":"1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. 2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.","ophiological":"Of or pertaining to ophiology.","thermotype":"A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression.","rumpless":"Destitute of a rump.","soutage":"That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops. [Obs.] Halliwell.","unconsiderate":"Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. [Obs.] Daniel. -- Un`con*sid\"er*ate*ness, n. [Obs.] Hales.","zaimet":"A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue. Smart.","ant-cattle":"Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.","hemispheroid":"A half of a spheroid.","tobie":"A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]","grolier":"The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc. Grolier binding, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto. --Grolier design or school, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings.","washstand":"A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.","limaceous":"Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.","bashaw":"1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha. 2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee. 3. (Zoöl.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.","nevertheless":"Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still. See However.","fulcible":"Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.","socager":"A tennant by socage; a socman.","imbay":"See Embay.","effulge":"To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam. [R.] His eyes effulging a peculiar fire. Thomson.\n\nTo shine forth; to beam.","imbue":"1. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black. 2. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.","diathermic":"Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.","scelestic":"Evil; wicked; atrocious. [Obs.] \"Scelestic villainies.\" Feltham.","haematin":"Same as Hematin.","notist":"An annotator. [Obs.]","siva":"One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.","bill book":"A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.","choriambus":"A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.","flotation process":"A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.","garlicky":"Like or containing garlic.","hemaphaein":"Same as Hæmaphæin.","logaoedic":"Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.","explicator":"One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.","intoxicatedness":"The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]","oscitancy":"1. The act of gaping or yawning. 2. Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. Hallam. It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers. Addison.","sawarra nut":"See Souari nut.","banian":"1. A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.] 2. A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians. 3. (Bot.) The Indian fig. See Banyan. Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.","incorruptness":"1. Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption. 2. Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.","allomorphic":"Of or pertaining to allomorphism.","distinguisher":"1. One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne. 2. One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer. Dryden.","carborundum paper":"Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.","incapability":"1. The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling. 2. (Law) Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.","jackman":"1. One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n. Christie . . . the laird's chief jackman. Sir W. Scott. 2. A cream cheese. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot. JACK-O'-LANTERN Jack\"-o'-lan`tern, n. See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot 1. (a) See \"jack pot\" under jack; (b) any larger-than-usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets[=MW10 1(a)(2) and 1(c)]; (c) the highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded, especially such a prize on a slot machine. 2. (a) An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit. hit the jackpotto receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise.","hexapetalous":"Having six petals.","explanatoriness":"The quality of being explanatory.","biliteral":"Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n. A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.","pentine":"An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene.","auricularia":"A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.","irritation":"1. The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger. The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. De Quincey. 2. (Physiol.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation. 3. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.","amalgam":"1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things. 3. (Min.) A native compound of mercury and silver.\n\nTo amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson.","responsive":"1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond. 2. Suited to something else; correspondent. The vocal lay responsive to the strings. Pope. 3. Responsible. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Re*spon\"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*spon\"sive*ness, n.","chou":"1. A cabbage. 2. A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream. 3. A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.","espinel":"A kind of ruby. See Spinel.","sermoning":"The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. [Obs.] Chaucer.","trochaic":"A trochaic verse or measure. Dryden.\n\nOf or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.","ylang-ylang":"See Ihlang-ihlang.","outfeast":"To exceed in feasting.","apoplexy":"Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. Note: The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung.","buckshot":"A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.","unequivocal":"Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv\"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv\"o*cal*ness, n.","acetonemia":"A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.","cautioner":"1. One who cautions or advises. 2. (Scots Law) A surety or sponsor.","capsular":"Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.","divestiture":"The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.","bazaar":"1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale. 2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair. 3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. Macaulay.","gib boom":"See Jib boom.","overhauling":"A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.","prototracheata":"Same as Malacopoda.","suint":"A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.","peaky":"1. Having a peak or peaks. Tennyson. 2. Sickly; peaked. [Colloq.]","hogger-pipe":"The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.","vow":"1. A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty. \"Nothing . . . that may . . . stain my vow of Nazarite.\" Milton. I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow. 2 Sam. xv. 7. I am combined by a sacred vow. Shak. 2. Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow. Knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith. Dryden.\n\n1. To give, consecrate, or dedicate to God, or to some deity, by a solemn promise; to devote; to promise solemnly. \"When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.\" Eccl. v. 4. [Men] that vow a long and weary pilgrimage. Shak. 2. To assert solemnly; to asseverate.\n\nTo make a vow, or solemn promise. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Eccl. v. 5.","snow":"A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.\n\n1. Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. Note: Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed, snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow- nodding, snow-wrought, and the like. 2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. The field of snow with eagle of black therein. Chaucer. Red snow. See under Red. Snow bunting. (Zoöl.) See Snowbird, 1. -- Snow cock (Zoöl.), the snow pheasant. -- Snow flea (Zoöl.), a small black leaping poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers. -- Snow flood, a flood from melted snow. -- Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree. -- Snow fly, or Snow insect (Zoöl.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow in great numbers. -- Snow gnat (Zoöl.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter. -- Snow goose (Zoöl.), any one of several species of arctic geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen hyperborea), common in the Western United States in winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (C. coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose, and bald brant. -- Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce. -- Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16,000 feet. -- Snow mouse (Zoöl.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains. -- Snow pheasant (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus Tetraogallus, native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The Himalayn snow pheasant (T.Himalayensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor. -- Snow partridge. (Zoöl.) See under Partridge. -- Snow pigeon (Zoöl.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black. -- Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.\n\nTo fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.\n\nTo scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak.","scillitin":"A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.","hygrology":"The science which treats of the fluids of the body.","vaginated":"Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.","connote":"1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South. 2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute. The word \"white\" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute \"whiteness.\" J. S. Mill.","fireman":"1. A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company. 2. A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.","ungainliness":"The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.","doat":"See Dote.","publishable":"Capable of being published; suitable for publication.","quinazol":"A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline. [Written also chinazol.]","catchwork":"A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.","tackey":"See Tacky.","photoglyptic":"Same as Photoglyphic.","quadrilateralness":"The property of being quadrilateral.","self-knowing":"1. Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations. 2. Knowing of itself, without help from another.","overbookish":"Excessively bookish.","impartation":"The act of imparting, or the thing imparted. The necessity of this impartation. I. Taylor.","parseeism":"The religion and customs of the Parsees.","punk":"1. Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood. 2. A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric. 3. An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk. 4. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.","irrefragability":"The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.","snuffbox":"A small box for carrying snuff about the person.","topographical":"Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place. -- Top`o*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv. Topographical map. See under Cadastral. -- Topographical surveying. See under Surveying.","wouldingness":"Willingness; desire. [Obs.]","nightgown":"A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.","aldehydic":"Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.","stercorary":"A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.","augustness":"The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.","phraseless":"Indescribable. Shak.","lig":"To recline; to lie still. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. Spenser.","demolitionist":"A demolisher. [R.] Carlyle.","assigner":"One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.","layshaft":"A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion.","doyly":"See Doily.","outweed":"To weed out. [Obs.]","avoider":"1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.","daub":"1. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3. 2. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner. If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden. 3. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak. 4. To flatter excessively or glossy. [R.] I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant. Smollett. 5. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. [R.] Let him be daubed with lace. Dryden.\n\nTo smear; to play the flatterer. His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter. South.\n\n1. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear. 2. (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed. Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.","primipilar":"Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army. Barrow.","immailed":"Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne.","baggager":"One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.","dune":"A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.","stove":"imp. of Stave.\n\n1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. Earl of Strafford. How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton. 2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking. -- Dry stove. See under Dry. -- Foot stove. See under Foot. -- Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary. -- Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.\n\n1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. Bacon. 2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.","footfight":"A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.","asci":"See Ascus.","troglodytic":"Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.","mousekin":"A little mouse. Thackeray.","catacaustic":"Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.\n\nA caustic curve formed by reflection of light. Nichol.","pentaglot":"A work in five different tongues.","hymning":"Praising with hymns; singing. \"The hymning choir.\" G. West.\n\nThe singing of hymns. Milton.","partridge":"1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. Chaucer. Note: The common European, or gray, partridge (Perdix cinerea) and the red-legged partridge (Caccabis rubra) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species. 2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. [U.S.] Note: Among them are the bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California; the Massena partridge (Cyrtonyx Montezumæ); and the California partridge (Callipepla Californica). 3. The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). [New Eng.] Bamboo partridge (Zoöl.), a spurred partridge of the genus Bambusicola. Several species are found in China and the East Indies. -- Night partridge (Zoöl.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Painted partridge (Zoöl.), a francolin of South Africa (Francolinus pictus). -- Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself. -- Partridge dove (Zoöl.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain. -- Partridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Chamæcrista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. -- Sea partridge (Zoöl.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. -- Snow partridge (Zoöl.), a large spurred partridge (Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia. -- Spruce partridge. See under Spruce. -- Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zoöl.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus Arboricola.","manure":"1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne. 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. The blood of English shall manure the ground. Shak.\n\nAny matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.","pip":"A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a \"scale\" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.\n\nA seed, as of an apple or orange.\n\nOne of the conventional figures or \"spots\" on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison.\n\nTo cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.","airy":"1. Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies. 2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. \"The airy region.\" Milton. 3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation. 4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. \"An airy spirit.\" Shak. 5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music. 6. Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. \"Airy fame.\" Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon. 7. Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. \"Merry and airy.\" Jer. Taylor. 8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.] 9. (Paint.) Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. Elmes.","searcloth":"Cerecloth. Mortimer.\n\nTo cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.","monetization":"The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.","waterfall":"1. A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. 2. (Hairdressing) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall. 3. A certain kind of neck scarf. T. Hughes.","roadside":"Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.","poulard":"A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.","all fours":"All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. \"This example is on all fours with the other.\" \"No simile can go on all fours.\" Macaulay.","fumiferous":"Producing smoke.","quat":"(a) A pustule. [Obs.] (b) An annoying, worthless person. Shak.\n\nTo satiate; to satisfy. [Prov. Eng.]","aphthous":"Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthæ; characterized by aphtæ; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.","plentevous":"Plenteous. [Obs.] Chaucer.","inadvertent":"Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert\"ent*ly, adv.","nummulite":"A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.","subduple":"Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two. Subduple ratio, the ratio of 1 to 2: thus, 3:6 is a subduple ratio, as 6:3 is a duple ratio.","metallorganic":"Metalorganic.","showy":", a. Etym: [Compar. Showier (; superl. Showiest.] Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. A present of everything that was rich and showy. Addison. Syn. -- Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent; grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.","turnkey":"1. A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder. 2. (Dentistry) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.","overruling":"Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul\"ing*ly, adv.","postulated":"Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference. Sir T. Browne.","metaphysics":"1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles. Note: Metaphysics is distinguished as general and special. General metaphysics is the science of all being as being. Special metaphysics is the science of one kind of being; as, the metaphysics of chemistry, of morals, or of politics. According to Kant, a systematic exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge of which is altogether independent of experience, would constitute the science of metaphysics. Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as \"books written or placed after his natural philosophy.\" But the schools take them for \"books of supernatural philosophy;\" for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses. Hobbes. Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper. Sir W. Hamilton. Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori. Coleridge. 2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. Mrs. Browning.","caret":"A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.\n\nThe hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.","resort":"Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.\n\n1. To go; to repair; to betake one's self. What men name resort to him Shak. 2. To fall back; to revert. [Obs.] The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. Sir M. Hale. 3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon.\n\n1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak. 2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. Far from all resort of mirth. Milton. 3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge. Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.","bodied":"Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.","predigestion":"1. Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Med.) Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.","sirenia":"An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front part of the jaws, and usually flat-crowned molar teeth. The stomach is complex and the intestine long, as in other herbivorous mammals. See Cetacea (b).","wolffian":"Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, the mesonephros. -- Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.","precautionary":"Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.","sextic":"Of the sixth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the sixth degree.","therewithal":"1. Over and above; besides; moreover. [Obs.] Daniel. And therewithal it was full poor and bad. Chaucer. 2. With that or this; therewith; at the same time. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. And therewithal one came and seized on her, And Enid started waking. Tennyson.","auctary":"That which is superadded; augmentation. [Obs.] Baxter.","shiah":"Same as Shiite.\n\nA member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.","alexipharmical":"Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.","preterient":"Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states. [R.]","placental":"1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Placentalia.\n\nOne of the Placentalia.","frugalness":", n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.","indention":"Same as Indentation, 4.","chess-apple":"The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).","primrose":"(a) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles. (b) Any plant of the genus Primula. Evening primrose, an erect biennial herb (Enothera biennis), with yellow vespertine flowers, common in the United States. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. -- Primrose peerless, the two-flowered Narcissus (N. biflorus). [Obs.]\n\nOf or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; - - hence, flowery; gay. \"The primrose path of dalliance.\" Shak.","hobgoblin":"A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.","lactarene":"A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.","burinist":"One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.","banging":"Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.","urinate":"To discharge urine; to make water.","blowess":"A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.","disvantageous":"Disadvantageous. [Obs.] \"Disadvantageous ground.\" Drayton.","labium":"1. A lip, or liplike organ. 2. The lip of an organ pipe. 3. pl. (Anat.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva. 4. (Zoöl.) (a) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillæ, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum). (b) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.","forktail":"(a) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. (b) A salmon in its fourth year's growth. [Prov. Eng.]","cancrine":"Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.","detumescence":"Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [R.] Cudworth.","displenish":"To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]","furmity":"Same as Frumenty.","gunpowder":"A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. Note: Gunpowder consists of from 70 to 80 per cent of niter, with 10 to 15 per cent of each of the other ingredients. Its explosive energy is due to the fact that it contains the necessary amount of oxygen for its own combustion, and liberates gases (chiefly nitrogen and carbon dioxide), which occupy a thousand or fifteen hundred times more space than the powder which generated them. Gunpowder pile driver, a pile driver, the hammer of which is thrown up by the explosion of gunpowder. -- Gunpowder plot (Eng. Hist.), a plot to destroy the King, Lords, and Commons, in revenge for the penal laws against Catholics. As Guy Fawkes, the agent of the conspirators, was about to fire the mine, which was placed under the House of Lords, he was seized, Nov. 5, 1605. Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.","stelleridean":"A starfish, or brittle star.","presurmise":"A surmise previously formed. Shak.","manly":"Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble. Let's briefly put on manly readiness. Shak. Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life. Dryden. Syn. -- Bold; daring; brave; courageous; firm; undaunted; hardy; dignified; stately.\n\nIn a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.","metanephritic":"Of or pertaining to the metanephros.","contravention":"The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation. Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley.","printing":"The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints. Block printing. See under Block. -- Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light. -- Printing house, a printing office. -- Printing ink, ink used in printing books, newspapers, etc. It is composed of lampblack or ivory black mingled with linseed or nut oil, made thick by boiling and burning. Other ingredients are employed for the finer qualities. Ure. -- Printing office, a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed. -- Printing paper, paper used in the printing of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and the like, as distinguished from writing paper, wrapping paper, etc. -- Printing press, a press for printing, books, newspaper, handbills, etc. -- Printing wheel, a wheel with letters or figures on its periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.","nodulose":"Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.","kingston":"The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.","wages":"A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. Encyc. Brit. Syn. -- See under Wage, n.","anaglyptograph":"An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C.","conglobation":"1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. 2. A round body.","festi-val":"A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton. Syn. -- Feast; banquet; carousal. See Feast.","gerund":"1. A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle. 2. (AS. Gram.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, \"Ic hæbbe mete tô etanne\" (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone.","ashery":"1. A depository for ashes. 2. A place where potash is made.","glorioser":"A boaster. [Obs.] Greene.","proselytize":"To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte. One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize. Burke.\n\nTo make converts or proselytes.","maugre":"In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.\n\nTo defy. [Obs.] J. Webster.","pontifex":"A high priest; a pontiff.","skillful":"1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] \"Of skillful judgment.\" Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. Amos v. 16. Syn. -- Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- Skill\"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill\"ful*ness, n.","cirrhose":"Same as Cirrose.","necklaced":"Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. The hooded and the necklaced snake. Sir W. Jones.","wreck-master":"A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.","-ess":"A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.","townsman":"1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.","aurochloride":"The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.","kinswoman":"A female relative. Shak.","mellowness":"Quality or state of being mellow.","corniculum":"A small hornlike part or process.","postgeniture":"The condition of being born after another in the same family; - - distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","edulious":"Edible. [Obs.] \"Edulious pulses.\" Sir T. Browne.","litarge":"Litharge. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hatable":"Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.","lobworm":"The lugworm.","oftentimes":"Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.","imply":"1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] \"His head in curls implied.\" Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone. 3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.] Whence might this distaste arise If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. J. Webster. Syn. -- To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve.","pauperization":"The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.","pentastyle":"Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n. A portico having five columns.","surcease":"Cessation; stop; end. \"Not desire, but its surcease.\" Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.\n\nTo cause to cease; to end. [Obs.] \"The waves . . . their range surceast.\" Spenser. The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden.\n\nTo cease. [Obs.]","proslavery":"Favoring slavery. -- n. Advocacy of slavery.","discapacitate":"To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]","incan":"Of or pertaining to the Incas.","thamnophile":"A bush shrike.","subdue":"1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush. Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. Shak. If aught . . . were worthy to subdue The soul of man. Milton. 3. To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever. 4. To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions. 5. To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties. 6. To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears. 7. To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds. 8. To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors. Syn. -- To conquer; overpower; overcome; surmount; vanquish. See Conquer.","half-timbered":"Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.","anights":"In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.","anantherous":"Destitute of anthers. Gray.","unparalleled":"Having no parallel, or equal; unequaled; unmatched. The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.","onanism":"Self-pollution; masturbation.","satirize":"To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.","biotite":"Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.","foody":"Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.","eudaemonistic":"Of or pertaining to eudemonism.","tittuppy":"Given to tittuping; gay; lively; prancing; also, shaky; unsteady.","isoprene":"An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons","envier":"One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.","soaker":"1. One who, or that which, soaks. 2. A hard drinker. [Slang] South.","zamang":"An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).","zooenule":"Same as Zoönite.","ingeny":"Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] [Written also ingenie.] Becon.","delineatory":"That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.","lacrosse":"A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a \"crosse\". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.","nooelogist":"One versed in noölogy.","orchidaceous":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceæ) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Note: Over three hundred genera are recognized.","manichee":"A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. The Manichæans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development. Tylor.","suitress":"A female supplicant. Rowe.","banquette":"1. (Fort.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. 2. (Arch.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.","childlessness":"The state of being childless.","caleche":"See Calash.","distinguishably":"So as to be distinguished.","outsit":"To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.","ratter":"1. One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party. 2. Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.","higgle":"1. To hawk or peddle provisions. 2. To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.","ineffaceable":"Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.","jeropigia":"See Geropigia.","porism":"1. (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair. 2. (Gr. Geom.) A corollary. Brande & C. Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.","boot":"1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. He gaf the sike man his boote. Chaucer. Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound. Sir W. Scott. Next her Son, our soul's best boot. Wordsworth. 2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged. I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one. Shak. 3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.] Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. Shak. To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot. Jer. Taylor.\n\n1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey. 2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.] And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg. Shak.\n\n1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather. 2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland. So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. Bp. Burnet. 3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.] 4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach. 5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud. 6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.\n\n1. To put boots on, esp. for riding. Coated and booted for it. B. Jonson. 2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]\n\nTo boot one's self; to put on one's boots.\n\nBooty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] Shak.","eerie":"1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson. 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.","ghibelline":"One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.","marbler":"1. One who works upon marble or other stone. [R.] Fuller. 2. One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.","pansclavic":"See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc.","brad awl":"A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale.","schweitzerkase":"Gruyère cheese.","honorably":"1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden. 2. Decently; becomingly. [Obs.] \"Do this message honorably.\" Shak. Syn. -- Magnanimously; generously; nobly; worthily; justly; equitably; fairly; reputably.","frue vanner":"A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.","nonsubmissive":"Not submissive.","acrase":"1. To craze. [Obs.] Grafton. 2. To impair; to destroy. [Obs.] Hacket.","equisetaceous":"Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.","necromantical":"Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man\"tic*al*ly, adv.","effective":"Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them. Bacon. Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Efficient; forcible; active; powerful; energetic; competent. See Effectual.\n\n1. That which produces a given effect; a cause. Jer. Taylor. 2. One who is capable of active service. He assembled his army -- 20,000 effectives -- at Corinth. W. P. Johnston. 3. Etym: [F. effectif real, effective, real amount.] (Com.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe. Simmonds.","such":"1. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. Macaulay. Note: The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held. 2. Having the particular quality or character specified. That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself. Milton. 3. The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. \"[It] hath such senses as we have.\" Shak. 4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. Daniel. To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. James iv. 13. Note: Such is used pronominally. \"He was the father of such as dwell in tents.\" Gen. iv. 20. \"Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained.\" Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. \"Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed.\" De Foe. Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. Macaulay. Such is used emphatically, without the correlative. Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. Shak. Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many. Such and such, or Such or such, certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. \"In such and such a place shall be my camp.\" 2 Kings vi. 8. \"Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action.\" South. -- Such like or character, of the like kind. And many other such like things ye do. Mark vii. 8.","dungfork":"A fork for tossing dung.","evilness":"The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.","uncompromising":"Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible. -- Un*com\"pro*mi`sing*ly, adv.","lunt":"1. The match cord formerly used in firing cannon. 2. A puff of smoke. [Scotch.] Burns.","rochelle":"A seaport town in France. Rochelle powders. Same as Seidlitz powders. -- Rochelle salt (Chem.), the double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.","petronel":"A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.","oophyte":"Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion. Note: This class was at first called Oösporeæ, and is made to include all algæ and fungi which have this kind of reproduction, however they may differ in all other respects, the contrasted classes of Thallophytes being Protophytes, Zygophytes, and Carpophytes. The whole system has its earnest advocates, but is rejected by many botanists. See Carpophyte.","familiarity":"1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties. Syn. -- Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance.","datary":"1. (R. C. Ch.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria. 2. The office or employment of a datary.","petardeer":"One who managed a petard.","proximad":"Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.","serge":"A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.\n\nA large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.","pokey":"See Poky.","grossbeak":"See Grosbeak.","hypnum":"The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.","tiglic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.","watchmaker":"One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.","caprigenous":"Of the goat kind.","courteously":"In a courteous manner.","hoarder":"One who hoards.","unitable":"Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.","voyageur":"A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.","penner":"1. One who pens; a writer. Sir T. North. 2. A case for holding pens. [Obs.]","puncto":"1. A nice point of form or ceremony. Bacon. 2. A term applied to the point in fencing. Farrow.","algates":"1. Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser. Note: Still used in the north of England in the sense of \"everywhere.\" 2. By any or means; at all events. [Obs.] Fairfax. 3. Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.","dispraiser":"One who blames or dispraises.","exalt":"1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Is. xiv. 13. Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes Pope. 2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11. 3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. \"Exalt ye the Lord.\" Ps. xcix. 5. In his own grace he doth exalt himself. Shak. 4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. Dryden. 5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior. 6. (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope.","gasteropoda":"Same as Gastropoda.","pedagogism":"The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues. Milton. Avocation of pedantry and pedagogism. De Foe.","belled":"Hung with a bell or bells.","plastography":"1. The art of forming figures in any plastic material. 2. Imitation of handwriting; forgery.","yellowwort":"A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.","marai":"A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.","wassailer":"One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.","haemocytolysis":"See Hæmocytotrypsis.","inexpert":"1. Destitute of experience or of much experience. [Obs.] Milton. 2. Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.","animator":"One who, or that which, animates; an animater. Sir T. Browne.","renewable":"Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.","peristerion":"The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).","unreprievable":"Not capable of being reprieved. Shak.","sphaerenchyma":"Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.","thaught":"See Thwart.","marble-edged":"Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.","rediscover":"To discover again.","egg squash":"A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.","flinty":"Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.","polypterus":"An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.","bother":"To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. Note: The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.\n\nTo feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. Without bothering about it. H. James.\n\nOne who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.","plied":"imp. & p. p. of Ply.","teuk":"The redshank. [Prov. Eng.]","tyrant":"1. An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty. Note: Free governments [in Greece] having superseded the old hereditary sovereignties (basilei^ai), all who obtained absolute power in a state were called ty\\rannoi, tyrants, or rather despots; - - for the term rather regards the irregular way in which the power was gained, whether force or fraud, than the way in which it was exercised, being applied to the mild Pisistratus, but not to the despotic kings of Persia. However, the word soon came to imply reproach, and was then used like our tyrant. Liddell & Scott. 2. Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor. \"This false tyrant, this Nero.\" Chaucer. Love, to a yielding heart, is a king, but to a resisting, is a tyrant. Sir P. Sidney. 3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidæ; -- called also tyrant bird. Note: These birds are noted for their irritability and pugnacity, and for the courage with which they attack rapacious birds far exceeding them in size and strength. They are mostly plain-colored birds, but often have a bright-colored crown patch. A few species, as the scissorstail, are handsomely colored. The kingbird and pewee are familiar examples. Tyrant flycatcher (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of tyrants which have a flattened bill, toothed at the tip, and resemble the true flycatchers in habits. The Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax Acadicus) and the vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubineus) are examples. -- Tyrant shrike (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of American tyrants of the genus Tyrannus having a strong toothed bill and resembling the strikes in habits. The kingbird is an example.\n\nTo act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical. [Obs.] Fuller.","tinean":"Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidæ, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.","inexpressibles":"Breeches; trousers. [Colloq. or Slang] Ld. Lytton.","tiger-footed":"Hastening to devour; furious.","borachte":"A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.] You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.","cinnabarine":"Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.","tenable":"Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.","cadrans":"An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.","deonerate":"To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.","gypsography":"The act or art of engraving on gypsum.","didym":"See Didymium.","tablebook":"A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.","bead":"1. A prayer. [Obs.] 2. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. 3. Any small globular body; as, (a) A bubble in spirits. (b) A drop of sweat or other liquid. \"Cold beads of midnight dew.\" Wordsworth. (c) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). (d) (Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. (e) (Chem.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. Bead and butt (Carp.), framing in which the panels are flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges. Knight. -- Beat mold, a species of fungus or mold, the stems of which consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to resemble a string of beads. [Written also bead mould.] -- Bead tool, a cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to make beads or beading. -- Bead tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Melia, the best known species of which (M. azedarach), has blue flowers which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.\n\nTo ornament with beads or beading.\n\nTo form beadlike bubbles.","malefic":"Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful. [R.] Chaucer.","autoptic":"Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.","matrimonious":"Matrimonial. [R.] Milton.","prelook":"To look forward. [Obs.] Surrey.","symbranchii":"An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.","synanthesis":"The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom. Gray.","wagel":"See Waggel.","siphonophoran":"Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n. One of the Siphonophora.","prescient":"Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. Bacon.","topstone":"A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.","miniard":"Migniard. [Obs.]","dawish":"Like a daw.","gooroo":"A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.","pay":"To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.\n\n1. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman. [She] pays me with disdain. Dryden. 2. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson. 3. To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). \"Pay me that thou owest.\" Matt. xviii. 28. Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 26. If they pay this tax, they starve. Tennyson. 4. To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised. This day have I paid my vows. Prov. vii. 14. 5. To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit. Not paying me a welcome. Shak. To pay off. (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind. -- To pay one's duty, to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior. -- To pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable. -- To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.]\n\nTo give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt. The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. Ps. xxxvii. 21. 2. Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays. To pay for. (a) To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life. (b) To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to be mulcted on account of. 'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings. Beau. & Fl. -- To pay off. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail. -- To pay on. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] To beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloq.] -- To pay round Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) To turn the ship's head.\n\n1. Satisfaction; content. Chaucer. 2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier. Where only merit constant pay receives. Pope. There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. L'Estrange. Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions. -- Half pay. See under Half. -- Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.","propodium":"(a) The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk. (b) The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect. [Written also propodeum.]","screwer":"One who, or that which, screws.","oscitation":"The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.","scherif":"See Sherif.","unlace":"1. To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe. 2. To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace. What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus Shak. 3. (Naut.) To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel. Totten.","durability":"The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.","nematogene":"One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to Ant: rhombogene.","mazame":"A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.","gruesome":", Grue\"some, a. Etym: [From a word akin to Dan. gru horror, terror + -some; cf. D. gruwzaam, G. grausam. Cf. Grisly.] Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.\n\nSame as Grewsome. [Scot.]","firmitude":"Strength; stability. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","compressure":"Compression.","invariability":"The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.","custrel":"An armor-bearer to a knight. [Obs.]\n\nSee Costrel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.","jeel":"A morass; a shallow lake. [Written also jhil.] [India] Whitworth.","propensity":"The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. \"A propensity to utter blasphemy.\" Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.","peribolos":"In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.","ann":"A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.","buzzingly":"In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.","delapsation":"See Delapsion. Ray.","pedimanous":"Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.","partially":"1. In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. Sir T. Browne. 2. In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially. Shak.","above-named":"Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.","adenous":"Same as Adenose.","zamite":"A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.","discinct":"Ungirded; loosely dressed. [R.] Sir W. Scott.","reformed":"1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay. 2. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard. 3. (Mil.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. [Eng.]","polygenism":"The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.","indecision":"Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence. Burke.","has":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.","scioptic":"Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.","sea wing":"A wing shell (Avicula).","sepose":"To set apart. [Obs.] Donne.","demurely":"In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.","decametre":"A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.","singeress":"A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.","tall":"1. High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton. 2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.] As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification. Massinger. His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. Grafton. 3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] B. Jonson. Syn. -- High; lofty. -- Tall, High, Lofty. High is the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.","metaphysis":"Change of form; transformation.","gaussage":"The intensity of a magnetic field expressed in C.G.S. units, or gausses.","surmising":"from Surmise, v.","wooded":"Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered. The brook escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell. Sir W. Scott.","epidemiological":"Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.","dogmatics":"The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.","pressive":"Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. [R.] Bp. Hall.","risker":"One who risks or hazards. Hudibras.","bonibell":"See Bonnibel. [Obs.] Spenser.","-escent":"A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.","objectless":"Having no object; purposeless.","malacozoa":"An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.","snail":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land sanil. (b) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail. 2. Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing. 3. (Mech.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. 4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo. [Obs.] They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. Vegetius (Trans.). 5. (Bot.) The pod of the sanil clover. Ear snail, Edible snail, Pond snail, etc. See under Ear, Edible, etc. -- Snail borer (Zoöl.), a boring univalve mollusk; a drill. -- Snail clover (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Medicago scuttellata, also, M. Helix); -- so named from its pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called also snail trefoil, snail medic, and beehive. -- Snail flower (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Phaseolus Caracalla) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled like a snail shell. -- Snail shell (Zoöl.), the shell of snail. -- Snail trefoil. (Bot.) See Snail clover, above.","underneath":"Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.\n\nUnder; beneath; below. Underneath this stone lie As much beauty as could die. B. Jonson.","anaplasty":"The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.","annularity":"Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.","expiator":"One who makes expiation or atonement.","colicroot":"A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.","clifted":"Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.","capsize":"To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.\n\nAn upset or overturn.","phiz":"The face or visage. [Colloq.] Cowper.","terce":"See Tierce.","well-bred":"Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated. I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter. Thackera","outer":"Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.\n\n(a) The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye. (b) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.\n\nOne who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession. [R.]","cacophonous":"Harsh-sounding.","sugarplum":"A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.","tweak":"To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.\n\n1. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose. Swift. 2. Trouble; distress; tweag. [Obs.] 3. A prostitute. [Obs.] Brathwait.","overofficious":"Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.","puccoon":"Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.","subterranity":"A place under ground; a subterrany. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","object":"1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. [Obs.] Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope. 2. To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason. He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer. Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift.\n\nTo make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to. Sir. T. More.\n\n1. That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark. 2. That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant; what the schoolmen have styled the \"materia circa quam.\" Sir. W. Hamilton. The object of their bitterest hatred. Macaulay. 3. That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause. Object, beside its proper signification, came to be abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause.... This innovation was probably borrowed from the French. Sir. W. Hamilton. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster. 4. Sight; show; appearance; aspect. [Obs.] Shak. He, advancing close Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose In glorious object. Chapman. 5. (Gram.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb. Object glass, the lens, or system of lenses, placed at the end of a telescope, microscope, etc., which is toward the object. Its office is to form an image of the object, which is then viewed by the eyepiece. Called also objective. See Illust. of Microscope. -- Object lesson, a lesson in which object teaching is made use of. -- Object staff. (Leveling) Same as Leveling staff. -- Object teaching, a method of instruction, in which illustrative objects are employed, each new word or idea being accompanied by a representation of that which it signifies; -- used especially in the kindergarten, for young children.\n\nOpposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed. [Obs.]","slabber":"To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]\n\n1. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot. 2. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.\n\nSpittle; saliva; slaver.\n\n(a) A saw for cutting slabs from logs. (b) A slabbing machine.","overbold":"Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O\"ver*bold\"ly, adv.","enravish":"To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.","steganopod":"One of the Steganopodes.","verminly":"Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. [Obs.] Gauden.","allegoric":"Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. \"An allegoric tale.\" Falconer. \"An allegorical application.\" Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor\"ic*al*ness, n.","bewray":"To soil. See Beray.\n\nTo expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.","casse paper":"Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.","flagrate":"To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.","hornfoot":"Having hoofs; hoofed.","hundredfold":"A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.","water thief":"A pirate. [R.] Shak.","hyperorthodoxy":"Orthodoxy pushed to excess.","vernal":"1. Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom. 2. Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life. When after the long vernal day of life. Thomson. And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show Keble. Vernal equinox (Astron.), the time when the sun crosses the equator when proceeding northward. -- Vernal grass (Bot.), a low, soft grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), producing in the spring narrow spikelike panicles, and noted for the delicious fragrance which it gives to new-mown hay; -- also called sweet vernal grass. See Illust. in Appendix. -- Vernal signs (Astron.), the signs, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, in which the sun appears between the vernal equinox and summer solstice.","beaker":"1. A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. 2. An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.","fulminatory":"Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.","plainant":"One who makes complaint; the plaintiff. [Obs.]","chemiotaxis":"The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoöspores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac\"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.","tentage":"A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.","shoading":"The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written also shoding.] Pryce.","orbic":"Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular. [R.] Bacon.","testy":"Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated. Must I observe you must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak. I was displeased with myself; I was testy. Latimer.","jockey":"1. A professional rider of horses in races. Addison. 2. A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay. 3. A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.\n\n1. \" To jostle by riding against one.\" Johnson. 2. To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.\n\nTo play or act the jockey; to cheat.","sclerotic":"1. Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical. 3. (Med.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed. Sclerotic parenchyma (Bot.), sclerenchyma. By some writers a distinction is made, sclerotic parenchyma being applied to tissue composed of cells with the walls hardened but not thickened, and sclerenchyma to tissue composed of cells with the walls both hardened and thickened.\n\nThe sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).\n\nPertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.","suster":"Sister. [Obs.] Chaucer. There are seven sustren, that serve truth ever. Piers Plowman.","twattler":"One who twattles; a twaddler.","chalcedony":"A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.] Note: When chalcedony is variegated with with spots or figures, or arranged in differently colored layers, it is called agate; and if by reason of the thickness, color, and arrangement of the layers it is suitable for being carved into cameos, it is called onyx. Chrysoprase is green chalcedony; carnelian, a flesh red, and sard, a brownish red variety.","deminatured":"Having half the nature of another. [R.] Shak.","heptoic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.","desolately":"In a desolate manner.","fond":"imp. of Find. Found. Chaucer.\n\n1. Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. Shak. 2. Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate. 3. Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife. Addison. 4. Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on). More fond on her than she upon her love. Shak. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Shak. A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. Irving. 5. Doted on; regarded with affection. [R.] Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer. Byron. 6. Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo caress; to fondle. [Obs.] The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast. Dryden.\n\nTo be fond; to dote. [Obs.] Shak.","petrosal":"(a) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. Petrosal bone (Anat.), a bone corresponding to the petrous portion of the temporal bone of man; or one forming more or less of the periotic capsule.\n\n(a) A petrosal bone. (b) The auditory capsule. Owen.","congregationalism":"1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church. 2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively. Note: In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation \"Congregationalists\" is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity.","surveying":"That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals, the depth of water, etc. -- Plane surveying. See under Plane, a. -- Topographical surveying, that branch of surveying which involves the process of ascertaining and representing upon a plane surface the contour, physical features, etc., of any portion of the surface of the earth.","chagreen":"See Shagreen.","charge":"1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak. 3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent. 4. To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples. 5. To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one. 6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden. 7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a) person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson. 8. To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak. 9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. 10. (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or. 11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.] To charge me to an answer. Shak. 12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. Charged our main battle's front. Shak. Syn. -- To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See Accuse.\n\n1. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. \"Charge for the guns!\" he said. Tennyson. 2. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. 3. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. 4. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.\n\n1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. 3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak. 4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] Chaucer. 5. Harm. [Obs.] Chaucer. 6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. 2. Sam. xviii. 5. 7. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. 8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell. 9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. 10. The price demanded for a thing or service. 11. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. 12. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time 13. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson. 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. 15. (Far.) A soft of plaster or ointment. 16. (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. 17. Etym: [Cf. Charre.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre. 18. Weight; import; value. Many suchlike \"as's\" of great charge. Shak. Back charge. See under Back, a. -- Bursting charge. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. -- To sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack. Syn. -- Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.","astronomize":"To study or to talk astronomy. [R.] They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.","disembossom":"To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.","cynanthropy":"A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.","defluxion":"A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.","seljukian":"Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. J. H. Newman.\n\nA member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.","patchy":"Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.","fatly":"Grossly; greasily.","bihydroguret":"A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [Obs.]","fizgig":"A fishing spear. [Obs.] Sandys.\n\nA firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.\n\nA gadding, flirting girl. Gosson.","froth":"1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange. 3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser. Froth insect (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.\n\n1. To cause to foam. 2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson. 3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.\n\nTo throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.","permiscible":"Capable of being mixed.","underwent":"imp. of Undergo.","absurdness":"Absurdity. [R.]","twelvepence":"A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.","amassable":"Capable of being amassed.","inceptive":"Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- In*cep\"tive*ly, adv.\n\nAn inceptive word, phrase, or clause.","adfected":"See Affected, 5.","astheny":"Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.","eugenol":"A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.","nonnucleated":"Without a nucleus.","deplorate":"Deplorable. [Obs.] A more deplorate estate. Baker.","xylonite":"See Zylonite.","spiraea":"A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.","nominor":"A nominator. [Obs.] Bentham.","pollard":"1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. 2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A fish, the chub. (b) A stag that has cast its antlers. (c) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).\n\nTo lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn.","hebenon":"See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.","humus":"That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. Graham.","vindicable":"Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil\"i*ty, n.","cutlery":"1. The business of a cutler. 2. Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.","besiege":"To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak. Syn. -- To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.","woofy":"Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud. J. Baillie.","quintuple-ribbed":"The same as Quinquenerved.","commatic":"Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.","antipole":"The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.","linga":"The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power. Whitworth. E. Arnold.","hafter":"A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.","isogeothermic":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. An isogeotherm.","middlemost":"Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.","polygonaceous":"Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceæ), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.","pneumooetoka":"Same as Sauropsida.","tutorship":"The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.","aleurone":"An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (\"protein granules\") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.","carotte":"A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.","cottier":"In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]","younker":"A young person; a stripling; a yonker. [Obs. or Colloq.] That same younker soon was overthrown. Spenser.","humid":"Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton.","saccus":"A sac.","transpiratory":"Of or relating to transpiration.","solenette":"A small European sole (Solea minuta).","bummery":"See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.","anent":"1. Over against; as, he lives anent the church. 2. About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.","veldt sore":"An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microörganism.","biggest":", superl. of Big.","corndodger":"A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.","took":"imp. of Take.","gallinaceous":"Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.","swearing":"from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.","squawk":"To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. Squawking thrush (Zoöl.), the missel turush; -- so called from its note when alarmed. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. Act of squawking; a harsh squeak. 2. (Zoöl.) The American night heron. See under Night. Squawk duck (Zoöl.), the bimaculate duck (Anas glocitans). It has patches of reddish brown behind, and in front of, each eye. [Prov. Eng.]","undeniably":"In an undeniable manner.","vicunya":"A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.","coextensive":"Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten\"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten\"sive*ness, n.","twining":"Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.\n\nThe act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.","reimport":"To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.","formicaroid":"Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.","-head":"A variant of -hood.","undeceive":"To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.","credit":"1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence. When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them. 1 Macc. x. 46. 2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation. John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown. Cowper. 3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation. The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker. 4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor. I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please. Pope. 5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest. Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest. Clarendon. 6. (Com.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit. Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time. Locke. 7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit. 8. (Bookkeeping) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. -- Bill of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a circular letter of credit. -- Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfull its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who owe largely in a community. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster.\n\n1. To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe. How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin Shak. 2. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of. You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit. South. 3. (Bookkeeping) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond. To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.","clavigerous":"Bearing a club or a key.","materialization":"The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.","covenantor":"The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.","accusatival":"Pertaining to the accusative case.","sivatherium":"A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.","foxearth":"A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.","stanno-":"A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.","phimosis":"A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.","gracious":"1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak. 2. Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born. Shak. 3. Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections. Syn. -- Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful.","lean":"To conceal. [Obs.] Ray.\n\n1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. \"He leant forward.\" Dickens. 2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. They delight rather to lean to their old customs. Spenser. 3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. He leaned not on his fathers but himself. Tennyson.\n\nTo cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. Mrs. Browning. His fainting limbs against an oak he leant. Dryden.\n\n1. Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. 2. Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. \"No lean wardrobe.\" Shak. Their lean and fiashy songs. Milton. What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. Num. xiii. 20. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. Shak. 3. (Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as lean copy, matter, or type. Syn. -- slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt.\n\n1. That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. Goldsmith. 2. (Typog.) Unremunerative copy or work.","scholasticism":"The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.","cooperage":"1. Work done by a cooper. 2. The price paid for coopers; work. 3. A place where coopers' work is done.","gyrostat":"A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.","sea pear":"A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.","rhodochrosite":"Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.","conversableness":"The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.","intensively":"In an intensive manner; by increase of degree. Abp. Bramhall.","economist":"1. One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. \"Economists even to parsimony.\" Burke. 2. One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.","driftless":"Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.","subdeaconship":"The order or office of subdeacon.","opuscle":"A small or petty work.","beaux":"pl. of Beau.","quran":"See Koran.","substantiveness":"The quality or state of being substantive.","bowfin":"A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.","umbriferous":"Casting or making a shade; umbrageous. -- Um*brif\"er*ous*ly, adv.","homosystemic":"Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.","slugabed":"One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] \"Fie, you slugabed!\" Shak.","cochleare":"1. A spoon. Andrews. 2. (Med) A spoonful. Dungleson.","pestillation":"The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.","rush-bearing":"A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [Eng.] Nares.","wig":"1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers. 2. An old seal; -- so called by fishermen. Wig tree. (Bot.) See Smoke tree, under Smoke.\n\nTo censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold. [Slang]\n\nA kind of raised seedcake. \"Wiggs and ale.\" Pepys.","mischiefful":"Mischievous. [Obs.] Foote.","colophonite":"A coarsely granular variety of garnet.","scolecida":"Same as Helminthes.","saccule":"A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.","sannup":"A male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.","subriguous":"Watered or wet beneath; well-watered. [Obs.] Blount.","modality":"1. The quality or state of being modal. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.","puzzledom":"The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.","lanneret":"A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.","lazybones":"A lazy person. [Colloq.]","schenkbeer":"A mild German beer.","santer":"See Saunter.","affirmant":"1. One who affirms or asserts. 2. (Law) One who affirms of taking an oath.","impropriation":"1. The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated. 2. (Eng. Eccl. Law) (a) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation. (b) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.","rubian":"One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.","assumable":"That may be assumed.","hearer":"One who hears; an auditor.","cruise":"See Cruse, a small bottle.\n\n1. To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure. Note: A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in the Baltic or in the Atlantic. She cruises off any cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant. She cruises on a coast; as, on the coast of Africa. A priate cruises to seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the owner. Ships of war were aent to cruise near the isle of Bute. Macualay. 'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure. Young. 2. To wander hither and thither on land. [Colloq.]\n\nA voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla. Dampier.","day-star":"1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19. 2. The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.","diaper":"1. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2. 2. (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced. 3. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak. 4. An infant's breechcloth.\n\n1. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. \"Diapered light.\" H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson. 2. To put a diaper on (a child).\n\nTo draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. \"If you diaper on folds.\" Peacham.","suppressive":"Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.","naileress":"A women who makes nailes.","reaffirmation":"A second affirmation.","bewailment":"The act of bewailing.","chastened":"Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.","salutation":"The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting. In all public meetings or private addresses, use those forms of salutation, reverence, and decency usual amongst the most sober persons. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Greeting; salute; address. -- Salutation, Greeting, Salute, Greeting is the general word for all manner of expressions of recognition, agreeable or otherwise, made when persons meet or communicate with each other. A greeting may be hearty and loving, chilling and offensive, or merely formal, as in the opening sentence of legal documents. Salutation more definitely implies a wishing well, and is used of expressions at parting as well as at meeting. It is used especially of uttered expressions of good will. Salute, while formerly and sometimes still in the sense of either greeting or salutation, is now used specifically to denote a conventional demonstration not expressed in words. The guests received a greeting which relieved their embrassment, offered their salutations in well-chosen terms, and when they retired, as when they entered, made a deferential salute. Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. Luke xi. 43. When Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. Luke i. 41. I shall not trouble my reader with the first salutes of our three friends. Addison.","chrysosperm":"The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","damosella":"See Damsel. [Archaic]","arcturus":"A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Boötes. Note: Arcturus has sometimes been incorrectly used as the name of the constellation, or even of Ursa Major. Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons [Rev. Ver.: \"the Bear with her train\"]. Job xxxviii. 32.","puree":"A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.","confessionalism":"An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.","philomathy":"The love of learning or letters.","aroideous":"Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants.","eyghen":"Eyes. [Obs.] Chaucer.","torpedo boom":"A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.","curtana":"The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.","bulldog":"1. (Zoöl.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls. 2. (Metal.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.\n\nCharacteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity. Bulldog bat (zo'94l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; -- so called from the shape of its face.","decagynian":"Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.","philanthropic":"Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic enterprise. -- Phil`an*throp\"ic*al*ly, adv.","school-teacher":"One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School\"-teach`ing, n.","sting ray":"Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.","oxonian":"Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England. Macaulay.\n\nA student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.","forceless":"Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.","lithotype":"A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.\n\nTo prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.","bemask":"To mask; to conceal.","consonancy":"1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. 2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. 3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.] By the consonancy of our youth. Shak. Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.","besetter":"One who, or that which, besets.","sharpsaw":"The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes. [Prov. Eng.]","unprayed":"Not prayed for. [Obs.] Sir T. More.","scenic":"Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. De Quincey.","emotionalism":"The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.","meretricious":"1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri\"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri\"cious*ness, n.","drie":"To endure. [Obs.] So causeless such drede for to drie. Chaucer.","araneiform":"Having the form of a spider. Kirby.","broker":"1. One who transacts business for another; an agent. 2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story. 3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc. 4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.] 5. A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak. Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. -- Curbstone broker or Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] -- Exchange broker, one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. -- Insurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. -- Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. -- Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. -- Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. -- Stock broker. See Stockbroker.","literalist":"One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.","struck":"imp. & p. p. of Strike. Struck jury (Law), a special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause.","bibbs":"Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.","drooper":"One who, or that which, droops.","copperas":"Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate. Note: The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue, and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper, and zinc.","smeir":"A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.","icily":"In an icy manner; coldly. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. Tennyson.","kinglihood":"King-liness. Tennyson.","vaccinator":"One who, or that which, vaccinates.","obstetrical":"Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art. Obstetrical toad (Zoöl.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.","slavey":"A maidservant. [Colloq. & Jocose Eng.]","darg":"A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]","self-fertilized":"Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.","aplanatic":"Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.","rhinoceros":"Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout. Note: The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros Indicus and R. Sondaicus) have incisor and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African species belong to Atelodus, and have two horns, but lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two-horned species belong to Ceratohinus, in which incisor and canine teeth are present. See Borele, and Keitloa. Rhinoceros auk (Zoöl.), an auk of the North Pacific (Cerorhina monocrata) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill. -- Rhinoceros beetle (Zoöl.), a very large beetle of the genus Dynastes, having a horn on the head. -- Rhinoceros bird. (Zoöl.) (a) A large hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also rhinoceros hornbill. See Hornbill. (b) An African beefeater (Buphaga Africana). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects.","hoppestere":"An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as \"dancing (on the wave)\"; by others as \"opposing,\" \"warlike.\" T. R. Lounsbury.","title":"1. An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known. 2. The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc. 3. (Bookbindng) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book. 4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book. 5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc. With his former title greet Macbeth. Shak. 6. A name; an appellation; a designation. 7. (Law) (a) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title. (b) The instrument which is evidence of a right. (c) (Canon Law) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice. 8. (Anc. Church Records) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside. Title deeds (Law), the muniments or evidences of ownership; as, the title deeds to an estate. Syn. -- Epithet; name; appellation; denomination. See epithet, and Name.\n\nTo call by a title; to name; to entitle. Hadrian, having quieted the island, took it for honor to be titled on his coin, \"The Restorer of Britain.\" Milton.","collagen":"The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.","nearhand":"Near; near at hand; closely. [Obs. or Scot.] Bacon.","heatingly":"In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.","capacious":"1. Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft. 2. Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. \"A capacious mind.\" Watts.","foreskirt":"The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak.","transnatation":"The act of swimming across, as a river.","flakiness":"The state of being flaky.","embroyde":"To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.","intimation":"1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated. 2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland. 3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.","sea lark":"(a) The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (b) Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.","lunarian":"An inhabitant of the moon.","objectiveness":"Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale","strepitores":"A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.","phylarchy":"The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.","phonotypic":"Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.","gainage":"(a) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. (b) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.","tungstenic":"Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores. [R.]","electioneerer":"One who electioneers.","frangible":"Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.","antiquateness":"Antiquatedness. [Obs.]","crystallographical":"Pertaining to crystallography.","chrysocolla":"A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.","admit":"1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause. 2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse. 3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail. 4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt. 5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.","petitioning":"The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.","warren":"1. (Eng Law) (a) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. Burrill. (b) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman. Note: The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park, and a free warren. 2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. 3. A place for keeping flash, in a river.","disobliging":"1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act. 2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] Cov. of Tongue. -- Dis`o*bli\"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli\"ging*ness, n.","macaronic":"1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. 2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.\n\n1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble. 2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.","cunningness":"Quality of being cunning; craft.","strepsipteran":"One of the Strepsiptera.","cumulus":"One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.","theomancy":"A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.","debtless":"Free from debt. Chaucer.","ozonometer":"An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture. Faraday.","kokama":"The gemsbok.","photographical":"Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.","pulpiteer":"One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.","kennel":"The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.\n\n1. A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds. A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to describe his kennel. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs. Shak. 3. The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.\n\nTo lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. The dog kenneled in a hollow tree. L'Estrange.\n\nTo put or keep in a kennel. Thomson.","incorruptibility":"The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.","mercenariness":"The quality or state of being mercenary; venality. Boyle.","libertine":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. 3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak. 4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]\n\n1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl. 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.","autopneumatic":"Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.","defeasanced":"Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.","viscounty":"The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.","friendless":"Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend\"less*ness, n.","inconcerning":"Unimportant; trifling. [Obs.] \"Trifling and inconcerning matters.\" Fuller.","warble":"1. (Far.) (a) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling. (b) A small tumor produced by the larvæ of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles. 2. (Zoöl.) See Wormil.\n\n1. To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs. 2. To utter musically; to modulate; to carol. If she be right invoked in warbled song. Milton. Warbling sweet the nuptial lay. Trumbull. 3. To cause to quaver or vibrate. \"And touch the warbled string.\" Milton.\n\n1. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay. 3. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. \"Birds on the branches warbling.\" Milton. 3. To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.\n\nA quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound. Emerson.","abasia":"Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba\"sic (#), a.","hedgebote":"Same as Haybote.","tritheite":"A tritheist. [Obs.] E. Phillips.","ephippial":"Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. Dana.","analyzable":"That may be analyzed.","sheather":"One who sheathes.","plurifoliolate":"Having several or many leaflets.","ilvaite":"A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses. I'M I'm . A contraction of I am.","cerement":"(a) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed. (b) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.","apocalyptical":"Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.","musculophrenic":"Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery.","outhaul":"A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.","appressed":"Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem, Gray.","cullender":"A strainer. See Colander.","deontology":"The science relat J. Bentham.","thwart":"1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton. 2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nThwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] Milton.\n\nAcross; athwart. Spenser. Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.\n\nA seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.\n\n1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. Milton. 2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.\n\n1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.] 2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.] Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles. Locke.","caress":"An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Wooed her with his soft caresses. Langfellow. He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.\n\nTo treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. The lady caresses the rough bloodhoun. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- To foundle; embrace; pet; coddle; court; flatter. -- Caress, Fondle. \"We caress by words or actions; we fondle by actions only.\" Crabb.","modify":"1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower. Of his grace He modifies his first severe decree. Dryden.","wishly":"According to desire; longingly; with wishes. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chapman.","limpet":"1. In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell. 2. Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides. Note: The common European limpets of the genus Patella (esp. P. vulgata) are extensively used as food. The common New England species is Acmæa testudinalis. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size. 3. Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks. 4. A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.","derogate":"1. To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law. By several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated. Sir M. Hale. 2. To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing. [R.] Anything . . . that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name. Sir T. More.\n\n1. To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke. 2. To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.\n\nDiminished in value; dishonored; degraded. [R.] Shak.","symposiarch":"The master of a feast.","ensue":"To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake. [Obs.] \"Seek peace, and ensue it.\" 1 Pet. iii. 11. To ensue his example in doing the like mischief. Golding.\n\nTo follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one. So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued. Pope. Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor. Syn. -- To follow; pursue; succeed. See Follow.","gewgaw":"A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.\n\nShowy; unreal; pretentious. Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. Tennyson.","lollardy":"The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.","reguline":"Of or pertaining to regulus.","patriotic":"Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.","catchable":"Capable of being caught. [R.]","omelet":"Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.","alongside":"Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.","addible":"Capable of being added. \"Addible numbers.\" Locke.","architectonics":"The science of architecture.","postillation":"The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.","glastonbury thorn":"A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.","hexavalent":"Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.","indeprehensible":"Incapable of being found out. Bp. Morton.","atrabilarious":"Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.","damourite":"A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.","why-not":"A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening. [Obs.] When the church Was taken with a why-not in the lurch. Hudibras. This game . . . was like to have been lost with a why-not. Nugæ Antiq.","flaminical":"Pertaining to a flamen. Milton.","euphrasy":"The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.","predigest":"To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.","charmel":"A fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).","clem":"To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","status in quo":"The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.","syruped":"Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.","adventureful":"Given to adventure.","flushness":"The state of being flush; abundance.","pogamoggan":"An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.","repentant":"1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. \"Repentant sighs and voluntary pains.\" Pope.\n\nOne who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.","tonophant":"A modification of the kaleidophon, for showing composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket.","unexpertly":"In an unexpert manner.","depiction":"A painting or depicting; a representation.","mouchoir":"A handkerchief.","dextrally":"(adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.","fiesta":"Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity. Even . . . a bullfight is a fiesta. Am. Dialect Notes. Some fiesta, when all the surrounding population were expected to turn out in holiday dress for merriment. The Century.","barbastel":"A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.","darby":"A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.","pronunciamento":"A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.","soreness":"The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.","spinous":"1. Spinose; thorny. 2. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra (Anat.), the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.","discompliance":"Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.","empyreumatic":"Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. Empyreumatic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.","photodrome":"An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.","culinarily":"In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.","uranic":"1. Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical. On I know not what telluric or uranic principles. Carlyle. 2. (Chem.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.","bagreef":"The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","incommunicable":"Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South. -- In`com*mu\"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu\"ni*ca*bly, adv.","nepeta":"A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.","force pump":"(a) A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. (b) A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.","cahincic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. recemosa; as, cahincic acid.","mittened":"Covered with a mitten or mittens. \"Mittened hands.\" Whittier.","indenizen":"To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [R.] Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson.","emperice":"An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.","terricolae":"A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.","bevy":"1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! Beau. & Fl. 2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.","fingrigo":"A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.","microlestes":"An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata.","dire":"1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens. 2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. Milton. Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. Milton.","morphine":"A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.","enripen":"To ripen. [Obs.] Donne.","dissolubility":"The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.","hymnody":"Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.","maxilliform":"Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.","hylic":"Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.","jehu":"A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously. [Colloq.]","presentific":"Making present. [Obs.] -- Pres`en*tif\"ic*ly, adv. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","carrying":"The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.","fettle":"1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [Prov. Eng.] Carlyle. 2. (Metal.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.\n\nTo make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. [Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.\n\nThe act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. In fine fettle, in good spirits.","hungerer":"One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.","terebratulid":"Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.","velocipedist":"One who rides on a velocipede.","apostrophe":"1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of \"Paradise Lost.\" 2. (Gram.) The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called. 3. The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e. Note: The apostrophe is used to mark the plural of figures and letters; as, two 10's and three a's. It is also employed to mark the close of a quotation.","disaggregate":"To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.","devilish":"1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. \"Devilish wickedness.\" Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive. [Colloq.] Dryden. Syn. -- Diabolical; infernal; hellish; satanic; wicked; malicious; detestable; destructive. -- Dev\"il*ish*ly, adv. -- Dev\"il*ish*ness, n.","self-esteem":"The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.","bloodlet":"bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot.","corrosive":"1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. \"Corrosive liquors.\" Grew. \"Corrosive famine.\"Thomson. 2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing. Care is no cure, but corrosive. Shak. Corrosive sublimate (Chem.), mercuric chloride, HgCl2; so called because obtained by sublimation, and because of its harsh irritating action on the body tissue. Usually it is in the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an exellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.\n\n1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually. [Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene. Dunglison. 2. That which has the power of fretting or irritating. Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives. Hooker. -- Cor*ro\"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro\"sive*ness, n.","titlark":"Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).","zein":"A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance. [Formerly written zeine.]","cock-a-hoop":"Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.","craspedote":"Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.","tighter":"A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]","unbeknown":"Not known; unknown. [Colloq.]","diversify":"To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.","sporophyte":"In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants. -- Spo`ro*phyt\"ic (#), a.","format":"The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little too luxurious. Nature.","oroide":"An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy. [Written also oreide.]","grow":"1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak. 3. To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. Where law faileth, error groweth. Gower. 4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. Byron. 5. To become attached of fixed; to adhere. Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. Shak. Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. A. Hamilton. -- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children. -- To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells. Syn. -- To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend.\n\nTo cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. Macaulay. Syn. -- To raise; to cultivate. See Raise, v. t., 3.","prevalently":"In a prevalent manner. Prior.","traditionalism":"A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.","cossic":"Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] \"Art of numbers cossical.\" Digges (1579).","mumbler":"One who mumbles.","bond service":"The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.","serpolet":"Wild thyme.","gentlewoman":"1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.","stagworm":"The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.","uncared":"Not cared for; not heeded; -- with for.","benzine":"1. A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc. 2. Same as Benzene. [R.] Note: The hydrocarbons of benzine proper are essentially of the marsh gas series, while benzene proper is the typical hydrocarbon of the aromatic series.","photozincograph":"A print made by photozincography. -- Pho`to*zin`co*graph\"ic, a.","teeter":"To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter- totter. [U. S.] [The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down. H. W. Beecher.","nash":"Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","old lang syne":"See Auld lang syne.","rawly":"1. In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience. 2. Without proper preparation or provision. Shak.","amphitheatrical":"Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.","sad":"1. Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. [Obs.] Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a bitter sweet. Chaucer. 2. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread.] His hand, more sad than lump of lead. Spenser. Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. Mortimer. 3. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. \"Sad-colored clothes.\" Walton. Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors. Mortimer. 4. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous. [Obs.] \"Ripe and sad courage.\" Bacon. Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties. Ld. Berners. 5. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Shak. The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. Milton. 6. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune. 7. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] \"Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.\" I. Taylor. Note: Sad is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed, sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like. Sad bread, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.] Bartlett. Syn. -- Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous; afflictive; calamitous.\n\nTo make sorrowful; to sadden. [Obs.] How it sadded the minister's spirits! H. Peters.","ecthyma":"A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.","overperch":"To perch upon; to fly over. [Obs.] Shak.","reticulated":"1. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure. 2. Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reticule in the focus of an eyepiece. -- Reticulated work (Masonry), work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally.","cuesta":"A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]","sabellian":"Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.\n\nA follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.","remiped":"Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.\n\n(a) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans. (b) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.","sphex":"Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand. Sphex fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Conops and allied genera. The form of the body is similar to that of a sphex.","incession":"Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.","senhora":"A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.","heremite":"A hermit. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","have":"1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak. He had a fever late. Keats. 3. To accept possession of; to take or accept. Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me Shak. 4. To get possession of; to obtain; to get. Shak. 5. To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. It had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott. Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also Ld. Lytton. 6. To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child. 7. To hold, regard, or esteem. Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22. 8. To cause or force to go; to take. \"The stars have us to bed.\" Herbert. \"Have out all men from me.\" 2 Sam. xiii. 9. 9. To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion. Shak. 10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive. Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist. M. Arnold. The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction. Earle. 11. To understand. You have me, have you not Shak. 12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang] Note: Have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the state indicated by the participle; as, I have conquered him, I have or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this independent significance, and is used with the participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past time. Had is used, especially in poetry, for would have or should have. Myself for such a face had boldly died. Tennyson. To have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard. -- To have (a man) out, to engage (one) in a duel. -- To have done (with). See under Do, v. i. -- To have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion. -- To have on, to wear. -- To have to do with. See under Do, v. t. Syn. -- To possess; to own. See Possess.","entophytic":"Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.","hilal":"Of or pertaining to a hilum.","modal":"1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.","gantline":"A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.","equicrescent":"Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.","cheiropterous":"Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.","barong":"A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.","alcohometric":"Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.","berry":"1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. 2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. 3. The coffee bean. 4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.\n\nTo bear or produce berries.\n\nA mound; a hillock. W. Browne.","pharmacopolist":"One who sells medicines; an apothecary.","millionairess":"A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.","podder":"One who collects pods or pulse.","dixie":"A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]","exhaustive":"Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust\"ive*ly, adv.","precognition":"1. Previous cognition. Fotherby. 2. (Scots Law) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution. Erskine.","unnerve":"To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.","apophthegm":"See Apothegm.\n\nA short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. Note: [Apothegm is now the prevalent spelling in the United States.]","mile":"A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. Note: The distance called a mile varies greatly in different countries. Its length in yards is, in Norway, 12,182; in Brunswick, 11,816; in Sweden, 11,660; in Hungary, 9,139; in Switzerland, 8,548; in Austria, 8,297; in Prussia, 8,238; in Poland, 8,100; in Italy, 2,025; in England and the United States, 1,760; in Spain, 1,552; in the Netherlands, 1,094. Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet. -- Mile run. Same as Train mile. See under Train. -- Roman mile, a thousand paces, equal to 1,614 yards English measure. -- Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.","ritualism":"1. A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. 2. Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so- called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.","strophic":"Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.","stem-winding":"Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.","bronchotomy":"An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.","eloge":"A panegyrical funeral oration.","ipecacuanha":"The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra).","lamia":"A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.","knobber":"See Knobbler.","stop-over":"Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]","advertent":"Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert\"ent*ly, adv.","sticktail":"The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]","cordonnet":"Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.","disapprobation":"The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.","unifilar":"Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension. Unifilar magnetometer (Physics), an instrument which consists of a magnetic bar suspended at its center of gravity by a long thread, constituting a delicate means for accurately measuring magnetic intensities, also for determining declinations of the magnetic needle.","analogal":"Analogous. [Obs.] Donne.","jamaica":"One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. -- Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers.","tetragynia":"A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.","minionly":"Like a minion; daintily. Camden.","sea hog":"The porpoise.","kitchen middens":"Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.","anneal":"1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen. 2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.","zechstein":"The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.","amygdalin":"A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.","xylol":"Same as Xylene.","cowleech":"One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.","empoisonment":"The act of poisoning. Bacon.","unremitting":"Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit\"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit\"ting*ness, n.","barnburner":"A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]","ducal":"Of or pertaining to a duke. His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown. Motley.","divulgate":"Published. [Obs.] Bale.\n\nTo divulge. [Obs.] Foxe.","transcendency":"1. The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen. 2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] \"Where transcendencies are more allowed.\" Bacon.","colatitude":"The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.","deceptious":"Tending deceive; delusive. [R.] As if those organs had deceptious functions. Shak.","transmitter":"One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.","parasphenoid":"Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n. The parasphenoid bone.","supervention":"The act of supervening. Bp. Hall.","dromatherium":"A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.","institutively":"In conformity with an institution. Harrington.","insurable":"Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured. The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh.","long-tongued":"1. Having a long tongue. 2. Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.","oneiromancy":"Divination by means of dreams. De Quincey.","janizar":"A janizary. [R.] Byron.","bodiced":"Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.","irregulate":"To make irregular; to disorder. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","schismatic":"Of or pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatic opinions or proposals.\n\nOne who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion. \"They were popularly classed together as canting schismatics.\" Macaulay. Syn. -- Heretic; partisan. See Heretic.","negotiate":"1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond. 2. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm. 3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. Cowper. 4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\n1. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon. 2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass. The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. Kent.","farraginous":"Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.","flusteration":"The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]","incensant":"A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.","censurable":"Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- Cen\"sur*a*bleness, n. -- Cen\"sur*a*bly, adv.","conjunctivitis":"Inflammation of the conjunctiva.","kevel":"1. (Naut.) A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed. 2. A stone mason's hammer. [Written also cavil.] Kevel head (Naut.), a projecting end of a timber, used as a kevel.\n\nThe gazelle.","highland":"Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland. Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.","pericranium":"The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.","lang":"Long. [Obs. or Scot.]","antilyssic":"Antihydrophobic.","whiterump":"The American black-tailed godwit.","kaoline":"A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar. Note: The name is now applied to all porcelain clays which endure the fire without discoloration.","bore":"1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak. 2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris. 3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. \"What bustling crowds I bored.\" Gay. 4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. He bores me with some trick. Shak. Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle. 5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl.\n\n1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects). 2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore. 3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden. 4. (Ma To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.\n\n1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. 2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak. 3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. 4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. 5. Caliber; importance. [Obs.] Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. Shak. 6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.\n\n(a) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. (b) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.\n\nimp. of 1st & 2d Bear.","violently":"In a violent manner.","hiss":"1. To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Ezek. xxvii. 36. 2. To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.\n\n1. To condemn or express contempt for by hissing. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. Shak. Malcolm. What is the newest grief Ros. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker. Shak. 2. To utter with a hissing sound. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise. Tennyson.\n\n1. A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt. \"Hiss\" implies audible friction of breath consonants. H. Sweet. A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Milton. 2. Any sound resembling that above described; as: (a) The noise made by a serpent. But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue. Milton. (b) The note of a goose when irritated. (c) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.","blacking":"1. Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves. 2. The act or process of making black.","draftsman":"See Draughtsman.","biplicity":"The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.","chachalaca":"The texan guan (Ortalis vetula). [written also chiacalaca.]","materialism":"1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants. 3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.] A. Chalmers.","prest":"imp. & p. p. of Press.\n\n1. Ready; prompt; prepared. [Obs.] All prest to such battle he was. R. of Gloucester. 2. Neat; tidy; proper. [Obs.] Tusser. Prest money, money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; -- so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon.\n\n1. Ready money; a loan of money. [Obs.] Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks. Bacon. 2. (Law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands. Cowell.\n\nTo give as a loan; to lend. [Obs.] Sums of money . . . prested out in loan. E. Hall.","jackal":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling. Note: The common species of Southern Asia (Canis aureus) is yellowish gray, varied with brown on the shoulders, haunches, and legs. The common African species (C. anthus) is darker in color. 2. One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. [Colloq.] Ld. Lytton.","yend":"To throw; to cast. [Prov. Eng.]","acid process":"That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.","zooesperm":"One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid.","awayward":"Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.","abord":"Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.\n\nTo approach; to accost. [Obs.] Digby.","melanuric":"Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; -- called also melanurenic acid.","mesmerism":"The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.","intermeddlesome":"Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med\"dle*some*ness, n.","maybird":"(a) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap. (b) The knot. [Southern U. S.] (c) The bobolink.","isomorphism":"A similarity of crystalline form between substances of similar composition, as between the sulphates of barium (BaSO4) and strontium (SrSO4). It is sometimes extended to include similarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called homoeomorphism.","carousing":"That carouses; relating to a carouse.","aland":"On land; to the land; ashore. \"Cast aland.\" Sir P. Sidney.","aphanitic":"Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.","rockwood":"Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.","samare":"See Simar.","surface":"1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. The bright surface of this ethereous mold. Milton. 2. Hence, outward or external appearance. Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface. V. Knox. 3. (Geom.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. 4. (Fort.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. Stocqueler. Caustic surface, Heating surface, etc. See under Caustic, Heating, etc. -- Surface condensation, Surface condenser. See under Condensation, and Condenser. -- Surface gauge (Mach.), an instrument consisting of a standard having a flat base and carrying an adjustable pointer, for gauging the evenness of a surface or its height, or for marking a line parallel with a surface. -- Surface grub (Zoöl.), the larva of the great yellow underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often destructive to the roots of grasses and other plants. -- Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to test other surfaces. -- Surface printing, printing from a surface in relief, as from type, in distinction from plate printing, in which the ink is contained in engraved lines.\n\n1. To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain. 2. To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.","demilancer":"A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.","vindictive":"1. Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful. I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. Dryden. 2. Punitive. [Obs.] Vindictive damages. (Law) See under Damage, n. -- Vin*dic\"tive*ly, adv. -- Vin*dic\"tive*ness, n.","laton":"Latten, 1. [Obs.] Chaucer.","besaile":"1. A great-grandfather. [Obs.] 2. (Law) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.","mowyer":"A mower. [Obs.]","cover crop":"A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.","planted":"Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.","laniation":"A tearing in pieces. [R.]","almeh":"An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.","poop":"See 2d Poppy.\n\nTo make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.\n\nA deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.\n\n(a) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. \"A sea which he thought was going to poop her.\" Lord Dufferin. (b) To strike in the stern, as by collision.","maggotish":"Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.","brutalism":"Brutish quality; brutality.","straight-joint":"Having straight joints. Specifically: (a) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. (b) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.","mends":"See Amends. [Obs.] Shak.","rhomboid-ovate":"Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.","inofficially":"Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.","bankeress":"A female banker. Thackeray.","tayra":"A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet. [Written also taira.]","superb":"1. Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade. 2. Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations. 3. Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition. Superb paradise bird (Zoöl.), a bird of paradise (Paradisæa, or Lophorina, superba) having the scapulars erectile, and forming a large ornamental tuft on each shoulder, and a large gorget of brilliant feathers on the breast. The color is deep violet, or nearly black, with brilliant green reflections. The gorget is bright metallic green. -- Superb warber. (Zoöl.) See Blue wren, under Wren. -- Su*perb\"ly, adv. -- Su*perb\"ness, n.","pilon":"1. A conical loaf of sugar. 2. A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. [Southern U. S.]","proscriptionist":"One who proscribes.","applaud":"1. To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak. 2. To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve. By the gods, I do applaud his courage. Shak. Syn. -- To praise; extol; commend; cry up; magnify; approve. See Praise.\n\nTo express approbation loudly or significantly.","vizard":"A mask; a visor. [Archaic] \"A grotesque vizard.\" Sir W. Scott. To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. Milton.","sengreen":"The houseleek.","bichloride":"A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.","thrackscat":"Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]","disgruntle":"To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]","sheepbite":"To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak.","puggaree":"Same as Puggry.","sackbut":"A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also sagbut.] Moore (Encyc. of Music). Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument.","onycha":"1. An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34. 2. The precious stone called onyx. [R.]","scriptory":"Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed. [R.] Swift.","blithely":"In a blithe manner.","contortionist":"One who makes or practices contortions.","abatement":"1. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. 2. The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed. 3. (Her.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. 4. (Law) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.","bacchanalia":"1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.","clapcake":"Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.","somber":"1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house. 2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short. Beaconsfield.\n\nTo make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.]\n\nGloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.]","antibody":"Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.","amenable":"1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.","omniscient":"Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God. -- Om*nis\"cient*ly, adv. For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient Milton.","hood molding":"A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.","shadrach":"A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)","after damp":"An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.","antiscorbutic":"Counteracting scurvy. -- n. A remedy for scurvy.","defiliation":"Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.","gratifier":"One who gratifies or pleases.","selenide":"A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.","sing":"1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. The noise of them that sing do I hear. Ex. xxxii. 18. 2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. Dryden. 3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. Pope. 4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. Prior. 5. Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.] They should sing if thet they were bent. Chaucer.\n\n1. To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3. And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble. 2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton. Arms and the man I sing. Dryden. The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. Addison. 3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep. 4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing. I heard them singing home the bride. Longfellow.","latence":"Latency. Coleridge.","carac":"See Carack.","donnat":"See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","indetermined":"Undetermined.","implorator":"One who implores. [Obs.] Mere implorators of unholy suits. Shak.","broken-bellied":"Having a ruptured belly. [R.]","ischiac":"See Ischial.","fleshmonger":"One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. [R.] Shak.","atlantides":"The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.","scioptics":"The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.","pleuroptera":"A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.","shragger":"One who lops; one who trims trees. [Obs.] Huloet.","synthesis":"1. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines. 2. (Chem.) The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis. 3. (Logic) The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of Ant: analysis. Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Sir W. Hamilton.","bloodstroke":"Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.","exterminatory":"Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. \"Exterminatory war.\" Burke.","mutch":"The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","dissentation":"Dissension. [Obs.] W. Browne.","arrected":"1. Lifted up; raised; erect. 2. Attentive, as a person listening. [Obs.] God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect. Smalridge.","intercolline":"Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.","lied":"A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. The German Lied is perhaps the most faithful reflection of the national sentiment. Grove.","refuse":"1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer. 2. (Mil.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. 3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert. 4. To disown. [Obs.] \"Refuse thy name.\" Shak.\n\nTo deny compliance; not to comply. Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse. Garth. If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword. Isa. i. 20.\n\nRefusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.\n\nThat which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter. Syn. -- Dregs; sediment; scum; recrement; dross.\n\nRefused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless. Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 1. Sam. xv. 9.","orchesography":"A treatise upon dancing. [R.]","efficience":"1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. Hooker. 2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.","tabularization":"The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.","offtake":"1. Act of taking off; specif., the taking off or purchase of goods. 2. Something taken off; a deduction. 3. A channel for taking away air or water; also, the point of beginning of such a channel; a take-off.","matagasse":"A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages. [Prov. Eng.]","perineal":"Of or pertaining to the perineum.","egoity":"Personality. [R.] Swift.","compression projectile":"A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.","meconin":"A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.","serpent":"1. (Zoöl.) Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and partly by using the free edges of their ventral scales to cling to rough surfaces. Many species glide swiftly over the ground, some burrow in the earth, others live in trees. A few are entirely aquatic, and swim rapidly. See Ophidia, and Fang. 2. Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person. 3. A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground. 4. (Astron.) The constellation Serpens. 5. (Mus.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form. Pharaoh's serpent (Chem.), mercuric sulphocyanate, a combustible white substance which in burning gives off a poisonous vapor and leaves a peculiar brown voluminous residue which is expelled in a serpentine from. It is employed as a scientific toy. -- Serpent cucumber (Bot.), the long, slender, serpentine fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Trichosanthes colubrina; also, the plant itself. -- Serpent eage (Zoöl.), any one of several species of raptorial birds of the genera Circaëtus and Spilornis, which prey on serpents. They inhabit Africa, Southern Europe, and India. The European serpent eagle is Circaëtus Gallicus. -- Serpent eater. (Zoöl.) (a) The secretary bird. (b) An Asiatic antelope; the markhoor. -- Serpent fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Cepola rubescens) with a long, thin, compressed body, and a band of red running lengthwise. -- Serpent star (Zoöl.), an ophiuran; a brittle star. -- Serpent's tongue (Paleon.), the fossil tooth of a shark; -- so called from its resemblance to a tongue with its root. -- Serpent withe (Bot.), a West Indian climbing plant (Aristolochia odoratissima). -- Tree serpent (Zoöl.), any species of African serpents belonging to the family Dendrophidæ.\n\nTo wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] \"The serpenting of the Thames.\" Evelyn.\n\nTo wind; to encircle. [R.] Evelyn.","lamaism":"A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.","hippogriff":"A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.","internodal":"Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.","nonsuch":"See Nonesuch.","bog":"1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago. 2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum. -- Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale. -- Bog ore. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. -- Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. -- Bog spavin. See under Spavin.\n\nTo sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.","blending":"1. The act of mingling. 2. (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.","pressurage":"1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.","molding":"1. The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder. 2. Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal. 3. (Arch.) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated molding, under Crenelate, v. t.\n\nUsed in making a mold or moldings; used in shaping anything according to a pattern. Molding, or Moulding, board. (a) See Follow board, under Follow, v. t. (b) A board on which bread or pastry is kneaded and shaped. -- Molding, or Moulding, machine. (a) (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings. (b) (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings. -- Molding, or Moulding, mill, a mill for shaping timber. -- Molding, or Moulding, sand (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.","clayey":"Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.","paleozoic":"Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.","seventh":"1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2. 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part. Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. -- Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.\n\n1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others. 2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided. 3. (Mus.) (a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale. (b) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.","maybloom":"The hawthorn.","quirkish":", Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. Barrow.","unsighted":"1. Not sighted, or seen. Suckling. 2. (Gun.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.","leaky":"1. Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask. 2. Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close. [Colloq.]","ouretic":"Uric.","chemist":"A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.","grabber":"One who seizes or grabs.","readept":"To regain; to recover. [Obs.]","by-view":"A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.","compulsatory":"Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraininig; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.","troul":"See Troll.","ethnarch":"The governor of a province or people. Lew Wallace.","valuably":"So as to be of value.","core":"A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. Bacon.\n\nA miner's underground working time or shift. Raymond. Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores.\n\nA Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).\n\n1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron. 2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a ssquare. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. 4. (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. 5. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 6. (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.\n\n1. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. Marston. 2. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.","fahlunite":"A hydration of iolite.","iridian":"Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.","ogre":"An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.","twopenny":"Of the value of twopence.","genterie":"Nobility of birth or of character; gentility. [Obs.] Chaucer.","misfortune":"Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See Calamity.\n\nTo happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] Stow.","myomorpha":"An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.","nummulary":"1. Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent. 2. (Pathol.) Having the appearance or form of a coin. \"Nummular sputa.\" Sir T. Watson.","disapprobatory":"Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.","asomatous":"Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.","fecial":"Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law. Kent.","vaccination":"The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure; as, vaccination of cholera.","ignition":"1. The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire. 2. The state of being ignited or kindled. Sir T. Browne.","reimprison":"To imprison again.","frumper":"A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","odometrical":"Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.","pultaceous":"Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.","practicality":"The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.","densely":"In a dense, compact manner.","eyewink":"A wink; a token. Shak.","torulous":"Same as Torose.","upon":"On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable. \"Upon an hill of flowers.\" Chaucer. Our host upon his stirrups stood anon. Chaucer. Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar. Ex. xxix. 21. The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. Judg. xvi. 9. As I did stand my watch upon the hill. Shak. He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want. Bacon. This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms. Addison. Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. Pope. He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. Landor. Note: Upon conveys a more distinct notion that on carries with it of something that literally or metaphorically bears or supports. It is less employed than it used to be, on having for the most part taken its place. Some expressions formed with it belong only to old style; as, upon pity they were taken away; that is, in consequence of pity: upon the rate of thirty thousand; that is, amounting to the rate: to die upon the hand; that is, by means of the hand: he had a garment upon; that is, upon himself: the time is coming fast upon; that is, upon the present time. By the omission of its object, upon acquires an adverbial sense, as in the last two examples. To assure upon (Law), to promise; to undertake. -- To come upon. See under Come. -- To take upon, to assume.","boyism":"1. Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton. 2. The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden. BOYLE'S LAW Boyle's\" law`. See under Law.","medal play":"Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.","guarantor":"(a) One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety. (b) One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.","reagree":"To agree again.","decertation":"Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [R.] Arnway.","sudatorium":"A sudatory. Dunglison.","surgy":"Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling. \"Over the surgy main.\" Pope.","ocrea":"See Ochrea.","sharper":"A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.","cornercap":"The chief ornament. [Obs.] Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.","emacerate":"To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.","decussated":"1. Crossed; intersected. 2. (Bot.) Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches. 3. (Rhet.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.","perioecians":"Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.","exostome":"The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.","golgotha":"Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.","calcific":"Calciferous. Specifically: (Zoöl.) of or pertaining to hte portion of the which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. Huxley.","preceptial":"Preceptive. [Obs.] [Passion] would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.","kedge":"To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.\n\nA small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.","episcopalianism":"The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.","ploughwright":"One who makes or repairs plows.","solidification":"Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.","convoy pennant":"(a) Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. (b) Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands \"Silence.\" (c) Over a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register.","victus":"Food; diet.","detonator":"One who, or that which, detonates.","rectress":"A rectoress. B. Jonson.","cooey":"A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]","redan":"1. (Fort.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy. 2. A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.","guider":"A guide; a director. Shak.","sulcated":"Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.","phantom":"That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. Pope. She was a phantom of delight. Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. -- Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an anæsthetic.","probative":"Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. South.","withered":"Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With\"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.","morosely":"Sourly; with sullen austerity.","fudge":"A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.\n\n1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax. 2. To foist; to interpolate. That last \"suppose\" is fudged in. Foote .","reefer":"1. (Naut.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen. Marryat. 2. A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.","lacker":"One who lacks or is in want.\n\nSee Lacquer.","monatomic":"(a) Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. (b) Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.","counterbalance":"To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.\n\nA weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as: (a) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel. (b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke.","bawd":"A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.\n\nTo procure women for lewd purposes.","indignantly":"In an indignant manner.","giantess":"A woman of extraordinary size.","news-vnder":"A seller of newspapers.","sorance":"Soreness. [Obs.]","entame":"To tame. [Obs.] Shak.","falconer":"A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.","vanning":"A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.","lithy":"Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.","cauterization":"The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.","contendent":"n antagonist; a contestant. [Obs.] In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.","bruang":"The Malayan sun bear.","marysole":"A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.","afloat":"1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.","disembrangle":"To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.","metronomy":"Measurement of time by an instrument.","slubbing":"from Slub. Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.","patchingly":"Knavishy; deceitfully. [Obs.]","dysphoria":"Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.","lamenter":"One who laments.","medalist":"1. A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison. 2. A designer of medals. Macaulay. 3. One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.","socialistic":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.","dad":"Father; -- a word sometimes used by children. I was never so bethumped withwords, Since I first called my brother's father dad. Shak.","galingale":"A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer. Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.","moonery":"Conduct of one who moons. [R.]","orcadian":"Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.","handbarrow":"A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.","hype":"A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.\n\nIntense publicity for a future event, performed in a showy or excessively dramatic manner suggesting an importance not justified by the event; as, the hype surrounding the superbowl is usually ludicrous. [PJC]\n\n1. to publicize [e.g. a product or a future event] insistently, in a manner exaggerating the importance of; to promote flamboyantly. [wns=1] [WordNet 1.5] 2. To stimulate or excite (a person); --usually used with up, and often in the passive form; as, she was all hyped up over her upcoming wedding. [PJC]","solacement":"The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [R.]","sea level":"The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.","polyzonal":"Consisting of many zones or rings. Polyzonal lens (Opt.), a lens made up of pieces arranged zones or rings, -- used in the lanterns of lighthouses.","dichromic":"Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.","relativeness":"The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.","rotatoria":"Same as Rotifera.","self-control":"Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.","discage":"To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.","tress":"1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. Chaucer. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. Pope. 2. Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Keats.","vitrescent":"Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.","versionist":"One who makes or favors a version; a translator. [R.]","aerodynamics":"The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.","contradictorily":"In a contradictory manner. Sharp.","engross":"1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak. 2. To amass. [Obs.] To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. Shak. 3. To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey. 4. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts. 5. To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. -- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc. Syn. -- To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy; forestall; monopolize. See Absorb.","awl":"A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.","maintainer":"One who maintains.","incarnadine":"Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] Lovelace.\n\nTo dye red or crimson. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. Shak.","identically":"In an identical manner; with respect to identity. \"Identically the same.\" Bp. Warburton. \"Identically different.\" Ross.","acrimonious":"1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey. 2. Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.","motivate":"To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- Mo`ti*va\"tion (#), n. William James.","samiot":"Samian.","plasticity":"1. The quality or state of being plastic. 2. (Physiol.) Plastic force. Dunglison.","celtiberian":"Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n. An inhabitant of Celtiberia.","shamefaced":"Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden. Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face, have brought it to its present orthography. Trench. -- Shame\"faced, adv. -- Shame\"faced`ness, n.","odometrous":"Serving to measure distance on a road. [R.] Sydney Smith.","sampan":"A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]","inductively":"By induction or inference.","checkered":"1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.","disregard":"Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.\n\nThe act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. Whewell.","vulgarize":"To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.","immense":"Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. \"Immense the power\" Pope. \"Immense and boundless ocean.\" Daniel. O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton. Syn. -- Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous.","isocheim":"A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere.","guillemet":"A quotation mark. [R.]","demulcent":"Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.\n\nA substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i","polemarch":"In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.","rheumatismoid":"Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.","entune":"To tune; to intone. Chaucer.","posthumed":"Posthumos. [Obs.] I. Watts. Fuller.","bos":"A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.","jaw-fall":"Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. M. Griffith (1660).","cymenol":"See Carvacrol.","coexisting":"Coexistent. Locke.","margravine":"The wife of a margrave.","favoritism":"The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.","indusial":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvæ of certain insects. Indusial limestone (Geol.), a fresh-water limestone, largely composed of the agglomerated cases of caddice worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.","sonance":"1. A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak. 2. The quality or state of being sonant.","wildering":"A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.","bottomless":"Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. \"Bottomless speculations.\" Burke.","devergency":"See Divergence. [Obs.]","deathbed":"The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.","administrate":"To administer. [R.] Milman.","climature":"A climate. [Obs.] Shak.","haemochromogen":"A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen.","tonsorial":"Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.","monophanous":"Having one the same appearance; having a mutual resemblance.","legioned":"Formed into a legion or legions; legionary. Shelley.","versicolor":"Having various colors; changeable in color. \"Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers.\" Burton.","home-felt":"Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. \"Home-felt quiet. Pope.","outstrip":"To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.","speechmaker":"One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.","astate":"Estate; state. [Obs.] Chaucer.","erythema":"A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.","ruttle":"A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. [Obs.]","coworker":"One who works with another; a co","bacillar":"Shaped like a rod or staff.","attraction sphere":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere. (b) Less often, the mass of archoplasm left by the aster in the resting cell. 2. (Bot.) A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.","gabionade":"1. (Fort.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. 2. A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.","pahlevi":"Same as Pehlevi.","-scope":"A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.","stroll":"To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift. Syn. -- To rove; roam; range; stray.\n\nA wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.","platband":"1. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border. 2. (Arch.) (a) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave. (b) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.","curbstone":"A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.","prescience":"Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.","surmulot":"The brown, or Norway, rat.","ticklish":"1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish Barrow. 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. Bacon. -- Tic\"klish*ly, adv. -- Tic\"klish*ness, n.","infidel":"Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.\n\nOne who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker. Note: Infidel is used by English writers to translate the equivalent word used Mohammedans in speaking of Christians and other disbelievers in Mohammedanism. Syn. -- Infidel, Unbeliever, Freethinker, Deist, Atheist, Sceptic, Agnostic. An infidel, in common usage, is one who denies Christianity and the truth of the Scriptures. Some have endeavored to widen the sense of infidel so as to embrace atheism and every form of unbelief; but this use does not generally prevail. A freethinker is now only another name for an infidel. An unbeliever is not necessarily a disbeliever or infidel, because he may still be inquiring after evidence to satisfy his mind; the word, however, is more commonly used in the extreme sense. A deist believes in one God and a divine providence, but rejects revelation. An atheist denies the being of God. A sceptic is one whose faith in the credibility of evidence is weakened or destroyed, so that religion, to the same extent, has no practical hold on his mind. An agnostic remains in a state of suspended judgment, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity.","lytta":"A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.","vehiculation":"Movement of vehicles.","reflectent":"1. Bending or flying back; reflected. \"The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed.\" Sir K. Digby. 2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby.","univariant":"Having one degree of freedom or variability.","boskage":"Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.","wheat":"A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses. Buck wheat. (Bot.) See Buckwheat. -- German wheat. (Bot.) See 2d Spelt. -- Guinea wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. -- Indian wheat, or Tartary wheat (Bot.), a grain (Fagopyrum Tartaricum) much like buckwheat, but only half as large. -- Turkey wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. -- Wheat aphid, or Wheat aphis (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap of growing wheat. -- Wheat beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, slender, rusty brown beetle (Sylvanus Surinamensis) whose larvæ feed upon wheat, rice, and other grains. (b) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle (Anobium paniceum) whose larvæ eat the interior of grains of wheat. -- Wheat duck (Zoöl.), the American widgeon. [Western U. S.] -- Wheat fly. (Zoöl.) Same as Wheat midge, below. -- Wheat grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Agropyrum caninum) somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts of Europe and America. -- Wheat jointworm. (Zoöl.) See Jointworm. -- Wheat louse (Zoöl.), any wheat aphid. -- Wheat maggot (Zoöl.), the larva of a wheat midge. -- Wheat midge. (Zoöl.) (a) A small two-winged fly (Diplosis tritici) which is very destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America. The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the larvæ suck the juice of the young kernels and when full grown change to pupæ in the earth. (b) The Hessian fly. See under Hessian. -- Wheat moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larvæ devour the grains of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See Angoumois Moth, also Grain moth, under Grain. -- Wheat thief (Bot.), gromwell; -- so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See Gromwell. -- Wheat thrips (Zoöl.), a small brown thrips (Thrips cerealium) which is very injurious to the grains of growing wheat. -- Wheat weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) The grain weevil. (b) The rice weevil when found in wheat.","jambooree":"A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling. A Calcutta-made pony cart had been standing in front of the manager's bungalow when Raja Singh started on his jamboree. W. A. Fraser.","umhofo":"An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus, or Rhinoceros, simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros.","diary":"A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.\n\nlasting for one day; as, a diary fever. [Obs.] \"Diary ague.\" Bacon.","remissory":"Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. \"A sacrifice expiatory or remissory.\" Latimer.","honiton lace":". A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.","spongious":"Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.","philopena":"A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.] Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten.","gristmill":"A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.","treen":"1. Made of wood; wooden. [Obs.] \" Treen cups.\" Camden. 2. Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.\n\npl. of Tree. \" The shady treen.\" Fairfax.","grist":"1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.] Ayliffe.","freebooty":"Freebootery. [Obs.]","sevocation":"A calling aside. [Obs.]","unwell":"1. Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing. 2. (Med.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant. Note: This word was formerly regarded as an Americanism, but is now in common use among all who speak the English language.","labefaction":"The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.","wash":"1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. Matt. xxvii. 24. 2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. Milton. [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. Longfellow. 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. 4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Acts xxii. 16. The tide will wash you off. Shak. 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity. -- To wash the hands of. See under Hand.\n\n1. To perform the act of ablution. Wash in Jordan seven times. 2 Kings v. 10. 2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. \"She can wash and scour.\" Shak. 3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.] 4. To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.\n\n1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. \"The Wash of Edmonton so gay.\" Cowper. These Lincoln washes have devoured them. Shak. 3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. Mortimer. 4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. Shak. 5. (Distilling) (a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. (b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. B. Edwards. 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically: -- (a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. (b) A liquid dentifrice. (c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. (d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. (e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. (j) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. 7. (Naut.) (a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. (b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. 8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. 9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.] Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. Swift. -- Wash barrel (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting. -- Wash bottle. (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. (b) A washing bottle. See under Washing. -- Wash gilding. See Water gilding. -- Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.\n\nWashy; weak. [Obs.] Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. Beau. & Fl. 2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.]","blastoid":"One of the Blastoidea.","blossom":"1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom. Note: The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers. Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day. Longfellow. 2. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger. 3. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color. In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.\n\n1. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed. Tennyson. 2. To flourish and prosper. Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6.","exegetic":"Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository. Walker. Ex`e*get\"ic*al*ly, adv.","hierogrammatist":"A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.","knowleche":"See Knowl, edge. We consider and knowleche that we have offended. Chaucer.","impi":"A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa] As early as 1862 he crossed assagais with and defeated a Matabili impi (war band). James Bryce.","terreen":"See Turren.","embrangle":"To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.","typist":"A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.","quid":"A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.\n\nTo drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses. Youatt.","alcoranist":"One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.","sensific":"Exciting sensation.","pyromania":"An insane disposition to incendiarism.","brambling":"The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.","tenancy":"(a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. (b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.","sneb":"To reprimand; to sneap. [Obs.] \"Scold and sneb the good oak.\" Spenser.","chromule":"A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.","efflagitate":"To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.","subderisorious":"Ridiculing with moderation. [R.] Dr. H. More.","domain":"1. Dominion; empire; authority. 2. The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp. 3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone. 4. (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. -- Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.","cerosin":"A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.","protagon":"A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.","exposition":"1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak. 3. Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [Obs.] Arbuthnot. 4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism]","loyalness":"Loyalty. [R.] Stow.","bodkin":"1. A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak. 2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a 3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking 4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope. 5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.\n\nSee Baudekin. [Obs.] Shirley.","chromoleucite":"A chromoplastid.","tattlery":"Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.","shoddy fever":"A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.","novilunar":"Of or pertaining to the new moon. [R.]","untwain":"To rend in twain; to tear in two. [Obs.] Skelton.","harvestless":"Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. \"Harvestless autumns.\" Tennyson.","helminthological":"Of or pertaining to helminthology.","graal":"See Grail., a dish.","moste":"of Mote. Chaucer.","defendee":"One who is defended. [R. & Ludicrous]","erd":"The earth. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Erd shrew (Zoöl.), the common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse.","herbist":"A herbalist.","insane":"1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. [R.] Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner Shak. 4. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc. I know not which was the insane measure. Southey.","lapidification":"The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.","medle":"To mix; to mingle; to meddle. [Written also medly.] [Obs.] Chaucer.","cowled":"Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. \"That cowled churchman.\" Emerson.","nasutness":"Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","tapster":"One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.","sunna":"A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.","synthetically":"In a synthetic manner.","epitomator":"An epitomist. Sir W. Hamilton.","far-stretched":"Stretched beyond ordinary limits.\n\nStretched beyond ordinary limits.","manteltree":"The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.","cabalistic":"Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.","accentually":"In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.","nitranilic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.","homely":"1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic] With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray. 2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners. Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Pope. 3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. None so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.\n\nPlainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] Spenser.","fracho":"A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.","orsellinic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.","balefully":"In a baleful manner; perniciously.","visionary":"1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities. Or lull to rest the visionary maid. Pope. 3. Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project. Swift. Syn. -- Fanciful; fantastic; unreal. See Fanciful.\n\n1. One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms. 2. One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.","translatorship":"The office or dignity of a translator.","misalliance":"A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. Mrs. Browning.","inculcation":"A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.","sectoral":"Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.","hijra":"See Hegira.","malaria":"1. Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma. Note: The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian). 2. (Med.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.","abstractitious":"Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.","interregency":"An interregnum. [Obs.] Blount.","seconder":"One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.","collimation":"The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. Error of collimation, the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with respect to the axis of motion of the instrument. -- Line of collimation, the axial line of the telescope of an astronomical or geodetic instrument, or the line which passes through the optical center of the object glass and the intersection of the cross wires at its focus.","practic":"1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] \"Cunning sleights and practick knavery.\" Spenser.","monophyodont":"Having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to diphyodont.","tait":"A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.","thousandth":"1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. 2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. 3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.\n\nThe quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.","opisthography":"A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.","dolerite":"A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.","tottery":"Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.","formidable":"Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. They seemed to fear the formodable sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Drydn. Syn. -- Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking; horrible; terrific; tremendous.","swanmark":"A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.","hippocrene":"A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.","majorat":"1. The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe. 2. (French Law) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.","mesaconate":"A salt of mesaconic acid.","renate":"Born again; regenerate; renewed. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.","orgyia":"A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.","preferably":"In preference; by choice. To choose Plautus preferably to Terence. Dennis.","woolpack":"A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.","two-capsuled":"Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.","interloper":"One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor.","mounted":"1. Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry. 2. Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.","lithontriptor":"See Lithotriptor.","transferrer":"One who makes a transfer or conveyance.","pyrotartaric":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.","incarn":"To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.\n\nTo develop flesh. [R.] Wiseman.","ebullioscope":"An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.","bruisewort":"A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.","balladry":"Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. \"Base balladry is so beloved.\" Drayton.","sinecurism":"The state of having a sinecure.","chirurgic":"Surgical [Obs.] \"Chirurgical lore\" Longfellow.","destroyable":"Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.","transatlantic":"1. Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Note: When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa, especially the former. 2. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.","foggy":"1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak. 2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.","broadly":"In a broad manner.","complacency":"1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison. 2. The cause of pleasure or joy. \"O thou, my sole complacence.\" Milton. 3. The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability. Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope.","lese-majesty":"See Leze majesty.","tandem":"One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.\n\nA team of horses harnessed one before the other. \"He drove tandems.\" Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.","uneven":"1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground. 2. Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham. 3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers. Un*e\"ven*ly, adv. -- Un*e\"ven*ness, n.","mercurammonium":"A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.","residentiary":"Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.\n\n1. One who is resident. The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there. Coleridge. 2. An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence. Syn. -- Inhabitant; inhabiter; dweller; sojourner.","revenue":"1. That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray. 2. Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise. 3. The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.","amylaceous":"Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.","divest":"1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle. 3. (Law) See Devest. Mozley & W.","grainy":"Resembling grains; granular.","workhouse":"1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.","liefsome":"Pleasing; delightful. [Obs.]","tour":"A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton. 2. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore. 3. (Mil.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty. Syn. -- Journey; excursion. See Journey.\n\nTo make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.","horse":"1. (Zoöl.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes. Note: Many varieties, differing in form, size, color, gait, speed, etc., are known, but all are believed to have been derived from the same original species. It is supposed to have been a native of the plains of Central Asia, but the wild species from which it was derived is not certainly known. The feral horses of America are domestic horses that have run wild; and it is probably true that most of those of Asia have a similar origin. Some of the true wild Asiatic horses do, however, approach the domestic horse in several characteristics. Several species of fossil (Equus) are known from the later Tertiary formations of Europe and America. The fossil species of other genera of the family Equidæ are also often called horses, in general sense. 2. The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male. 3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. Bacon. 4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. 5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. 6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby. 7. (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance. 8. (Naut.) (a) See Footrope, a. (b) A breastband for a leadsman. (c) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. (d) A jackstay. W. C. Russell. Totten. Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horsehorsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc. Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See under Black, etc. -- Horse aloes, caballine aloes. -- Horse ant (Zoöl.), a large ant (Formica rufa); -- called also horse emmet. -- Horse artillery, that portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying artillery. -- Horse balm (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant (Collinsonia Canadensis), having large leaves and yellowish flowers. -- Horse bean (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean (Faba vulgaris), grown for feeding horses. -- Horse boat, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses. -- Horse bot. (Zoöl.) See Botfly, and Bots. -- Horse box, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses, as hunters. [Eng.] -- Horse breaker or trainer, one employed in subduing or training horses for use. -- Horse car. (a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under Car. (b) A car fitted for transporting horses. -- Horse cassia (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Cassia Javanica), bearing long pods, which contain a black, catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse medicine. -- Horse cloth, a cloth to cover a horse. -- Horse conch (Zoöl.), a large, spiral, marine shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. -- Horse courser. (a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing. Johnson. (b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] Wiseman. -- Horse crab (Zoöl.), the Limulus; -- called also horsefoot, horsehoe crab, and king crab. -- Horse crevallé (Zoöl.), the cavally. -- Horse emmet (Zoöl.), the horse ant. -- Horse finch (Zoöl.), the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.] -- Horse gentian (Bot.), fever root. -- Horse iron (Naut.), a large calking iron. -- Horse latitudes, a space in the North Atlantic famous for calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade winds. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Horse mackrel. (Zoöl.) (a) The common tunny (Orcynus thunnus), found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the Mediterranean. (b) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). (c) The scad. (d) The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc. -- Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] -- Horse mussel (Zoöl.), a large, marine mussel (Modiola modiolus), found on the northern shores of Europe and America. -- Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. -- Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. -- Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. -- Horse railroad, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States, called a tramway. -- Horse run (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power. -- Horse sense, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Horse soldier, a cavalryman. -- Horse sponge (Zoöl.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge (Spongia equina). -- Horse stinger (Zoöl.), a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.] -- Horse sugar (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the United States (Symplocos tinctoria), whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder. -- Horse tick (Zoöl.), a winged, dipterous insect (Hippobosca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly. -- Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis (H. comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. -- Iron horse, a locomotive. [Colloq.] -- Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef. -- To look a gift horse in the mouth, to examine the mouth of a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to ascertain his age; -- hence, to accept favors in a critical and thankless spirit. Lowell. -- To take horse. (a) To set out on horseback. Macaulay. (b) To be covered, as a mare. (c) See definition 7 (above).\n\n1. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. \"Being better horsed, outrode me.\" Shak. 2. To sit astride of; to bestride. Shak. 3. To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male. 4. To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. S. Butler. 5. To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.\n\nTo get on horseback. [Obs.] Shelton.","setout":"A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] Dickens.","marionette":"1. A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show. 2. (Zoöl.) The buffel duck. MARIOTTE'S LAW Ma`ri*otte's law`. (Physics.) See Boyle's law, under Law.","trichinous":"Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.","magniloquence":"The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.","macrozooespore":"A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.","effluviable":"Capable of being given off as an effluvium. \"Effluviable matter.\" Boyle.","agrostographic":"Pertaining to agrostography.","noncondensing":"Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.","millrind":"A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.","wailingly":"In a wailing manner.","epipleural":"Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.","student":"1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak. 2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.","gentile":"One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen. Note: The Hebrews included in the term goyim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The Christians translated goyim by the L. gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were neither Jews nor Christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans. Syn. -- Pagan; heathen. See Pagan.\n\n1. Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people. 2. (Gram.) Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.","circulet":"A circlet. [Obs.] Spenser.","language":"1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words. 2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. 3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. 4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. Others for language all their care express. Pope. 5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. 6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. There was . . . language in their very gesture. Shak. 7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. 8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.] All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. Dan. iii. 7. Language master, a teacher of languages.[Obs.] Syn. -- Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction; discourse; conversation; talk. -- Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo- Saxon tern for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties if expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.\n\nTo communicate by language; to express in language. Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller.","flake":"1. A paling; a hurdle. [prov. Eng.] 2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman. 3. (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.\n\n1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. \"Lottle flakes of scurf.\" Addison. Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn. 2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville. 3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. Ure.\n\nTo form into flakes. Pope.\n\nTo separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.","standardize":"To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.","red cross":"1. The crusaders or the cause they represented. 2. A hospital or ambulance service established as a result of, though not provided for by, the Geneva convention of 1864; any of the national societies for alleviating the sufferings of the sick and wounded war, also giving aid and relief during great calamities; also, a member or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.","protuberate":"To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.","conte":"A short narrative or tale, esp. one dealing with surprising or marvelous events. The conte (sic) is a tale something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. . . . The \"Canterbury Tales\" are contes, most of them, if not all, and so are some of the \"Tales of a Wayside Inn.\" Brander Matthews.","connaturally":"By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.","hospitalize":"To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.","universologist":"One who is versed in universology.","edict":"A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants. Syn. -- Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule; order; manifesti; command. See Law.","coatless":"Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.","notify":"1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth. 2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act. Journal of the Senate, U. S. Note: This application of notify has been condemned; but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.","assimulation":"Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.","cathode":"The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.","bi-":"1. In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc. 2. (Chem.) In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.","sixteenth":"1. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth. 2. Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. Sixteenth note (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.\n\n1. The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole. 2. The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth. 3. (Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)","revert":"1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson. 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.\n\n1. To return; to come back. So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. Shak. 2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. 3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. 4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.\n\nOne who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller.","deal":"1. A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour. Num. xv. 9. As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. M. Arnold. She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black. Note: It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference. 2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. Swift. 3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.] 4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [Slang] 5. Etym: [Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See Thill.] The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. Note: Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick. 6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior.\n\n1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. Is not to deal thy bread to the hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden. 2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.\n\n1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. 2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More. 3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. Bacon. 4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. Tillotson. 5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. \"Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind.\" Locke. -- To deal in. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish. -- To deal with. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. \"Dealing with witches.\" Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with. The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, \"dealt with him\" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9.","oilcloth":"Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.","canal coal":"See Cannel coal.","dental":"1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery. 2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters. Dental formula (Zoöl.), a brief notation used by zoölogists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. -- Dental surgeon, a dentist.\n\n1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth. 2. (Zoöl.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.","seldseen":"Seldom seen. [Obs.] Drayton.","inauspicate":"Inauspicious [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.","skeptic":"1. One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons. 2. (Metaph.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist. All this criticism [of Hume] proceeds upon the erroneous hypothesis that he was a dogmatist. He was a skeptic; that is, he accepted the principles asserted by the prevailing dogmatism: and only showed that such and such conclusions were, on these principles, inevitable. Sir W. Hamilton. 3. (Theol.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion. Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of skeptics. S. Clarke. Note: This word and its derivatives are often written with c instead of k in the first syllable, -- sceptic, sceptical, scepticism, etc. Dr. Johnson, struck with the extraordinary irregularity of giving c its hard sound before e, altered the spelling, and his example has been followed by most of the lexicographers who have succeeded him; yet the prevalent practice among English writers and printers is in favor of the other mode. In the United States this practice is reversed, a large and increasing majority of educated persons preferring the orthography which is most in accordance with etymology and analogy. Syn. -- Infidel; unbeliever; doubter. -- See Infidel.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything. 2. (Theol.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures. The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals. R. Hall. -- Skep\"tac*al*ly, adv. -- Skep\"tic*al*ness, n.","disclaunder":"To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]","incircle":"See Encircle.","brier":"1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax. 2. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. The thorns and briers of reproof. Cowper. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier. -- Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina.","hexad":"An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.","complexionary":"Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.","pueblo":"A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan.","roadster":"1. (Naut.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 2. A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray. 3. A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track. 4. One who drives much; a coach driver. [Eng.] 5. A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. [Eng. Slang.]","inexhaustibility":"The state or quality of being inexhaustible; abundance.","allottery":"Allotment. [Obs.] Shak.","ranine":"1. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads. 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.","stitcher":"One who stitches; a seamstress.","triseralous":"Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.","deconsecrate":"To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra\"tion, n.","shelfy":"1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. \"A shelfy coast.\" Dryden. 2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.] The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.","sopper":"One who sops. Johnson.","conservant":"Having the power or quality of conservation.","stoichiometric":"Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.","herbivorous":"Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.","synantherous":"Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.","billman":"One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. \"A billman of the guard.\" Savile.","monifier":"A fossil fish.","concretion":"1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification. 2. A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison. 3. (Geol.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.","instantly":"1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. \"They besought him instantly.\" Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.","sawyer":"1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer. 2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.] 3. (Zoöl.) The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]","vitiation":"The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract. The vitiation that breeds evil acts. G. Eliot.","embryogeny":"The production and development of an embryo.","ooetooid":"A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.","gnathonical":"Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]","rhaetian":"Rhetian.","adventitious":"1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. 3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. 4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- Ad`ven*ti\"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti\"tious*ness, n.","confineless":"Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.","genealogy":"1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree. 2. Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.","fugacy":"Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.","agreeable":"1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith. 2. Willing; ready to agree or consent. [Colloq.] These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer. 3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange. 4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report. Syn. -- Pleasing; pleasant; welcome; charming; acceptable; amiable. See Pleasant.","intempestivity":"Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.","prame":"See Praam.","sapucaia":"A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. [Written also sapucaya.] Sapucaia nut (Bot.), the seed of the sapucaia; -- called also paradise nut.","autoplasty":"The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.","alderman":"1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.] Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus Ethelstan, duke of the East-Anglians, was called Alderman of all England; and there were aldermen of cities, counties, and castles, who had jurisdiction within their respective districts. 3. One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.","geography":"1. The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited. 2. A treatise on this science. Astronomical, or Mathematical, geography treats of the earth as a planet, of its shape, its size, its lines of latitude and longitude, its zones, and the phenomena due to to the earth's diurnal and annual motions. -- Physical geography treats of the conformation of the earth's surface, of the distribution of land and water, of minerals, plants, animals, etc., and applies the principles of physics to the explanation of the diversities of climate, productions, etc. -- Political geography treats of the different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.","water rail":"Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.","excoct":"To boil out; to produce by boiling. [Obs.] Bacon.","ganocephala":"A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.","maybe":"Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. Maybe the amorous count solicits her. Shak. In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way. Tylor.\n\nPossible; probable, but not sure. [R.] Then add those maybe years thou hast to live. Driden.\n\nPossibility; uncertainty. [R.] What they offer is mere maybe and shift. Creech.","sapindaceous":"Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceæ), including the (Typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera.","giver":"One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.","loquaciousness":"Loquacity.","cycloidei":"An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.","fumed oak":"Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.","pump":"A low shoe with a thin sole. Swift.\n\nAn hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston. Note: for various kinds of pumps, see Air pump, Chain pump, and Force pump; also, under Lifting, Plunger, Rotary, etc. Circulating pump (Steam Engine), a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser. -- Pump brake. See Pump handle, below. -- Pump dale. See Dale. -- Pump gear, the apparatus belonging to a pump. Totten. -- Pump handle, the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump. -- Pump hood, a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump. -- Pump rod, the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod. -- Pump room, a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk. [Eng.] -- Pump spear. Same as Pump rod, above. -- Pump stock, the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump. -- Pump well. (Naut.) See Well.\n\n1. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid. 2. To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship. 3. Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. But pump not me for politics. Otway.\n\nTo work, or raise water, a pump.","disinclination":"The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn. -- Unwillingness; disaffection; alienation; dislike; indisposition; distaste; aversion; repugnance.","feracity":"The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.","allonym":"1. The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. 2. A work published under the name of some one other than the author.","tonous":"Abounding in tone or sound.","hornblower":"One who, or that which, blows a horn.","coralliferous":"Containing or producing coral.","overvaluation":"Excessive valuation; overestimate.","dismarry":"To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.","intermundane":"Being, between worlds or orbs. [R.] \"Intermundane spaces.\" Locke.","obtusity":"Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.","ascription":"The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.","bejuco":"Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.","counterfeitly":"By forgery; falsely.","mammee":"A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.","rump-fed":"A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps \"fattened in the rump, pampered.\" \"The rump-fed ronyon.\"","saponacity":"The quality or state of being saponaceous.","wait":"1. To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.] \"But [unless] ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead,\" quoth she. Chaucer. 2. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job xiv. 14. They also serve who only stand and wait. Milton. Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait. Dryden. To wait on or upon. (a) To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. \"Authority and reason on her wait.\" Milton. \"I must wait on myself, must I\" Shak. (b) To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. (c) To follow, as a consequence; to await. \"That ruin that waits on such a supine temper.\" Dr. H. More. (d) To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] \"It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.\" Bacon. (e) To attend to; to perform. \"Aaron and his sons . . . shallwait on their priest's office.\" Num. iii. 10. (f) (Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk. Encyc. Brit.\n\n1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders. Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, And wait with longing looks their promised guide. Dryden. 2. To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await. [Obs.] 3. To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. [Obs.] He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all His warlike troops, to wait the funeral. Dryden. Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, And everlasting anguish be thy portion. Rowe. 4. To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner. [Colloq.]\n\n1. The act of waiting; a delay; a halt. There is a wait of three hours at the border Mexican town of El Paso. S. B. Griffin. 2. Ambush. \"An enemy in wait.\" Milton. 3. One who watches; a watchman. [Obs.] 4. pl. Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell. 5. pl. Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [Written formerly wayghtes.] Hark! are the waits abroad Beau & Fl. The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony. W. Irving. To lay wait, to prepare an ambuscade. -- To lie in wait. See under 4th Lie.","ren":"See Renne. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA run. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ministration":"The act of ministering; service; ministry. \"The days of his ministration.\" Luke i. 23.","thus":"The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.\n\n1. In this or that manner; on this wise. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Gen. vi. 22. Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth. Milton. 2. To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold. Shak. Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds. Milton.","cinchona":"1. (Bot.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. 2. (Med.) The bark of any species of cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.","marie":"Marry. [Obs.] Chaucer.","logics":"See Logic.","psyche":"1. (Class Myth.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul. 2. The soul; the vital principle; the mind. 3. Etym: [F. psyché.] A cheval glass.","quarry-faced":"Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.","bolection":"A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. Gwilt.","gedd":"The European pike.","shifter":"1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Milton. 2. (Naut.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. 3. (Mach.) (a) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. (b) (Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.","symbolization":"The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation. Sir T. Browne.","microseismology":"Science or study of microseisms.","cognition":"1. The act of knowing; knowledge; perception. I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. Shak. 2. That which is known.","abevacuation":"A partial evacuation. Mayne.","alveolate":"Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.","overdrown":"To wet or drench to excess. [Obs.] W. Browne.","pyritize":"To convert into pyrites.","caveator":"One who enters a caveat.","stephanion":"The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.","anergy":"Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er\"gic (#), a.","voiceful":"Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.","floricomous":"Having the head adorned with flowers. [R.]","fetich":"1. A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being. 2. Any object to which one is excessively devoted.","plaided":"1. Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan. \"In plaided vest.\" Wordsworth. 2. Wearing a plaid. Campbell.","washout":"The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.","school":"A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.\n\n1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9. 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer. 3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day Shak. 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay. 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster. 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor. 8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. A. S. Hardy. 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accomodation for all children in their dictrict. -- School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U.S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. -- School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.\n\n1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak. 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic disciplene; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.","lep":"of Leap. Leaped. Chaucer.","disparkle":"To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.","arpentator":"The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]","bankruptcy":"1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. 2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. 3. Complete loss; -- followed by of.","premonishment":"Previous warning or admonition; forewarning. Sir H. Wotton.","sclerotical":"Sclerotic.","anharmonic":"Not harmonic. The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac\/ad):(bc\/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.","clandestinity":"Privacy or secrecy. [R.]","ridotto":"A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.\n\nTo hold ridottos. [R.] J. G. Cooper.","minister":"1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. Ex. xxiv. 13. I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes. Shak. 2. An officer of justice. [Obs.] I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cité. Chaucer. 3. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. Bacon. 4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business. Note: Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the second. \"The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of ministers, -- ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident.\" Abbott. 5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Addison. Syn. -- Delegate; official; ambassador; clergyman; parson; priest.\n\nTo furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer. He that ministereth seed to the sower. 2 Cor. ix. 10. We minister to God reason to suspect us. Jer. Taylor.\n\n1. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Matt. xx. 28. 2. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies. Matt. xxv. 44. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased Shak.","lapillation":"The state of being, or the act of making, stony.","purge":"1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. \"Till fire purge all things new.\" Milton. 2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime. When that he hath purged you from sin. Chaucer. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Ps. li. 7. 6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. 7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away. Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. Ps. lxxix. 9. We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes. Addison.\n\n1. To become pure, as by clarification. 2. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.\n\n1. The act of purging. The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland. Fuller. 2. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Arbuthnot.","troupial":"Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America. [Written also troopial.]","laxativeness":"The quality of being laxative.","mention":"A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.\n\nTo make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name. I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord. Is. lxiii. 7.","prohibit":"1. To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing. Note: Prohibit was formerly followed by to with the infinitive, but is now commonly followed by from with the verbal noun in -ing. 2. To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton. Syn. -- To forbid; interdict; debar; prevent; hinder. -- Prohibit, Forbid. To forbid is Anglo-Saxon, and is more familiar; to prohibit is Latin, and is more formal or official. A parent forbids his child to be out late at night; he prohibits his intercourse with the profane and vicious.","aponeurotomy":"Dissection of aponeuroses.","confiscate":"Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.\n\nTo seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.","mity":"Having, or abounding with, mites.","invitation":"1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend. 2. A document written or printed, or spoken words, 3. Allurement; enticement. [R.] She gives the leer of invitation. Shak.","oxbiter":"The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]","alkalescence":"A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.","baboonish":"Like a baboon.","fusion":"1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals. 2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion. 3. The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization. 4. (Biol.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.","institutive":"1. Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. Barrow. 2. Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order. \"Institutive decency.\" Milton.","wrannock":"The common wren. [Prov. Eng.]","triglyceride":"A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.","illicium":"A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.","brangler":"A quarrelsome person.","intercarpal":"Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.","necromancer":"One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.","dishful":"As much as a dish holds when full.","amphioxus":"A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.","sovran":"A variant of Sovereign. [Poetic] On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc. Coleridge.","date line":"The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side. Speaking generally, the date line coincides with the meridian 180º from Greenwich. It deflects between north latitudes 80º and 45º, so that all Asia lies to the west, all North America, including the Aleutian Islands, to the east of the line; and between south latitudes 12º and 56º, so that Chatham Island and the Tonga group lie to the west of it. A vessel crossing this line to the westward sets the date forward by one day, as from Sunday to Monday. A vessel crossing the line to the eastward sets the date back by one day, as from Monday to Sunday. Hawaii has the same day name as San Francisco; Manila, the same day name as Australia, and this is one day later than the day of Hawaii. Thus when it is Monday May 1st at San Francisco it is Tuesday may 2d at Manila.","suitor":"1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. 3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.","catilinarian":"Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.","filasse":"Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.","pestle":"1. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. 2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. [Obs.] Chapman. 3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.\n\nTo pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.","embrue":"See Imbrue, Embrew. [Obs.]","generically":"With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.","unity":"1. The state of being one; oneness. Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks. Note: Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union. 2. Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1. 3. (Math.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. Note: The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity. 4. (Poetry & Rhet.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition. Note: In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece. 5. (Fine Arts & Mus.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character. 6. (Law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy. Note: The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate. At unity, at one. -- Unity of type. (Biol.) See under Type. Syn. -- Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.","linguatulida":"Same as Linguatulina.","automobile":"An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.","cuckoldry":"The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds. CUCKOLD'S KNOT Cuck\"old's knot` (kk\"ldz nt`). (Naut.) A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","eh":"An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.","fesswise":"In the manner of fess.","atheneum":"A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students. 2. A school founded at Rome by Hadrian. 3. A literary or scientific association or club. 4. A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.","epicycle":"1. (Ptolemaic Astron.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon. 2. (Mech.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.","tuberose":"A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.\n\nTuberous.","lief":"Same as Lif.\n\n1. Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] \"My liefe mother.\" Chaucer. \"My liefest liege.\" Shak. As thou art lief and dear. Tennyson. 2. Note: (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of the personal pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. [Obs.] See Lief, adv., and Had as lief, under Had. Full lief me were this counsel for to hide. Chaucer. Death me liefer were than such despite. Spenser. 3. Willing; disposed. [Obs.] I am not lief to gab. Chaucer. He up arose, however lief or loth. Spenser.\n\nA dear one; a sweetheart. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nGladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not. All women liefest would Be sovereign of man's love. Gower. I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Shak. Far liefer by his dear hand had I die. Tennyson. Note: The comparative liefer with had or would, and followed by the infinitive, either with or without the sign to, signifies prefer, choose as preferable, would or had rather. In the 16th century rather was substituted for liefer in such constructions in literary English, and has continued to be generally so used. See Had as lief, Had rather, etc. , under Had.","ribald":"A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope. Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. Earle.\n\nLow; base; mean; filthy; obscene. The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows. Shak.","beglerbeg":"The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.","silt":"Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.\n\nTo choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.\n\nTo flow through crevices; to percolate.","beautifier":"One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.","farmable":"Capable of being farmed.","inferiae":"Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.","sorehead":"One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like. [Slang, U.S.]","alevin":"Young fish; fry.","transumption":"Act of taking from one place to another. [R.] South.","improvisatore":"See Improvvisatore.","law":"1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a superior power, may annul or change it. These are the statutes and judgments and law, which the Lord made. Lev. xxvi. 46. The law of thy God, and the law of the King. Ezra vii. 26. As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton. His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. Cowper. 2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature. 3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Rom. iii. 19, 21. 4. In human government: (a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community. (b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority. 5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation. 6. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence. 7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist. 8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law. 9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. Coke. Law is beneficence acting by rule. Burke. And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones. 10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law. When every case in law is right. Shak. He found law dear and left it cheap. Brougham. 11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See Wager of law, under Wager. Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called Ampère's law. -- Bode's law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows: -- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- ---4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4 52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., the true distances being given in the lower line. -- Boyle's law (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as Mariotte's law, and the law of Boyle and Mariotte. -- Brehon laws. See under Brehon. -- Canon law, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example, the law of marriage as existing before the Council of Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as part of the common law of the land. Wharton. -- Civil law, a term used by writers to designate Roman law, with modifications thereof which have been made in the different countries into which that law has been introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law, prevails in the State of Louisiana. Wharton. -- Commercial law. See Law merchant (below). -- Common law. See under Common. -- Criminal law, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to crimes. -- Ecclesiastical law. See under Ecclesiastical. -- Grimm's law (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants, so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bhatr, L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dha to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. -- Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws or expressions of the order of the planetary motions, discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. -- Law binding, a plain style of leather binding, used for law books; -- called also law calf. -- Law book, a book containing, or treating of, laws. -- Law calf. See Law binding (above). -- Law day. (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet. (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given. [U. S.] -- Law French, the dialect of Norman, which was used in judicial proceedings and law books in England from the days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of Edward III. -- Law language, the language used in legal writings and forms. -- Law Latin. See under Latin. -- Law lords, peers in the British Parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. -- Law merchant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. -- Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled Gay Lussac's law, or Dalton's law. -- Law of nations. See International law, under International. -- Law of nature. (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant action, or effect, of natural conditions; as, death is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature. See Law, 4. (b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality deducible from a study of the nature and natural relations of human beings independent of supernatural revelation or of municipal and social usages. -- Law of the land, due process of law; the general law of the land. -- Laws of honor. See under Honor. -- Laws of motion (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac Newton: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of moving uniformly in a straight line, except so far as it is made to change that state by external force. (2) Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed. (3) Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions. -- Marine law, or Maritime law, the law of the sea; a branch of the law merchant relating to the affairs of the sea, such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like. Bouvier. -- Mariotte's law. See Boyle's law (above). -- Martial law.See under Martial. -- Military law, a branch of the general municipal law, consisting of rules ordained for the government of the military force of a state in peace and war, and administered in courts martial. Kent. Warren's Blackstone. -- Moral law,the law of duty as regards what is right and wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten commandments given by Moses. See Law, 2. -- Mosaic, or Ceremonial, law. (Script.) See Law, 3. -- Municipal, or Positive, law, a rule prescribed by the supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- distinguished from international and constitutional law. See Law, 1. -- Periodic law. (Chem.) See under Periodic. -- Roman law, the system of principles and laws found in the codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws of the several European countries and colonies founded by them. See Civil law (above). -- Statute law, the law as stated in statutes or positive enactments of the legislative body. -- Sumptuary law. See under Sumptuary. -- To go to law, to seek a settlement of any matter by bringing it before the courts of law; to sue or prosecute some one. -- To take, or have, the law of, to bring the law to bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor. Addison. -- Wager of law. See under Wager. Syn. -- Justice; equity. -- Law, Statute, Common law, Regulation, Edict, Decree. Law is generic, and, when used with reference to, or in connection with, the other words here considered, denotes whatever is commanded by one who has a right to require obedience. A statute is a particular law drawn out in form, and distinctly enacted and proclaimed. Common law is a rule of action founded on long usage and the decisions of courts of justice. A regulation is a limited and often, temporary law, intended to secure some particular end or object. An edict is a command or law issued by a sovereign, and is peculiar to a despotic government. A decree is a permanent order either of a court or of the executive government. See Justice.\n\nSame as Lawe, v. t. [Obs.]\n\nAn exclamation of mild surprise. [Archaic or Low]","pseudomorphous":"Not having the true form. Pseudomorphous crystal, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.","webfoot":"1. A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane. 2. (Zoöl.) Any web-footed bird.","laniate":"To tear in pieces. [R.]","spermatin":"A substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.","immortification":"Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","eath":"Easy or easily. [Obs.] \"Eath to move with plaints.\" Fairfax.","viatic":"Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.","undershrub":"Partly shrublike.","drumstick":"1. A stick with which a drum is beaten. 2. Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.","uropoetic":"1. (Med.) Producing, or favoring the production of, urine. 2. (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates.","increated":"Uncreated; self-existent. [R.] Bright effincreate. Milton.","painful":"1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- Pain\"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain\"ful*ness, n.","overheat":"To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.","disenter":"See Disinter.","spacial":"See Spatial.","criminate":"1. To accuse of, or charge with, a crime. To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament. Burke. 2. To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge. Impelled by the strongest pressure of hope and fear to criminate him. Macaulay.","wango":"A boomerang.","heteroclitic":"Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.","defiance":"1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. A war without a just defiance made. Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. Tennyson. 2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. Shak. 3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] \"Defiance to thy kindness.\" Ford. To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.","semuncia":"A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.","redirect":"Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.","gid":"A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the CC.","osteopterygious":"Having bones in the fins, as certain fishes.","intendiment":"Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.","limbec":"An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.\n\nTo distill. [Obs.] Dryden.","decortication":"The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.","flying squirrel":"One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps. Note: The species of Pteromys are large, with bushy tails, and inhabit southern Asia and the East Indies; those of Sciuropterus are smaller, with flat tails, and inhabit the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. The American species (Sciuropterus volucella) is also called Assapan. The Australian flying squrrels, or flying phalangers, are marsupials. See Flying phalanger (above).","plumming":"The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.","simile":"A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.","foolify":"To make a fool of; to befool. [R.] Holland.","andantino":"Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto. Note: Some, taking andante in its original sense of \"going,\" and andantino as its diminutive, or \"less going,\" define the latter as slower than andante.","venesection":"The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.","molehill":"A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.","reset":"To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.\n\n1. The act of resetting. 2. (Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again.\n\nThe receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.\n\nTo harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal. We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. Sir. W. Scott.","scottering":"The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]","crimination":"The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.","intemperature":"Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.","-ic":"1. A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc. 2. (Chem.) A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic.","poorbox":"A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.","pratingly":"With idle talk; with loquacity.","utricle":"1. A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed. 2. (Physiol.) A microscopic cell in the structure of an egg, animal, or plant. 3. (Bot.) A small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of goosefoot. Gray. 4. (Anat.) A utriculus.","briarean":"Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.","atramentous":"Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.","compotier":"A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.","corking pin":"A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.","dulciloquy":"A soft manner of speaking.","aldine":"An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.","lutulent":"Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]","remorseful":"1. Full of remorse. The full tide of remorseful passion had abated. Sir W. Scott. 2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Obs.] Shak. 3. Exciting pity; pitiable. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Re*morse\"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*morse\"ful*ness, n.","deaurate":"Gilded. [Obs.]\n\nTo gild. [Obs.] Bailey.","dichromate":"A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.","apanage":"Same as Appanage.","assayable":"That may be assayed.","razorable":"Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. [R.] Shak.","artillery":"1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40. 2. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds. Note: The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery. 3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided. 4. The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. Artillery park, or Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Artillery train, or Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.","lapwork":"Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.","brigandage":"Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.","diplopy":"The act or state of seeing double. Note: In crossed or heteronymous diplopia the image seen by the right eye is upon the left hand, and that seen by the left eye is upon the right hand. In homonymous diplopia the image seen by the right eye is on the right side, that by the left eye on the left side. In vertical diplopia one image stands above the other.","immutate":"Unchanged. [Obs.]","unsaturated":"1. Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution. 2. (Chem.) Capable of taking up, or of uniting with, certain other elements or compounds, without the elimination of any side product; thus, aldehyde, ethylene, and ammonia are unsaturated.","libelant":"One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. [Written also libellant.] Cranch.","spearwort":"A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves.","stipendiary":"Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.\n\nOne who receives a stipend. If thou art become A tyrant's vile stipendiary. Glover.","vat":"1. A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like. Let him produce his vase and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards. Addison. 2. A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. Note: The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons. 3. (Metal.) (a) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in. (b) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. 4. (R. C. Ch.) A vessel for holding holy water.\n\nTo put or transfer into a vat.","overwell":"To overflow. R. D. Blackmore.","idiophanous":"Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.","deciduate":"Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.","skive":"The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.\n\nTo pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).","trades union":"An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.","respecter":"One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. 34.","alimonious":"Affording food; nourishing. [R.] \"Alimonious humors.\" Harvey.","lycopodite":"An old name for a fossil club moss.","mulierly":"In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately. [Obs.]","protoxidize":"To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.","preambulatory":"Preceding; going before; introductory. [R.] Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties. Jer. Taylor.","orthodromics":"The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.","owe":"1. To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own. [Obs.] Thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not. Shak. 2. To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victoty to his lieutenants. Milton. O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree. Pope. 3. Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate. The one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Bible (1551). A son owes help and honor to his father. Holyday. Note: Owe was sometimes followed by an objective clause introduced by the infinitive. \"Ye owen to incline and bow your heart.\" Chaucer. 4. To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.","great-grandchild":"The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.","interspinal":"Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.","blastodermatic":"Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.","free silver":"The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.","guerite":"A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.","vendible":"Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon. Note: Vendible differs from marketable; the latter signifies proper or fit for market, according to the laws or customs of a place. Vendible has no reference to such legal fitness.\n\nSomething to be sold, or offered for sale. -- Vend\"i*ble*ness, n. -- Vend\"i*bly, adv.","miasma":"Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.","tusker":"An elephant having large tusks.","ticken":"See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.","nozle":"Nozzle. [Obs.]","dewfall":"The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.","dissociate":"To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.","kate":"The brambling finch.","balsamation":"1. The act of imparting balsamic properties. 2. The art or process of embalming.","revendicate":"To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans. ).","nitrobenzene":"A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.","bohemian":"1. Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2. 2. Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or \"Bohemian\" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. [Modern] Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.\n\n1. A native of Bohemia. 2. The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family. 3. A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern] Note: In this sense from the French bohémien, a gypsy; also, a person of irregular habits. She was of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother, who were both Bohemians by taste and circumstances. Thackeray.","custode":"See Custodian.","long-horned":"Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).","nereocystis":"A genus of gigantic seaweeds. Note: Nereocystis Lutkeana, of the North Pacific, has a stem many fathoms long, terminating in a great vesicle, which is crowned with a tuft of long leaves. The stem is used by the Alaskans for fishing lines.","conductress":"A woman who leads or directs; a directress.","wednesday":"The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday. Ash Wednesday. See in the Vocabulary.","triangulate":"1. To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured. 2. To make triangular, or three-cornered.","crustalogical":"Pertaining to crustalogy.","fantigue":"State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.","fetidness":"The quality or state of being fetid.","rabblement":"A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. \"Rude rablement.\" Spenser. And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. Shak.","divineress":"A woman who divines. Dryden.","dime":"A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.","windfall":"1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. \"They became a windfall upon the sudden.\" Bacon. 2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain. He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. B. Jonson.","dog day":"One of the dog days. Dogday cicada (Zoöl.), a large American cicada (C. pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer.","sanders":"An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.","intra-":"A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.","seemingness":"Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.","rhombogene":"A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata. [Written also rhombogen.]","conjurer":"One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.\n\n1. One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior. 2. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] Addison.","conventical":"Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. \"Conventical wages.\" Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.","pedalian":"Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal. [R.] Maunder.","stahlian":"Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.\n\nA believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.","zero":"1. (Arith.) A cipher; nothing; naught. 2. The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences. Note: Zero in the Centigrade, or Celsius thermometer, and in the Réaumur thermometer, is at the point at which water congeals. The zero of the Fahrenheit thermometer is fixed at the point at which the mercury stands when immersed in a mixture of snow and common salt. In Wedgwood's pyrometer, the zero corresponds with 1077° on the Fahrenheit scale. See Illust. of Thermometer. 3. Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero. Absolute zero. See under Absolute. -- Zero method (Physics), a method of comparing, or measuring, forces, electric currents, etc., by so opposing them that the pointer of an indicating apparatus, or the needle of a galvanometer, remains at, or is brought to, zero, as contrasted with methods in which the deflection is observed directly; -- called also null method. -- Zero point, the point indicating zero, or the commencement of a scale or reckoning.","voivode":"See Waywode. Longfellow.","trialogue":"A discourse or colloquy by three persons.","alibi":"The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.","tossing":"1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling. 2. (Mining) (a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce. (b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.","undershoot":"To shoot short of (a mark).","instore":"To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.","sank":"imp. of Sink.","uncovenanted":"1. Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley. 2. Not having joined in a league, or assented to a covenant or agreement, as to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Scottish people in the times of the Stuarts. In Scotland a few fanatical nonjurors may have grudged their allegiance to an uncovenanted king. Sir T. E. May. 3. (Theol.) Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies.","suburbicary":"Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.","gavial":"A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile. Note: The gavial has a long, slender muzzle, teeth of nearly uniform size, and feet completely webbed. It inhabits the Ganges and other rivers of India. The name is also applied to several allied fossil species.","analogize":"To employ, or reason by, analogy.","actinozoal":"Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa.","tartufish":"Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical. Sterne.","xylophilous":"Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.","manicheism":"The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichæans.","subtilism":"The quality or state of being subtile; subtility; subtlety. The high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus. Milman.","christian science":"A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.","rue":"1. (Bot.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton. They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace. Jer. Taylor. 2. Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret. Goat's rue. See under Goat. -- Rue anemone, a pretty springtime flower (Thalictrum anemonides) common in the United States. -- Wall rue, a little fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) common on walls in Europe.\n\n1. To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over. Chaucer. I wept to see, and rued it from my heart. Chapmen. Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Milton. 2. To cause to grieve; to afflict. [Obs.] \"God wot, it rueth me.\" Chaucer. 3. To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. To have compassion. [Obs.] God so wisly [i. e., truly] on my soul rue. Chaucer. Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them. Ridley. 2. To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. Work by counsel and thou shalt not rue. Chaucer. Old year, we'll dearly rue for you. Tennyson.\n\nSorrow; repetance. [Obs.] Shak.","imbruement":"The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.","shaftment":"A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]","maleficent":"Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.","threshold":"1. The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door. 2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.","tranquilizer":"One who, or that which, tranquilizes.","throneless":"Having no throne.","poleless":"Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.","coracoid":"1. Shaped like a crow's beak. 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.\n\nThe coracoid bone or process.","ghastly":"1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay. 2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.\n\nIn a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.","encage":"To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.","parieto-":"A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.","lustrical":"Pertaining to, or used for, purification.","stannite":"A mineral of a steel","waped":"Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.]","countersign":"To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.\n\n1. The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity. 2. (Mil.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.","pretensed":"Pretended; feigned. [Obs.] -- Pre*tens\"ed*ly, adv. [Obs.]","undisposedness":"Indisposition; disinclination.","xiphoid":"(a) Like a sword; ensiform. (b) Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.","encarnalize":"To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] \"Encarnalize their spirits.\" Tennyson.","multiramose":"Having many branches.","proctocele":"Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. Dunglison.","oxymel":"A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. Sir T. Elyot.","kidney":"1. (Anat.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically discharged. 2. Habit; disposition; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns. Note: This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of the condition of an animal as to fatness. \"Think of that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to heat as butter.\" Shak. 3. A waiter. [Old Cant] Tatler. Floating kidney. See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Kidney bean (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its shape. It is of the genus Phaseolus (P. vulgaris). See under Bean. -- Kidney ore (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.","squamose":"1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.","habit":"1. The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body. 2. (Biol.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism. 3. Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior. A man of very shy, retired habits. W. Irving. 4. Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. Shak. There are, among the states, several of Venus, in different habits. Addison. Syn. -- Practice; mode; manner; way; custom; fashion. -- Habit, Custom. Habit is a disposition or tendency leading us to do easily, naturally, and with growing certainty, what we do often; custom is external, being habitual use or the frequent repetition of the same act. The two operate reciprocally on each other. The custom of giving produces a habit of liberality; habits of devotion promote the custom of going to church. Custom also supposes an act of the will, selecting given modes of procedure; habit is a law of our being, a kind of \"second nature\" which grows up within us. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! Shak. He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute, Consent, or custom. Milton.\n\n1. To inhabit. [Obs.] In thilke places as they [birds] habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.","myelencephalous":"Of or pertaining to the Myelencephala.","sorehon":"Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. Spenser.","ridgelet":"A little ridge.","phrygian":"Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants. Phrygian mode (Mus.), one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; -- so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas. Moore (Encyc. of Music). -- Phrygian stone, a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, -- used by the ancients in dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent.\n\n1. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) A Montanist.","sootish":"Sooty. Sir T. Browne.","venatica":"See Vinatico.","photoplay":"A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.","protovertebra":"One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm. Note: The protovertebræ were long regarded as rudiments of the permanent vertebræ, but they are now known to give rise to the dorsal muscles and other structures as well as the vertebral column. See Myotome.","hop-thumb":"See Hop-o'-my-thumb.","unresistible":"Irresistible. W. Temple.","spekboom":"The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants. Balfour (Cyc. of India).","imparter":"One who imparts.","symbiosis":"The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algæ and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algæ in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.","cognizably":"In a cognizable manner.","genteel":"1. Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address. 2. Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law. 3. Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance. Syn. -- Polite; well-bred; refined; polished.","raffia palm":"(a) A pinnate-leaved palm (Raphia ruffia) native of Madagascar, and of considerable economic importance on account of the strong fiber (raffia) obtained from its leafstalks. (b) The jupati palm.","astronomical":"Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom\"ic*al*ly, adv. Astronomical clock. See under Clock. -- Astronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.","enneahedral":"Having nine sides.","jacobitism":"The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.","iconoclasm":"The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.","guardage":"Wardship [Obs.] Shak.","homoiousian":"One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoousian.\n\nOf or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief.","housecarl":"A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.","scrupulize":"To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.","schelly":"The powan. [Prov. Eng.]","bark louse":"An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines. Note: The wingless females assume the shape of scales. The bark louse of vine is Pulvinaria innumerabilis; that of the pear is Lecanium pyri. See Orange scale.","flirtingly":"In a flirting manner.","fluctisonous":"Sounding like waves.","comprisal":"The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.","smooth-chinned":"Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.","gownman":"One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.","hieromancy":"Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.","nympha":"1. (Zoöl.) Same as Nymph, 3. 2. pl. (Anat.) Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.","alchemic":"Of or relating to alchemy.","photo-electric cell":"A cell (as one of two electrodes embedded in selenium) which by exposure to light generates an electric current.","stupefacient":"Producing stupefaction; stupefactive. -- n. (Med.) Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.","recurvous":"Recurved. Derham.","morphinism":"A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.","obolus":"(a) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. (b) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.","oiled":"Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.","falx":"A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.","bebloody":"To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.","joram":"See Jorum.","frightless":"Free from fright; fearless. [Obs.]","malignify":"To make malign or malignant. [R.] \"A strong faith malignified.\" Southey.","fourteenth":"1. Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month. 2. Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.\n\n1. One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth. 2. (Mus.) The octave of the seventh.","alone":"1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. 2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin. 3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.] God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley. 4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak. Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.\n\nSolely; simply; exclusively.","endower":"To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.\n\nOne who endows.","bing":"A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. \"Potato bings.\" Burns. \"A bing of corn.\" Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]","eventuate":"To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.","nitromuriatic":"Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric.","bettong":"A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.","messinese":"Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.","ramulus":"A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.","water bird":"Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.","lithoglyph":"An engraving on a gem.","tilt-mill":"A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.","sickle":"1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. 2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.","etacist":"One who favors etacism.","quadrillion":"According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.","uranography":"A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.","unmaterial":"Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.","prairial":"The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.","mistradition":"A wrong tradition. \"Monsters of mistradition.\" Tennyson.","pourparler":"A consultation preliminary to a treaty.","borecole":"A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.","binder":"1. One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books. 2. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.","moulder":"One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.\n\nTo crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.\n\nTo turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away. [Time's] gradual touch Has moldered into beauty many a tower. Mason.\n\nSee Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.","spitter":"One who ejects saliva from the mouth.\n\n1. One who puts meat on a spit. 2. (Zoöl.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.","tortious":"1. Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] \"Tortious power.\" Spenser. 2. (Law) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.","shortness":"The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.","gynaecium":"The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.","massora":"Same as Masora.","foxy":"1. Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily. Modred's narrow, foxy face. Tennyson. 2. Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color. 3. Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling. 4. Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.","stoniness":"The quality or state of being stony.","capnomor":"A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.","wing-handed":"Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.","perseus":"1. (Class. Myth.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa. 2. (Astron.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.","eyelet":"1. A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. 2. A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.","tatta":"A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]","concubinate":"Concubinage. [Obs.] Johnson.","pavese":"Pavise. [Obs.]","eaglewood":"A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.","interjaculate":"To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] Thackeray.","philostorgy":"Natural affection, as of parents for their children. [R.]","aqueousness":"Wateriness.","scut":"The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. \"He ran like a scut.\" Skelton. How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, wheras that part in others attains no higher than a scut. Sir T. Browne. My doe with the black scut. Shak.","stupefiedness":"Quality of being stupid.","wapinschaw":"An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district. [Scot.] Jamieson. Sir W. Scott.","dissensious":"Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen\"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.","camelbacked":"Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.","eightfold":"Eight times a quantity.","armory":"1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.] 4. Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings. Spensplw. 5. That branch of hplwaldry which treats of coat armor. The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.","excrescency":"Excrescence. [Obs.]","mischief-making":"Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.","baiter":"One who baits; a tormentor.","irremovable":"Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov\"a*bly, adv.","phaeospore":"A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order (Phæosporeæ) of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor\"ic, a.","roadmaster":"One who has charge of the track; --called also roadmaster.","labyrinthibranch":"Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. -- n. One of the Labyrinthici.","snapshot":"1. Commonly Snap shot. (a) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights. (b) (Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2). 2. An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.","queachy":"1. Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. \"The queachy fens.\" \"Godwin's queachy sands.\" Drayton. 2. Like a queach; thick; bushy. [Obs.] Cockeram.","pommel":"A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as: (a) The knob on the hilt of a sword. Macaulay. (b) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. (c) The top (of the head). Chaucer. (d) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.\n\nTo beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]","macrurous":"Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail.","microbiology":"The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log\"ic*al (#), a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol\"o*gist (#), n.","ogham":"A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc. [Written also ogam.]","ruba-dub":"The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster.","skeet":"A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.","schistic":"Schistose.","courtesan":"A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton.","dichotomist":"One who dichotomizes. Bacon.","sharded":"Having elytra, as a beetle.","bursiculate":"Bursiform.","potto":"(a) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog. (b) The kinkajou. POTT'S DISEASE Pott's\" dis*ease\". (Med.) Caries of the vertebræ, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.","pou sto":"A place to stand upon; a locus standi; hence, a foundation or basis for operations.","banlieue":"The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. Brande & C.","verge":"1. A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean. 2. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. [Eng.] 3. (Eng. Law) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore. 4. A virgate; a yardland. [Obs.] 5. A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent. Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it, the theory . . . implies an absurdity. J. S. Mill. But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. M. Arnold. 6. A circumference; a circle; a ring. The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak. 7. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. Oxf. Gloss. (b) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof. Encyc. Brit. 8. (Horol.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement. 9. (Hort.) (a) The edge or outside of a bed or border. (b) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre. 10. The penis. 11. (Zoöl.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. Syn. -- Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.\n\n1. To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach. 2. To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. Barrow. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. Swift.","logic":"1. The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning. Logic is science of the laws of thought, as that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. \" Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think. \" Abp. Thomson. 2. A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.","tressel":"A trestle.","carnosity":"1. (Med.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. Wiseman. 2. Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland. CARNOT'S CYCLE Car`not's\" cy\"cle. [After N. L. S. Carnot, French physicist.] (Thermodynamics) An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.","mac":"A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.","electrolysis":"The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.","partenope":"1. (Gr. Myth.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs. 2. One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.","exactitude":"The quality of being exact; exactness.","phlorol":"A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.","imboss":"See Emboss.","ornithopoda":"An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.","brabble":"To clamor; to contest noisily. [R.]\n\nA broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.","steeve":"To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.\n\n1. (Shipbuilding) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc. 2. To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).\n\n(a) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving. (b) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.","talmudic":"Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.","caftan":"A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.\n\nTo clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.","mesoseme":"Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.","begone":"Go away; depart; get you gone.\n\nSurrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.","pyx":"1. ( R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. 2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. Mushet. 3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. Weale. 4. (Anat.) Same as Pyxis. Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch., a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. Encyc. Brit.\n\nTo test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] Mushet.","airward":"Toward the air; upward. [R.] Keats.","rebaptism":"A second baptism.","wrathily":"In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. [Colloq.]","ammonal":"An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminium and nitrate of ammonium.","blackguardly":"In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.","magically":"In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.","phonological":"Of or pertaining to phonology.","vaporish":"1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.","water mint":"A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.","gaff":"1. A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish. 2. (Naut.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended. 3. Same as Gaffle, 1. Wright.\n\nTo strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.","vaccine":"Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. -- n. The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.","porite":"Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidæ.","unviolable":"Inviolable.","roundsman":"A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.","thou":"The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come Matt. xi. 3. Note: \"In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.\" Skeat. Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.\n\nTo address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt. If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. Shak.\n\nTo use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends. [R.]","asarone":"A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europæum; -- called also camphor of asarum.","castalian":"Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.","chasable":"Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.","jacquerie":"The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.","beneficiary":"1. Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon. 2. Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.\n\n1. A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. Ayliffe. 2. One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.","cassimere":"A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]","angling":"The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton.","blae":"Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored. [Scot.]","sophomore":"One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]","whipsaw":"A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.","triableness":"Quality or state of being triable.","passant":"1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. [Obs.] Many opinions are passant. Sir T. Browne. 2. Curs [Obs.] On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop. Sir P. Pett. 3. Surpassing; excelling. [Obs.] Chaucer. 4. (Her.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.","shellfish":"Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.","suavity":"1. Sweetness to the taste. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address. Glanvill.","ideo-motor":"Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Carpenter.","phenalgin":"An ammoniated compound of phenyl and acetamide, used as an analgesic and antipyretic. It resembles phenacetin in its therapeutic action.","hade":"1. The descent of a hill. [Obs.] 2. (Mining) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.\n\nTo deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.","fistinut":"A pistachio nut. [Obs.] Johnson.","lugmark":"A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.","ebb":"The European bunting.\n\n1. The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley. 2. The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay. \"Our ebb of life.\" Roscommon. Painting was then at its lowest ebb. Dryden. Ebb and flow, the alternate ebb and flood of the tide; often used figuratively. This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. A. T. Hadley.\n\n1. To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope. 2. To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede. The hours of life ebb fast. Blackmore. Syn. -- To recede; retire; withdraw; decay; decrease; wane; sink; lower.\n\nTo cause to flow back. [Obs.] Ford.\n\nReceding; going out; falling; shallow; low. The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. Holland.","carte quarte":"A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.","caperer":"One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.","cockal":"1. A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.] 2. The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.","appallment":"Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [Obs.] Bacon.","naturism":"The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.","oviduct":"A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.","derre":"Dearer. [Obs.] Chaucer.","underestimate":"To set to\n\nThe act of underestimating; too low an estimate.","conscionable":"Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton.","tupi":"An Indian of the tribe from which the Tupian stock takes its name, dwelling, at the advent of the Portuguese, about the mouth of the Amazon. Also, their language, which is the basis of the Indian trade language of the Amazon.","commonness":"1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.","persuasion":"1. The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway. 2. The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper. 3. A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed. Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. Jefferson. 4. The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness. Is 't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion Shak. 5. That which persuades; a persuasive. [R.] Syn. -- See Conviction.","brazen":"1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass. 2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass. 3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.\n\nTo carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through. Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black.","distad":"Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.","domal":"Pertaining to a house. Addison.","icefall":"A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall. Coleridge.","false-heart":"False-hearted. Shak.","griever":"One who, or that which, grieves.","cicatricle":"The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.","regma":"A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.","polwig":"A polliwig. Holland.","brash":"Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.\n\nBrittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.\n\n1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. 2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. 3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell. 4. Broken fragments of ice. Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.","pharmaceutist":"One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.","guereza":"A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.","flabbiness":"Quality or state of being flabby.","pertain":"1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward. 2. To have relation or reference to something. These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time. Latimer.","revocable":"Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev\"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev\"o*ca*bly, adv.","agile":"Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper. Syn. -- Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.","fenestral":"1. (Arch.) Pertaining to a window or to windows. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a fenestra.\n\nA casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass. Weale.","mump":"1. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. He mumps, and lovers, and hangs the lip. Taylor, 1630. 2. To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly. 3. To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar. And then when mumping with a sore leg, ... canting and whining. Burke. 4. To be sullen or sulky. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly. Old men who mump their passion. Goldsmith. 2. To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food. 3. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.","northwestwardly":"Toward the northwest.","magdala":"Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.","stupid":"1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. Swift. Syn. -- Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu\"pid*ly, adv. -- Stu\"pid*ness, n.","pelecoid":"A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants. [Written also pelicoid.] Math. Dict.","upsend":"To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.","hydropic":"Dropsical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.","demain":"1. Rule; management. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Law) See Demesne.","hectare":"A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.","outlearn":"1. To excel or surpass in learing. 2. To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of. Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn. Spenser. Men and gods have not outlearned it [love]. Emerson.","paronymy":"The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.","impotency":"1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton. 2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton. 3. (Law & Med.) Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.","proportional":"1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. Hutton. 3. (Math.) Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter. Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic. -- Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale. -- Proportional scales, compasses, dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.\n\n1. (Math.) Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional. 2. (Chem.) The combining weight or equivalent of an element. [Obs.]","fermentable":"Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.","purflew":"1. A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work. 2. (Her.) A border of any heraldic fur.","illustrious":"1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton. 3. Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; remarkable; brilliant; conspicuous; noted; celebrated; signal; renowened; eminent; exalted; noble; glorious. See Distinguished, Famous.","flood":"1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton. 2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. 3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency. 4. Menstrual disharge; menses. Harvey. Flood anchor (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising. -- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. -- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. -- Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark. -- Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. -- The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.\n\n1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. 2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.","horseman":"1. A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man. 2. (Mil.) A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. (b) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).","strake":"imp. of Strike. Spenser.\n\n1. A streak. [Obs.] Spenser.\"White strake.\" Gen. xxx. 37. 2. An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces. 3. (Shipbuilding) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak. Note: The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes. 4. (Mining) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.","propaganda":"1. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions. (b) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world. 2. Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.","basilic":"Basilica.\n\n1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.","outdream":"To pass, or escape, while dreaming. \"To oultdream dangers.\" Beau. & Fl.","bevilled":"Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.","superimpose":"To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si\"tion, n.","straddle":"1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. 2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.\n\nTo place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.\n\n1. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. 2. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. 3. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a \"put\" and a \"call,\" i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [Broker's Cant]","multinuclear":"Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.","naphthoic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives, called naphthoic acids.","becharm":"To charm; to captivate.","sakiyeh":"A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope.","epicentral":"Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.","ya":"Yea. [Obs.] Chaucer.","zemni":"The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows.","betacismus":"Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.","ambassy":"See Embassy, the usual spelling. Helps.","unsocket":"To loose or take from a socket.","fickly":"In a fickle manner. [Obs.] Pepys.","ascessancy":"See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]","shelf":"1. (Arch.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament. 2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny sands and shelves. Milton. On the secret shelves with fury cast. Dryden. 3. (Mining) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock. 4. (Naut.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads. D. Kemp. To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or useless; to dismiss; to discard.","dumfound":"To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also dumbfound.] Spectator.","three-color":"Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.","tincture":"1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red. 2. (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory. Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors and their representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner. The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair, counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See Illustration in Appendix. 3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent. 4. (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution. Note: According to the United States Pharmacopoeia, the term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic solutions of volatile substances being called spirits. Ethereal tincture, a solution of medicinal substance in ether. 5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel. 6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners. All manners take a tincture from our own. Pope. Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture. Macaulay.\n\n1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts. 2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge. The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul. Barrow.","bitterweed":"A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.","coachman":"1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. 2. (Zoöl.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.","conference":"1. The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison. [Obs.] Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker. 2. The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views. Nor with such free and friendly conference As he hath used of old. Shak. 3. A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions. 4. A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them. 5. (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting, a meeting for conference. Specifically, a meeting conducted (usually) by laymen, for conference and prayer. [U. S.] -- Conference room, a room for conference and prayer, and for the pastor's less formal addresses. [U. S.]","lentor":"1. Tenacity; viscidity; viscidity, as of fluids. 2. Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.","collocate":"Set; placed. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\nTo set or place; to set; to station. To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.","overlight":"Too strong a light. Bacon.\n\nToo light or frivolous; giddy.","chandlery":"Commodities sold by a chandler.","inextricableness":"The state of being inextricable.","cata":"The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.","omnigenous":"Consisting of all kinds. [R.]","spenserian":"Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem \"The Faërie Queene.\"","dissuasory":"A dissuasive. [R.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.","episcopacy":"Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.","emblazon":"1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon. 2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.","radiothorium":"A radioactive substance apparently formed as a product from thorium.","shuttered":"Furnished with shutters.","demissive":"Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).","dhoorra":"Indian millet. See Durra.","top-cloth":"A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.","impolarly":"Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","chablis":"A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.","cylindrically":"In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.","earshrift":"A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. [Obs.] Cartwright.","scrotocele":"A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.","crinet":"A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.","excambion":"Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.","versification":"The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.","interspinous":"Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.","shopgirl":"A girl employed in a shop.","subduer":"One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.","hemorrhoidal":"1. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.","voided":"1. Emptied; evacuated. 2. Annulled; invalidated. 3. (Her.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge.","naturalistic":"1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. 2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. \"Naturalistic bit of pantomime.\" W. D. Howells.","variate":"To alter; to make different; to vary.","nuncupate":"1. To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow. 2. To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book. [Obs.] Evelyn.","sord":"See Sward. [R.] Milton.","pennyworth":"1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. \"A dear pennyworth.\" Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3. A small quantity; a trifle. Bacon.","gilding":"1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.","dormant":"1. Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke. 2. (Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner. -- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer. -- Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or \" sleep.\" Arch. Pub. Soc. -- Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.","telegraph plant":"An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.","protectorship":", The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.","appulsive":"Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.","catechetically":"In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.","gopher wood":"A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.","acroterium":"(a) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker. (b) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.","philology":"1. Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] Johnson. 2. The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science. Note: Philology comprehends a knowledge of the etymology, or origin and combination of words; grammar, the construction of sentences, or use of words in language; criticism, the interpretation of authors, the affinities of different languages, and whatever relates to the history or present state of languages. It sometimes includes rhetoric, poetry, history, and antiquities. 3. A treatise on the science of language.","pneumoskeleton":"A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.","stepdaughter":"A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.","worsen":"1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst. [R.]\n\nTo grow or become worse. De Quincey. Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve. Carlyle.","quaternity":"1. The number four. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 2. The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.","outwatch":"To exceed in watching.","femininity":"1. The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness. 2. The female form. [Obs.] O serpent under femininitee. Chaucer.","pedipalpi":"A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.","acalephae":"A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.","prytaneum":"A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.","rabidly":"In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.","delundung":"An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.","repellency":"The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.","frater":"A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.","iodism":"A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.","winebibber":"One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20. -- Wine\"bib`bing, n.","susurrous":"Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds. [R.]","lentitude":"Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]","fairly":"1. In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne. 2. Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade. 3. Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne. 4. Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.","tragi-comic":"Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com\"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.","tartareous":"Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.\n\n1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar. 2. (Bot.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.","angellike":"Resembling an angel.","blastophoric":"Relating to the blastophore.","cockmatch":"A cockfight.","fon":"A fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Chaucer.","sloyd":"Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. The sloyd system derives its name from the fact that it was adopted or largely developed from a similar Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.","uranium":"An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239. Note: Uranium was discovered in the state of an oxide by Klaproth in 1789, and so named in honor of Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781.","yead":"Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [Obs.] Years yead away and faces fair deflower. Drant.","obeah":"Same as Obi. -- a. Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man. B. Edwards.","continuative":"1. (Logic) A term or expression denoting continuance. [R.] To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is. I. Watts. 2. (Gram.) A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction. Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole. Harris.","pericardian":"Pericardiac.","erythrophyll":"The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.","monasticism":"The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.","depressant":"An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.","quoth":"Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he. \"Let me not live, quoth he.\" Shak.","forslugge":"To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.","chaps":"The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. \"Open your chaps again.\" Shak.","confiteor":"A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.","tub":"1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. 2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. 3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South. 4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] Shak. 5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin. 6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. -- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.\n\nTo plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.\n\nTo make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] Don't we all tub in England London Spectator.","exothecium":"The outer coat of the anther.","dipsomania":"A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.","pantisocratist":"One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy. Macaulay.","biggen":"To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.","bibliopegistic":"Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.","open-headed":"Bareheaded. [Obs.]","parentally":"In a parental manner.","foam":"The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids,or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.\n\n1. To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark ix. 18. 2. To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.\n\nTo cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam. \"Foaming out their own shame.\" Jude 13.","ocean":"1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans. 3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. Locke.\n\nOf or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. Milton.","seabeard":"A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.","subarachnoid":"Situated under the arachnoid membrane.","leisurably":"At leisure. [Obs.]","whimmy":"Full of whims; whimsical. The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so. Coleridge.","intolerancy":"Intolerance. Bailey.","parsonish":"Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement. [Colloq.]","cumshaw":"A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.\n\nTo give or make a present to.","outpeer":"To excel. [R.] Shak.","theatre":"1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. 2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc. 3. That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton. 4. A sphere or scheme of operation. [Obs.] For if a man can be partaker of God's theater, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest. Bacon. 5. A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.","circumfluent":"Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. \"The deep, circumfluent waves.\" Pope.","valeritrine":"A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.","bungle":"To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.\n\nTo make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.\n\nA clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.","hurlbone":"1. See Whirlbone. 2. (Far.) A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse. Crabb.","saveable":"See Savable.","diffident":"1. Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth. 2. Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve. The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer. Longfellow. Syn. -- Distrustful; suspicious; hesitating; doubtful; modest; bashful; lowly; reserved.","amianthoid":"Resembling amianthus.","enfree":"To set free. [Obs.] \"The enfreed Antenor.\" Shak.","worldly":"1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. \"I thus neglecting worldly ends.\" Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak. 3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nWith relation to this life; in a worldly manner. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.","limpness":"The quality or state of being limp.","ripping panel":"A long patch, on a balloon, to be ripped off, by the rip cord, at landing, in order to allow the immediate escape of gas and instant deflation of the bag.","cannibal":"A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. Darwin.\n\nRelating to cannibals or cannibalism. \"Cannibal terror.\" Burke.","gaugeable":"Capable of being gauged.","mousing":"Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. \"Mousing saints.\" L'Estrange.\n\n1. The act of hunting mice. 2. (Naut.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out. 3. A ratchet movement in a loom. Mousing hook, a hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.","closely":"1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; privately. [Obs.] That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.","onager":"1. (Rom.Antiq.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt. 2. (Zoöl.) A wild ass, especially the koulan.","whithersoever":"To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.","endenize":"To endenizen. [Obs.]","clarendon":"A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. Note: This line is in nonpareil Clarendon.","segmented":"Divided into segments or joints; articulated.","deshabille":"An undress; a careless toilet.","requisitor":"One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.","deportation":"The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.","propertied":"Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. \"The propertied and satisfied classes.\" M. Arnold.","geniculate":"Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.\n\nTo form joints or knots on. [R.] Cockeram.","bescorn":"To treat with scorn. \"Then was he bescorned.\" Chaucer.","immediate":"1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. \"Assemble we immediate council.\" Shak. Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. Milton. 3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause. The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. Sir. W. Hamilton. Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away. Syn. -- Proximate; close; direct; next.","kidfox":"A young fox Shak.","spalpeen":"A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]","neufchatel":"A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.","admix":"To mingle with something else; to mix. [R.]","trust company":"Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.","palestinean":"Of or pertaining to Palestine.","abjectly":"Meanly; servilely.","antiquarian":"Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.\n\n1. An antiquary. 2. A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.","deoxygenate":"To deoxidize. [Obs.]","glycyrrhizin":"A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.","paradigm":"1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] \"The paradigms and patterns of all things.\" Cudworth. 2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection. 3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.","prerogatived":"Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege. [R.] Shak.","carvelbuilt":"Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.","arrear":"To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nThat which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.","due":"1. Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable. 2. Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. Her obedience, which is due to me. Shak. With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Gray. 3. Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time. 4. Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday. 5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. This effect is due to the attraction of the sun. J. D. Forbes.\n\nDirectly; exactly; as, a due east course.\n\n1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson. 2. Right; just title or claim. The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. Milton.\n\nTo endue. [Obs.] Shak.","sway":"1. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. Spenser. 2. To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. The will of man is by his reason swayed. Shak. She could not sway her house. Shak. This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue. Dryden. 3. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion. As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed. Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson. 4. (Naut.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards. Syn. -- To bias; rule; govern; direct; influence; swing; move; wave; wield.\n\n1. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline. The balance sways on our part. Bacon. 2. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward. 3. To have weight or influence. The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much. Hooker. 4. To bear sway; to rule; to govern. Hadst thou swayed as kings should do. Shak.\n\n1. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon. With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft. Milton. 2. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires. A. Tucker. 3. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance. Expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle. Milton. 4. Rule; dominion; control. Cowper. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Addison. 5. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Syn. -- Rule; dominion; power; empire; control; influence; direction; preponderance; ascendency.","coparcenary":"Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.","firing":"1. The act of disharging firearms. 2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. Knight. 3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. Dunglison. 4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln. 5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.","baresthesiometer":"An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met\"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met\"ric (#), a.","colewort":"1. A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. 2. Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.","yes":"Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to Ant: no. Note: Yes is used, like yea, to enforce, by repetition or addition, something which precedes; as, you have done all this -- yes, you have done more. \"Yes, you despise the man books confined.\" Pope. Note: \"The fine distinction between `yea' and `yes,' `nay' and `no,' that once existed in English, has quite disappeared. `Yea' and `nay' in Wyclif's time, and a good deal later, were the answers to questions framed in the affirmative. `Will he come' To this it would have been replied, `Yea' or `Nay', as the case might be. But, `Will he not come' To this the answer would have been `Yes' or `No.' Sir Thomas More finds fault with Tyndale, that in his translation of the Bible he had not observed this distinction, which was evidently therefore going out even then, that is, in the reign of Henry VIII.; and shortly after it was quite forgotten.\" Trench.","stirring":"Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.","sunproof":"Impervious to the rays of the sun. \"Darksome yew, sunproof.\" Marston.","idiocrasis":"Idiocracy.","usure":"To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest. [Obs.] \"The usuringb senate.\" Shak. I usured not ne to me usured any man. Wyclif (Jer. xv. 10).\n\nUsury. [Obs.] Wyclif. Foul usure and lucre of villainy. Chaucer.","disprofit":"Loss; damage. Foxe.\n\nTo be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.","immurement":"The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.","pinfold":"A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.","syrphus fly":"Any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Syrphus and allied genera. They are usually bright-colored, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. The larvæ feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.","docetic":"Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. \"Docetic Gnosticism.\" Plumptre.","solvability":"1. The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem. 2. The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.","finlander":"A native or inhabitant of Finland.","stereotomical":"Of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.","dominus":"Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.","stereographically":"In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.","emergence":"The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.","undifferentiated":"Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.","levitically":"After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with the levitical law.","breadwinner":"The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.","cerulescent":"Tending to cerulean; light bluish.","scorification":"The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.","pathway":"A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.","recelebrate":"To celebrate again, or anew. -- Re*cel`e*bra\"tion, n.","umbelliferous":"(a) Producing umbels. (b) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferæ) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.","lauriferous":"Producing, or bringing, laurel.","vaso-inhibitory":"See Vasodilator.","fervor":"1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak. Syn. -- Fervor, Ardor. Fervor is a boiling heat, and ardor is a burning heat. Hence, in metaphor, we commonly use fervor and its derivatives when we conceive of thoughts or emotions under the image of ebullition, or as pouring themselves forth. Thus we speak of the fervor of passion, fervid declamation, fervid importunity, fervent supplication, fervent desires, etc. Ardent is used when we think of anything as springing from a deepseated glow of soul; as, ardent friendship, ardent zeal, ardent devotedness; burning with ardor for the fight.","electro-telegraphic":"Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.","priest-ridden":"Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.","amitosis":"Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.","unicostate":"Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.","propulsion":"1. The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion. 2. An impelling act or movement. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion. Whittier.","assign":"1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott. 2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. Spenser. It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey. 3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.\n\nA thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [Obs.] Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak.\n\nA person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.","bedgown":"A nightgown.","smatter":"1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.\n\n1. To talk superficially about. 2. To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack. Chaucer.\n\nSuperficial knowledge; a smattering.","mutuary":"One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind. Bouvier.","elf":"1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak. 2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf. Elf arrow, a flint arrowhead; - - so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.\n\nTo entangle mischievously, as an elf might do. Elf all my hair in knots. Shak.","noel":"Same as Nowel.","affectioned":"1. Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. [Obs.] Shak.","hamite":"A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.\n\nA descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.","foremother":"A female ancestor.","indefectible":"Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.","wit-cracker":"One who breaks jests; a joker. [Obs.] Shak.","newfangly":"In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. More.","aufklarung":"A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the \"Encyclopedia\" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.","clinometric":"1. Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer. 2. Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.","gardening":"The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.","dulciana":"A sweet-toned stop of an organ.","repolish":"To polish again.","pur":"To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. [Written also purr.]\n\nTo signify or express by purring. Gray.\n\nThe low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure. [Written also purr.]","mitten":"1. A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer. 2. A cover for the wrist and forearm. To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]","gozzard":"See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]","edingtonite":"A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.","melodiograph":"A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.","autopsorin":"That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.","incantatory":"Dealing by enchantment; magical. Sir T. Browne.","practical":"1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. \"Man's practical understanding.\" South. \"For all practical purposes.\" Macaulay. 3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind. 4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. Practical joke, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; esp., a trick played upon a person.","tendriled":"Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. \"The thousand tendriled vine.\" Southey.","curability":"The state of being curable; curableness.","chelonia":"An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.","physicological":"Of or pertaining to physicologic. Swift.","frenchism":"A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.","ploughshare":"The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.","peak":"1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. \"Run your beard into a peak.\" Beau. & Fl. 2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. Silent upon a peak in Darien. Keats. 3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.] Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.\n\n1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. There peaketh up a mighty high mount. Holand. 2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. \"Dwindle, peak, and pine.\" Shak. 3. Etym: [Cf. Peek.] To pry; to peep slyly. Shak. Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.\n\nTo raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.","fasciculate":"Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.","commandant":"A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.","intervent":"To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.] Chapman.","duskily":"In a dusky manner. Byron.","pentad":"Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.\n\nHaving the valence of a pentad.","tralineate":"To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.","aerator":"That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.","mungrel":"See Mongrel.","monoecism":"The state or condition of being monoecious.","double dealer":"One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.","abjectness":"The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.","centilitre":"The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.","pappous":"Pappose.","gladiature":"Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest. Gayton.","reimportune":"To importune again.","nonagrian":"Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.","perityphlitis":"Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.","peculate":"To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.","brachydiagonal":"Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.\n\nThe shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.","brontotherium":"A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.","interadditive":"Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.","shaffle":"To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]","shorthand":"A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.","innyard":"The yard adjoining an inn.","pastorium":"A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches. [Southern U. S.]","hibernacle":"That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. Martyn.","robing":"The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.","guinea":"1. A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named. 2. A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings. Pinkerton. Guinea corn. (Bot.) See Durra. -- Guinea Current (Geog.), a current in the Atlantic Ocean setting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. [Obs.] Gay. -- Guinea fowl, Guinea hen (Zoöl.), an African gallinaceous bird, of the genus Numida, allied to the pheasants. The common domesticated species (N. meleagris), has a colored fleshy horn on each aide of the head, and is of a dark gray color, variegated with small white spots. The crested Guinea fowl (N. cristata) is a finer species.-- Guinea grains (Bot.), grains of Paradise, or amomum. See Amomum. -- Guinea grass (Bot.), a tall strong forage grass (Panicum jumentorum) introduced. from Africa into the West Indies and Southern United States. -- Guinea-hen flower (Bot.), a liliaceous flower (Fritillaria Meleagris) with petals spotted like the feathers of the Guinea hen. -- Guinea peach. See under Peach. -- Guinea pepper (Bot.), the pods of the Xylopia aromatica, a tree of the order Anonaceæ, found in tropical West Africa. They are also sold under the name of Piper Æthiopicum. --Guinea pig. Note: [Prob. a mistake for Guiana pig.] (a) (Zoöl.) A small Brazilian rodent (Cavia cobaya), about seven inches in length and usually of a white color, with spots of orange and black. (b) A contemptuous sobriquet. Smollett. -- Guinea plum (Bot.), the fruit of Parinarium excelsum, a large West African tree of the order Chrysobalaneæ, having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum, which is also called gray plum and rough-skin plum. -- Guinea worm (Zoöl.), a long and slender African nematoid worm (Filaria Medinensis) of a white color. It lives in the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces painful sores.","locative":"Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case.","paradoxology":"The use of paradoxes. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","cushat":"The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.","merry-andrew":"One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.","unjust":"1. Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge. 2. Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation. -- Un*just\"ly, adv. -- Un*just\"ness, n.","baby farm":"A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.","balanceable":"Such as can be balanced.","desultorious":"Desultory. [R.]","sperre":"To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten. [Obs.] \"To sperre the gate.\" Spenser.","hilum":"1. (Bot.) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile. 2. (Anat.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.","portos":"See Portass. [Obs.]","toluenyl":"Tolyl. [Obs.]","umpire":"1. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow. 2. (Law) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge.\n\n1. To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies. South. 2. To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. [Colloq.]\n\nTo act as umpire or arbitrator.","immoderacy":"Immoderateness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","devexity":"A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)","organizability":"Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.","pachyote":"One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.","distinctly":"1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly. 2. With meaning; significantly. [Obs.] Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Shak. Syn. -- Separately; clearly; plainly; obviously.","moky":"Misty; dark; murky; muggy. [Obs.]","cabal":"1. Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala [Obs.] Hakewill. 2. A secret. [Obs.] \"The measuring of the temple, a cabal found out but lately.\" B. Jonson. 3. A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto. Note: It so happend, by a whimsical coincidence, that in 1671 the cabinet consisted of five persons, the initial letters of whose names made up the word cabal; Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale. Macaulay. 4. The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; in intrigue. By cursed cabals of women. Dryden. Syn. - Junto; intrigue; plot; combination; conspiracy. -- Cabal, Combination, Faction. An association for some purpose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent a chang in prices. A cabal is a secret association of a few individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes in agitating the community and working up an excitement with a view to change the existing order of things. \"Selfishness, insubordination, and laxity of morals give rise to combinations, which belong particularly to the lower orders of society. Restless, jealous, ambitious, and little minds are ever forming cabals. Factions belong especially to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes\". Crabb.\n\nTo unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot. Caballing still against it with the great. Dryden.","baybolt":"A bolt with a barbed shank.","remastication":"The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.","weather map":"A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction and velocity of the wind. Isobars and isotherms outline the general distribution of temperature and pressure, while shaded areas indicate the sections over which rain has just fallen. Other lines inclose areas where the temperature has fallen or risen markedly. In tabular form are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station since the last issue, usually 12 hours.","abider":"1. One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] \"Speedy goers and strong abiders.\" Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.","limitour":"See Limiter, 2.","tortility":"The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.","dysphagia":"Difficulty in swallowing.","caltrop":"1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle. 2. (Mil.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.","sundrily":"In sundry ways; variously.","swarf":"To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] \"To swarf for very hunger.\" Sir W. Scott.\n\nThe grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]","dichroism":"The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.","formicate":"Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.","percher":"1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs. 2. One of the Insessores. 3. Etym: [From Perch a pole.] A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] Bailey.","wearish":"1. Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] \"A wearish hand.\" Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. [Obs.] Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.","sought":"imp. & p. p. of Seek.","disdeign":"To disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spenser.","exacinate":"To remove the kernel form.","blatter":"To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] \"The rain blattered.\" Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.","trijugate":"In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.","placentious":"Pleasing; amiable. [Obs.] \"A placentious person.\" Fuller.","bren":"To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.\n\nBran. [Obs.] Chaucer.","viand":"An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural. Cowper. Viands of various kinds allure the taste. Pope.","sassorol":"The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.","gargol":"A distemper in swine; garget. Mortimer.","gestic":"1. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. Goldsmith. 2. Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing. Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art. Sir W. Scott.","sapidity":"The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson.","sprout":"1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. 2. To shoot into ramifications. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\n1. To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed. 2. To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.\n\n1. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. 2. pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. Johnson. Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.","cuvette":"1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table. 2. (Fort.) A cunette. 3. (Spectrometry) (Analytical chemistry) A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer. Note: The shape and materials vary; for ultraviolet spectrometry, quartz is typically used. For visible-light spectrometry, plastic cuvettes may be employed. Occasionally, small vessels used for other laboratory purposes are called cuvettes. cuvette holder, (Spectrometry) A small device used to hold one or more cuvettes[3], shaped specifically to fit in the sample chamber of a particular type of spectrometer, with openings to permit light to pass through the holder and the cuvettes, and designed so as to hold the cuvette accurately and reproducibly within the light path of the spectrometer. For cuvettes with a square horizontal cross-section, the compartments will have a corresponding square cross-section, usu. slightly larger than the cuvette.","bargeman":"The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.","mythe":"See Myth. Grote.","multeity":"Multiplicity. [R.] Coleridge.","tuberculose":"Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.","hyperbolism":"The use of hyperbole. Jefferson.","constellate":"To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light. [R.] The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God. Boule.\n\n1. To unite in one luster or radiane, as stars. [R.] Whe know how to constellate these lights. Boyle. 2. To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens. J. Barlow.","saberbill":"The curlew.","pessimism":"1. (Metaph.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to Ant: optimism. 2. A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.","cigarette":"A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.","sike":"Such. See Such. [Obs.] \"Sike fancies weren foolerie.\" Spenser.\n\nA gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]\n\nA sick person. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo sigh. [Obs.] That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore. Chaucer.\n\nA sigh. [Obs.] Chaucer.","derne":"To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.","reconnaissance":"The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. Specifically: (a) (Geol.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character. (b) (Engin.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work. (c) (Mil.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition. Reconnoissance in force (Mil.), a demonstration or attack by a large force of troops for the purpose of discovering the position and strength of an enemy.","intersectional":"Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections.","archaeologist":"One versed in archæology; an antiquary. Wright.","nidor":"Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","misnomer":"The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title. Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary \"reforms\". Burke. The word \"synonym\" is fact a misnomer. Whatel\n\nTo misname. [R.]","tempest":"1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton. 2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions. 3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett. Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like. Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.\n\nTo disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.\n\nTo storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","beylic":"The territory ruled by a bey.","nodosity":"1. The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland. 2. A knot; a node.","flitter":"To flutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] Lowell.\n\nA rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.","prestable":"Payable. [Scot.]","blackmailing":"The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.","schizopod":"one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.\n\nOf or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda.","ceratohyal":"Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n. A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.","abricock":"See Apricot. [Obs.]","tutele":"Tutelage. [Obs.] Howell.","conducible":"Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.","trithing":"One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] Blackstone.","subperiosteal":"Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation (Surg.), a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.","nosesmart":"A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.","mortgagee":"The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.","bigam":"A bigamist. [Obs.]","deviser":"One who devises.","prevenance":"A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. \"The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence.\" Ward.","maladministration":"Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]","frigate":"1. Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. [Formerly spelled frigat and friggot.] 2. Any small vessel on the water. [Obs.] Spenser. Frigate bird (Zoöl.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States. -- Frigate pelican. (Zoöl.) Same as Frigate bird.","know":"Knee. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow. 2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information. 3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor. v. 21. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton. 4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Matt. vil. 16. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman. 5. To have sexual commerce with. And Adam knew Eve his wife. Gen. iv. 1. Note: Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc. And I knew that thou hearest me always. John xi. 42. The monk he instantly knew to be the prior. Sir W. Scott. In other hands I have known money do good. Dickens. To know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. \" If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.\" Jer. Taylor.\n\n1. To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Is. i. 3. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor. 2. To be assured; to feel confident. To know of,to ask, to inquire. [Obs.] \" Know of your youth, examine well your blood.\" Shak.","shingling":"1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. 2. (Metal) The process of expelling scoriæ and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.","dimethyl":"Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.","sidewalk":"A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]","antilopine":"Of or relating to the antelope.","ravine":"Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. \"Fowls of ravyne.\" Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson.\n\nSee Raven, v. t. & i.\n\n1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.","firmness":"The state or quality of being firm. Syn. -- Firmness, Constancy. Firmness belongs to the will, and constancy to the affections and principles; the former prevents us from yielding, and the latter from fluctuating. Without firmness a man has no character; \"without constancy,\" says Addison, \"there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.\"","brownback":"The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.","fuguist":"A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby.","greekling":"A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.","stovaine":"A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anæsthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anæsthesia below the point of introduction.","dare":"To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they durst not, because they could not. Macaulay. Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. Thackeray. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. Jowett (Thu Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. Skeat. The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). P. Plowman. You know one dare not discover you. Dryden. The fellow dares nopt deceide me. Shak. Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimly snail dare creep. Beau. & Fl. Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.\n\n1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything Bagehot. To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. The Century. 2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy. Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. Dryden.\n\n1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.] It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise. Shak. 2. Defiance; challenge. Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. Chapman. Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar. Shak.\n\nTo lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo terrify; to daunt. [Obs.] For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman. Beau. & Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.\n\nA small fish; the dace.","rhyncholite":"A fossil cephalopod beak.","wheat rust":"A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.","conclusory":"Conclusive. [R.]","swallow-tailed":"1. Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat. 2. (Carp.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck (Zoöl.), the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull (Zoöl.), an Arctic gull (Xema furcata), which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite (Zoöl.), the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.","muffin":"A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.","polo":"1. A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback. 2. A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.","hemostatic":"1. (Med.) Of or relating to stagnation of the blood. 2. Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.\n\nA medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.","suboxide":"An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.","dogship":"The character, or individuality, of a dog.","cone clutch":"A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.","idol":"1. An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser. 2. An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god. That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold. Rev. ix. 20. 3. That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. The soldier's god and people's idol. Denham. 4. A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon. The idols of preconceived opinion. Coleridge.","livelihed":"See Livelihood. [Obs.]","miniate":"To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.\n\nOf or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.","mareis":"A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.","pratic":"See Pratique.","pasque":"See Pasch. Pasque flower (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Anemone, section Pulsatilla. They are perennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana.","forewish":"To wish beforehand.","thysanopterous":"Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.","extensiveness":"The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.","fluidounce":"See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.","traitress":"A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.","virtuoso":"1. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc. Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the noble arts, and is a critic in them. Dryden. 2. (Mus.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.","ca ira":"The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.","chuffiness":"The quality of being chuffy.","houseless":"Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.","affiliate":"1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor. 2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another. 3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer. 4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.\n\nTo connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.","pullman car":"A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.","smarten":"To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. [Colloq.] She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. W. Black.","archierey":"The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.","poeticule":"A poetaster. Swinburne.","cithara":"An ancient instrument resembling the harp.","plot":"1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak. 2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. 3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.\n\nTo make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.\n\n1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot. I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison. 2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.] And when Christ saith. Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton. 3. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] \"A man of much plot.\" Denham. 4. A plan; a purpose. \"No other plot in their religion but serve Got and save their souls.\" Jer. Taylor. 5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. Pope. Syn. -- Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.\n\n1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12. 2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton.\n\nTo plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. \"Plotting an unprofitable crime.\" Dryden. \"Plotting now the fall of others.\" Milton","amused":"1. Diverted. 2. Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.","abdest":"Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.","musang":"A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.","nucin":"See Juglone.","chapelry":"The territorial disrict legally assigned to a chapel.","emendatory":"Pertaining to emendation; corrective. \"Emendatory criticism.\"\" Johnson.","erythrolitmin":"Erythrolein.","mughouse":"An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.","pestiferous":"1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. \"Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.\" Evelyn. \"Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.\" Burke. 2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak.","rhetoric":"1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose. 2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. Locke. 3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling. 4. Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms. Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. Daniel.","chartreuse":"1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France. 2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.","correlativeness":"Quality of being correlative.","serricated":"Covered with fine silky down.","immatureness":"The state or quality of being immature; immaturity. Boyle.","cystine":"A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.","psychoanalysis":"= Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.","gerant":"The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.","photochromatic":"Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.","plurality":"1. The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb. 2. The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority. Take the plurality of the world, and they are neither wise nor good. L'Estrange. 3. (Eccl.) See Plurality of benefices, below. Plurality of benefices (Eccl.), the possession by one clergyman of more than one benefice or living. Each benefice thus held is called a plurality. [Eng.]","russ":"1. A Russian, or the Russians. [Rare, except in poetry.] 2. The language of the Russians.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Russians.","ovipara":"An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -opposed to Vivipara.","grubworm":"See Grub, n., 1. And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view. C. Smart.","semi-diesel":"Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.","southeaster":"A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.\n\nToward the southeast.","stramash":"To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]\n\nA turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Barham.","trode":"imp. of Tread. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. Tennyson.\n\nTread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] Spenser.","cephalophora":"The cephalata.","higher thought":"See New thought, below.","portiere":"A curtain hanging across a doorway.","wordplay":"A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.","mascagnin":"Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; -- so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.","spheroidical":"See Spheroidal. Cheyne.","sterner":"A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.","laudatory":"Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden. Sir J. Stephen.","turfite":"A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.","imitable":"1. Capble of being imitated or copied. The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers. Atterbury. 2. Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities. Sir W. Raleigh.","leaven":"1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. 2. Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke xii. 1.\n\n1. To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 1 Cor. v. 6. 2. To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer. Milton.","foxes":"See Fox, n., 7.","japan current":"A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.","multarticulate":"Having many articulations or joints.","deliveress":"A female de [R.] Evelyn.","redigest":"To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. Kent.","shiny":"Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.","editorial":"Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content\n\nA leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.","perbromic":"Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine.","subspinous":"(a) (Anat.) Subvertebral. (b) (Med.) Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.","severality":"Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","favel":"Yellow; fal [Obs.] Wright.\n\nA horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.\n\nFlattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.","ostentate":"To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","rashful":"Rash; hasty; precipitate. [Obs.]","pancratical":"Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. Sir T. Browne","aspersorium":"1. The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches. 2. A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.","ripping cord":"= Rip cord.","associableness":"Associability.","occurrence":"1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. All the occurrence of my fortune. Shak. Syn. -- See Event.","percheron":"One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.","rhizomatous":"Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.","action":"1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope. 2. An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3. 3. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events. 4. Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action. 5. (Mech.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. 6. (Physiol.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice. 7. (Orat.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings. 8. (Paint. & Sculp.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. 9. (Law) (a) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense. (b) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim. 10. (Com.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke. 11. An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action. 12. (Music) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity. Syn. -- Action, Act. In many cases action and act are synonymous; but some distinction is observable. Action involves the mode or process of acting, and is usually viewed as occupying some time in doing. Act has more reference to the effect, or the operation as complete. To poke the fire is an act, to reconcile friends who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action. C. J. Smith.","tottle":"To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple. [Colloq.]","branchiness":"Fullness of branches.","cowdie":"See Kauri.","differentia":"The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.","signalment":"The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.","bubukle":"A red pimple. [R.] Shak.","foot-sore":"Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.","mousie":"Diminutive for Mouse. Burns.","cornel":"1. (Bot.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries. 2. Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.","rollichie":"A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.","hagbutter":"A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.","conceptive":"Capable of conceiving. Sir T. Browne","belock":"To lock, or fasten as with a lock. [Obs.] Shak.","allegorist":"One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.","anhydrite":"A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).","heulandite":"A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.","acridity":"The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.","hagfish":"See Hag, 4.","displode":"To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.\n\nTo burst with a loud report; to explode. \"Disploding engines.\" Young.","radial":"Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.","rejuvenescency":"Rejuvenescence.","pleaseman":"An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.","securement":"The act of securing; protection. [R.] Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. C. A. Ives.","jacana":"Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. Note: The most common South American species is Jacana spinosa. The East Indian or pheasant jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is remarkable for having four very long, curved, middle tail feathers.","overhandle":"To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.","amoebian":"One of the Amoebea.","vatical":"Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical. Bp. Hall.","diction":"Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey. Syn. -- Diction, Style, Phraseology. Style relates both to language and thought; diction, to language only; phraseology, to the mechanical structure of sentences, or the mode in which they are phrased. The style of Burke was enriched with all the higher graces of composition; his diction was varied and copious; his phraseology, at times, was careless and cumbersome. \"Diction is a general term applicable alike to a single sentence or a connected composition. Errors in grammar, false construction, a confused disposition of words, or an improper application of them, constitute bad diction; but the niceties, the elegancies, the peculiarities, and the beauties of composition, which mark the genius and talent of the writer, are what is comprehended under the name of style.\" Crabb.","office wire":"Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.","sheathbill":"Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered with a saddle-shaped horny sheath, and the toes are only slightly webbed. The plumage of both species is white.","omnicorporeal":"Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [R.] Cudworth.","southernly":"Somewhat southern. -- adv. In a southerly manner or course; southward.","calzoons":"Drawers. [Obs.]","distinguishable":"1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke. 2. Worthy of note or special regard. Swift.","acquainted":"Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.","braunite":"A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.","aciculated":"(a) Furnished with aciculæ. (b) Acicular. (c) Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.","gunstick":"A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [R.]","ruedesheimer":"A German wine made near Rüdesheim, on the Rhine.","bothnian":"Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.","thalamocoele":"The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.","undercut":"The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.\n\nTo cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.","bothersome":"Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.","nubile":"Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable. Prior.","affectional":"Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.","indignation":"1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious in the conduct of another. Cogan. When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. Esther v. 9. 2. The effect of anger; punishment. Shak. Hide thyself . . . until the indignation be overpast. Is. xxvi. 20. Syn. -- Anger; ire wrath; fury; rage. See Anger.","meaning":"1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint. 3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.] -- Mean\"ing*less, a. -- Mean\"ing*ly, adv.","inheritrix":"Same as Inheritress. Shak.","assassinator":"An assassin.","introductress":"A female introducer.","effortless":"Making no effort. Southey.","sanguinaria":"1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family. Note: Sanguinaria Canadensis, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See Bloodroot. 2. The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.","shock-headed":"Having a thick and bushy head of hair.","donjon":"The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.","garcinia":"A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.","ideographics":"The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.","garboard":"One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.","brestsummer":"See Breastsummer.","feathered":"1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott. 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. 3. (Zoöl.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. 4. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.","pericarpic":"Of or pertaining to a pericarp.","bridgey":"Full of bridges. [R.] Sherwood.","murexoin":"A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.","cappeline":"A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.","trevet":"A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.","thearchy":"Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.","undecolic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C11H18O2, of the propiolic acid series, obtained indirectly from undecylenic acid as a white crystalline substance.","hewn":"1. Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs. 2. Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.","overcolor":"To color too highly.","cravatted":"Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.","galician":"Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. -- n. A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.","imp":"1. A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax. 3. A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker. To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps. Beattie. 4. Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. To graft; to insert as a scion. [Obs.] Rom. of R. 2. (Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip. [Archaic] Imp out our drooping country's broken wing. Shak. Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.","oxhead":"Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.","thatch":"1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. 2. (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.","exodus":"1. A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place. 2. The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.","cocus wood":"A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.","cosentient":"Perceiving together.","devourable":"That may be devoured.","disestablish":"To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.","para-anaesthesia":"Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.","dicacious":"Talkative; pert; saucy. [Obs.]","habitator":"A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","circumfusion":"The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.","cossack post":"An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.","brahminist":"An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.","isoperimetrical":"Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.","scrow":"1. A scroll. [Obs.] Palsgrave. 2. A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.","frithy":"Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.","orpin":"1. A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red. 2. (Bot.) The orpine.","polyanthus":"(a) The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus.","caudad":"Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.","preestablish":"To establish beforehand.","industry":"1. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them. We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago. A. Smith. 2. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry. 3. (Polit. Econ.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor. Syn. -- Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence.","typo":"A compositor. [Colloq.]","way-goose":"See Wayz-goose, n., 2. [Eng.]","utero":"- (connection with, or relation to, the uterus; as in utro- ovarian.","persecot":"See Persicot.","canaster":"A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.","demon":"1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written dæmon.] 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. Shak.","photogenic":"Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.","parablastic":"Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.","plumcot":"A cross between the plum and apricot.","inanition":"The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.","a":"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 (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 ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far). 2. (Mus.) 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. A per se Etym: (L. per se by itself), one preëminent; a nonesuch. [Obs.] O fair Creseide, the flower and A per se Of Troy and Greece. Chaucer.\n\n1. Etym: [Shortened form of an. AS. an one. See One.] An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically. \"At a birth\"; \"In a word\"; \"At a blow\". Shak. Note: It is placed before nouns of the singular number denoting an individual object, or a quality individualized, before collective nouns, and also before plural nouns when the adjective few or the phrase great many or good many is interposed; as, a dog, a house, a man; a color; a sweetness; a hundred, a fleet, a regiment; a few persons, a great many days. It is used for an, for the sake of euphony, before words beginning with a consonant sound [for exception of certain words beginning with h, see An]; as, a table, a woman, a year, a unit, a eulogy, a ewe, a oneness, such a one, etc. Formally an was used both before vowels and consonants. 2. Etym: [Originally the preposition a (an, on).] In each; to or for each; as, \"twenty leagues a day\", \"a hundred pounds a year\", \"a dollar a yard\", etc.\n\n1. In; on; at; by. [Obs.] \"A God's name.\" \"Torn a pieces.\" \"Stand a tiptoe.\" \"A Sundays\" Shak. \"Wit that men have now a days.\" Chaucer. \"Set them a work.\" Robynson (More's Utopia) 2. In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. \"Jacob, when he was a dying\" Heb. xi. 21. \"We'll a birding together.\" \" It was a doing.\" Shak. \"He burst out a laughing.\" Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.\n\nOf. [Obs.] \"The name of John a Gaunt.\" \"What time a day is it \" Shak. \"It's six a clock.\" B. Jonson.\n\nA barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. \"So would I a done\" \"A brushes his hat.\" Shak.\n\nAn expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.","aculeated":"Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.","ventricose":"Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.","archil":"1. A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson. 2. The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]","abduce":"To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.","brownwort":"A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.","abox":"Braced aback.","estimableness":"The quality of deserving esteem or regard.","hectometer":"A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.","aphotic":"Without light.","nurture":"1. The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton. 2. That which nourishes; food; diet. Spenser.\n\n1. To feed; to nourish. 2. To educate; to bring or train up. He was nurtured where he had been born. Sir H. Wotton. Syn. -- To nourish; nurse; cherish; bring up; educate; tend. -- To Nurture, Nourish, Cherish. Nourish denotes to supply with food, or cause to grow; as, to nourish a plant, to nourish rebellion. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care, like that of a mother; as, to nurture into strength; to nurture in sound principles. To cherish is to hold and treat as dear; as, to cherish hopes or affections.","underhang":"To hang under or down; to suspend. Holland.","essorant":"Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.","altruism":"Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.","braid":"1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations. 3. To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid. Shak.\n\n1. A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott. 2. A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.\n\n1. A quick motion; a start. [Obs.] Sackville. 2. A fancy; freak; caprice. [Obs.] R. Hyrde.\n\nTo start; to awake. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nDeceitful. [Obs.] Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid. Shak.","eschatology":"The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.","reactance":"The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.","scopula":"(a) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web. (b) A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.","snip":"To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.\n\n1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. Shak. 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. Wiseman. 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] L'Estrange 4. A tailor. [Slang] Nares. C. Kingsley. 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.","coccolite":"A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.","stormful":"Abounding with storms. \"The stormful east.\" Carlyle. -- Storm\"ful*ness, n.","unarm":"To disarm. Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor. \"I'll unarm again.\" Shak.","cursedness":"1. The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil. 2. Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer. 3. Shrewishness. \"My wife's cursedness.\" Chaucer.","exhumated":"Disinterred. [Obs.]","oculate":"1. Furnished with eyes. 2. Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.","berserker":"1. (Scand. Myth.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow. 2. One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.","poak":"Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.","bullbeggar":"Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).","emptying":"1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]","mediterraneous":"Inland. Sir T. Browne.","offset":"In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as: -- 1. (Bot.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek. 2. A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off. 3. A spur from a range of hills or mountains. 4. (Arch.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off. 5. (Surv.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. 6. (Mech.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. 7. (Print.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor. Offset staff (Surv.), a rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.\n\n1. To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another. 2. To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.\n\nTo make an offset.","eudaemonist":"One who believes in eudemonism. I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.","calcar":"A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.\n\n1. (Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. 2. (Zoöl.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. 3. (Anat.) (a) A spur, or spurlike prominence. (b) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.","psaltery":"A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.","gynarchy":"Government by a woman. Chesterfield.","craver":"One who craves or begs.","active":"1. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind. 2. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth. 3. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano. 4. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal. 5. Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to Ant: sedentary or to Ant: tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes. 6. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; - - opposed to Ant: speculative or Ant: theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman. 7. Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn. 8. Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy. 9. (Gram.) (a) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to Ant: passive. See Active voice, under Voice. (b) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive. (c) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money. Syn. -- Agile; alert; brisk; vigorous; nimble; lively; quick; sprightly; prompt; energetic.","usbeks":"A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan. [Written also Uzbecks, and Uzbeks.]","fellowlike":"Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.","dogeless":"Without a doge. Byron.","cadene":"A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. McElrath.","larum":", See Alarum, and Alarm.","uratic":"Of or containing urates; as, uratic calculi.","gip":"To take out the entrails of (herrings).\n\nA servant. See Gyp. Sir W. Scott.","perambulate":"To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.\n\nTo walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.","ornithology":"1. That branch of zoölogy which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification. 2. A treatise or book on this science.","reef-band":"A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. Totten.","minorate":"To diminish. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","purificative":"Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. [R.]","gem":"1. (Bot.) A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham. 2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton. 3. Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.\n\n1. To put forth in the form of buds. \"Gemmed their blossoms.\" [R.] Milton. 2. To adorn with gems or precious stones. 3. To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops. England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces. W. Irving.","animoseness":"Vehemence of temper. [Obs.]","theosopher":"A theosophist.","transpicuous":"Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] \"The wide, transpicuous air.\" Milton.","sarmatic":"Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians und the Poles.","jequirity bean":"The seed of the wild licorice (Abrus precatorius) used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces, as a standard weight, etc.; -- called also jumble bead.","comitiva":"A body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in Italy and Sicily.","floroon":"A border worked with flowers. Wright.","mauveine":"An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]","disclusion":"A shutting off; exclusion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","white slaver":"A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.","unhoped":"Not hoped or expected. \"With unhoped success.\" Dryden. Blessings of friends, which to my door Unasked, unhoped, have come. J. N. Newman.","facete":"Facetious; witty; humorous. [Archaic] \"A facete discourse.\" Jer. Taylor. \"How to interpose\" with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote. Prof. Wilson. -- Fa*cete\"ly, adv. -- Fa*cete\"ness, n.","semibarbarous":"Half barbarous.","pot-valiant":"Having the courage given by drink. Smollett.","bodian":"A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.","subsultus":"A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.","ditionary":"Under rule; subject; tributary. [Obs.] Chapman.\n\nA subject; a tributary. [Obs.] Eden.","shunter":"A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.","helicoidal":"Same as Helicoid. -- Hel`i*coid\"al*ly, adv.","sedgy":"Overgrown with sedge. On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak.","circulable":"That may be circulated.","ganglial":"Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.","sciuromorpha":"A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.","enmarble":"To make hard as marble; to harden. [Obs.] Spenser.","disaventure":"Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.","inquisitor":"1. An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] \"Inquisitors are tatlers.\" Feltham. 2. (Law) One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc. Mozley & W. 3. (R.C.Ch.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.","pedicellina":"A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell- shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.","dasyurine":"Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.","cicely":"Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.","mesially":"In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.","bavardage":"Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.","subcarbonate":"A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.","single":"1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau & Fl. Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. -- Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. -- Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File. -- Single entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Single file. See under 1st File. -- Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. -- Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.\n\n1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. More. 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker. 3. To take alone, or one by one. Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker.\n\nTo take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot. Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark.\n\n1. A unit; one; as, to score a single. 2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. 3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural. 5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.","fracas":"An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.","refrigerium":"Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. [Obs.] South.","drawloom":"1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. 2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.","entablature":"The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice. Note: It is commonly divided into architrave, the part immediately above the column; frieze, the central space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings. Parker.","mistake":"1. To take or choose wrongly. [Obs. or R.] Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson. 4. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous. Shak.\n\nTo err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.\n\n1. An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. Tillotson. 2. (Law) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. No mistake, surely; without fail; as, it will happen at the appointed time, and no mistake. [Low] Syn. -- Blunder; error; bull. See Blunder.","weariful":"Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea\"ri*ful*ly, adv.","unsupportable":"Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port\"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port\"a*bly, adv.","undergore":"To gore underneath.","euphuism":"An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.","monodical":"1. Belonging to a monody. 2. (Mus.) (a) For one voice; monophonic. (b) Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.","alternative":"1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] Holland.\n\n1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke. 2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ). 3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow. 4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.","sanderling":"A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.","resistibility":"1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness. 2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name \"body\" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke.","toty":"Totty. [Obs.] My head is totty of my swink to-night. Chaucer.\n\nA sailor or fisherman;-so called in some parts of the Pacific.","exprobrate":"To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","unruled":"1. Not governed or controlled. \"Unruled and undirected.\" Spenser. 2. Not ruled or marked with lines; as, unruled paper.","overpicture":"To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. [Obs.] \"O'erpicturing that Venus.\" Shak.","baffling":"Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- Bafflingly, adv. -- Bafflingness, n.","soave":"Sweet.","forgetter":"One who forgets; a heedless person. Johnson.","verb":"1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] South. 2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action. Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds expression. Earle. Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See Active, Auxiliary, Neuter, etc.","problematize":"To propose problems. [R.] \"Hear him problematize.\" B. Jonson.","sarcophaga":"A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.\n\nA genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.","myriologist":"One who composes or sings a myriologue.","pilot light":"A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.","extra":"Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay. \"By working extra hours.\" H. Spencer.\n\nSomething in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]","mediocre":"Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. \" A very mediocre poet.\" Pope.\n\n1. A mediocre person. [R.] 2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. Shipley.","furniment":"Furniture. [Obs.] Spenser.","supremity":"Supremacy. [Obs.] Fuller.","heterophyllous":"Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.","freieslebenite":"A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.","omander wood":"The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.","pleurenchyma":"A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.","credibility":"The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.","esquire":"Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire. Note: In England, the title of esquire belongs by right of birth to the eldest sons of knights and their eldest sons in perpetual succession; to the eldest sons of younger sons of peers and their eldest sons in perpetual succession. It is also given to sheriffs, to justices of the peace while in commission, to those who bear special office in the royal household, to counselors at law, bachelors of divinity, law, or physic, and to others. In the United States the title is commonly given in courtesy to lawyers and justices of the peace, and is often used in the superscription of letters instead of Mr.\n\nTo wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend. [Colloq.]","amnion":"A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.","clausular":"Consisting of, or having, clauses. Smart.","rafter":"A raftsman.\n\nOriginally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post. [Courtesy] oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls. Milton.\n\n1. To make into rafters, as timber. 2. To furnish with rafters, as a house. 3. (Agric.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. [Eng.]","so":"1. In that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known. Why is his chariot so long in coming Judges v. 28. 2. In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as. As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in. Swift. 3. In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape. I viewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world. T. Burnet. He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent. Addison. 4. Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely. 5. In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate. Use him [your tutor] with great respect yourself, and cause all your family to do so too. Locke. It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to inquire into those matters, whether they be so or not. Tillotson. He is Sir Robert's son, and so art thou. Shak. 6. The case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; -- used both as an adverb and a conjuction. God makes him in his own image an intellectual creature, and so capable of dominion. Locke. Here, then, exchange we mutually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten. Rowe. 7. It is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; -- used to express assent. And when 't is writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. Shak. There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. Shak. 8. Well; the fact being as stated; -- used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it 9. Is it thus do you mean what you say -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses So [Colloq.] 10. About the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so. A week or so will probably reconcile us. Gay. Note: See the Note under Ill, adv. So . . . as. So is now commonly used as a demonstrative correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By Shakespeare and others so . . . as was much used where as . . . as is now common. See the Note under As, 1. So do, as thou hast said. Gen. xviii. 5. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. Ps. ciii. 15. Had woman been so strong as men. Shak. No country suffered so much as England. Macaulay. -- So far, to that point or extent; in that particular. \"The song was moral, and so far was right.\" Cowper. -- So far forth, as far; to such a degree. Shak. Bacon. -- So forth, further in the same or similar manner; more of the same or a similar kind. See And so forth, under And. -- So, so, well, well. \"So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit you fast.\" Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well; passably; as, he succeeded but so so. \"His leg is but so so.\" Shak. -- So that, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or result that. -- So then, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is.\n\nProvided that; on condition that; in case that; if. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Milton.\n\nBe as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.","attorneyship":"The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.","testate":"Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.\n\nOne who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. [R.]","plutonian":"Plutonic. Poe.\n\nA Plutonist.","culture features":"The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.","finding":"1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton. 2. Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision. 3. (Law) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. Burrill. After his friends finding and his rent. Chaucer.","avaunt":"Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase \"Get thee gone.\"\n\n1. To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To depart; to move away. [Obs.] Coverdale.\n\nTo vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.","serotine":"The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).","dividual":"Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.","horsefoot":"1. (Bot.) The coltsfoot. 2. (Zoöl.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.","amish":"The Amish Mennonites.\n\nOf, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as \"worldly conformity\". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.","creamery":"1. A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market. 2. A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream. 3. An establishment where cream is sold.","scaphognathite":"A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.","replead":"To plead again.","concertino":"A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.","subministrate":"To supply; to afford; to subminister. [Obs.] Harvey.","subsistent":"1. Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit. 2. Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.","imputrescible":"Not putrescible.","paled":"1. Striped. [Obs.] \"[Buskins] . . . paled part per part.\" Spenser. 2. Inclosed with a paling. \"A paled green.\" Spenser.","touchstone":"1. (Min.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. 2. Fig.: Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried. Hooker. The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits. South. Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's Causeway.","velum":"1. (Anat.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate. 2. (Bot.) (a) See Veil, n., 3 (b). (b) A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes). 3. (Zoöl.) A veil-like organ or part. Especially: (a) The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusæ. (b) A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.","nemophily":"Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods. [R.]","beche de mer":"The trepang.","kaftan":"See Caftan.","haunce":"To enhance. [Obs.] Lydgate.","hisingerite":"A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.","bisetose":"Having two bristles.","inalienable":"Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.","sollar":"1. See Solar, n. [Obs.] 2. (Mining) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.\n\nTo cover, or provide with, a sollar.","misween":"To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.","yearth":"The earth. [Obs.] \"Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled\" Ld. Berners.","debacchate":"To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.","bench mark":"Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.","passiontide":"The last fortnight of Lent.","dogmaticalness":"The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.","wordle":"One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. Knight.","henna":"1. (Bot.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc. 2. (Com.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.","canaanite":"1. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. 2. A Native or inbabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.\n\nA zealot. \"Simon the Canaanite.\" Matt. x. 4. Note: This was the \"Simon called Zelotes\" (Luke vi. 15), i.e., Simon the zealot. Kitto.","aorist":"A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.","cestus":"1. (Antiq.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.\n\nA covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.","expletory":"Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.","quinoline":"A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type. [Written also chinoline.]","gab":"The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.\n\nThe mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]\n\n1. To deceive; to lie. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. Holinshed.","tufaceous":"Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.","zygobranchia":"A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.","broomstaff":"A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.","outstand":"To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.\n\n1. To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding. [R.] Woodward. 2. To stay beyond. \"I have outstood my time.\" Shak.","pomarine":"Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.","tranquillization":"The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.","inspectress":"A female inspector.","waketime":"Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.","dismarch":"To march away. [Obs.]","signalist":"One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.","bowhead":"The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.","antimasonry":"Opposition to Freemasonry.","chatwood":"Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.","miscall":"1. To call by a wrong name; to name improperly. 2. To call by a bad name; to abuse. [Obs.] Fuller.","reissuable":"Capable of being reissued.","etherification":"The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.","lateward":"Somewhat late; backward. [Obs.] \"Lateward lands.\" Holland.","scandinavian":"Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.","gansa":"Same as Ganza. Bp. Hall.","fourchette":"1. A table fork. 2. (Anat.) (a) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva. (b) The wishbone or furculum of birds. (c) The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. 3. (Surg.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frænum. 4. (Glove Making) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight.","sea gudgeon":"The European black goby (Gobius niger).","anemonic":"An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.","expedient":"1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately. 2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.] His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.\n\n1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips. 2. Means devised in an exigency; shift. Syn. -- Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.","open-hearted":"Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O\"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O\"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton.","docetae":"Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.","peri-":"A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.","relive":"To live again; to revive.\n\nTo recall to life; to revive. [Obs.]","stigmatically":"With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.","corrivalry":"Corivalry. [R.]","delphinus":"1. (Zoöl.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1. 2. (Astron.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.","byard":"A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.","designator":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.","bulge":"1. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. 2. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall. 3. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2. Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways.\n\n1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges. 2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome.","endorhizous":"Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.","surcingled":"Bound with the surcingle.","precipient":"Commanding; directing.","oxalurate":"A salt of oxaluric acid.","solidness":"1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. 2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.","felsite":"A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.","lozenged":"Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.","preordinate":"Preordained. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.","dispatch":"1. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia). 2. To rid; to free. [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall. 3. To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole. 4. To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste. Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's couShak. 5. To send out of the world; to put to death. The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezek. xxiii. 47. Syn. -- To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform; conclude; finish; slay; kill.\n\nTo make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business. They have dispatched with Pompey. Shak.\n\n1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business. 2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance. To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts. Milton. 3. The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste. Serious business, craving quick dispatch. Shak. To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space. Paley. 4. A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches. 5. A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern] Dispatch boat, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat. -- Dispatch box, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling. Syn. -- Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See Haste.","quair":"A quire; a book. [Obs.] \" The king's quhair.\" James I. (of Scotland).","upwreath":"To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.","mersion":"Immersion [R.] Barrow.","astun":"To stun. [Obs.] \"Breathless and astunned.\" Somerville.","cloud-compeller":"Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.","misthink":"To think wrongly. [Obs.] \"Adam misthought of her.\" Milton.\n\nTo have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of. [Obs.] Shak.","blithesome":"Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe\"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe\"some*ness, n.","eet":"of Eat. Chaucer.","pleura":"pl. of Pleuron.\n\n1. (Anat.) (a) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. (b) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall. 2. (Zoöl.) Same as Pleuron.","kermesse":"See Kirmess.","ominous":"Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. Bacon. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. South. -- Om\"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om\"i*nous*ness, n.","lithagogue":"A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.","jungly":"Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.","monogoneutic":"Having but one brood in a season.","unbit":"To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. Totten.","trica":"An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.","entropium":"The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.","uroglaucin":"A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.","saurian":"Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. -- n. One of the Sauria.","zoon":"(a) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. H. Spencer. (b) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.","once":"The ounce.\n\n1. By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one. Ye shall . . . go round about the city once. Josh. vi. 3. Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years. Bacon. 2. At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely. My soul had once some foolish fondness for thee. Addison. That court which we shall once govern. Bp. Hall. 3. At any one time; -- often nearly equivalent to ever, if ever, or whenever; as, once kindled, it may not be quenched. Wilt thou not be made clean When shall it once be Jer. xiii. 27. To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. Shak. Note: Once is used as a noun when preceded by this or that; as, this once, that once. It is also sometimes used elliptically, like an adjective, for once-existing. \"The once province of Britain.\" J. N. Pomeroy.. At once. (a) At the same point of time; immediately; without delay. \"Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.\" Shak. \"I . . . withdrew at once and altogether.\" Jeffrey. (b) At one and the same time; simultaneously; in one body; as, they all moved at once. -- Once and again, once and once more; repeatedly. \"A dove sent forth once and again, to spy.\" Milton.","piffara":"A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.","fetch":"1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. 2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay. 3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. Fetching men again when they swoon. Bacon. 4. To reduce; to throw. The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South. 5. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. South. 6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. Chapman. 7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. -- To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To fetch headway or sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern. -- To fetch out, to develop. \"The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]\" Addison. -- To fetch up. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] \"Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.\" L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.\n\nTo bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.\n\n1. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South. 2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith. The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. Dickens. Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.","river":"One who rives or splits.\n\n1. A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay. 2. Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil. River chub (Zoöl.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes. -- River crab (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water crabs of the genus Thelphusa, as T. depressa of Southern Europe. -- River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the king of Egypt. -- River driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers. Bartlett. -- River duck (Zoöl.), any species of duck belonging to Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck. -- River god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity. -- River herring (Zoöl.), an alewife. -- River hog. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of African wild hogs of the genus Potamochoerus. They frequent wet places along the rivers. (b) The capybara. -- River horse (Zoöl.), the hippopotamus. -- River jack (Zoöl.), an African puff adder (Clotho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose. -- River limpet (Zoöl.), a fresh-water, air-breathing mollusk of the genus Ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell. -- River pirate (Zoöl.), the pike. -- River snail (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera. See Pond snail, under Pond. -- River tortoise (Zoöl.), any one of numerous fresh-water tortoises inhabiting rivers, especially those of the genus Trionyx and allied genera. See Trionyx.\n\nTo hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [Obs.] Halliwell.","tortrix":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidæ, the larvæ of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalæ) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.","perigenesis":"A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.","reremouse":"The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.]\n\nA rearmouse.","reproduction":"1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction (agamogenesis) and sexual reproduction (gamogenesis). In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell, called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the fusion of the two (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the development of which arises a new individual. 2. That which is reproduced.","bisetous":"Having two bristles.","chalcopyrite":"Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.","expiate":"1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon. 2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.] Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)\n\nTerminated. [Obs.] Shak.","lychnoscope":"Same as Low side window, under Low, a.","terminant":"Termination; ending. [R.] Puttenham.","timidous":"Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.","kantism":"The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.","portlast":"The portoise. See Portoise.","archilochian":"Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.","oxanilide":"a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.","penetrability":"The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Cheyne.","severy":"A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]","adenoma":"A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom\"a*tous, a.","perigee":"That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to Ant: apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.","paintless":"Not capable of being painted or described. \"In paintless patience.\" Savage.","disconvenience":"Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] Bacon.","holder":"One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.\n\n1. One who, or that which, holds. 2. One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. 3. (Com.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. Note: Holder is much used as the second part of a compound; as, shareholder, officeholder, stockholder,etc.","concurrent":"1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton. 2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall. 3. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. 4. (Geom.) Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.\n\n1. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties. Dr. H. More. 2. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him. Holland. 3. (Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.","abranchiata":"A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.","gaudygreen":"Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","ojibways":"Same as Chippeways.","perisarc":"The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.","sapajou":"Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.","sarcoid":"Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.","squamoid":"Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.","incredulousness":"Incredulity.","curlingly":"With a curl, or curls.","frondesce":"To unfold leaves, as plants.","parembole":"A kind of parenthesis.","spaniel":"1. (Zoöl.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker. Note: There are several varieties of spaniels, some of which, known as field spaniels, are used in hunting; others are used for toy or pet dogs, as the Blenheim spaniel, and the King Charles spaniel (see under Blenheim). Of the field spaniels, the larger kinds are called springers, and to these belong the Sussex, Norfolk, and Clumber spaniels (see Clumber). The smaller field spaniels, used in hunting woodcock, are called cocker spaniels (see Cocker). Field spaniels are remarkable for their activity and intelligence. As a spaniel she will on him leap. Chaucer. 2. A cringing, fawning person. Shak.\n\nCringing; fawning. Shak.\n\nTo fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious. [R.] Churchill.\n\nTo follow like a spaniel. [R.]","traject":"To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.\n\n1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave. 2. The act of trajecting; trajection. 3. A trajectory. [R.] I. Taylor.","preceptorial":"Of or pertaining to a preceptor.","mought":"of May. Might.","idiolatry":"Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.","pisciculture":"Fish culture. See under Fish.","revolting":"Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Re*volt\"ing*ly, adv.","antiscolic":"Anthelmintic.","demit":"1. To let fall; to depress. [R.] They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne. 2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [R.] 3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.] General Conway demitted his office. Hume.","juwise":"Same as Juise. Chaucer.","thinness":"The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).","arboreal":"1. Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley. 2. Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin.","anomural":"Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]","waggel":"The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. [Prov. Eng.]","mochila":"A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]","dermatophyte":"A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.","befringe":"To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.","decigramme":"A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.","authorless":"Without an author; without authority; anonymous.","espionage":"The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.","triforium":"The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.","abjudication":"Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.","theatral":"Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical. [Obs.]","childed":"Furnished with a child. [Obs.]","vesical":"Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.","sloakan":"A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.","immune":"Exempt; protected by inoculation. -- Im*mu\"nize, v. t.","providore":"One who makes provision; a purveyor. [R.] De Foe.","hypnobate":"A somnambulist. [R.]","an":"This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as \"twice an hour,\" \"once an age,\" a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every. Note: An is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound; as, an enemy, an hour. It in also often used before h sounded, when the accent of the word falls on the second syllable; as, an historian, an hyena, an heroic deed. Many writers use a before h in such positions. Anciently an was used before consonants as well as vowels.\n\nIf; -- a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. An if, and if; if.","on":"The general signification of on is situation, motion, or condition with respect to contact or support beneath; as: -- 1. At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island. I stood on the bridge at midnight. Longfellow. 2. To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth. Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken. Matt. xxi. 44. 3. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind. 4. At or near; adjacent to; -- indicating situation, place, or position; as, on the one hand, on the other hand; the fleet is on the American coast. 5. In addition to; besides; -- indicating multiplication or succession in a series; as, heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss; thought on thought. Shak. 6. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in; as, to depend on a person for assistance; to rely on; hence, indicating the ground or support of anything; as, he will promise on certain conditions; to bet on a horse. 7. At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym). 8. At the time of, conveying some notion of cause or motive; as, on public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform. Hence, in consequence of, or following; as, on the ratification of the treaty, the armies were disbanded. 9. Toward; for; -- indicating the object of some passion; as, have pity or compassion on him. 10. At the peril of, or for the safety of. \"Hence, on thy life.\" Dryden. 11. By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor. 12. To the account of; -- denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon; as, on us be all the blame; a curse on him. His blood be on us and on our children. Matt. xxvii. 25. 13. In reference or relation to; as, on our part expect punctuality; a satire on society. 14. Of. [Obs.] \"Be not jealous on me.\" Shak. Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner Shak. Note: Instances of this usage are common in our older writers, and are sometimes now heard in illiterate speech. 15. Occupied with; in the performance of; as, only three officers are on duty; on a journey. 16. In the service of; connected with; of the number of; as, he is on a newspaper; on a committee. Note: On and upon are in general interchangeable. In some applications upon is more euphonious, and is therefore to be preferred; but in most cases on is preferable. On a bowline. (Naut.) Same as Closehauled. -- On a wind, or On the wind (Naut.), sailing closehauled. -- On a sudden. See under Sudden. -- On board, On draught, On fire, etc. See under Board, Draught, Fire, etc. -- On it, On't, of it. [Obs. or Colloq.] Shak. -- On shore, on land; to the shore. -- On the road, On the way, On the wing, etc. See under Road, Way, etc. -- On to, upon; on; to; -- sometimes written as one word, onto, and usually called a colloquialism; but it may be regarded in analogy with into. They have added the -en plural form on to an elder plural. Earle. We see the strength of the new movement in the new class of ecclesiastics whom it forced on to the stage. J. R. Green.\n\n1. Forward, in progression; onward; -- usually with a verb of motion; as, move on; go on. \"Time glides on.\" Macaulay. The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger. Shak. 2. Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on. 3. In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on. 4. Adhering; not off; as in the phrase, \"He is neither on nor off,\" that is, he is not steady, he is irresolute. 5. Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use. \"I have boots on.\" B. Gonson. He put on righteousness as a breastplate. Is. lix. 17. 6. In progress; proceeding; as, a game is on. Note: On is sometimes used as an exclamation, or a command to move or proceed, some verb being understood; as, on, comrades; that is, go on, move on. On and on, continuously; for a long time together. \"Toiling on and on and on.\" Longfellow.","handkercher":"A handkerchief. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chapman (1654). Shak.","roorback":"A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.] Note: The word originated in the election canvass of 1844, when such a forgery was published, to the detriment of James K. Polk, a candidate for President, purporting to be an extract from the \"Travels of Baron Roorbach.\"","tetragon":"1. (Geom.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc. 2. (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.","embracer":"One who embraces.","slovenly":"1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange. 2. Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.\n\na slovenly manner.","fipple":"A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.","foreword":"A preface. Furnvall.","intrication":"Entanglement. [Obs.]","chrysoberyl":"A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.","genuflection":"The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp. Stillingfleet.","cousin":"1. One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. Note: The children of brothers and sisters are usually denominated first cousins, or cousins-german. In the second generation, they are called second cousins. See Cater-cousin, and Quater-cousin. Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A cousin-german to great Priam's seed. Shak. 2. A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.\n\nAllied; akin. [Obs.] Chaucer.","duplicity":"1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts. 2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith. Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke. 3. (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone. (b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton. Syn. -- Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.","sea god":"A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.","nulled":"Turned so as to resemble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.","consolate":"To console; to comfort. [Obs.] Shak.","emmetropia":"That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.","unforeseeable":"Incapable of being foreseen. South.","alkarsin":"A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.","minor":"1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. 2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. -- Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. -- Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, 6\/F, 7\/G#, 8\/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: --See Major. -- Minor term of syllogism (Logic), the subject of the conclusion.\n\n1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age. Note: In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age. 2. (Logic) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness. 3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.","lowness":"The state or quality of being low.","ovulate":"Containing an ovule or ovules.","enclitic":"Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.\n\nA word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).","spiritism":"Spiritualsm.","non est inventus":"The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county. Bouvier.","betumble":"To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.","boiled":"Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.","macrodont":"Having large teeth. -- n. A macrodont animal.","philalethist":"A lover of the truth. [Obs.] Brathwait.","vacillating":"Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac\"il*la`ting*ly, adv.","olefine":"Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.","metoposcopical":"Of or relating to metoposcopy.","venditate":"To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon. [Obs.] Holland.","maltreatment":"Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.","independence":"1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope. 2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.","palustrine":"Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.","ideate":"The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.\n\n1. To form in idea; to fancy. [R.] The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. Sir T. Browne. 2. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. [R.]","well-wish":"A wish of happiness. \"A well-wish for his friends.\" Addison.","holaspidean":"Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.","opisthobranchia":"A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.","cowpox":"A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison.","gingival":"Of or pertaining to the gums. Holder.","goniatite":"One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.","overpowering":"Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible. -- O`ver*pow\"er*ing*ly, adv.","reentrance":"The act entereing again; re Hooker.","rolliche":"A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.","cnidaria":"A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.","water mole":"(a) The shrew mole. See under Shrew. (b) The duck mole. See under Duck.","sexangular":"Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.","leucite":"1. (Min.) A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius. 2. (Bot.) A leucoplast.","disjoint":"Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.\n\nDifficult situation; dilemma; strait. [Obs.] \"I stand in such disjoint.\" Chaucer.\n\n1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior. 2. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow. 3. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.\n\nTo fall in pieces. Shak.","metalbumin":"A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.","youze":"The cheetah.","lupercal":"Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.\n\nA grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.","dangerful":"Full of danger; dangerous. [Obs.] -- Dan\"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall.","suavify":"To make affable or suave.","tierce-major":"See Tierce, 4.","valetudinary":"Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian. -- Val`e*tu\"di*na*ri*ness, n. It renders the habit of society dangerously. Burke.\n\nA valetudinarian.","tithing":"1. The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley. 2. (O. Eng. Law) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.","cockneyish":"Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.","discontentment":"The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.","mousseline de soie":"A soft thin silk fabric with a weave like that of muslin.","punctuation":"The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning. Note: Punctuation, as the term is usually understood, is chiefly performed with four points: the period [.], the colon [:], the semicolon [;], and the comma [,]. Other points used in writing and printing, partly rhetorical and partly grammatical, are the note of interrogation [], the note of exclamation [!], the parentheses [()], the dash [--], and brackets []. It was not until the 16th century that an approach was made to the present system of punctuation by the Manutii of Venice. With Caxton, oblique strokes took the place of commas and periods.","shotgun":"A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.","uppent":"A Pent up; confined. [Obs.]","dietitian":"One skilled in dietetics. [R.]","aldermanry":"1. The district or ward of an alderman. 2. The office or rank of an alderman. [R.] B. Jonson.","conjecturable":"Capable of being conjectured or guessed.","declaratively":"By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration. The priest shall expiate it, that is, declaratively. Bates.","felonious":"Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton. -- Fe*lo\"ni`ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo\"ni`ous*ness, n.","merismatic":"Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.","bell-shaped":"Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate. BELL'S PALSY Bell's palsy. Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.","shilling":"1. A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency. 2. In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized. Note: Many of the States while colonies had issued bills of credit which had depreciated in different degrees in the different colonies. Thus, in New England currency (used also in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida), after the adoption of the decimal system, the pound in paper money was worth only $3.333, and the shilling 16 Am. Cyc. 3. The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12 York shilling. Same as Shilling, 3.","sanguinity":"The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. Swift.","satiation":"Satiety.","sponging":"a. & n. from Sponge, v. Sponging house (Eng. Law), a bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc.","begin":"1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope. 2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. \"Tears began to flow.\" Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12.\n\n1. To enter on; to commence. Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. Pope. 2. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke. Syn. -- To commence; originate; set about; start.\n\nBeginning. [Poetic & Obs.] Spenser.","testify":"1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them. Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John ii. 25. 2. (Law) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal. One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Num. xxxv. 30. 3. To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against. O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee. Ps. l. 7. I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Neh. xiii. 15.\n\n1. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. John iii. 11. 2. (Law) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.\n\nIn a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.","dispossess":"To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.","cross-spale":"One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.","water lemon":"The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.","reconvey":"1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.","demoiselle":"1. A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid. 2. (Zoöl.) The Numidian crane (Antropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. 3. (Zoöl.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.","supersensible":"Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.","occupy":"1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine [\/end] of our gladness. Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. W. Irving . 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. Sir J. Herschel. 3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy. An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six. Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. ) They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. 2 Macc. viii. 27. 4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.] All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. Robynson (More's Utopia). 5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.] All the gold that was occupied for the work. Ex. xxxviii. 24. They occupy not money themselves. Robynson (More's Utopia). 6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.\n\n1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. \"Occupy till I come.\" Luke xix. 13. 2. To follow business; to traffic.","pitiful":"1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. 3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak. Syn. -- Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible. -- Pit\"i*ful*ly, adv. -- Pit\"i*ful*ness, n.","admixtion":"A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.","capitular":"1. An act passed in a chapter. 2. A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe. 3. The head or prominent part.\n\n1. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. From the pope to the member of the capitular body. Milman. 2. (Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum. 3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vetebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.","deviless":"A she-devil. [R.] Sterne.","synaloepha":"Same as Synalepha.","temptatious":"Tempting. [Prov. Eng.]","uranolite":"A meteorite or aërolite. [Obs.] Hutton.","perroquet":"See Paroquet, Parakeet.","glucoside":"One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.","prompt-book":"The book used by a prompter of a theater.","nautically":"In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.","doublure":"1. (Bookbinding) The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like. 2. (Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.","mary-bud":"The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak.","goliard":"A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.","exorbitate":"To go out of the track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.","goodgeon":"Same as Gudgeon, 5.","redstart":"(a) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.","solidago":"A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden- rod.","statesman":"1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. More. 2. One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy. 3. A small landholder. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","veiny":"Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.","inhibitory":"Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.","kilogram":"A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39º Fahrenheit.","affrayment":"Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.","tachyglossa":"A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.","liquorous":"Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.","long-tongue":"The wryneck.","ahull":"With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.","lucubrate":"To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.\n\nTo elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.","wodegeld":"A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill.","angevine":"Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou.","harborless":"Without a harbor; shelterless.","repairer":"One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.","brinishness":"State or quality of being brinish.","starched":"1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.","casein":"A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kindom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. [Written also caseine.]","creatinin":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]","noctambulation":"Somnambulism; walking in sleep. Quain.","livelong":"1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift. 2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.] Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.","roost":"Roast. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nSee Roust, v. t.\n\n1. The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. He clapped his wings upon his roost. Dryden. 2. A collection of fowls roosting together. At roost, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.\n\n1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. Wordsworth. 2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. Herbert.","encystment":"1. (Biol.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc. Note: The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal. 2. (Zoöl.) A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.","outgush":"A pouring out; an outburst. A passionate outgush of emotion. Thackeray.\n\nTo gush out; to flow forth.","menage":"See Manage.\n\nA collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] Addison.","osteoma":"A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.","globularity":"The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.","nervose":"Same as Nerved.","referrer":"One who refers.","rite":"The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry. He looked with indifference on rites, names, and forms of ecclesiastical polity. Macaulay. Syn. -- Form; ceremony; observance; ordinance.","designment":"1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.] For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden. 2. Design; purpose; scheme. [Obs.] Shak.","aleberry":"A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.","biangulate":"Biangular.","scourse":"See Scorse. [Obs.]","furfuration":"Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.","asterophyllite":"A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.","outscold":"To exceed in scolding. Shak.","plunger":"1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver. 2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps. 3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator. [Cant] 4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight. 5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader. Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump. -- Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine. -- Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double- acting","prude":"A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech. Less modest than the speech of prudes. Swift.","bartram":"See Bertram. Johnson.","retaliatory":"Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.","welshman":"1. A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A squirrel fish. (b) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass. [Southern U. S.]","mulewort":"A fern of the genus Hemionitis.","hob":"1. The hub of a wheel. See Hub. Washington. 2. The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. Smart. 3. (Mech.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.\n\n1. A fairy; a sprite; an elf. [Obs.] From elves, hobs, and fairies, . . . Defend us, good Heaven ! Beau. & FL. 2. A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares.","cadew":"A caddice. See Caddice.","mistaking":"An error; a mistake. Shak.","hopyard":"A field where hops are raised.","iodizer":"One who, or that which, iodizes.","pickmire":"The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]","pterostigma":"A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.","arrowheaded":"Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform. Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.","aleger":"Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.","fleet-foot":"Swift of foot. Shak.","gaveloche":"Same as Gavelock.","valvelet":"A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.","red-handed":"Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.","carbineer":"A soldier armed with a carbine.","palatable":"Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.","indolin":"A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white.","owl-eyed":"Having eyes like an owl's.","nominalistic":"Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.","seeing":"(but originally a present participle). In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young. Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me Gen. xxvi. 27.","christianization":"The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.","electro-telegraphy":"The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.","persulphuret":"A persulphide. [Obs.]","jakie":"A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.","grouthead":"See Growthead.","disoxidate":"To deoxidate; to deoxidize. [R.]","indistinctly":"In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.","payee":"The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.","strontic":"Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.","infeoff":"See Enfeoff.","uranographic":"Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.","heating":"That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.","migraine":"Same as Megrim. -- Mi*grain\"ous, a.","insubmergible":"Not capable of being submerged; buoyant. [R.]","chop suey":"A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]","madrigalist":"A composer of madrigals.","cosmographical":"Of or pertaining to cosmography.","hair-brown":"Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.","sparkful":"Lively; brisk; gay. [Obs.] \"Our sparkful youth.\" Camden.","therefrom":"From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.","toise":"An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.","annexion":"Annexation. [R.] Shak.","oculus":"1. An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud. 2. (Arch.) A round window, usually a small one.","quiddle":"To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.\n\nOne who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.","value":"1. The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance. Ye are all physicians of no value. Job xiii. 4. Ye are of more value than many sparrows. Matt. x. 31. Cæsar is well acquainted with your virtue, And therefore sets this value on your life. Addison. Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures. Marshall. 2. (Trade & Polit. Econ.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value. M'Culloch. Value is the power to command commodities generally. A. L. Chapin (Johnson's Cys.). Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange. F. A. Walker. His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price. Dryden. Note: In political economy, value is often distinguished as intrinsic and exchangeable. Intrinsic value is the same as utility or adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants of men. Exchangeable value is that in an article or product which disposes individuals to give for it some quantity of labor, or some other article or product obtainable by labor; as, pure air has an intrinsic value, but generally not an exchangeable value. 3. Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument Mitford. 4. Esteem; regard. Dryden. My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great Bp. Burnet. 5. (Mus.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [value of two eighth notes [ 6. In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained. 7. Valor. [Written also valew.] [Obs.] Spenser. Value received, a phrase usually employed in a bill of exchange or a promissory note, to denote that a consideration has been given for it. Bouvier.\n\n1. To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. The mind doth value every moment. Bacon. The queen is valued thirty thousand strong. Shak. The king must take it ill, That he's so slightly valued in his messenger. Shak. Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity. Clarendon. 2. To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues. Which of the dukes he values most. Shak. 3. To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value. [Obs.] Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown. Sir W. Temple. 4. To be worth; to be equal to in value. [Obs.] The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it. Shak. Syn. -- To compute; rate; appraise; esteem; respect; regard; estimate; prize; appreciate.","equipaged":"Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.","sea laces":"A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.","fertilization":"1. The act or process of rendering fertile. 2. (Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.","lighten":"To descend; to light. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.]\n\n1. To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash. This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion. Shak. 2. To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.\n\n1. To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets. [In this sense less common than light.] A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze. Dryden. 2. To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten. [In this sense less common than enlighten.] Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray. Sir J. Davies. 3. To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning. His eye . . . lightens forth Controlling majesty. Shak. 4. To free from trouble and fill with joy. They looked unto him, were lightened. Ps. xxxiv. 5.\n\n1. To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden. 2. To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief. 3. To cheer; to exhilarate. Lighens my humor with his merry jests. Shak.","intermediator":"A mediator.","muriatiferous":"Producing muriatic substances or salt. [Obs.]","nux vomica":"The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.","dresser":"1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments. 2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc. 4. Etym: [F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.] (a) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. (b) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.","venantes":"The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.","petal":"1. (Bot.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.","duality":"The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.","exchanger":"One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.","lanifice":"Anything made of wool. [Obs.] Bacon.","lithofracteur":"An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.","muffler":"1. Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. Shak. 2. (Mus.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard. 3. A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed. 4. One who muffles.","outscout":"To overpower by disdain; to outface. [Obs.] Marston.","deerhound":"One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.","permix":"To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]","retraxit":"The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.","talus":"1. (Anat.) The astragalus. 2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.\n\n1. (Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work. 2. (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.","wayleway":"See Welaway. [Obs.]","sowdanesse":"A sultaness. [Obs.] Chaucer.","phloroglucin":"A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]","oberration":"A wandering about. [Obs.] Jonhson.","sporogony":"The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.","remord":"To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.\n\nTo feel remorse. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","theorbo":"An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes. Note: A larger form of theorbo was also called the archlute, and was used chiefly, if not only, as an accompaniment to the voice. Both have long fallen into disuse.","magnoliaceous":"Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceæ) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.","swinecrue":"A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]","deliverer":"1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. 2. One who relates or communicates.","kymnel":"See Kimnel. [Obs.] Chapman.","recoverer":"One who recovers.","pinxit":"A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).","hewhole":"The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.","rawbone":"Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.","deific":"Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. \"A deifical communion.\" Homilies.","gala":"Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.","criticisable":"Capable of being criticised.","enquere":"To inquire. [Obs.] Chaucer.","majoration":"Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.","pastorship":"Pastorate. Bp. Bull.","smoother":"One who, or that which, smooths.","high-strung":"Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.","inquiet":"To disquiet. [Obs.] Joye.","kecklish":"Inclined to vomit; squeamish. [R.] Holland.","trilobite":"Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.","catstitch":"To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.","mistery":"See Mystery, a trade.","counterwork":"To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.","pedireme":"A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.","inclusive":"1. Inclosing; encircling; surrounding. The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak. 2. Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; -- opposed to exclusive.","advocateship":"Office or duty of an advocate.","execrate":"To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. \"They . . . execrate their lct.\" Cowper.","papalize":"To make papal. [R.]\n\nTo conform to popery. Cowper.","flaccid":"Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac\"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac\"cid*ness, n.","collied":"Darkened. See Colly, v. t.","ideation":"The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought. The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.","chariot":"1. (Antiq.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper. 2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak.\n\nTo convey in a chariot. Milton.","militia":"1. In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies. The king's captains and soldiers fight his battles, and yet... the power of the militia is he. Jer. Taylor. 2. Military service; warfare. [Obs.] Baxter.","organology":"1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.","branchiostegous":"Branchiostegal.","cosmographic":"Of or pertaining to cosmography.","underplot":"1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.","galvanoscope":"An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.","exhedra":"See Exedra.","sea apple":"The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach.","saccharomyces":"A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.","paradisiac":"Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. C. Kingsley. T. Burnet. \"A paradisiacal scene.\" Pope. The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. G. Eliot.","erinaceous":"Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.","forhend":"To seize upon. [Obs.]","wattless":"Without any power (cf. Watt); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.","exsiccate":"To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.","neckplate":"See Gorget, 1 and 2.","elenchtical":"Same as Elenctic.","osteoplastic":"1. (Physiol.) Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. 2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the replacement of bone; as, an osteoplastic operation.","intern":"Internal. [Obs.] Howell.\n\nTo put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.","inscription":"1. The act or process of inscribing. 2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc. 3. (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.","coromandel":"The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.","liberalist":"A liberal.","heptarchic":"Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.","agouty":"A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.","denotable":"Capable of being denoted or marked. Sir T. Browne.","roadless":"Destitute of roads.","palo":"A pole or timber of any kind; -- in the names of trees. [Sp. Amer.]","chosen":"Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.\n\nOne who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.","alburnum":"The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.","zanyism":"State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.","pinafore":"An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.","embellish":"To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.","darkly":"1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron. 2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.","chaffy":"1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. 3. (Bot.) (a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. (b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.","percase":"Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] Bacon.","recapitulatory":"Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.","whacker":"1. One who whacks. [Colloq.] 2. Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whapper. [Colloq.] Halliwell.","swashway":"Same as 4th Swash, 2.","bedlamite":"An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. \"Raving bedlamites.\" Beattie.","competent":"1. Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. \"A competent knowledge of the world.\" Arrerbury. \"Competent age.\" Grafton. \"Competent statesmen.\" Palfrey. \/\"A competent witness.\" Bouvier. 2. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.] That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke. Syn. -- See Qualified.","doggish":"Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal. -- Dog\"*gish*ly, adv. -- Dog\"gish*ness, n.","overflow":"1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.\n\n1. To run over the bounds. 2. To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.\n\n1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon. 2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak. 3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.","affreightment":"The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.","phlebogram":"A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.","indiscrete":"1. Indiscreet. [Obs.] Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.","hymnic":"Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics. Donne.","godmother":"A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather","mechanicalness":"The state or quality of being mechanical.","semilunate":"Semilunar.","weighage":"A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.","tenantry":"1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. [Obs.] Ridley.","uncardinal":"To degrade from the cardinalship.","peasweep":"(a) The pewit, or lapwing. (b) The greenfinch.","polymerous":"1. (Bot.) Having many parts or members in each set. Gray. 2. (Chem.) Polymeric. [Obs.]","india steel":"Same as Wootz.","bifoliolate":"Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.","decubation":"Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] Evelyn.","ra":"A roe; a deer. [Obs.] Chaucer.","resend":"1. To send again; as, to resend a message. 2. To send back; as, to resend a gift. [Obs.] Shak. 3. (Telegraphy) To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.","pimaric":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.","quatrefeuille":"Same as Quarterfoil.","misprofess":"To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.\n\nTo make a false profession of.","procurator":"1. (Law) One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.","grommet":"1. A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet. 2. (Mil.) A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.","incognoscible":"Incognizable. -- In`cog*nos\"ci*bil\"i*ty, n.","magistrally":"In a magistral manner. Abp. Bramhall.","aniline":"An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.\n\nMade from, or of the nature of, aniline.","unweeting":"Unwitting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. -- Un*weet\"ing*ly, adv. [Obs.] Milton.","lacustral":"Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.","cosenage":"See Cozenage.","anemometrical":"Of or pertaining to anemometry.","yautia":"In Porto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro.","hard-tack":"A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.","latinistic":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. \"Latinistic words.\" Fitzed. Hall.","outrode":"An excursion. [Obs.] \"Outrodes by the ways of Judea.\" Macc. xv. 41 (Geneva Bible).","helicin":"A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnæus.)","hearted":"1. Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character). 2. Shaped like a heart; cordate. [R.] Landor. 3. Seated or laid up in the heart. I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. Shak. Note: This word is chiefly used in composition; as, hard-hearted, faint-hearted, kind-hearted, lion-hearted, stout-hearted, etc. Hence the nouns hard-heartedness, faint-heartedness, etc.","curcumin":"The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence. Note: It possesses acid properties and with alkalies forms brownish salts. This change in color from yellow to brown is the characteristic reaction of tumeric paper. See Turmeric paper, under Turmeric.","aggrieve":"To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.\n\nTo grieve; to lament. [Obs.]","dispose":"1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser. 2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden. 3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn. 4. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Bacon. To dispose of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. Locke. (b) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time. More water . . . than can be disposed of. T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller. Syn. -- To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.\n\nTo bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak.\n\n1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.] But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed. 2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected. Shak.","throttler":"1. One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes. 2. (Zoöl.) See Flasher, 3 (b). [Prov. Eng.]","crown wheel":"A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.","marvelousness":"The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.","cambrasine":"A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.","outdoors":"Abread; out of the house; out of doors.","overnice":"Excessively nice; fastidious. Bp. Hall. -- O\"ver*nice\"ly, adv. -- O\"ver*nice\"ness, n.","autogeneal":"Self-produced; autogenous.","sententially":"In a sentential manner.","neptune":"1. (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. 2. (Astron.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. Neptune powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin, -- used in blasting. -- Neptune's cup (Zoöl.), a very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge (Thalassema Neptuni).","saving":"1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. 3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. 4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. Note: saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.\n\nWith the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. \"Saving your reverence.\" Shak. \"Saving your presence.\" Burns. None of us put off clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. Neh. iv. 23. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. 17.\n\n1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. 2. Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. L'Estrange. Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.","feminity":"Womanliness; femininity. [Obs.] \"Trained up in true feminity.\" Spenser.","forwards":"Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.\n\nSame as Forward.","shoaliness":"The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.","profiling":"In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.","manzanita":"A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.","dumbledor":"A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]","obstriction":"The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond. [R.] Milton.","zirconium":"A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.","chandelier":"1. A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. 2. (Fort.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [Obs.]","xenyl":"The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.","chairmanship":"The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.","symphyseal":"Of or pertaining to to symphysis.","disciform":"Discoid.","rung":"imp. & p. p. of Ring.\n\n1. (Shipbuilding) A floor timber in a ship. 2. One of the rounds of a ladder. 3. One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff. 4. (Mach.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.","water monkey":"A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.","puberty":"1. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females. 2. (Bot.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.","ragman":"A man who collects, or deals in, rags.\n\nA document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. RAGMAN'S ROLL Rag\"man's roll`. Etym: [For ragman roll a long list of names, the devil's roll or list; where ragman is of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ragmenni a craven person, Sw. raggen the devil. Icel. ragmenni is fr. ragr cowardly (another form of argr, akin to AS. earg cowardly, vile, G. arg bad) + menni (in comp.) man, akin to E. man. See Roll, and cf. Rigmarole.] The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. [Also written ragman-roll.]","iambic":"1. (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot. 2. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.\n\n1. (Pros.) (a) An iambic foot; an iambus. (b) A verse composed of iambic feet. Note: The following couplet consists of iambic verses. Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram. Dryden. 2. A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.","laconism":"1. A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style. 2. An instance of laconic style or expression.","petaled":"Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three- petaled, etc.","trigynous":"Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.","insimulate":"To accuse. [Obs.] Donne.","lapper":"One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.","stuntness":"Stuntedness; brevity. [R.] Earle.","adsignify":"To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.","sultany":"Sultanry. [Obs.] Fuller.","unconditional":"Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di\"tion*al*ly, adv.","vole":"A deal at cards that draws all the tricks. Swift.\n\nTo win all the tricks by a vole. Pope.\n\nAny one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinæ. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail. Note: The water vole, or water rat, of Europe (Arvicola amphibius) is a common large aquatic species. The short-tailed field vole (A. agrestis) of Northern and Central Europe, and Asia, the Southern field vole (A. arvalis), and the Siberian root vole (A. oeconomus), are important European species. The common species of the Eastern United States (A. riparius) (called also meadow mouse) and the prairie mouse (A. austerus) are abundant, and often injurious to vegetation. Other species are found in Canada.","pipette":"A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.","stundist":"One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun\"dism (#), n.","enneaspermous":"Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.","stubbiness":"The state of being stubby.","augurous":"Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] \"Augurous hearts.\" Chapman.","dramatical":"Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.","sintu":"See Shinto, etc.","sedged":"Made or composed of sedge. With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. Shak.","epistolizer":"A writer of epistles.","frostiness":"State or quality of being frosty.","tockay":"A spotted lizard native of India.","hyperbaton":"A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, \"echoed the hills\" for \"the hills echoed.\" With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.","perimetrical":"Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.","entomic":"Relating to insects; entomological.","annul":"1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke. Syn. -- To abolish; abrogate; repeal; cancel; reverse; rescind; revoke; nullify; destroy. See Abolish.","dotish":"Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.","ramble":"1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke. 2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. 3. To extend or grow at random. Thomson. Syn. -- To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.\n\n1. A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. Swift. 2. Etym: [Cf. Rammel.] (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam. Raymond.","ring":"1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. 2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak. 3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. -- To ring the changes upon. See under Change. -- To ring in or out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. Sir W. Scott.\n\n1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer. Why ring not out the bells Shak. 2. To practice making music with bells. Holder. 3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. Pope. The hall with harp and carol rang. Tennyson. My ears still ring with noise. Dryden. 4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. The assertion is still ringing in our ears. Burke. 5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.\n\n1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell. 2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. Bacon 3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. Fuller.\n\nA circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop. 2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak. 3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena. Place me. O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contened for glory. E. Smith. 4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. \"The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.\" Thackeray. 5. A circular group of persons. And hears the Muses in a Aye round about Jove's alter sing. Milton. 6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure. 7. (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. 8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium. 9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc. The ruling ring at Constantinople. E. A. Freeman. Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain. -- Ring blackbird (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Ring canal (Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage. -- Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene. -- Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth. -- Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under Micrometer. -- Saturn's rings. See Saturn. -- Ring ousel. (Zoöl.) See Ousel. -- Ring parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and P. Alexandri of Java. -- Ring plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata). -- Ring snake (Zoöl.), a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash- colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. -- Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper. -- Ring thrush (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. -- The ring. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.\n\n1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. \"Ring these fingers.\" Shak. 2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots. 3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.\n\nTo rise in the air spirally.","turret steamer":"A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.","forehearth":"The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.","gemel":"Coupled; paired. Bars gemel (Her.), two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.\n\n1. One of the twins. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. (Heb.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a. Two gemels silver between two griffins passant. Strype. Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. -- Gemel ring, a ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal. -- Gemel window, a window with two bays.","diorite":"An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.","australian ballot":"A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.","fruitage":"1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.","inferable":"Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.","polynomial":"An expression composed of two or more terms, connected by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.\n\n1. Containing many names or terms; multinominal; as, the polynomial theorem. 2. Consisting of two or more words; having names consisting of two or more words; as, a polynomial name; polynomial nomenclature.","water soldier":"An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.","ectrotic":"Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.","materiated":"Consisting of matter. [Obs.] Bacon.","whereinto":"1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.","underboard":"Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.","teest":"A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.","apsidal":"1. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit. 2. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.","self-action":"Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.","waitress":"A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.","adstrict":"See Astrict, and Astriction.","magpie":"Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. Note: The common European magpie (Pica pica, or P. caudata) is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie (P. Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie (P. Nuttalli) inhabits California. The blue magpie (Cyanopolius Cooki) inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie (Gymnorhina organicum), the black magpie (Strepera fuliginosa), and the Australian magpie (Cracticus picatus). Magpie lark (Zoöl.), a common Australian bird (Grallina picata), conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little magpie. -- Magpie moth (Zoöl.), a black and white European geometrid moth (Abraxas grossulariata); the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.","trumpets":"A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.","unlawful":"Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law\"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law\"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. (Law) See under Assembly.","droll":"Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story.\n\n1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior. 2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.\n\nTo jest; to play the buffoon. [R.]\n\n1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange. 2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.","inhabited":"Uninhabited. [Obs.] Brathwait.","serio-comic":"Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.","sanation":"The act of healing or curing. [Obs.] Wiseman.","permittee":"One to whom a permission or permit is given.","sippet":"A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.","aspirer":"One who aspires.","self-dependent":"Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.","succulent":"Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.","amission":"Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","strainable":"1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.","time signature":"A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.","stingo":"Old beer; sharp or strong liquor. [Old Slang] Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow Addison.","irresolute":"Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res\"o*lute*ly, adv. -- Ir*res\"o*lute*ness, n.","broccoli":"A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The \"curd,\" or flowering head, is the part used for food.","scutibranchiate":"Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata. -- n. One of the Scutibranchiata.","burglarious":"Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.","diffranchisement":"See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.","disenroll":"To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.","breastplough":"A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.","oostegite":"One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.","six":"One more than five; twice three; as, six yards. Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations. -- Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.\n\n1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects. 2. A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI. To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. Bacon. Shak. Swift.","browbound":"Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak.","erubescent":"Red, or reddish; blushing. Johnson.","intermittingly":"With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.","metallist":"A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.","monolithal":"Monolithic.","kike":"To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo kick [Obs.] Chaucer.","barillet":"A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.","bergmeal":"(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.","aplastic":"Not plastic or easily molded.","aurelia":"(a) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies. (b) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.","expugnation":"The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.","induction motor":"A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.","retractate":"To retract; to recant. [Obs.]","polymorphous":"1. Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. De Quincey. 2. (Biol.) Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed to monomorphic.","authorizable":"Capable of being authorized. Hammond.","humorist":"1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. 2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. 3. One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll. The reputation of wits and humorists. Addison.","sawceflem":"See Sauseflem. [Obs.]","scarn":"Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray. Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.","softish":"Somewhat soft. De Witt Clinton.","spanless":"Incapable of being spanned.","juneating":"A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]","iniquous":"Iniquitous. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","notionist":"One whose opinions are ungrounded notions. [R.] Bp. Hopkins.","glowworm":"A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak. Note: The male is winged, and is supposed to be attracted by the light of the female. In America, the luminous larvæ of several species of fireflies and fire beetles are called glowworms. Both sexes of these are winged when mature. See Firefly.","staller":"A standard bearer. obtaining Fuller.","mather":"See Madder.","subcultrated":"Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.","sketch":"An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work. Syn. -- Outline; delineation; draught; plan; design. -- Sketch, Outline, Delineation. An outline gives only the bounding lines of some scene or picture. A sketch fills up the outline in part, giving broad touches, by which an imperfect idea may be conveyed. A delineation goes further, carrying out the more striking features of the picture, and going so much into detail as to furnish a clear conception of the whole. Figuratively, we may speak of the outlines of a plan, of a work, of a project, etc., which serve as a basis on which the subordinate parts are formed, or of sketches of countries, characters, manners, etc., which give us a general idea of the things described. Crabb.\n\n1. To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of. 2. To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of. Syn. -- To delineate; design; draught; depict.\n\nTo make sketches, as of landscapes.","epiphyllous":"Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf.","umbrage":"1. Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton. 2. Shadowy resemblance; shadow. [Obs.] The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage of reason on its side. Woodward. 3. The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment. Which gave umbrage to wiser than myself. Evelyn. Persons who feel most umbrage from the overshadowing aristocracy. Sir W. Scott.","virtu":"A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities. J. Spence. An article, or piece, of virtu, an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtù. Goldsmith.","bencher":"1. (Eng. Law) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. 2. An alderman of a corporation. [Eng.] Ashmole. 3. A member of a court or council. [Obs.] Shak. 4. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. [Obs.]","palatopterygoid":"Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.","mullet":"1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts. 2. (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidæ; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet. French mullet. See Ladyfish (a).\n\nA star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.\n\nSmall pinchers for curling the hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","anatropous":"Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.","overlargeness":"Excess of size or bulk.","curateship":"A curacy.","lactucone":"A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.","navals":"Naval affairs. [Obs.]","missend":"To send amiss or incorrectly.","zymology":"A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation. [Written also zumology.]","avidious":"Avid.","crabeater":"(a) The cobia. (b) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). (c) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).","midrash":"A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.","pitch-ore":"Pitchblende.","neighborship":"The state of being neighbors. [R.] J. Bailie.","deave":"To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]","hable":"See Habile. [Obs.] Spenser.","lychee":"See Litchi.","danubian":"Pertainingto, or bordering on, the river Danube.","flurry":"1. A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind. 2. A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow. 3. Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. The racket and flurry of London. Blakw. Mag. 4. The violent spasms of a dying whale.\n\nTo put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. H. Swinburne.","salvo":"An exception; a reservation; an excuse. They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eilon Basilike.\n\n1. (Mil.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. 2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.","oxyneurine":"See Betaine.","suppeditate":"To supply; to furnish. [Obs.] Hammond.","howso":"Howsoever. [Obs.]","monomachia":"A duel; single combat. \"The duello or monomachia.\" Sir W. Scott.","hatbox":"A box for a hat.","strale":"Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]","seaboat":"1. A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat. 2. (Zoöl.) A chitin.","hern":"A heron; esp., the common European heron. \"A stately hern.\" Trench.","hypogean":"Hypogeous. [Written also hypogæan.]","agistor":"(a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.","paneless":"Without panes. To patch his paneless window. Shenstone.","corse":"1. A living body or its bulk. [Obs.] For he was strong, and of so mighty corse As ever wielded spear in warlike hand. Spenser. 2. A corpse; the dead body of a human being. [Archaic or Poetic] Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. Shak.","helmet":"1. (Armor) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver. 2. (Her.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form. 3. A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun. 4. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.; as: (a) (Chem.) The upper part of a retort. Boyle. (b) (Bot.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon. (c) (Zoöl.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird. Helmet beetle (Zoöl.), a leaf-eating beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ, having a short, broad, and flattened body. Many species are known. -- Helmet shell (Zoöl.), one of many species of tropical marine univalve shells belonging to Cassis and allied genera. Many of them are large and handsome; several are used for cutting as cameos, and hence are called cameo shells. See King conch. -- Helmet shrike (Zoöl.), an African wood shrike of the genus Prionodon, having a large crest.","fossiliferous":"Containing or composed of fossils.","vavasor":"The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. Burrill. \"A worthy vavasour.\" Chaucer. [Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc.] Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle, human or otherwise, against fealty. Motley.","arvicole":"A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.","express rifle":"A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.","nuptial":"Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies. Then, all in heat, They light the nuptial torch. Milton.\n\nMarriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural. Celebration of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come. Shak. Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials. Prescott.","malacatune":"See Melocoton.","dermophyte":"A dermatophyte.","mordicant":"Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. [R.] Boyle.","coguardian":"A joint guardian.","sappy":"1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juisy; succulent. 2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward. 3. Weak in intellect. [Low] 4. (Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting lagerly of, sapwood.\n\nMusty; tainted. [Obs.]","fatiscence":"A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.","knavess":"A knavish woman. Carlyle.","explicative":"Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.","parallelopipedon":"A parallelopiped. Hutton.","cudden":"1. A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Obs.] The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.","seg":"1. Sedge. [Obs.] 2. The gladen, and other species of Iris. Prior.\n\nA castrated bull. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.","tensile":"1. Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength. 2. Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. Bacon.","zoological":"Of or pertaining to zoölogy, or the science of animals.","sao":"Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.","interpause":"An intermission. [R.]","throughout":"Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. Milton.\n\nIn every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.","properly":"1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. [Obs.] Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.","quietness":"The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness. I would have peace and quietness. Shak.","irrebuttable":"Incapable of being rebutted. Coleridge.","disunionist":"An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.","consideration":"1. The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak. 2. Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell. 3. Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman. 4. Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence. Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin. Addison. 5. The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession. 6. That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason. He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay. 7. (Law) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Bouvier. Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for a promise, and \"as a mere advantage to the promisor without detriment to the promisee would not avail, the proper test is detriment to the promisee.\" Wharton.","immiscibility":"Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.","pellack":"A porpoise.","dartos":"A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.","seldshewn":"Rarely shown or exhibited. [Obs.] Shak.","cortes geraes":"See Legislature, Portugal.","defailure":"Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.","thoroughly":"In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.","escalade":"A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.\n\nTo mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.","repugnant":"Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins. Syn. -- Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.","verst":"A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet. [Written also werst.]","fluocerine":"A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.","make and break":"Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.","permission":"The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave, Permission. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval.","podiceps":"See Grebe.","detestate":"To detest. [Obs.] Udall.","kirkman":"1. A clergyman or officer in a kirk. [Scot.] 2. A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion. [Scot.]","indirect":"1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road. 2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. Shak. 3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson. 4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages, or claims. 5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc. Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain. -- Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing that any other supposition involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to another by showing that it can be neither greater nor less. -- Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under Direct. -- Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; -- opposed to direct evidence. -- Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises, etc., exacted directly from the merchant, but paid indirectly by the consumer in the higher price demanded for the articles of merchandise.","omahas":"A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.","stifftail":"The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]","orleans":"1. A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel. 2. A variety of the plum. See under Plum. [Eng.]","immobilize":"To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.","fleck":"A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.\n\nA spot; a streak; a speckle. \"A sunny fleck.\" Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.\n\nTo spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.","hability":"Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).","solacious":"Affording solace; as, a solacious voice. [Obs.] Bale.","ranal":"Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants. Ranal alliance (Bot.), a name proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.","petulantly":"In a petulant manner.","considerance":"Act of considering; consideration. [Obs.] Shak.","hake":"A drying shed, as for unburned tile.\n\nOne of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.\n\nTo loiter; to sneak. [Prov. Eng.] HAKE'S-DAME Hake's\"-dame`, n. See Forkbeard.","perogue":"See Pirogue.","lovable":"Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.","unbow":"To unbend. [R.] Fuller.","sanitarian":"Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.\n\nAn advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.","gastrohysterotomy":"Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.","archdeaconship":"The office of an archdeacon.","culvert":"A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.","forold":"Very old. [Obs.] A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. Chaucer.","parament":"Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. [Obs.] Lords in paraments on their coursers. Chaucer. Chamber of paraments, presence chamber of a monarch.","unspeakable":"Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- Un*speak\"a*bly, adv. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8.","roust":"To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]\n\nA strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] Jamieson.","laplandish":"Of or pertaining to Lapland.","seaward":"Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.\n\nToward the sea. Drayton.","finnan haddie":"Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn\"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]","dysphonia":"A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.","pioneer":"1. (Mil.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances. 2. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.\n\nTo go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer. PIONEERS' DAY Pi`o*neers'\" Day. In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.","crosiered":"Bearing a crosier.","incompressibility":"The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.","lightweight":"(a) In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds). (b) A person of small impotance or mental ability. [Colloq., Chiefly U. S.]\n\nLight in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.","whorled":"Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.","fluoboric":"Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron. Fluoridic acid (Chem.), a double fluoride, consisting essentially of a solution of boron fluoride, in hydrofluoric acid. It has strong acid properties, and is the type of the borofluorides. Called also borofluoric acid.","oryall":"See Oriel.","arcaded":"Furnished with an arcade.","bibirine":"See Bebeerine.","goot":"A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.","relict":"A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.","hummel":"To separate from the awns; -- said of barley. [Scot.]\n\nHaving no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow. [Scot.]","bisulcate":"1. Having two grooves or furrows. 2. (Zoöl.) Cloven; said of a foot or hoof.","rememoration":"A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.","torquated":"Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.","darksome":"Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.","canon bit":"That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.","kempe":"Rough; shaggy. [Obs.] \"Kempe hairs.\" Chaucer.","palter":"1. To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave. 2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson. 3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]\n\nTo trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] \"Palter out your time in the penal statutes.\" Beau. & Fl.","town-crier":"A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.","herma":"See Hermes, 2.","terebra":"1. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell. 2. (Zoöl.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.","grantor":"The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.","autogenous":"1. (Biol.) Self-generated; produced independently. 2. (Anat.) Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.","phrenism":"See Vital force, under Vital.","beleper":"To infect with leprosy. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","separatrix":"The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.","amidships":"In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.","undersky":"The lower region of the sky. Floating about the undersky. Tennyson.","knightless":"Unbecoming a knight. [Obs.] \"Knightless guile.\" Spenser.","yahoo":"1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels.\" See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. 2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character. 3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]","cambria":"The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.","alated":"Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.","pseudo-cone":"One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.","cachiri":"A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.","integumentation":"The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.","bracteal":"Having the nature or appearance of a bract.","memorial rose":"A Japanese evergreen rose (Rosa wichuraiana) with creeping branches, shining leaves, and single white flowers. It is often planted in cemeteries.","sexual":"Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation. Sexual dimorphism (Biol.), the condition of having one of the sexes existing in two forms, or varieties, differing in color, size, etc., as in many species of butterflies which have two kinds of females. -- Sexual method (Bot.), a method of classification proposed by Linnæus, founded mainly on difference in number and position of the stamens and pistils of plants. -- Sexual selection (Biol.), the selective preference of one sex for certain characteristics in the other, such as bright colors, musical notes, etc.; also, the selection which results from certain individuals of one sex having more opportunities of pairing with the other sex, on account of greater activity, strength, courage, etc.; applied likewise to that kind of evolution which results from such sexual preferences. Darwin. In these cases, therefore, natural selection seems to have acted independently of sexual selection. A. R. Wallace.","bonify":"To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.","striation":"1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.","dragonlike":"Like a dragon. Shak.","shred":"1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. \"Shreds of tanned leather.\" Bacon. 2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle. Shak.\n\n1. To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather. Chaucer. 2. To lop; to prune; to trim. [Obs.]","oilbird":"See Guacharo.","necrose":"To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis. Quain.","downhill":"Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.\n\nDeclivous; descending; sloping. \"A downhill greensward.\" Congrewe.\n\nDeclivity; descent; slope. On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ).","valvate":"1. Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular. 2. (Bot.) (a) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in æstivation, and of leaves in vernation. (b) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.","wolframic":"Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.","delsarte":"A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of François Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.","hummock":"1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface. 2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field. 3. Timbered land. See Hammock. [Southern U.S.]","belsire":"A grandfather, or ancestor. \"His great belsire Brute.\" [Obs.] Drayton.","mixen":"A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.","pythocenic":"Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.","sagapen":"Sagapenum.","outerly":"1. Utterly; entirely. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. [R.] Grew.","emissary":"An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden. Syn. -- Emissary, Spy. A spy is one who enters an enemy's camp or territories to learn the condition of the enemy; an emissary may be a secret agent appointed not only to detect the schemes of an opposing party, but to influence their councils. A spy must be concealed, or he suffers death; an emissary may in some cases be known as the agent of an adversary without incurring similar hazard.\n\n1. Exploring; spying. B. Jonson. 2. (Anat.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.","jawn":"See Yawn. [Obs.] Marston.","tazza":"An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.","shasta daisy":"A large-flowered garden variety of the oxeye daisy.","deraignment":"1. The act of deraigning. [Obs.] 2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [Obs.] Blount.","sitology":"A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics. [Written also sitiology.]","moneyer":"1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.] 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.","rimose":"1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.","eyght":"An island. See Eyot.","anemology":"The science of the wind.","blare":"To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. \"The trumpet blared.\" Tennyson.\n\nTo cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.\n\nThe harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.","candlepin":"(a) A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. (b) The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.","cocculus indicus":"The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.","antimason":"One opposed to Freemasonry. -- An`ti*ma*son\"ic, a.","disserviceable":"Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv\"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv\"ice*a*bly, adv.","sandarach":"1. (Min.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic] 2. (Bot. Chem.) A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.","keyseat":"To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.","nas":"Was not. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nHas not. [Obs.] Spenser.","elvan":"1. Pertaining to elves; elvish. 2. (Mining) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.\n\nThe rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.","november":"The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.","ichthyosauria":"An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.","equisonance":"An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.","nibblingly":"In a nibbling manner; cautiously.","quaternate":"Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.","sprengel pump":"A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.","swape":"See Sweep, n., 12.","mutage":"A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.","hygroscopic":"1. Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture. 2. Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.","disposed":"1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rancho":"1. A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night. 2. A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. [Mexico & California] Bartlett.","mistrustful":"Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust\"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust\"ful*ness, n.","dog-legged":"Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.","rotundity":"1. The state or quality of being rotu Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak. 2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness. For the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.","jib":"1. (Naut.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc. 2. (Mach.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended. Jib boom (Naut.), a spar or boom which serves as an extension of the bowsprit. It is sometimes extended by another spar called the flying jib boom. [Written also gib boom.] -- Jib crane (Mach.), a crane having a horizontal jib on which a trolley moves, bearing the load. -- Jib door (Arch.), a door made flush with the wall, without dressings or moldings; a disguised door. -- Jib header (Naut.), a gaff-topsail, shaped like a jib; a jib- headed topsail. -- Jib topsail (Naut.), a small jib set above and outside of all the other jibs. -- The cut of one's jib, one's outward appearance. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk. [Written also jibb.] [Eng.]\n\nTo shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.","tardiness":"The quality or state of being tardy.","crumbly":"EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. \"The crumbly soil.\" Hawthorne.","cymling":"A scalloped or \"pattypan\" variety of summer squash.","ophiurioid":"Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. -- n. One of the Ophiurioidea. [Written also ophiuroid.]","gymnasium":"1. A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics. 2. A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind. More like ordinary schools of gymnasia than universities. Hallam.","slopy":"Sloping; inclined.","shatter":"1. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke. 2. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor. Norris. 3. To scatter about. [Obs.] Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton.\n\nTo be broken into fragments; to fal Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter and fly in many places. Bacon.\n\nA fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Swift.","dabble":"To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. \"Bright hair dabbled in blood.\" Shak.\n\n1. To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. Wher the duck dabbles Wordsworth. 2. To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle. \"Dabbling here and there with the text.\" Atterbury. During the ferst year at Dumfries, Burns for the ferst time began to dabble in politics. J. C. Shairp.","reintegrate":"To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reas, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.","soft-headed":"Weak in intellect.","white-water":"A dangerous disease of sheep.","septentrion":"The north or northern regions. Shak. Both East West, South and Septentrioun. Chaucer.\n\nOf or pertaining to the north; northern. \"From cold septentrion blasts.\" Milton.","latescent":"Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning. Sir W. Hamilton.","urbicolous":"Of or pertaining to a city; urban. [R.]","prefoliation":"Vernation.","amniotic":"Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.","beige":"Debeige.","li":"1. Chinese measure of distance, being a little more that one third of a mile. 2. A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.","nature":"1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton. 3. The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect. 4. Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Shak. 5. The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man among men on earth. Milton. 6. Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. A dispute of this nature caused mischief. Dryden. 7. Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. \"My days of nature.\" Shak. Oppressed nature sleeps. Shak. 8. Natural affection or reverence. Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature foce his way Pope. 9. Constitution or quality of mind or character. A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick. Shak. That reverence which is due to a superior nature. Addison. Good nature, Ill nature. see under Good and Ill. -- In a state of nature. (a) Naked as when born; nude. (b) In a condition of sin; unregenerate. (c) Untamed; uncvilized. -- Nature printng, a process of printing from metallic or other plates which have received an impression, as by heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the like. -- Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of nature. -- To pay the debt of nature, to die.\n\nTo endow with natural qualities. [Obs.] He [God] which natureth every kind. Gower.","glidden":"p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.","persulphocyanogen":"An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.","ragery":"Wantonness. [Obs.] Chaucer.","syntactical":"Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac\"tic*al*ly, adv.","majestatal":"Majestic. [Obs.] E. Pocock. Dr. J. Scott.","scleragogy":"Severe discipline. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.","abecedarian":"1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. 2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.\n\nPertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.","book-learned":"Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.","unoffensive":"Inoffensive.","morpho":"Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.","expropriate":"To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.","thermotactic":"Of or retaining to thermotaxis.","cinchonic":"Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.","multisyllable":"A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [R.] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab\"ic, a.","securable":"That may be secured.","hatchure":"Same as Hachure.","anguineal":"Anguineous.","sea holly":"An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.","junkerism":"The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.","lernean":"One of a family (Lernæidæ) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.","pismire":"An ant, or emmet.","tray-trip":"An old game played with dice. [Obs.] Shak.","tarpum":"A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.","aspersoir":"An aspergill.","parrot":"1. (Zoöl.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. 2. (Zoöl.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidæ, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. Carolina parrot (Zoöl.), the Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet. -- Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zoöl.) See Kakapo. -- Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.] -- Parrot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green, n. -- Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers. -- Parrot wrasse, Parrot fish (Zoöl.), any fish of the genus Scarus. One species (S. Cretensis), found in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.\n\nTo repeat by rote, as a parrot.\n\nTo chatter like a parrot.","account book":"A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.","fleetness":"Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.","unclench":"Same as Unclinch.","lady-killing":"The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.","temporally":"In a temporal manner; secularly. [R.] South.","v hook":"A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.","stereographical":"Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right andles to the diameter passing through the center of projection.","long":"1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. 2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. 3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. 4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser. 5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. 6. Far-reaching; extensive. \" Long views.\" Burke. 7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long- beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long- tailed, long- worded, etc. In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. -- Long clam (Zoöl.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also soft-shell clam and long- neck clam. See Mya. -- Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. -- Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. -- Long division. (Math.) See Division. -- Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen. -- Long home, the grave. -- Long measure, Long mater. See under Measure, Meter. -- Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. -- Long price, the full retail price. -- Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. Dr. Prior. -- Long suit (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor. -- Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zoöl.) The long-tailed titmouse. -- Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. -- Of long, a long time. [Obs.] Fairfax. -- To be, or go, long of the market, To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short. -- To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.\n\n1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. 2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel. 3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. Addison.\n\n1. To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line. 2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13. 3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest. 4. Through the whole extent or duration. The bird of dawning singeth all night long. Shak. 5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone\n\nBy means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.\n\n1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for. I long to see you. Rom. i. 11. I have longed after thy precepts. Ps. cxix. 40. I have longed for thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot. 2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] The labor which that longeth unto me. Chaucer.","hare-hearted":"Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.","instop":"To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [Obs.] Dryden.","lubberly":"Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.\n\nClumsily; awkwardly. Dryden.","importunacy":"The quality of being importunate; importunateness.","gauffer":"To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.","flaring":"1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His [the sun's] flaring beams. Milton. 2. Opening or speading outwards.","cloggy":"Clogging, or having power to clog.","blear":"1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden. 2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.\n\nTo make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.","epicolic":"Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.","mydaleine":"A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. Brieger.","jeames":"A footman; a flunky. [Slang, Eng.] Thackeray.","smoothbore":"Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n. A smoothbore firearm.","investiture":"1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.","wet nurse":"A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.","democratic":"1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people. 2. Relating to a political party so called. 3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.","kyanol":"(a) Aniline. [Obs.] (b) A base obtained from coal tar. Ure.","puna":"A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.","bidigitate":"Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.","sopra":"Above; before; over; upon.","nasopalatine":"Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.","perempt":"To destroy; to defeat. [R.] Ayliffe.","amine":"One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.","manganese":"An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8. Note: An alloy of manganese with iron (called ferromanganese) is used to increase the density and hardness of steel. Black oxide of manganese, Manganese dioxide or peroxide, or Black manganese (Chem.), a heavy black powder MnO2, occurring native as the mineral pyrolusite, and valuable as a strong oxidizer; -- called also familiarly manganese. It colors glass violet, and is used as a decolorizer to remove the green tint of impure glass. Manganese bronze, an alloy made by adding from one to two per cent of manganese to the copper and zinc used in brass.","sea language":"The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.","setbolt":"1. An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. Craig. 2. A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.","toran":"A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.","psychiatry":"The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison.","zygenid":"Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygænidæ, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.","conversationism":"A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.","massively":"In a heavy mass.","ctenophora":"A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.","outfrown":"To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.","denial":"1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction. 3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam. 4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God. Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.","rapture":"1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman. 2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope. 3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.\n\nTo transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.","whacking":"Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]","zooephyte":"(a) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids. (b) Any one of the Zoöphyta.","puttyroot":"An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.","shackle":"Stubble. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.\n\n1. Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser. 2. Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. South. 3. A fetterlike band worn as an ornament. Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms. Dampier. 4. A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis. 5. A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc. 6. The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. Knight. Shackle joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.\n\n1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber. Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object. Walpole. 3. To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. [U. S.] Shackle bar, the coupling between a locomotive and its tender. [U.S.] -- Shackle bolt, a shackle. Sir W. Scott.","marmoreal":"Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.","truelove":"1. One really beloved. 2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris. 3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.","centinel":"Sentinel. [Obs.] Sackville.","larcenous":"Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act; committing larceny. \"The larcenous and burglarious world.\" Sydney Smith. -- Lar\"ce*nous*ly, adv.","merino":"1. Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain. 2. Made of the wool of the merino sheep.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool. 2. A fine fabric of merino wool.","inextinct":"Not quenched; not extinct.","inleague":"To ally, or form an alliance witgh; to unite; to combine. With a willingness inleague our blood With his, for purchase of full growth in friendship. Ford.","breadth":"1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. (Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect. Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters. Weale.","pugilist":"One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.","pulverulent":"Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.","sentimentality":"The quality or state of being sentimental.","excavator":"One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.","targum":"A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.","catchpenny":"Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n. Some worthless catchpenny thing.","blazoner":"One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.","distrustful":"1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust\"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust\"ful*ness, n.","duffle":"See Duffel.","karakul":"Astrakhan, esp. in fine grades. Cf. Caracul.","pulsific":"Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.","tisri":"The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.","luxury":"1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury. He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison. 3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer. 4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon. Syn. -- Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.","paum":"To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.","ventriculite":"Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period. Note: Many of them were shaped like vases, others like mushrooms. They belong to the hexactinellids, and are allied to the Venus's basket of modern seas.","anthroposophy":"Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.","stagery":"Exhibition on the stage. [Obs.]","pricklefish":"The stickleback.","bugwort":"Bugbane.","meteorography":"The registration of meteorological phenomena.","effigiation":"The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy. Fuller.","lunulated":"Resembling a small crescent. Gray.","juggle":"1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure. 2. To practice artifice or imposture. Be these juggling fiends no more believed. Shak.\n\nTo deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.\n\n1. A trick by sleight of hand. 2. An imposture; a deception. Tennyson. A juggle of state to cozen the people. Tillotson. 3. A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. Knight.","dungmeer":"A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.","tawdry":"1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.] And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. Spenser. 2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.\n\nA necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.] Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.","ablaze":"1. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow. 2. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.","kudu":"See Koodoo.","verdure":"Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley.","bacteroid":"Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.","scrofula":"A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).","intendment":"1. Charge; oversight. [Obs.] Ford. 2. Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor. 3. (Law) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.","venenate":"To poison; to infect with poison. [R.] Harvey.\n\nPoisoned. Woodward.","semi-saxon":"Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150- 1250.","aspidobranchia":"A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.","lone-star state":"Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.","remontant":"Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.","condign":"1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. \"Condign censure.\" Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. Shak.","configuration":"1. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris. 2. (Astrol.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.","bookkeeping":"The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order thaItalian method.","frost-bitten":"Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.","mycological":"Of or relating to mycology, or the fungi.","ivory-bill":"A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.","iniquity":"1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. Spenser. 2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o Milton. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Is. lix. 2. 3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice. Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. B. Jonson.","theologist":"A theologian.","sacchariferous":"Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.","mechanography":"The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.","seniorize":"To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. [R.] Fairfax.","pinfish":"(a) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, or Lagodon, rhomboides). (b) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki). Note: Both are excellent food fishes, common on the coast of the United States south of Cape Hatteras. The name is also applied to other allied species.","tonight":"1. On this present or coming night. 2. On the last night past. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nThe present or the coming night; the night after the present day.","innutritious":"Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.","frons":"The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.","oxysulphide":"A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.","sobriety":"1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years. Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad. Denham. Syn. -- Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness; moderation; regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness; sober-mindeness; sedateness; staidness; gravity; seriousness; solemnity.","crazing-mill":"A mill for grinding tin ore.","pavage":"See Pavage. [R.]","rockiness":"The state or quality of being rocky.","germogen":"(a) A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour. (b) The primitive cell in certain embryonic forms. Balfour.","jahwist":"The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.","silene":"A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly. Bon Silène. See Silène, in the Vocabulary.","patrimony":"1. A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. \"'Reave the orphan of his patrimony.\" Shak. 2. Formerly, a church estate or endowment. Shipley.","skimmerton":"See Skimmington.","schematism":"1. (Astrol.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. 2. Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement. [R.]","proa":"A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.","lyn":"A waterfall. See Lin. [Scot.]","jacky":"(a) A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter. (b) English gin. [Dial. Eng.]","mysteriousness":"1. The state or quality of being mysterious. 2. Something mysterious; a mystery. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","tenotome":"A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.","amovability":"Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.","meletin":"See Quercitin.","stutter":"To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay.\n\n1. The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering. 2. One who stutters; a stammerer. [Obs.] Bacon.","polyporous":"Having many pores. Wright.","sledge":"1. A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled. 2. A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution. [Eng.] Sir W. Scott. 3. A sleigh. [Eng.] 4. A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.\n\nTo travel or convey in a sledge or sledges. Howitt.\n\nA large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer. With his heavy sledge he can it beat. Spenser.","thencefrom":"From that place. [Obs.]","winch":"To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.\n\nA kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness. Shelton.\n\n1. A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc. 2. An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly. 3. An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass. 4. A wince.","chieftain":"A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan. Syn. -- Chief; commander; leader; head. See Chief.","polygraphy":"1. Much writing; writing of many books. [Obs.] Fuller. 2. The art of writing in various ciphers, and of deciphering the same. [R.] 3. The art or practice of using a polygraph.","matrimoine":"Matrimony. [Obs.]","hetman":"A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.","crudeness":"A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.","alga":"A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.","mistion":"Mixture. [Obs.]","tittimouse":"Titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]","benignant":"Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig\"nant*ly, adv.","reedify":"To edify anew; to build again after destruction. [R.] Milton.","concite":"To excite or stir up. [Obs.] Cotgrave.","streamline":"Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship.","headsail":"Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.","emancipate":"To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ). (c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error. From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward.\n\nSet at liberty.","shaik":"See Sheik.","thrasher":"1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. 2. (Zoöl.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark. 3. (Zoöl.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.","galapee tree":"The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.","gettable":"That may be obtained. [R.]","legitimately":"In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.","lituus":"1. (Rom. Antig.) (a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. (b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. 2. (Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2th = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.","armada":"A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.","electic":"See Eclectic.","splitfeet":"The Fissipedia.","zooegrapher":"One who describes animals, their forms and habits.","scyllarian":"One of a family (Scyllaridæ) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.","generalty":"Generality. [R.] Sir M. Hale.","mastodon":"An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.","than":"A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want. Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Matt. xii. 42. Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none higher sat. Milton. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.\n\nThen. See Then. [Obs.] Gower. Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. Chaucer.","descensory":"A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.","laggingly":"In a lagging manner; loiteringly.","polemoscope":"An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.","syntonin":"A proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. See Acid albumin, under Albumin.","brest":"for Bursteth. [Obs.]\n\nA torus. [Obs.]","cavo-rilievo":"Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.","barterer":"One who barters.","apron":"1. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. 2. Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. (b) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. \"The weather being too hot for the apron.\" Hughes. (c) (Gun.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. (d) (Shipbuilding) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. Totten. (e) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. (f) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. (g) (Mech.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. (h) (Plumbing) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. (i) (Zoöl.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.","effluency":"Effluence.","endemiology":"The science which treats of endemic affections.","livingly":"In a living state. Sir T. Browne.","telemetrograph":"A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog\"ra*phy (#), n. -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph\"ic (#), a.","totemic":"Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.","rideau":"A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.","morulation":"The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.","natatorium":"A swimming bath.","hematinon":"A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.","palpebra":"The eyelid.","swelling":"1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. Coleridge. 2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially (Med.), an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton.","lardery":"A larder. [Obs.]","measelry":"Leprosy. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.","water feather":"The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.","osteology":"The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.","foliar":"Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.","kingtruss":"A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.","aaronical":"Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews. AARON'S ROD Aar\"on's rod`. Etym: [See Exodus vii. 9 and Numbers xvii. 8] 1. (Arch.) A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two. 2. (Bot.) A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.","cureall":"A remedy for all diseases, o","graduate":"1. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc. 2. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College. 3. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne. 4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.\n\n1. To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz. 2. (Zoöl.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds. 3. To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. He graduated at Oxford. Latham. He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated. Macaulay.\n\n1. One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning. 2. A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.\n\nArrangei by successive steps or degrees; graduated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. Tatham.","penfold":"See Pinfold.","multiplication":"1. The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray. 2. (Math.) The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division. Note: The word multiplication is sometimes used in mathematics, particularly in multiple algebra, to denote any distributive operation expressed by one symbol upon any quantity or any thing expressed by another symbol. Corresponding extensions of meaning are given to the words multiply, multiplier, multiplicand, and product. Thus, since f(x + y) = fx + fy (see under Distributive), where f(x + y), fx, and fy indicate the results of any distributive operation represented by the symbol f upon x + y, x, and y, severally, then because of many very useful analogies f(x + y) is called the product of f and x + y, and the operation indicated by f is called multiplication. Cf. Facient, n., 2. 3. (Bot.) An increase above the normal number of parts, especially of petals; augmentation. 4. The art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists. [Obs.] Chaucer. Multiplication table, a table giving the product of a set of numbers multiplied in some regular way; commonly, a table giving the products of the first ten or twelve numbers multiplied successively by 1, 2, 3, etc., up to 10 or 12.","turband":"A turban. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind.).","bicornous":"Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.","ulna":"1. (Anat.) The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius. 2. (O. Eng. Law) An ell; also, a yard. Burrill.","wedge-shell":"Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.","transfiguration":"1. A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. 2. (Eccl.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.","caladium":"A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.","prevailingly":"So as to prevail.","ceroplastics":"The art of modeling in wax.","dejeration":"The act of swearing solemnly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","sowter":"See Souter. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","racemate":"A salt of racemic acid.","exemptitious":"Separable. [Obs.] \"Exemptitious from matter.\" Dr. H. More.","encomber":"See Encumber. [Obs.]","outhess":"Outcry; alarm. [Obs.] Chaucer.","recompense":"1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for. God recompenseth the gift. Robynson (More's Utopia). To recompense My rash, but more unfortunate, misdeed. Milton. 3. To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved. [R.] Recompense to no man evil for evil. Rom. xii. 17. Syn. -- To repay; requite; compensate; reward; remunerate.\n\nTo give recompense; to make amends or requital. [Obs.]\n\nAn equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return. To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense. Deut. xxii. 35. And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. Heb. ii. 2. Syn. -- Repayment; compensation; remuneration; amends; satisfaction; reward; requital.","splendidness":"The quality of being splendid.","tensity":"The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.","herculean":"1. Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task. 2. Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs. \"Herculean Samson.\" Milton.","blanket clause":"A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.","pterosauria":"An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria. Note: The wings were formed, like those of bats, by a leathery expansion of the skin, principally supported by the greatly enlarged outer or \" little\" fingers of the hands. The American Cretaceous pterodactyls had no teeth. See Pteranodontia, and Pterodactyl.","centesimo":"A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.","consecration":"The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.","electrographic":"Of or pertaining to an electrograph or electrography.","convincible":"1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","thornbird":"A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.","flabile":"Liable to be blown about. Bailey.","epicondyle":"A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.","deadness":"The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.","eudaemonistical":"Eudemonistic.","lacturamic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.","phono-":"A combining form from Gr. sound, tone; as, phonograph, phonology.","therial":"Theriac. [R.] Holland.","ymaked":"Made.","seron":"Same as Ceroon. Note: This word as expressing a quantity or weight has no definite signification. McElrath.","fantasticality":"Fantastically. [Obs.]","bolognian":"Bolognese. Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.","geomantic":"Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.","asbestic":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.","damoiselle":"See Damsel. [Archaic]","degerm":"To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.","syrtic":"Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand. [R.] Ed. Rev.","devolvement":"The act or process of devolving;; devolution.","actinic":"Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.","constructional":"Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.","driftage":"1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.","lapidarious":"Consisting of stones.","calendrical":"Of or pertaining to a calendar.","phosphatic":"Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.","guess warp":"A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.","precoces":"Same as Præcoces.","ecclesiastically":"In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.","mazology":"Same as Mastology.","water devil":"The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.","syrinx":"1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes. 2. (Anat.) The lower larynx in birds. Note: In birds there are two laringes, an upper or true, but voiceless, larynx in the usual position behind the tongue, and a lower one, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi, which is the true organ of the voice.","hag-taper":"The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).","reduce":"1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn. 2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. \"An ancient but reduced family.\" Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne. 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton. 5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. 6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc. 7. (Chem.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to Ant: oxidize. 8. (Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Reduced iron (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen. -- To reduce an equation (Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. -- To reduce an expression (Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. -- To reduce a square (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square. Syn. -- To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.","supplicate":"1. To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel. 2. To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity. Syn. -- To beseech; entreat; beg; petition; implore; importune; solicit; crave. See Beseech.\n\nTo make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore. A man can not brook to supplicate or beg. Bacon.","zeitgeist":"The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.","cacodyl":"Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]","commensality":"Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] \"Promiscuous commensality.\" Sir T. Browne.","drummer":"1. One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching. 2. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. 3. (Zoöl.) A fish that makes a sound when caught; as: (a) The squeteague. (b) A California sculpin. 4. (Zoöl.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.","stirless":"Without stirring; very quiet; motionless. \"Lying helpless and stirless.\" Hare.","sweetroot":"Licorice.","attorney-general":"The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.","wayment":"To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.\n\nGrief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser.","furcation":"A branching like a. fork.","maneh":"A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. Ezek. xlv. 12.","degender":"To degenerate. [Obs.] \"Degendering to hate.\" Spenser. He degenereth into beastliness. Joye.","overgild":"To gild over; to varnish.","ronion":"A mangy or scabby creature. \"Aroint thee, with!\" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.","skart":"The shag. [Prov. Eng.]","decivilize":"To reduce from civilization to a savage state. [R.] Blackwood's Mag.","appreciate":"1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay. 4. To be sensible of; to distinguish. To test the power of bappreciate color. Lubbock. Syn. -- To Appreciate, Estimate, Esteem. Estimate is an act of judgment; esteem is an act of valuing or prizing, and when applied to individuals, denotes a sentiment of moral approbation. See Estimate. Appreciate lies between the two. As compared with estimate, it supposes a union of sensibility with judgment, producing a nice and delicate perception. As compared with esteem, it denotes a valuation of things according to their appropriate and distinctive excellence, and not simply their moral worth. Thus, with reference to the former of these (delicate perception), an able writer says. \"Women have a truer appreciation of character than men;\" and another remarks, \"It is difficult to appreciate the true force and distinctive sense of terms which we are every day using.\" So, also, we speak of the difference between two things, as sometimes hardly appreciable. With reference to the latter of these (that of valuation as the result of a nice perception), we say, \"It requires a peculiar cast of character to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth;\" \"He who has no delicacy himself, can not appreciate it in others;\" \"The thought of death is salutary, because it leads us to appreciate worldly things aright.\" Appreciate is much used in cases where something is in danger of being overlooked or undervalued; as when we speak of appreciating the difficulties of a subject, or the risk of an undertaking. So Lord Plunket, referring to an \"ominous silence\" which prevailed among the Irish peasantry, says, \"If you knew now to appreciate that silence, it is more formidable than the most clamorous opposition.\" In like manner, a person who asks some favor of another is apt to say, \"I trust you will appreciate my motives in this request.\" Here we have the key to a very frequent use of the word. It is hardly necessary to say that appreciate looks on the favorable side of things. we never speak of appreciating a man's faults, but his merits. This idea of regarding things favorably appears more fully in the word appreciative; as when we speak of an appreciative audience, or an appreciative review, meaning one that manifests a quick perception and a ready valuation of excellence.\n\nTo rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.] J. Morse.","micrometry":"The art of measuring with a micrometer.","sea pad":"The puffin.","historic":"Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor\"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric\"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. -- The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.","indiscerpible":"Not discerpible; inseparable. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. -- In`dis*cerp\"i*ble*ness, n., In`dis*cerp\"ti*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- In`dis*cerp\"ti*bly, adv. [Obs.]","diastasis":"A forcible of bones without fracture.","teratogeny":"The formation of monsters.","kobellite":"A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.","wanty":"A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope. [Prov. Eng.]","fleury":"Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.","immeritous":"Undeserving. [Obs.] Milton.","hymnologist":"A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.","caution":"1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail. [R.] The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon. 3. Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university. Syn. -- Care; forethought; forecast; heed; prudence; watchfulness; vigilance; circumspection; anxiety; providence; counsel; advice; warning; admonition.\n\nTo give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed. You cautioned me against their charms. Swift.","proem":"Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.\n\nTo preface. [Obs.] South.","story-teller":"1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for \"a liar.\"","upsyturvy":"Upside down; topsy-turvy. [Obs.] Robert Greene.","dorsiparous":"Same as Dorsiferous.","recubation":"Recumbence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","brelan":"(a) A French gambling game somewhat like poker. (b) In French games, a pair royal, or triplet.","tilth":"1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey. 2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.] And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. Tennyson.","bocking":"A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.","antialbumose":"See Albumose.","wavellite":"A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.","down":"1. Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.: (a) (Zoöl.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets. (b) (Bot.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle. (c) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. And the first down begins to shade his face. Dryden. 2. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern. Down tree (Bot.), a tree of Central America (Ochroma Lagopus), the seeds of which are enveloped in vegetable wool.\n\nTo cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. [R.] Young.\n\n1. A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson. 2. A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. [Eng.] Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. Sandys. 3. pl. A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage). 4. pl. Etym: [From the adverb.] A state of depression; low state; abasement. [Colloq.] It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups. M. Arnold.\n\n1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up. 2. Hence, in many derived uses, as: (a) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Tennyson. And that drags down his life. Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English. Shak. (b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet. I was down and out of breath. Shak. The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. Shak. He that is down needs fear no fall. Bunyan. 3. From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster. 4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot. Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or exclamation. Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke. Shak. If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down. Locke. Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down; to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down. The temple of Herè at Argos was burnt down. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a conventional sense; as, down East. Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. Stormonth. Down helm (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward. -- Down on or upon (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power. Come down upon us with a mighty power. Shak. -- Down with, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command. \"Down with the palace; fire it.\" Dryden. -- To be down on, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.] -- To cry down. See under Cry, v. t. -- To cut down. See under Cut, v. t. -- Up and down, with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. \"Let them wander up and down.\" Ps. lix. 15.\n\n1. In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well. 2. Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.\n\nTo cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. [Archaic or Colloq.] \"To down proud hearts.\" Sir P. Sidney. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.\n\nTo go down; to descend. Locke.\n\n1. Downcast; as, a down look. [R.] 2. Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 3. Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway. Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. -- Down in the mouth, chopfallen; dejected.","oneiroscopist":"One who interprets dreams.","hammock":"1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. 2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.","palaeo-":"See Paleo-.","pouchong":"A superior kind of souchong tea. De Colange.","precipe":"See Præcipe, and Precept.","intempestively":"Unseasonably. [Obs.]","hautboy":"1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe. 2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).","tallyho":"1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.","collection":"1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. \"A collection of letters.\" Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. \"The collection for the saints.\" 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. \"Collections of moisture.\" Whewell. \"A purulent collection.\" Dunglison. 3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton. 4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.] Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.","ladylikeness":"The quality or state of being ladylike.","protagonist":"One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.","angustation":"The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.","snowplough":"An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.","lacinia":"1. (Bot.) (a) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. (b) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. 2. (Zoöl.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillæ of insects.","vegetarianism":"The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.","rapturous":"Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.","trudgen stroke":"A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.","streamer":"1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden. 3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell. 3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.","klipspringer":"A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [Written also klippspringer.]","multiloquy":"Excess of words or talk. [R.]","trayful":"As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.","overliberal":"Too liberal.","steinkirk":"A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.\n\nSame as Steenkirk.","phatagin":"The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla); -- called also ipi.","unbreathed":"1. Not breathed. 2. Not exercised; unpracticed. [Obs.] \"Their unbreathed memories.\" Shak.","aphemia":"Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.","mare":"The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.\n\nSighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.","narcotical":"Narcotic. -- Nar*cot\"ic*al*ly, adv.","eighteenth":"1. Next in order after the seventeenth. 2. Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.\n\n1. The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions. 2. The eighth after the tenth.","arytenoid":"Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.","regressive":"1. Passing back; returning. 2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.","organogenesis":"1. (Biol.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants. 2. (Biol.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.","congreet":"To salute mutually. [Obs.]","magnesic":"Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.","cheeringly":"In a manner to cheer or encourage.","indubitable":"Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion. -- n. That which is indubitable. Syn. -- Unquestionable; evident; incontrovertible; incontestable; undeniable; irrefragable.","unexperient":"Inexperienced. [Obs.]","charta":"(a) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. (b) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.","surangular":"Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. -- n. The surangular bone.","triton":"A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet. 3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.","wrizzle":"To wrinkle. [Obs.] Spenser.","pitch":"1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclus. xiii. 1. 2. (Geol.) See Pitchstone. Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See Kauri. -- Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy. -- Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum. -- Jew's pitch, bitumen. -- Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt. -- Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal. -- Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster. -- Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.\n\n1. To cover over or smear with pitch. Gen. vi. 14. 2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. The welkin pitched with sullen could. Addison.\n\n1. To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball. 2. To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp. 3. To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. Knight. 4. To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune. 5. To set or fix, as a price or value. [Obs.] Shak. Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]\n\n1. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. \"Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.\" Gen. xxxi. 25. 2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. Mortimer. 3. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. Tillotson. 4. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.\n\n1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. Pitch and toss, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling \"Heads or tails;\" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. \"To play pitch and toss with the property of the country.\" G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck. 2. (Cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. 3. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep. Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. Sharp. 4. Height; stature. [Obs.] Hudibras. 5. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. 6. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. 7. (Mus.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low. Note: Musical tones with reference to absolute pitch, are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet; with reference to relative pitch, in a series of tones called the scale, they are called one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight is also one of a new scale an octave higher, as one is eight of a scale an octave lower. 8. (Mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. 9. (Mech.) (a) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch. (b) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. (c) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. Concert pitch (Mus.), the standard of pitch used by orchestras, as in concerts, etc. -- Diametral pitch (Gearing), the distance which bears the same relation to the pitch proper, or circular pitch, that the diameter of a circle bears to its circumference; it is sometimes described by the number expressing the quotient obtained by dividing the number of teeth in a wheel by the diameter of its pitch circle in inches; as, 4 pitch, 8 pitch, etc. -- Pitch chain, a chain, as one made of metallic plates, adapted for working with a sprocket wheel. -- Pitch line, or Pitch circle (Gearing), an ideal line, in a toothed gear or rack, bearing such a relation to a corresponding line in another gear, with which the former works, that the two lines will have a common velocity as in rolling contact; it usually cuts the teeth at about the middle of their height, and, in a circular gear, is a circle concentric with the axis of the gear; the line, or circle, on which the pitch of teeth is measured. -- Pitch of a roof (Arch.), the inclination or slope of the sides expressed by the height in parts of the span; as, one half pitch; whole pitch; or by the height in parts of the half span, especially among engineers; or by degrees, as a pitch of 30°, of 45°, etc.; or by the rise and run, that is, the ratio of the height to the half span; as, a pitch of six rise to ten run. Equilateral pitch is where the two sloping sides with the span form an equilateral triangle. -- Pitch of a plane (Carp.), the slant of the cutting iron. -- Pitch pipe, a wind instrument used by choristers in regulating the pitch of a tune. -- Pitch point (Gearing), the point of contact of the pitch lines of two gears, or of a rack and pinion, which work together.","polymorphic":"Polymorphous.","adjoinant":"Contiguous. [Obs.] Carew.","grandaunt":"The aunt of one's father or mother.","interpoint":"To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. [R.] Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.","emotivity":"Emotiveness. Hickok.","spirituosity":"The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. [R.]","obvious":"1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.] To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] \"Obvious to dispute.\" Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope. Syn. -- Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest. -- Ob\"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob\"vi*ous-ness, n.","megapode":"Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.","demonship":"The state of a demon. Mede.","choleroid":"Choleriform.","coctile":"Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.","incalescent":"Growing warm; increasing in heat.","bonhomie":"good nature; pleasant and easy manner.","prithee":"A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I. Shak. What was that scream for, I prithee L'Estrange. Prithee, tell me, Dimple-chin. E. C. Stedman.","prolificness":"The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.","entermete":"To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.","taffeta":"A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.","botanizer":"One who botanizes.","featness":"Skill; adroitness. [Archaic] Johnson.","scrofulide":"Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.","pigtailed":"Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.","awninged":"Furnished with an awning.","chalybeate":"Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.\n\nAny water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.","auf":"A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.","bridesmaid":"A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.","meloplastic":"Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.","unbred":"1. Not begotten; unborn. [Obs.] \"Thou age unbred.\" Shak. 2. Not taught or trained; -- with to. Dryden. 3. Not well-bred; ill-bred. [Obs.] Locke.","wound":"imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.\n\n1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer. Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak. 2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. 3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a \"capricious novelty.\" It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound. Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvæ inhabit the galls.\n\n1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3. 2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12.","erratical":"Erratic. -- Er*rat\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat\"ic*al*ness, n.","catelectrode":"The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.","gadman":"A gadsman.","adjustage":"Adjustment. [R.]","squalodont":"Pertaining to Squalodon.","divellent":"Drawing asunder. [R.]","techy":"Peevish; fretful; irritable.","organum":"An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (\"Novum Organon\") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.","archness":"The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.","alforja":"A saddlebag. [Sp. Amer.]","falconine":"Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ","repossess":"To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).","smudge":"1. A suffocating smoke. Grose. 2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett. 3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.\n\n1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge. 2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.","dipsy":"Deep-sea; as, a dipsey line; a dipsy lead. [Sailor's Cant]\n\n1. A sinker attached to a fishing line; also, a line having several branches, each with such a sinker, used in deep-sea fishing. [Local, U. S.] 2. (Naut.) A deep-sea lead. [Rare]","gatling gun":"An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired. Note: The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. Farrow.","pleurapophysis":"One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys\"i*al, a. Owen.","swinefish":"The wolf fish.","paytine":"An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.","intercolumnar":"Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.","bluff":"1. Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. \"Bluff visages.\" Irving. 2. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. \"A bluff or bold shore.\" Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd. 3. Surly; churlish; gruff; rough. 4. Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. \"Bluff King Hal.\" Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.\n\n1. A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. Beach, bluff, and wave, adieu. Whittier. 2. An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff. 3. A game at cards; poker. [U.S.] Bartlett.\n\n1. (Poker) To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value. [U. S.] 2. To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off. [Colloq.]\n\nTo act as in the game of bluff.","adduction":"1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor. 2. (Physiol.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. Dunglison.","ecbasis":"A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.","saki":"Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile. Note: The black saki (Pithecia satanas), the white-headed (P.leucocephala), and the red-backed, or hand-drinking, saki (P.chiropotes), are among the best-known.\n\nThe alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice.sake","entreative":"Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] \"Entreative phrase.\" A. Brewer.","demeanure":"Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.","incrimination":"The act of incriminating; crimination.","ponderosity":"The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.","weka":"A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.","rheae":"A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.","filament":"A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.","rakel":"Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ra\"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.","moule":"To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold. [Obs.] Let us not moulen thus in idleness. Chaucer.","mange":"The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts. Mange insect (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle. horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The mange insect of the horse (Psoroptes, or Dermatodectes, equi), and that of cattle (Symbiotes, or Dermatophagys, bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.","wield":"1. To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess. [Obs.] When a strong armed man keepeth his house, all things that he wieldeth ben in peace. Wyclif (Luke xi. 21). Wile [ne will] ye wield gold neither silver ne money in your girdles. Wyclif (Matt. x. 9.) 2. To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway. The famous orators . . . whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty. Milton. Her newborn power was wielded from the first by unprincipled and ambitions men. De Quincey. 3. To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter. Base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield! Shak. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade. S. S. Smith. To wield the scepter, to govern with supreme command.","competitress":"A woman who competes.","endure":"1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15. 2. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee Ezek. xxii. 14.\n\n1. To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden. 2. To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate. I will no longer endure it. Shak. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Tim. ii. 10. How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people Esther viii. 6. 3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.] Manly limbs endured with little ease. Spenser. Syn. -- To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.","distillery":"1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. 2. The act of distilling spirits. [R.] Todd.","degraded":"1. Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley. 2. (Biol.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana. 3. Etym: [Cf. F. degré step.] (Her.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.","tithonicity":"The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]","bilobed":"Bilobate.","mesocephalous":"Mesocephalic.","subconformable":"Partially conformable.","epocha":"See Epoch. J. Adams.","water nymph":"1. (Myth.) A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides. 2. (Bot.) A water lily (Nymphæa).","poinder":"1. The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. [Obs. or Scot.] T. Adams. 2. One who distrains property. [Scot.] Jamieson.","possess":"1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton. 2. To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book. I am yours, and all that I possess. Shak. 3. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize. How . . . to possess the purpose they desired. Spenser. 4. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc. \"Weakness possesseth me.\" Shak. Those which were possessed with devils. Matt. iv. 24. For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed. Roscommon. 5. To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively. I have possessed your grace of what I purpose. Shak. Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed Unto his son. Shak. We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples. Addison. To possess our minds with an habitual good intention. Addison. Syn. -- To have; hold; occupy; control; own. -- Possess, Have. Have is the more general word. To possess denotes to have as a property. It usually implies more permanence or definiteness of control or ownership than is involved in having. A man does not possess his wife and children: they are (so to speak) part of himself. For the same reason, we have the faculties of reason, understanding, will, sound judgment, etc.: they are exercises of the mind, not possessions.","dog-headed":"Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.","defectionist":"One who advocates or encourages defection.","indent":"1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. 2. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp. 3. Etym: [Cf. Indenture.] To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant. 4. (Print.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention. 5. (Mil.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. [India] Wilhelm.\n\n1. To be cut, notched, or dented. 2. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag. 3. To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South.\n\n1. A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch. Shak. 2. A stamp; an impression. [Obs.] 3. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. D. Ramsay. A. Hamilton. 4. (Mil.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. [India] Wilhelm.","elapse":"To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.","mango":"1. The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market. 2. A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled. Mango bird (Zoöl.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. -- Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name. -- Mango tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree of the genus Mangifera (M. Indica), related to the cashew and the sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces the mango of commerce. It is now cultivated in tropical America.","minimization":"The act or process of minimizing. Bentham.","accuser":"One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.","denouement":"1. The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance. 2. The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.","satiny":"Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.","pertinate":"Pertinacious. [Obs.]","elsewhere":"1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.","campanulaceous":"Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.","infundibuliform":"1. Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped. 2. (Bot.) Same as Funnelform.","malcontented":"Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent\"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent\"ed*ness, n.","confeder":"To confederate. [Obs.] Sir T. North.","alienor":"One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.","shram":"To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb. [Prov. Eng.]","sunbow":"A rainbow; an iris. Byron.","eminently":"In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.","nutrication":"The act or manner of feeding. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","assignation":"1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope. 3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.","accumulative":"Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu\"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu\"mu*la*tive*ness, n.","explanative":"Explanatory.","daguerreotypy":"The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.","falsifier":"One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.","minter":"One who mints.","decoloration":"The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.","in vacuo":"In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.","stealer":"1. One who steals; a thief. 2. (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.","mantologist":"One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner. [R.]","coinhere":"To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.","cyclops":"1. (Gr. Myth.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. Note: Pope, in his translation of the \"Odyssey,\" uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda. 3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.","dhow":"A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail. [Also written dow.]","incisory":"Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.","interchange":"1. To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services. I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown. Shak. 2. To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.\n\nTo make an interchange; to alternate. Sir P. Sidney.\n\n1. The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. \"Interchange of kindnesses.\" South. 2. The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce. Howell. 3. Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling. The interchanges of light and darkness. Holder. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.","wariangle":"The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","evocative":"Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.","artificer":"1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith. 2. One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. \"Artificer of fraud.\" Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper. 3. A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 4. (Mil.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan.","handmaid":"A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.","neurosensiferous":"Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.","antasthmatic":"Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n. A remedy for asthma.","serbonian":"Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . . Where armies whole have sunk. Milton.","zayat":"A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc. [Burmah]","mastigure":"Any one of several large spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastix. They inhabit Southern Asia and North Africa.","hamster":"A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.","tit":"1. A small horse. Tusser. 2. A woman; -- used in contempt. Burton. 3. A morsel; a bit. Halliwell. 4. Etym: [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant originally, something small, and is perhaps the same as teat. Cf. Titmouse, Tittle.] (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse. (b) The European meadow pipit; a titlark. Ground tit. (Zoöl.) See Wren tit, under Wren. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. -- Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. -- Tit for tat. Etym: [Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. -- Tit thrush (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and Esat Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.","androdioecious":"Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o\"cism, -di*e\"cism (#), n.","imbound":"To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Obs.] Shak.","cloistress":"A nun. [R.] Shak.","approaching":"The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.","deep-laid":"Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.","nasoturbinal":"Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelæ of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal. -- n. The nasoturbinal bone.","interpellation":"1. The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. \"Continual interpellations.\" Bp. Hall. 2. The act of interposing or interceding; intercession. Accepted by his interpellation and intercession. Jer. Taylor. 3. An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate. 4. A official summons or citation. Ayliffe.","grotesquely":"In a grotesque manner.","domiciliary":"Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family. The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.","organoplastic":"Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.","azotine":"1. An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum. 2. = 1st Ammonite, 2.","rasante":"Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.","slothful":"Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth\"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth\"ful*ness, n.","adhibition":"The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.","mon-":"Same as Mono-.\n\nA prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.","fanaticism":"Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy. Syn. -- See Superstition.","consumptively":"In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.","surface tension":"That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.","diseasefulness":"The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.","extuberant":"Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] \"Extuberant lips.\" Gayton.","borraginaceous":"See Borage, n., etc.","jute":"The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.","britannia":"A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.","jacare":"A cayman. See Yacare.","writhle":"To wrinkle. [Obs.] Shak.","sawder":"A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder, seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]","oxidizer":"An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.","phylloxanthin":"A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.","polyphone":"A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red or rèd.","hundredth":"1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.\n\nOne of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.","prian":"A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. [Written also pryan.]","strepsipterous":"Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.","tetrazin":"A hypothetical compound, C2H2N4 which may be regarded as benzene with four CH groups replaced by nitrogen atoms; also, any of various derivatives of the same. There are three isomeric varieties.","patellar":"Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.","semi-pelagian":"A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.","racoonda":"The coypu.","unceasable":"Not capable of being ended; unceasing. [R.]","pyrotechnics":"The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.","ramiform":"Having the form of a branch.","yupon":"Same as Yaupon.","drake":"1. The male of the duck kind. 2. Etym: [Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.] The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.\n\n1. A dragon. [Obs.] Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf). 2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.\n\nWild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.","invitrifiable":"Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan.","thalassinian":"Any species of Thalaassinidæ, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.","defer":"To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.\n\nTo put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.\n\n1. To render or offer. [Obs.] Worship deferred to the Virgin. Brevint. 2. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to. Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. Bacon.\n\nTo yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.","lucidness":"The quality of being lucid; lucidity.","hemadynamometer":"An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.","garish":"1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. \"The garish sun.\" \"A garish flag.\" Shak. \"In . . . garish colors.\" Asham. \"The garish day.\" J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. It makes the mind loose and garish. South. -- Gar\"ish*ly, adv. -- Garish*ness, n. Jer. Taylor.","intermediary":"Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.\n\nOne who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go- between.","freya":"The daughter of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]","acephala":"That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.","diplomatic":"1. Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body. 2. Characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management. 3. Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic. Astle.\n\nA minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.","obligate":"1. To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. \"Obligated by a sense of duty.\" Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill. 2. To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. Landor.","protista":"A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.","microbicide":"Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.","tigress":"The female of the tiger. Holland.","outstay":"To stay beyond or longer than. She concluded to outstay him. Mad. D' Arblay.","cachinnation":"Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.","condense":"1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley. 2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. -- Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston. Syn. -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce.\n\n1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. 2. (Chem.) (a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products. (b) To undergo polymerization.\n\nCondensed; compact; dense. [R.] The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley.","walk":"1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29. Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. Shak. When was it she last walked Shak. 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] \"Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.\" Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer. 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor. 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. -- To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1. -- To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. -- To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7. -- To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. -- To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3. -- To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7. -- To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. -- To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. -- To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.\n\n1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. Keble. 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. \" I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.\" Shak. 3. Etym: [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.\n\n1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant. 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. The mountains are his walks. Sandys. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope. 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]","binocle":"A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.","obversant":"Conversant; familiar. [Obs.] Bacon.","hellward":"Toward hell. Pope.","clean-limbed":"With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.","sancho pedro":"A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (sancho) and five (pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.","anthropomorphist":"One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.","pyrognostics":"The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.","availably":"In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.","sophistry":"1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge. Syn. -- See Fallacy.","polybromide":"A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in the molecule.","mystagogical":"Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.","queenship":"The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.","affectationist":"One who exhibits affectation. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.","foreran":"imp. of Forerun.","unbeseem":"To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.","overcover":"To cover up. Shak.","antenniform":"Shaped like antennæ.","corkage":"The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.","curtly":"In a curt manner.","growth":"1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. Shak. 2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. Nature multiplies her fertile growth. Milton.","obuncous":"Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.","cavatina":"Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.","passacaglio":"An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.","stuffiness":"The quality of being stuffy.","bilimbing":"The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]","cavalero":"A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. Shak.","fully":"In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination. Syn. -- Completely; entirely; maturely; plentifuly; abundantly; plenteously; copiously; largely; amply; sufficiently; perfectly.","refragable":"Capable of being refuted; refutable. [R.] -- Ref\"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil\"i*ty (-b, n. [R.]","wristlet":"An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.","colic":"A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning. -- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter. -- Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.","romanza":"See Romance,5.","chronicle":"1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of events; a history; a record. 3. pl. The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History.\n\nTo record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register. Shak.","architrave":"(a) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. (b) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.","apostle":"1. Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13. Note: The title of apostle is also applied to others, who, though not of the number of the Twelve, yet were equal with them in office and dignity; as, \"Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.\" 1 Cor. i. 1. In Heb. iii. 1, the name is given to Christ himself, as having been sent from heaven to publish the gospel. In the primitive church, other ministers were called apostles (Rom. xvi. 7). 2. The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance. 3. (Civ. & Admiralty Law) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts. Wharton. Burrill. Apostles' creed, a creed of unknown origin, which was formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.","regulize":"To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony. [Archaic]","surculate":"To purne; to trim. [Obs.] Cockeram.","aortic":"Of or pertaining to the aorta.","chelidon":"The hollow at the flexure of the arm.","equably":"In an equable manner.","joint":"1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe. 2. A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation. A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand. Shak. To tear thee joint by joint. Milton. 3. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg. 4. Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. 5. (Geol.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. 6. (Arch.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint. 7. The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. Coursing joint (Masonry), the mortar joint between two courses of bricks or stones. -- Fish joint, Miter joint, Universal joint, etc. See under Fish, Miter, etc. -- Joint bolt, a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood, one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of the pieces. -- Joint chair (Railroad), the chair that supports the ends of abutting rails. -- Joint coupling, a universal joint for coupling shafting. See under Universal. -- Joint hinge, a hinge having long leaves; a strap hinge. -- Joint splice, a reënforce at a joint, to sustain the parts in their true relation. -- Joint stool. (a) A stool consisting of jointed parts; a folding stool. Shak. (b) A block for supporting the end of a piece at a joint; a joint chair. -- Out of joint, out of place; dislocated, as when the head of a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well together; disordered. \"The time is out of joint.\" Shak.\n\n1. Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action. 2. Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. I read this joint effusion twice over. T. Hook. 3. United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc. \"Joint tenants of the world.\" Donne. 4. Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. A joint burden laid upon us all. Shak. Joint committee (Parliamentary Practice), a committee composed of members of the two houses of a legislative body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions of the two houses are necessary. Cushing. -- Joint meeting, or Joint session, the meeting or session of two distinct bodies as one; as, a joint meeting of committees representing different corporations; a joint session of both branches of a State legislature to chose a United States senator. \"Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared.\" Joint Rules of Congress, U. S. -- Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. \"By the constitution of the United States and the rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made between bills and joint resolutions.\" Barclay (Digest). -- Joint rule (Parliamentary Practice), a rule of proceeding adopted by the concurrent action of both branches of a legislative assembly. \"Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the remainder of the session.\" Journal H. of R., U. S. -- Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together or either of them individually. -- Joint stock, stock held in company. -- Joint-stock company (Law), a species of partnership, consisting generally of a large number of members, having a capital divided, or agreed to be divided, into shares, the shares owned by any member being usually transferable without the consent of the rest. -- Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole. Blackstone. -- Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint tenancy.\n\n1. To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood. Pope. 2. To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. Jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar. Shak. 3. To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. The fingers are jointed together for motion. Ray. 4. To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. \"He joints the neck. Dryden. Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting. Holland.\n\nTo fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.","fluoroid":"A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.","incredibleness":"Incredibility.","sicamore":"See Sycamore.","metapode":"The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.","sheetful":"Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.","dealer":"1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. 2. One who distributes cards to the players.","hydrophytology":"The branch of botany which treats of water plants.","praecava":"The superior vena cava. -- Præ\"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.","scarifier":"1. One who scarifies. 2. (Surg.) The instrument used for scarifying. 3. (Agric.) An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface. You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean. Southey.","taunting":"from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.","deforciant":"(a) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. (b) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought. [Obs.] Burrill.","drearisome":"Very dreary. Halliwell.","whenever":"At whatever time. \"Whenever that shall be.\" Milton.","briony":"See Bryony. Tennyson.","brazen-browed":"Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.","algidity":"Chilliness; coldness; especially (Med.), coldness and collapse.","pause":"1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak. 3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. 4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. 5. A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke. 6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7. Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension.\n\n1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. \"Tarry, pause a day or two.\" Shak. Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. Milton. 2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.] Why doth the Jew pause Take thy forfeiture. Shak. 4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.] \"Take time to pause.\" Shak. To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak. Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.\n\nTo cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] Shak.","torril":"A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","unsignificant":"Insignificant. [Obs.] Holland.","seedy":"1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. 2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of FRench brandy. 3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.] Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.","arteriosclerosis":"Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot\"ic (#), a.","fascicle":"A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.","panamanian":"Of or pert. to Panama. -- n. A native or citizen of Panama.","keckle":"See Keck, v. i. & n.\n\nTo wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. Totten.","dough-faced":"Easily molded; pliable.","cyclamen":"A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.","palmated":"1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread. 2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.","control":"1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. \"Speak without control.\" Dryden. 3. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control. The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.\n\n1. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.] This report was controlled to be false. Fuller. 2. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower. Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to control the world. Shak. I feel my virtue struggling in my soul: But stronger passion does its power control. Dryden. Syn. -- To restrain; rule; govern; manage; guide; regulate; hinder; direct; check; curb; counteract; subdue.","workmaster":"The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] Spenser. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT Workmen's compensation act. (Law) A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of \"serious and willful misconduct,\" a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.","rhamphorhynchus":"A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.","statement":"1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case. 2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. \"Admirable perspicuity of statement!\" Brougham.","chlorotic":"Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.","galloon":"1. A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental. 2. A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws. Addison.","magaziner":"One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.","oriol":"See Oriel.","coequally":"With coequality.","abuzz":"In a buzz; buzzing. [Colloq.] Dickens.","polyspermy":"Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.","chimpanzee":"An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.","geolatry":"The worship of the earth. G. W. Cox. The Geological Series. Note: The science of geology, as treating of the history of the globe, involves a description of the different strata which compose its crust, their order of succession, characteristic forms of animal and vegetable life, etc. The principal subdivisions of geological time, and the most important strata, with their relative positions, are indicated in the following diagram.","heretical":"Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.","snape":"To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.","mumm":"To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.","nomocracy":"Government in accordance with a system of law. Milman.","self-posited":"Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.","keeve":"1. (Brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. Ure. 2. (Bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier. 3. (Mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.\n\n1. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation. 2. To heave; to tilt, as a cart. [Prov. Eng.]","concept":"An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.","chasmy":"Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.","graphology":"The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.","oversure":"Excessively sure.","heterocyst":"A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.","repositor":"An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.","misattend":"To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.","vitrescible":"That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.","tolsester":"A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.","myopathia":"Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.","rectory":"1. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. 2. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.","incision":"1. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance. Milton. 2. That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash. 3. Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.]","cohune palm":"A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.","interluder":"An actor who performs in an interlude. B. Jonson.","rumbowline":"Same as Rombowline.","logistics":"1. (Mil.) That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott. 2. (Math.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.","aeration":"1. Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc. 2. (Physiol.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization. 3. The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.","ecteron":"The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ec`ter*on\"ic, a.","pilement":"An accumulation; a heap. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","bolster":"1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak. 2. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay. 3. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc. 4. (Saddlery) A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. 5. (Naut.) (a) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing. (b) Anything used to prevent chafing. 6. A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment. 7. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests. 8. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck. 9. (Mech.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. 10. (Cutlery) (a) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle. (b) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle. G. Francis. 11. (Arch.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. G. Francis. 12. (Mil.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation. Note: [See Illust. of Gun carriage.] Bolster work (Arch.), members which are bellied or curved outward like cushions, as in friezes of certain classical styles.\n\n1. To support with a bolster or pillow. S. Sharp. 2. To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.","wesleyan":"Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.\n\nOne who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.","encamp":"To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.\n\nTo form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.","infernally":"In an infernal manner; diabolically. \"Infernally false.\" Bp. Hacket.","margarine":"1. Artificial butter; oleomargarine. The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not. Margarine Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 29). 2. Margarin.","heath":"1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zoöl.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- Heath throstle (Zoöl.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.","twister":"1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. Wallis. 3. (Carp.) A girder. Craig. 4. (Man.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback. Craig.","anti-trade":"A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.","banal":"Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.","bundobust":"System; discipline. [India] He has more bundobust than most men. Kipling.","dzeron":"The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.","halfcock":"To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. To go off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]","rescowe":"To rescue. [Obs.] Chaucer.","boss":"1. Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood. 2. A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus. 3. (Arch.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations. 4. Etym: [Cf. D. bus box, Dan. bösse.] A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt. 5. (Mech.) (a) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another. (b) A swage or die used for shaping metals. 6. A head or reservoir of water. [Obs.]\n\nTo ornament with bosses; to stud.\n\nA master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]","miocene":"Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. -- n. The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.","steen":"1. A vessel of clay or stone. \"An huge great earth-pot steane.\" Spenser. 2. A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.\n\nTo line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material. [Written also stean, and stein.]","salvation":"1. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity. 2. (Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10. 3. Saving power; that which saves. Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day. Ex. xiv. 13. Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being \"General.\" They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style.","acquisite":"Acquired. [Obs.] Burton.","assoilyie":"To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.","pleuropneumonia":"Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.","artemia":"A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.","ik":"I [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Note: The Northern dialectic form of I, in Early English, corresponding to ich of the Southern.","palmer":"One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.\n\nA wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.","prorenal":"Pronephric.","dexterical":"Dexterous. [Obs.]","moline":"The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. Cross moline (Her.), a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions.","walty":"Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] Longfellow.","metaphorical":"Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. -- Met`a*phor\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Met`a*phor\"ic*al*ness, n.","centrifugal":"1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. 2. (Bot.) (a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center. Note: When a body moves in a circle with uniform velocity, a force must act on the body to keep it in the circle without change of velocity. The direction of this force is towards the center of the circle. If this force is applied by means of a string to the body, the string will be in a state of tension. To a person holding the other end of the string, this tension will appear to be directed toward the body as if the body had a tendency to move away from the center of the circle which it is describing. Hence this latter force is often called centrifugal force. The force which really acts on the body being directed towards the center of the circle is called centripetal force, and in some popular treatises the centripetal and centrifugal forces are described as opposing and balancing each other. But they are merely the different aspects of the same stress. Clerk Maxwell. Centrifugal impression (Physiol.), an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced. -- Centrifugal machine, A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table. -- Centrifugal pump, a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind.\n\nA centrifugal machine.","deflourer":"One who deflours; a ravisher.","begun":"of Begin.","pepperer":"A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper. [Obs.]","fullness":"The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.] \"In thy presence is fullness of joy.\" Ps. xvi. 11.","wrymouth":"Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.","pagoda sleeve":"A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.","suctorious":"Suctorial. [R.]","sylphlike":"Like a sylph; airy; graceful. Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze. Byron.","diaeresis":"1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis. 2. A mark consisting of two dots [..], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, coöperate, aërial.","bootblack":"One who blacks boots.","pentandrian":"Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens.","potlid":"The lid or cover of a pot. Potlid valve, a valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.","pomme":"Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.","perjurer":"One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.","contrite":"1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. [Obs.] 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li. 17. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. Syn. -- Penitent; repentant; humble; sorrowful.\n\nA contrite person. Hooker.\n\nIn a contrite manner.","reinspirit":"To give fresh spirit to.","wain":"1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow. 2. A chariot. [Obs.] The Wain. (Astron.) See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. -- Wain rope, a cart rope. Shak.","dragooner":"A dragoon. [Obs.]","epilogue":"1. (Drama) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play. A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. Shak. 2. (Rhet.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.","conically":"In the form of a cone.","mastication":"The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.","phoneidoscope":"An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.","esox":"A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.","ultimately":"As a final consequence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.","leptodactylous":", Having slender toes.","superposable":"Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.","thetical":"Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law. Dr. H. More.","delightable":"Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.","linotype":"(a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. (b) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines. --Lin\"o*typ`ist (#), n.","gravic":"Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction. [R.]","okapi":"A peculiar mammal (Okapia johnostoni) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Kongo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.","constantly":"With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts. xii. 15.","polt-foot":"Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet. B. Jonson.","kith":"Acquaintance; kindred. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.","interpetalary":"Between the petals of a flower.","appendectomy":"Excision of the vermiform appendix.","quadrisyllable":"A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.","resinic":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.","melancholiness":"The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.","subligation":"The act of binding underneath. [R.]","sackcloth":"Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.","burglariously":"With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.","rand":"1. A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. Beau. & Fl. 3. A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.\n\nTo rant; to storm. [Obs.] I wept, . . . and raved, randed, and railed. J. Webster.","tetracarpel":"Composed of four carpels.","artillery wheel":"A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.","bluntly":"In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.","waterie":"The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.","rolly-pooly":"A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins. [Written also rouly-pouly.]","high-raised":"1. Elevated; raised aloft; upreared. 2. Elated with great ideas or hopes. Milton.","planipennia":"A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.","repriefe":"Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.","confabulation":"Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.","audit":"1. An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton. 2. An examination in general; a judicial examination. Note: Specifically: An examination of an account or of accounts, with the hearing of the parties concerned, by proper officers, or persons appointed for that purpose, who compare the charges with the vouchers, examine witnesses, and state the result. 3. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account. Yet I can make my audit up. Shak. 4. A general receptacle or receiver. [Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.\n\nTo examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.\n\nTo settle or adjust an account. Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed. Arbuthnot.","polymyoid":"Having numerous vocal muscles; of or pertaining to the Polymyodæ.","weepingly":"In a weeping manner.","horntail":"Any one of family (Uroceridæ) of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.","calandine":"A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).","default":"1. A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do whaas, this evil has happened through the governor's default. 2. Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom. And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser. Regardless of our merit or default. Pope. 3. (Law) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc. In default of, in case of failure or lack of. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.\n\n1. To fail in duty; to offend. That he gainst courtesy so foully did default. Spenser. 2. To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty. 3. To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.\n\n1. To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend. What they have defaulted towards him as no king. Milton. 2. (Law) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against. 3. To leave out of account; to omit. [Obs.] Defaulting unnecessary and partial discourses. Hales.","intermedial":"Lying between; intervening; intermediate. \"Intermedial colors.\" Evelyn.","melioration":"The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.","overtake":"1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser. 2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak. 3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.","leveler":"1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.","boddice":"See Bodick.","earthly-minded":"Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth\"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.","insincerely":"Without sincerity.","refurnishment":"The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.","sanjak":"A district or a subvision of a vilayet. [Turkey]","sphacelate":"To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.\n\nTo affect with gangrene.\n\nAffected with gangrene; mortified.","annumerate":"To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.","parturient":"Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. Jer. Tailor.","spelling":"The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.\n\nOf or pertaining to spelling. Spelling bee, a spelling match. [U.S.] -- Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.","contradictory":"1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent. \"Contradictory assertions.\" South. 2. Opposing or opposed; repugnant. Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense. Addisn.\n\n1. A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety. It is common with princes to will contradictories. Bacon. 2. pl. (Logic) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.","aurin":"A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow coralin.","intrunk":"To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [R.] Ford.","insultment":"Insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] \"My speech of insultment ended.\" Shak.","sausage":"1. An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.","nap":"1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Chaucer. 2. To be in a careless, secure state. Wyclif. I took thee napping, unprepared. Hudibras.\n\nA short sleep; a doze; a siesta. Cowper.\n\n1. Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth. 2. pl. The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet. Knight.\n\nTo raise, or put, a nap on.","calcareous":"Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. Clcareous spar. See as Calcite.","sclerema":"Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.","cocker":"Th treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.\n\n1. One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele. 2. (Zoöl.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.\n\nA rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.","polychloride":"A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.","gymnonoti":"The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.","clubfooted":"Having a clubfoot.","quadrature":"1. (Math.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas. 2. A quadrate; a square. Milton. 3. (Integral Calculus) The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable. 4. (Astron.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90º, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition. Quadrature of the moon (Astron.), the position of the moon when one half of the disk is illuminated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.","udder":"1. (Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak. 2. One of the breasts of a woman. [R.] Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. Pope.","posingly":"So as to pose or puzzle.","icteroid":"Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.","scarmoge":"A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.","unique":"Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique\"ly, adv. -- U*nique\"ness, n.\n\nA thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled. [R.] The phenix, the unique pf birds. De Quincey.","erectable":"Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.","trumpet-shaped":"Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.","proctitis":"Inflammation of the rectum.","samiel":"A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.","studfish":"Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.","emulsive":"1. Softening; milklike. 2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds. 3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.","lixiviate":"1. Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts. 2. Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. Boyle.\n\nTo subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.","wool-dyed":"Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.","lactescence":"1. The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. This lactescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution. Boyle. 2. (Bot.) The latex of certain plants. See Latex.","emetical":"Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met\"ic*al*ly, adv.","machination":"1. The act of machinating. Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come to naught. Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. Macaulay.","deceitless":"Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.","sheepskin":"1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. [College Cant]","segmentation":"The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity (Biol.), the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells in segmentation or cleavage of the ovum; the cavity of the blastosphere. In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectoblast. See Illust. of Invagination. -- Segmentation nucleus (Biol.), the body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus. -- Segmentation of the ovum, or Egg cleavage (Biol.), the process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the germ cell. In the simplest case, that of small ova destitute of food yolk, the ovum or egg divides into two similar halves or segments (blastomeres), each of these again divides into two, and so on, thus giving rise to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed. This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See Holoblastic, Meroblastic, Alecithal, Centrolecithal, Ectolecithal, and Ovum. -- Segmentation sphere (Biol.), the blastosphere, or morula. See Morula.","quicksilver":"The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.","water pipe":"A pipe for conveying water.","comrade":"A mate, companion, or associate. And turned my flying comrades to the charge. J. Baillie. I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. Shak.","disloyal":"Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning. Syn. -- Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.","androdiecious":"Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o\"cism, -di*e\"cism (#), n.","dedicate":"Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. \"Dedicate to nothing temporal.\" Shak. Syn. -- Devoted; consecrated; addicted.\n\n1. To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use. Vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, . . . which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord. 2 Sam. viii. 10, 11. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. . . . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. A. Lincoln. 2. To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service. The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself. Clarendon. 3. To inscribe or address, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham. Syn. -- See Addict.","grandmamma":"A grand mother.","attractive":"1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. \"Attractive graces.\" Milton. \"Attractive eyes.\" Thackeray. Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies. Lubbock. -- At*tract\"ive*ly, adv. -- At*tract\"ive*ness, n.\n\nThat which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South.","turbinated":"1. Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley. 2. (Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root. 3. (Anat.) Turbinal. 4. (Zoöl.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.","thyrohyoid":"Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.","incrassation":"1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker. 2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.","orthid":"A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidæ.","phillyrea":"A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.","pileus":"1. (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt. 2. (Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom. 3. (Zoöl.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.","parquetage":"See Parquetry.","color-blind":"Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.","rattle-pated":"Rattle-headed. \"A noisy, rattle-pated fellow.\" W. Irving.","righter":"One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong. Shelton.","feofor":"One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.","skimitry":"See Skimmington.","proreption":"A creeping on.","seorita":"A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.","squib":"1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone. 2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. Who copied his squibs, and reëchoed his jokes. Goldsmith. 4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.] The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. Tatler. 5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate. [Colloq.]","equableness":"Quality or state of being equable.","adipocere":"A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.","cest":"A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] Collins.","flytting":"Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.] These \"flytings\" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. Saintsbury.","involucrum":"1. (Bot.) See Involucre. 2. (Zoöl.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.","confessor":"1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon. 2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.","consignificative":"Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]","sarcorhamphi":"A division of raptorial birds composing the vultures.","hypostome":"The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.","vaginitis":"Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.","kerchief":"1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning. 2. A lady who wears a kerchief. Dryden.","dolabra":"A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.","stapes":"The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.","homogenous":"Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.","pieno":"Full; having all the instruments.","smerky":"Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a. [Obs.] So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears. Spenser.","pragmatic":"1. Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel. Hare. 2. Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome. \"Pragmatical officers of justice.\" Sir W. Scott. The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family. Arbuthnot. 3. Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature. \"Pragmatic history.\" Sir W. Hamilton. \"Pragmatic poetry.\" M. Arnold. Pragmatic sanction, a solemn ordinance or decree issued by the head or legislature of a state upon weighty matters; -- a term derived from the Byzantine empire. In European history, two decrees under this name are particularly celebrated. One of these, issued by Charles VII. of France, A. D. 1438, was the foundation of the liberties of the Gallican church; the other, issued by Charles VI. of Germany, A. D. 1724, settled his hereditary dominions on his eldest daughter, the Archduchess Maria Theresa.\n\n1. One skilled in affairs. My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic. B. Jonson. 2. A solemn public ordinance or decree. A royal pragmatic was accordingly passed. Prescott.","pinnipedia":"A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.","discriminant":"The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.","hsien":"An administrative subdivision of a fu, or department, or of an independent chow; also, the seat of government of such a district.","grabble":"1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.","brittle star":"Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.","evagination":"The act of unsheathing.","gier-falcon":"The gyrfalcon.","intentioned":"Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well- intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.","sea pig":"(a) A porpoise or dolphin. (b) A dugong.","dinginess":"Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.","renowned":"Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. \"Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires.\" Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61. Syn. -- Famous; famed; distinguished; noted; eminent; celebrated; remarkable; wonderful. See Famous.","interrenal":"Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n. The interrenal body.","dossier":"A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.","vedro":"A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U.S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons. McElrath.","overglance":"To glance over.","nominative":"Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. -- n. The nominative case.","sea fowl":"Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.","smorzando":"Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.","sunny":"1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant. \"Sunny beams.\" Spenser. \"Sunny locks.\" Shak. 2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill. Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. Addison. 3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. Shak.\n\nSee Sunfish (b).","larcenist":"One who commits larceny.","ambigenous":"Of two kinds. (Bot.) Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.","soft":"1. Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to Ant: hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal. 2. Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin. They that wear soft clothing are in king's houses. Matt. xi. 8. 3. Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines. \"The soft, delicious air.\" Milton. 4. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints. The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds . . . made the softest lights imaginable. Sir T. Browne. 5. Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, -- an excellent thing in woman. Shak. Soft were my numbers; who could take offense Pope. 6. Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind. I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine. Shak. The meek or soft shall inherit the earth. Tyndale. 7. Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles, by human kindness bred. Wordsworth. 8. Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak. A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering. Jer. Taylor. 9. Gentle in action or motion; easy. On her soft axle, white she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along. Milton. 10. Weak in character; impressible. The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's. Glanvill. 11. Somewhat weak in intellect. [Colloq.] He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad. Burton. 12. Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers. 13. Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines. 14. Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing. 15. (Phonetics) (a) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard. (b) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc. Soft clam (Zoöl.), the common or long clam (Mya arenaria). See Mya. -- Soft coal, bituminous coal, as distinguished from anthracite, or hard, coal. -- Soft crab (Zoöl.), any crab which has recently shed its shell. -- Soft dorsal (Zoöl.), the posterior part of the dorsal fin of fishes when supported by soft rays. -- Soft grass. (Bot.) See Velvet grass. -- Soft money, paper money, as distinguished from coin, or hard money. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Soft mute. (Phonetics) See Media. -- Soft palate. See the Note under Palate. -- Soft ray (Zoöl.), a fin ray which is articulated and usually branched. -- Soft soap. See under Soap. -- Soft-tack, leavened bread, as distinguished from hard-tack, or ship bread. -- Soft tortoise (Zoöl.), any river tortoise of the genus Trionyx. See Trionyx.\n\nA soft or foolish person; an idiot. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.\n\nSoftly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. Chaucer. A knight soft riding toward them. Spenser.\n\nBe quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. Soft, you; a word or two before you go. Shak.","pittle-pattle":"To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.","extraprofessional":"Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.","talma":"(a) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.","supersphenoidal":"Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.","toxin":"A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.","misogyny":"Hatred of women. Johnson.","impave":"To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.","cachectical":"Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.","daira":"Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da\"i*ra Sa\"ni*eh, or Sa\"ni*yeh, and the Da\"i*ra Khas\"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.","insolidity":"Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [R.] Dr. H. More.","leg bridge":"A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.","spontaneous":"1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth. 3. Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood. Spontaneous combustion, combustion produced in a substance by the evolution of heat through the chemical action of its own elements; as, the spontaneous combustion of waste matter saturated with oil. -- Spontaneous generation. (Biol.) See under Generation. Syn. -- Voluntary; uncompelled; willing. -- Spontaneous, Voluntary. What is voluntary is the result of a volition, or act of choice; it therefore implies some degree of consideration, and may be the result of mere reason without excited feeling. What is spontaneous springs wholly from feeling, or a sudden impulse which admits of no reflection; as, a spontaneous burst of applause. Hence, the term is also applied to things inanimate when they are produced without the determinate purpose or care of man. \"Abstinence which is but voluntary fasting, and . . . exercise which is but voluntary labor.\" J. Seed. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn away. Goldsmith. -- Spon*ta\"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Spon*ta\"ne*ous*ness, n.","trigger":"1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity. 2. (Mech.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece. Trigger fish (Zoöl.), a large plectognath fish (Balistes Carolinensis or B. capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.","lamellate":"Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.","stomapod":"One of the Stomapoda.","assuredly":"Certainly; indubitably. \"The siege assuredly I'll raise.\" Shak.","shearwater":"Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.","palmetto state":"South California; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.","hough":"1. (a) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. (b) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot. 2. The popliteal space; the ham.\n\nSame as Hock, a joint.\n\nSame as Hock, to hamstring.\n\nAn adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.\n\nTo cut with a hoe. [Obs.] Johnson.","pinnock":"(a) The hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The tomtit.","sallowness":"The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.","respective":"1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [Obs.] If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A 2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society. 3. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode. 4. Fitted to awaken respect. [Obs.] Shak. 5. Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [Obs.] With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands. Chapman. With thy equals familiar, yet respective. Lord Burleigh.","tapestry":"A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.\n\nTo adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.","futureless":"Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.","outdoor":"Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.","emotion":"A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson. Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. \"Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.\" Crabb.","photophonic":"Of or pertaining to photophone.","pentacle":"A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.","mucin":"1. (Bot. Chem.) See Mucedin. [Obs.] 2. (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.","plenipotent":"Possessing full power. [R.] Milton.","retract":"1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it. Bp. Stillingfleet. 3. To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. [Obs.] Woodward. Syn. -- To recal; withdraw; rescind; revoke; unsay; disavow; recant; abjure; disown.\n\n1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files. Granville.\n\nThe pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.","conciliatory":"Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.","illuminatism":"Illuminism. [R.]","visionist":"A visionary.","preyer":"One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer. Hooker.","claudicant":"Limping. [R.]","misusement":"Misuse. [Obs.]","dispersive":"Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers\"ive*ness, n.","drawgloves":"An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.","frequency":"1. The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles. The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller. 2. A crowd; a throng. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","monadaria":"The Infusoria.","melic grass":"A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.","remunerate":"To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor. Syn. -- To reward; recompense; compensate; satisfy; requite; repay; pay; reimburse.","vista":"A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. Thomson. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Burke. The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window. Sir W. Scott.","andesite":"An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.","belamour":"1. A lover. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.] Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.","philologue":"A philologist. [R.] Carlyle.","podo-":"A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology.","inequilobate":"Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes.","stylograph":"A stylographic pen.","descendingly":"In a descending manner.","telerythin":"A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.","catechist":"One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.","reconsecrate":"To consecrate anew or again.","bicarburetted":"Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]","mundic":"Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.","ocreate":"Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.","encyclopediacal":"Encyclopedic.","agreeableness":"1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. 2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce. 3. Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [Obs.] The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew.","blandiloquous":"Fair-spoken; flattering.","chiromancy":"The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.","worn":"p. p. of Wear. Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.","undone":"p. p. of Undo.\n\nNot done or performed; neglected.","awakening":"Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak\"en*ing*ly, adv.\n\nThe act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.","foraminifera":"An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.","arroba":"1. A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir. 2. A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.","charioteer":"1. One who drives a chariot. 2. (Astron.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.","tadpole":"1. (Zoöl.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy. 2. (Zoöl.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.] Tadpole fish. (Zoöl.) See Forkbeard (a).","fritter":"1. A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters. 2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras. Corn fritter. See under Corn.\n\n1. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying. 2. To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense. Pope. To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.","evaluation":"Valuation; appraisement. J. S. Mill.","infraterritorial":"Within the territory of a state. Story.","roguish":"1. Vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser. His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. Shak. 2. Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish. 3. Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast. Dryden. -- Rogu\"ish*ly, adv. -- Rogu\"ish*ness, n.","costumer":"One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.","cacoethes":"1. A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, \"The itch for writing\". Addison. 2. (Med.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.","maintainor":"One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.","naughtily":"In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely. Shak.","unright":"Not right; wrong. [Obs.] Gower.\n\nA wrong. [Obs.] Nor did I you never unright. Chaucer.\n\nTo cause (something right) to become wrong. [Obs.] Gower.","postponement":"The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.","parochiality":"The state of being parochial. [R.] Sir J. Marriot.","gemmuliferous":"Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.","bespangle":"To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.","onychia":"(a) A whitlow. (b) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.","heterogangliate":"Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.","economizer":"1. One who, or that which, economizes. 2. Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.","fellow-commoner":"A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.","kirk":"A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church. [Scot.] Jamieson.","outcome":"That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. \"The logical outcome.\" H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.","brob":"A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.","preindispose":"To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.","carbon process":"A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.","infectible":"Capable of being infected.","inventible":"Capable of being invented.","decalogue":"The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.","subalternant":"A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.","tiger-eye":"A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.","hexapoda":"The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids. Note: The Hexapoda have the head, thorax, and abdomen differentiated, and are mostly winged. They have three pairs of mouth organs, viz., mandibles, maxillæ, and the second maxillæ or labial palpi; three pairs of thoracic legs; and abdominal legs, which are present only in some of the lowest forms, and in the larval state of some of the higher ones. Many (the Metabola) undergo a complete metamorphosis, having larvæ (known as maggots, grubs, caterpillars) very unlike the adult, and pass through a quiescent pupa state in which no food is taken; others (the Hemimetabola) have larvæ much like the adult, expert in lacking wings, and an active pupa, in which rudimentary wings appear. See Insecta. The Hexapoda are divided into several orders.","tare":"Tore.\n\n1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field From whence then hath it tares Matt. xiii. 27. The \"darnel\" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Baird. 2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.\n\nDeficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.\n\nTo ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).","attributable":"Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.","creak":"To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.\n\nTo produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.\n\nThew sound produced by anuthing that creaks; a creaking. Roget.","testicular":"Of or pertaining to the testicle.","conformance":"Conformity. [R.] Marston.","vital":"1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. 2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. Do the heavens afford him vital food Spenser. And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth. Milton. 3. Containing life; living. \"Spirits that live throughout, vital in every part.\" Milton. 4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal. The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. Pope. 5. Very necessary; highly important; essential. A competence is vital to content. Young. 6. Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. [R.] Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital. Sir T. Browne. Vital air, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to animal life. [Obs.] -- Vital capacity (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the lungs; -- expressed by the number of cubic inches of air which can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration. -- Vital force. (Biol.) See under Force. The vital forces, according to Cope, are nerve force (neurism), growth force (bathmism), and thought force (phrenism), all under the direction and control of the vital principle. Apart from the phenomena of consciousness, vital actions no longer need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable character, nor vital force as anything other than a form of physical energy derived from, and convertible into, other well- known forces of nature. -- Vital functions (Physiol.), those functions or actions of the body on which life is directly dependent, as the circulation of the blood, digestion, etc. -- Vital principle, an immaterial force, to which the functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed. -- Vital statistics, statistics respecting the duration of life, and the circumstances affecting its duration. -- Vital tripod. (Physiol.) See under Tripod. -- Vital vessels (Bot.), a name for latex tubes, now disused. See Latex.\n\nA vital part; one of the vitals. [R.]","blickey":"A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.","half":"1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view. Note: The adjective and noun are often united to form a compound. 2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge. Assumed from thence a half consent. Tennyson. Half ape (Zoöl.), a lemur. -- Half back. (Football) See under 2d Back. -- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- A half cock, the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. -- Half hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced. -- Half round. (a) (Arch.) A molding of semicircular section. (b) (Mech.) Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file. -- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, between the open position and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred instruments. See Shift. -- Half step (Mus.), a semitone; the smallest difference of pitch or interval, used in music. -- Half tide, the time or state of the tide equally distant from ebb and flood. -- Half time, half the ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the half-time system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.\n\nIn an equal part or degree; in some paas, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious. \"Half loth and half consenting.\" Dryden. Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod. Neh. xiii. 24\n\n1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] Wyclif. The four halves of the house. Chaucer. 2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple. Not half his riches known, and yet despised. Milton. A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us. Tennyson. Better half. See under Better. -- In half, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly instead of in or into halves; as, to cut in half. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- In, or On, one's half, in one's behalf; on one's part. [Obs.] -- To cry halves, to claim an equal share with another. -- To go halves, to share equally between two.\n\nTo halve. [Obs.] See Halve. Sir H. Wotton.","prehnite":"A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.","acetify":"To convert into acid or vinegar.\n\nTo turn acid. Encyc. Dom. Econ.","infame":"To defame; to make infamous. [Obs.] Milton. Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. Bacon.","admonitor":"Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.","decardinalize":"To depose from the rank of cardinal.","fin-footed":"(a) Having palmate feet. (b) Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.","lussheburgh":"A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. [Obs.] God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer.","turriculate":"Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.","kjoekken moeddings":"See Kitchen middens.","outdrink":"To exceed in drinking.","brokenly":"In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.","pusher":"One who, or that which, pushes.","quintic":"Of the fifth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.","roundy":"Round. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.","religieux":"A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.","probe-pointed":"Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.","tridentiferous":"Bearing a trident.","clear-shining":"Shining brightly. Shak.","idealogue":"One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. [R.] Mrs. Browning.","lambkin":"A small lamb.","permissibility":"The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.","techiness":"The quality or state of being techy.","sporangiophore":"The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.","spineted":"Slit; cleft. [Obs. & R.]","appreciable":"Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. -- Ap*pre\"ci*a*bly, adv.","flue pipe":"A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square.","pyrotartrate":"A salt of pyrotartaric acid.","listerism":"The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.","cluniac":"A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.","philoprogenitive":"Having the love of offspring; fond of children.","hagdon":"One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.","amusive":"Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth. [R.] -- A*mu\"sive*ly, adv. -- A*mu\"sive*ness, n.","querist":"One who inquires, or asks questions. Swift.","predeliberation":"Previous deliberation.","distal":"(a) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal. (b) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.","infernal":"1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings. Addison. Infernal machine, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property. -- Infernal stone (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash. Syn. -- Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious.\n\nAn inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] Drayton.","ticement":"Enticement. [Obs.]","express":"1. Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton. 2. Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement. I have express commandment. Shak. 3. Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially. A messenger sent express from the other world. Atterbury. Express color. (Law) See the Note under Color, n., 8. Syn. -- Explicit; clear; unambiguous. See Explicit.\n\n1. A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration. [Obs.] The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth. Jer. Taylor. 2. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality. 3. An express office. She charged him . . . to ask at the express if anything came up from town. E. E. Hale. 4. That which is sent by an express messenger or message. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike. Express office, an office where packages for an express are received or delivered.\n\n1. To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson. 2. To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble. Each skillful artist shall express thy form. E. Smith. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express. Dryden. 3. To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell. My words express my purpose. Shak. They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality. Addison. 4. To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively. Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening. Pope. 5. To denote; to designate. Moses and Aaron took these men, which are expressed by their names. Num. i. 17. 6. To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package. Syn. -- To declare; utter; signify; testify; intimate.","recommend":"1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. Dryden. 2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Pope. 3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xv. 40 .","provision":"1. The act of providing, or making previous preparation. Shak. 2. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation. Making provision for the relief of strangers. Bacon. 3. Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural. And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast. Milton. 4. That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions. 5. (R. C. Ch.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. 6. (Eng. Hist.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation. Blackstone.\n\nTo supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison. They were provisioned for a journey. Palfrey.","shemite":"A descendant of Shem.","stockjobbing":"The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.","congregate":"Collected; compact; close. [R.] Bacon.\n\nTo collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.\n\nTo come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. Shak.","protectorate":"1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.","copper-nose":"A red nose. Shak.","chrysalis":"The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).","crinital":"Same as Crinite, 1. He the star crinital adoreth. Stanyhurst.","grossly":"In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.","wither":"1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9. 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak. There was a man which had his hand withered. Matt. xii. 10. Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. Dryden. 3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. \"Names that must not wither.\" Byron. States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. Cowper.\n\n1. To cause to fade, and become dry. The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11. 2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture. \"Age can not wither her.\" Shak. Shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered all their strength. Milton. 3. To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny. The passions and the cares that wither life. Bryant.","parthenogenesis":"1. (Biol.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis. 2. (Bot.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.","aerocurve":"A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.","do-all":"General manager; factotum. Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.","celandine":"A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).","bank book":"A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.","loopie":"Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]","referment":"The act of referring; reference. Laud.\n\nTo ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.","sclavonic":"Same as Slavonic.","difflation":"A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.","valued":"Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend. Valued policy. See under Policy.","hallage":"A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.","impure":"1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc. 2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things. 3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. \"Impure desires.\" Cowper. 4. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. 5. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.\n\nTo defile; to pollute. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","storeship":"A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.","picrite":"A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.","wonders":"See Wondrous. [Obs.] They be wonders glad thereof. Sir T. More.","avocat":"An advocate.","interestingly":"In an interesting manner.","theorically":"In a theoretic manner. [Obs.]","bilinguar":"See Bilingual.","exemplifier":"One who exemplifies by following a pattern.","assure":"1. To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton. 2. To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence. I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus. Shak. 3. To confirm; to make certain or secure. And it shall be assured to him. Lev. xxvii. 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19. 4. To affiance; to betroth. [Obs.] Shak. 5. (Law) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure. Syn. -- To declare; aver; avouch; vouch; assert; asseverate; protest; persuade; convince.","jubilant":"Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. \"The jubilant age.\" Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.","blotter":"1. One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink. 2. (Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.","plumber":"One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.","astatki":"A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.","lusty":"1. Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton. 2. Beautiful; handsome; pleasant. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. Of large size; big. [Obs.] \" Three lusty vessels.\" Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.] 4. Lustful; lascivious. [Obs.] Milton.","slapper":"1. One who, or that which, slaps. 2. Anything monstrous; a whopper. [Slang] Grose.\n\nVery large; monstrous; big. [Slang.]","prink":"To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.\n\nTo prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. \"And prink their hair with daisies.\" Cowper.","quakerly":"Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay.","accretive":"Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.","norse":"Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.\n\nThe Norse language.","electro-metric":"Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.","gleba":"The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.","ark shell":"A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.","fresh-new":"Unpracticed. [Obs.] Shak.","baken":"p. p. of Bake. [Obs. or. Archaic]","impark":"To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up. They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles. Holland.","mistrial":"A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.","helispherical":"Spiral. Helispherical line (Math.). the rhomb line in navigation. [R.]","cosmogonist":"One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.","nilometer":"An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.","shooting":"1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.\n\nOf or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. -- Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. Prof. Wilson. -- Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. -- Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] -- Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, - - called also falling star. Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip. -- Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Hansard.","archival":"Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke.","deduct":"1. To lead forth or out. [Obs.] A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris. 3. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] \"Do not deduct it to days.\" Massinger.","intervert":"To turn to another course or use. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.","watermark":"1. A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water. 2. A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture. Note: \"The watermark in paper is produced by bending the wires of the mold, or by wires bent into the shape of the required letter or device, and sewed to the surface of the mold; -- it has the effect of making the paper thinner in places. The old makers employed watermarks of an eccentric kind. Those of Caxton and other early printers were an oxhead and star, a collared dog's head, a crown, a shield, a jug, etc. A fool's cap and bells, employed as a watermark, gave the name to foolscap paper; a postman's horn, such as was formerly in use, gave the name to post paper.\" Tomlinson. 3. (Naut.) See Water line, 2. [R.]","pheasantry":"A place for keeping and rearing pheasants. Gwilt.","tailboard":"The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.","ungodly":"1. Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful. 2. Polluted by sin or wickedness. The hours of this ungodly day. Shak. -- Un*god\"li*ly, adv. -- Un*god\"li*ness, n.","vender":"One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.","filemot":"See Feullemort. Swift.","dogged":"1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott. 2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.","querl":"To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope. [Local, U.S.]\n\nA coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse. [Local, U. S.]","wadmol":"A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes. [Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.] Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott.","axinite":"A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.","calcography":"The art of drawing with chalk.","quixotism":"That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.","tryptic":"Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.","visual":"1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. Milton. 2. That can be seen; visible. [R.] Visual angle. (Opt.) See under Angle. -- Visual cone (Persp.), a cone whose vertex is at the point of sight, or the eye. -- Visual plane, any plane passing through the point of sight. -- Visual point, the point at which the visual rays unite; the position of the eye. -- Visual purple (Physiol.), a photochemical substance, of a purplish red color, contained in the retina of human eyes and in the eyes of most animals. It is quickly bleached by light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and yellow, and then disappearing. Also called rhodopsin, and vision purple. See Optography. -- Visual ray, a line from the eye, or point of sight. -- Visual white (Physiol.), the final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal epithelium. -- Visual yellow (Physiol.), a product intermediate between visual purple and visual white, formed in the photochemical action of light on visual purple.","disappropriation":"The act of disappropriating.","inconveniency":"Inconvenience.","grind":"1. To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2. 2. To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. 3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden. 4. To study hard for examination. [College Slang]\n\n1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. Milton. 2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. 3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. 4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. 5. To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar.\n\n1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. 2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [Colloq.] T. Hughes. 3. A hard student; a dig. [College Slang]","hypermeter":"1. (Pros.) A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse. 2. Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.","biforous":"See Biforate.","conundrum":"1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips. 2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that W. Black.","deferrer":"One who defers or puts off.","interstinctive":"Distinguishing. [Obs.] Wallis.","somatopleure":"The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.","gynaecophore":"A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.","charbon":"1. (Far.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated. 2. A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.","hydric":"Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide. Hydric dioxide. (Chem.) See Hydrogen dioxide, under Hydrogen. -- Hydric oxide (Chem.), water. -- Hydric sulphate (Chem.), hydrogen sulphate or sulphuric acid.","ore":"Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers). 2. (Mining) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless. 3. Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] Milton. Ore hearth, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.","matchmaker":"1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.","burly":"1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. \"Burly sacks.\" Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper. 2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.","amoroso":"A lover; a man enamored.\n\nIn a soft, tender, amatory style.","caducity":"Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.","plumbous":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.","appellativeness":"The quality of being appellative. Fuller.","spicate":"Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.","renouncement":"The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.","unconning":"Not knowing; ignorant. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- n. Ignorance. [Obs.]","deviator":"One who, or that which, deviates.","colorado group":"A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.","petechial":"Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiæ; spotted. Petechial fever, a malignant fever, accompanied with livid spots on the skin.","planimeter":"An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.","phyllopodous":"Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.","cucullate":"1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne. 2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. (b) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.","edgewise":"With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.","gravimeter":"(Physics) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.","homogeneousness":"Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.","raspatorium":"See Raspatory.","potman":"1. A pot companion. [Obs.] Life of A. Wood (1663). 2. A servant in a public house; a potboy.","aftereye":"To look after. [Poetic] Shak.","pharyngotomy":"(a) The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage. (b) Scarification or incision of the tonsils.","arquated":"Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [R.]","berna fly":"A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.","crouch":"1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. \"A crouching purpose.\" Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.\n\n1. To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast. Colerige.","misordination":"Wrong ordination.","antivenereal":"Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.","indemnity":"1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2. Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained. They were told to expect, upon the fall of Walpole, a large and lucrative indemnity for their pretended wrongs. Ld. Mahon. Note: Insurance is a contract of indemnity. Arnould. The owner of private property taken for public use is entitled to compensation or indemnity. Kent. Act of indemnity (Law), an act or law passed in order to relieve persons, especially in an official station, from some penalty to which they are liable in consequence of acting illegally, or, in case of ministers, in consequence of exceeding the limits of their strict constitutional powers. These acts also sometimes provide compensation for losses or damage, either incurred in the service of the government, or resulting from some public measure.","kiefekil":"A species of clay; meerschaum. [Also written keffekil.]","mandil":"A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.","wheelwork":"A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.","reflower":"To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.","septemberer":"A Setembrist. Carlyle.","postremote":"More remote in subsequent time or order.","adder fly":"A dragon fly. ADDER'S-TONGUE Ad\"der's-tongue`, n. (Bot.) (a) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. (b) The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.","technicological":"Technological; technical. [R.] Dr. J. Scott.","fundholder":"One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.","embillow":"To swell or heave like a [R.] Lisle.","moneran":"Of or pertaining to the Monera. -- n. One of the Monera.","verticillated":"Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.","reins":"1. The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins. 2. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are. My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Prov. xxiii. 16. I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts. Rev. ii. 23. Reins of a vault (Arch.), the parts between the crown andd the spring or abutment, including, and having especial reference to, the loading or filling behind the shell of the vault. The reins are to a vault nearly what the haunches are to an arch, and when a vault gives way by thrusting outward, it is because its reins are not sufficiently filled up.","laciniate":"1. Fringed; having a fringed border. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.","mesophloeum":"The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.","debile":"Weak. [Obs.] Shak.","hammer-less":"Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.","scentingly":"By scent. [R.] Fuller.","ringlet":"1. A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak. 2. A curl; especially, a curl of hair. [Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton.","gurt":"A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.","detersive":"Cleansing; detergent. -- n. A cleansing agent; a detergent.","gonoblastidium":"A blastostyle.","vamure":"See Vauntmure. [Obs.]","drive":"1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. \" Enough to drive one mad.\" Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. \"My thrice-driven bed of down.\" Shak.\n\n1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson. 2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray. 3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. 4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South. 5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. \"Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.\" Shak.\n\nDriven. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. 2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. 3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold. 4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. 5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.] Syn. -- See Ride.","lactiferous":"Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.","bisulphate":"A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.","extraneity":"State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness. [Obs.]","rewin":"To win again, or win back. The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. Fuller.","paper":"1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried. 2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance. 3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden. 4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper. 5. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper. 6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below. 7. A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc. 8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper. Note: Paper is manufactured in sheets, the trade names of which, together with the regular sizes in inches, are shown in the following table. But paper makers vary the size somewhat. Note: In the manufacture of books, etc., a sheet, of whatever size originally, is termed, when folded once, a folio; folded twice, a quarto, or 4to; three times, an octavo, or 8vo; four times, a sextodecimo, or 16mo; five times, a 32mo; three times, with an offcut folded twice and set in, a duodecimo, or 12mo; four times, with an offcut folded three times and set in, a 24mo. Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. -- Fly paper, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. -- Laid paper. See under Laid. -- Paper birch (Bot.), the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea). -- Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. -- Paper boat (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. -- Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. Forney. -- Paper credit, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. -- Paper hanger, one who covers walls with paper hangings. -- Paper hangings, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. -- Paper house, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] -- Paper money, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. -- Paper mulberry. (Bot.) See under Mulberry. -- Paper muslin, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. -- Paper nautilus. (Zoöl.) See Argonauta. -- Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus. -- Paper sailor. (Zoöl.) See Argonauta. -- Paper stainer, one who colors or stamps wall paper. De Colange. -- Paper wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. -- Paper weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. -- Parchment paper. See Papyrine. -- Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. -- Wall paper. Same as Paper hangings, above. -- Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. -- Wove paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked.\n\nOf or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.\n\n1. To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house. 2. To fold or inclose in paper. 3. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. [Obs.]","fraught":"A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nFreighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences oSouth. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.\n\nTo freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. Fairfax.","stulm":"A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] Bailey.","excrescential":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.","atrocity":"1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.","headmould shot":"An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.","breezy":"1. Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. \"A breezy day in May.\" Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth. 2. Fresh; brisk; full of life. [Colloq.]","plenipotentiary":"A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.\n\nContaining or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.","corniform":"Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.","dungy":"Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.","unclasp":"To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.","parasol":"A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.\n\nTo shade as with a parasol. [R.]","biologist":"A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.","deligation":"A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.","cornish":"Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. Cornish chough. See Chough. -- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.\n\nThe dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.","plowable":"Capable of being plowed; arable.","gleamy":"Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.","inoffensive":"1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. Addison. -- In\"of*fen\"sive*ly, adv. -- In\"of*fen\"sive*ness, n.","seedlop":"A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]","redeemableness":"The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.","poze":"See 5th Pose.","succory":"A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.","birchen":"Of or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.","herb":"1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. 2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. Milton. Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet. -- Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actæa spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior. -- Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue. -- Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)","organically":"In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.","ingot steel":"Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.","anthraciferous":"Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.","commanding":"1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. -- Authoritative; imperative; imperious.","hemadromometry":"The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.","ara":"The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.\n\nA name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.","manurial":"Relating to manures.","predecay":"Premature decay.","head":"1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. \"Their princes and heads.\" Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton. 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. Graunt. 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay. 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. Mortimer. 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a. A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. Shak. -- By the head. (Naut.) See under By. -- Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc. -- From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. \"Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.\" Shak. -- Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] -- Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast. -- Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates -- Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton. -- Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] -- Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. -- Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. \"They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.\" Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. -- Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. -- Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] -- Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. -- Out one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or coöperation of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. M. Arnold. -- To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane. -- To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. -- To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. \"He gave his able horse the head.\" Shak. \"He has so long given his unruly passions their head.\" South. -- To his head, before his face. \"An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head.\" Jer. Taylor. -- To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire. -- To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. -- To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. -- To show one's head, to appear. Shak. -- To turn head, to turn the face or front. \"The ravishers turn head, the fight renews.\" Dryden.\n\nPrincipal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.\n\n1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. Dryden. 2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. Spenser. 3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] Shak. 4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. 5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship. 6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask. To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. -- To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.\n\n1. To originate; to spring; to have its A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. Adair. 2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head 3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.","piperazin":"A crystalline substance, (C2H4NH)2, formed by action of ammonia on ethylene bromide, by reduction of pyrazine, etc. It is a strong base, and is used as a remedy for gout.","foretaster":"One who tastes beforehand, or before another.","cawky":"Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.","sorbite":"A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit\"ic, a.","manbird":"An aviator. [Colloq.]","dextrose":"A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice. Note: The solid products are known to the trade as grape sugar; the sirupy products as glucose, or mixing sirup. These are harmless, but are only about half as sweet as cane or sucrose.","percentage":"A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.","guara":"(a) The scarlet ibis. See Ibis. (b) A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.","fatigue":"1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. -- Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.\n\nTo weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire. Syn. -- To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.","homiletical":"1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury. 2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.","enargite":"An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.","refunder":"One who refunds.","asiphonida":"A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.","spignel":"Same as Spickenel.","toady":"1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens. 2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.\n\nTo fawn upon with mean sycophancy.","abraham-man":"One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.","rumbling":"a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.","cardcase":"A case for visiting cards.","calmucks":"; sing. Calmuck. A branch of the Mongolian race inbabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. [Written also Kalmucks.]","popliteal":"Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.","brize":"The breeze fly. See Breeze. Shak.","mistransport":"To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","eyeful":"Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable. [Obs.] \"Eyeful trophies.\" Chapman.","malagash":"Same as Malagasy.","malamide":"The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.","stereotypography":"The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.","debeige":"A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]","affordable":"That may be afforded.","spruce":"1. (Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. E. Phillips. Douglas spruce (Bot.), a valuable timber tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America. -- Essence of spruce, a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. -- Hemlock spruce (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather. -- Spruce beer. Etym: [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See Sprout, n., Beer, and cf. Spruce, n.] A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction. -- Spruce grouse. (Zoöl.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. -- Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. -- Spruce partridge (Zoöl.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.\n\n1. Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. \"Neat and spruce array.\" Remedy of Love. 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] \"Now, my spruce companions.\" Shak. He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. Tatler. Syn. -- Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. -- Sruce\"ly, adv. -- Spruce\"ness, n.\n\nTo dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.\n\nTo dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.","tentiginous":"1. Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson. 2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","water bailiff":"An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]","unmuzzle":"To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.","lumber":"1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. 3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.\n\n1. To heap together in disorder. \" Stuff lumbered together.\" Rymer. 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.\n\n1. To move heavily, as if burdened. 2. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper. 3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]","reinterrogate":"To interrogate again; to question repeatedly. Cotgrave.","chickadee":"A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.","stick":"1. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton. 2. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick. 3. Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax. 4. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick. [Colloq.] 5. (Print.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.] -- Stick insect, (Zoöl.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and color, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long. -- To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. [Slang] De Quincey.\n\n1. To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast. And sticked him with bodkins anon. Chaucer. It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray. Sir W. Scott. 2. To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger. Thou stickest a dagger in me. Shak. 3. To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew. Shak. The points of spears are stuck within the shield. Dryden. 4. To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth. 5. To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards. 6. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork. 7. To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner. 8. (Print.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. [Cant] 9. (Joinery) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck. 10. To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem. [Colloq.] 11. To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat. [Slang] To stick out, to cause to project or protrude; to render prominent.\n\n1. To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall. The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh. Bacon. 2. To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24. I am a kind of bur; I shall stick. Shak. If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own. Young. 3. To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed. I had most need of blessing, and \"Amen\" Stuck in my throat. Shak. The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last. Dryden. 4. To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at. They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas. Locke. Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will. Arbuthnot. 5. To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable. Swift. To stick by. (a) To adhere closely to; to be firm in supporting. \"We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you.\" Davenant. (b) To be troublesome by adhering. \"I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.\" Pope. -- To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. \"His bones that were not seen stick out.\" Job xxxiii. 21. (b) To persevere in a purpose; to hold out; as, the garrison stuck out until relieved. [Colloq.]v.i. to stick it out. -- To stick to, to be persevering in holding to; as, to stick to a party or cause. \"The advantage will be on our side if we stick to its essentials.\" Addison. -- To stick up, to stand erect; as, his hair sticks up. -- To stick up for, to assert and defend; as, to stick up for one's rights or for a friend. [Colloq.] -- To stick upon, to dwell upon; not to forsake. \"If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought.\" Locke.","concurrently":"With concurrence; unitedly.","navarrese":"Of or pertaining to Navarre. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre.","pulverizable":"Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable. Barton.","cooptation":"The act of choosing; selection; choice. [Obs.] The first election and coöptation of a friend. Howell.","anarchy":"1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. 2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.","sprit":"To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.\n\nA shoot; a sprout. [Obs.] Mortimer.\n\nA small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.","stoma":"1. (Anat.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes. 2. (Bot.) (a) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells. (b) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium. 3. (Zoöl.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).","tohubohu":"Chaos; confusion. Was ever such a tohubohu of people as there assembles Thuckeray.","cholochrome":"See Bilirubin.","deintegrate":"To disintegrate. [Obs.]","libertarian":"Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.\n\nOne who holds to the doctrine of free will.","manuductor":"A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)","overshadow":"1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.","sabbatarian":"1. One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, aggreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue. Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now. 2. A strict observer of the Sabbath.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.","neurocord":"A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. -- Neu`ro*cor\"dal, a.","rhymeless":"Destitute of rhyme. Bp. Hall.","obimbricate":"Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.","adjurer":"One who adjures.","casal":"Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.","infallibly":"In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.","udometer":"A rain gauge.","concreate":"To create at the same time. If God did concreate grace with Adam. Jer. Taylor.","histrionize":"To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically. Urquhart.","gift":"1. Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering. Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command Milton. 2. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President. 3. A bribe; anything given to corrupt. Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deut. xvi. 19. 4. Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preëminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking. 5. (Law) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill. Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope. Syn. -- Present; donation; grant; largess; benefaction; boon; bounty; gratuity; endowment; talent; faculty. -- Gift, Present, Donation. These words, as here compared, denote something gratuitously imparted to another out of one's property. A gift is something given whether by a superior or an inferior, and is usually designed for the relief or benefit of him who receives it. A present is ordinarly from an equal or inferior, and is always intended as a compliment or expression of kindness. Donation is a word of more dignity, denoting, properly, a gift of considerable value, and ordinarly a gift made either to some public institution, or to an individual on account of his services to the public; as, a donation to a hospital, a charitable society, or a minister.\n\nTo endow with some power or faculty. He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. I. Taylor.","algology":"The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.","babiism":"The doctrine of a modern religious pantheistical sect in Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab\"ist, n.","globated":"Having the form of a globe; spherical.","pontile":"Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.","remind":"To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person). When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.","inauration":"The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.","heart-whole":"1. Having the heart or affections free; not in love. Shak. 2. With unbroken courage; undismayed. 3. Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.","trophied":"Adorned with trophies. The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.","buckhound":"A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]","funest":"Lamentable; doleful. [R.] \"Funest and direful deaths.\" Coleridge. A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.","overcostly":"Too costly. Milton.","plec-tognathous":"Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.","uwarowite":"Ouvarovite.","londonism":"A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.","supernaturalize":"To treat or regard as supernatural.","underminister":"To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.","badderlocks":"A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.","hornbug":"A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.","decliner":"He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.","ultramontanism":"The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism.","electro-muscular":"Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.","stingfish":"The weever.","detestability":"Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.","masterhood":"The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté.","improvidence":"The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift. The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me inhuman. L'Estrange.","tacet":"It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.","chekelatoun":"See Ciclatoun. [Obs.] Chaucer.","tralatition":"A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.","stibium":"1. (Chem.) The technical name of antimony. 2. (Min.) Stibnite. [Obs.]","sea widgeon":"(a) The scaup duck. (b) The pintail duck.","outbid":"To exceed or surpass in bidding. Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold. Pope.","libyan":"Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.","loanin":"An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","ribbonism":"The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.","dyewood":"Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.","devenustate":"To deprive of beauty or grace. [Obs.]","hopeful":"1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker. 2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. \"Hopeful scholars.\" Addison. -- Hope\"ful*ly, adv. -- Hope\"ful*ness, n.","exultance":"Exultation. [Obs.] Burton. Hammond.","multifaced":"Having many faces.","perspectograph":"An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.","corroborant":"Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. Bacon. -- n. Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic. The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. Southey.","intemerate":"Pure; undefiled. [Obs.]","inherse":"See Inhearse.","pelusiac":"Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.","black monday":"1. Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak. 2. The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell.","spinosity":"The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.","dendrite":"A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.","faffle":"To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","wigher":"To neigh; to whinny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","vicety":"Fault; defect; coarseness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","glossographical":"Of or pertaining to glossography.","cranial":"Of or pertaining to the cranium.","excerebrose":"Brainless. [R.]","curing":"p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.","syphilization":"Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.","sowdan":"Sultan. [Obs.] Chaucer.","cloddy":"Consisting of clods; full of clods.","heteroptera":"A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.","nodulous":"Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.","hexacapsular":"Having six capsules or seed vessels.","mahometan":"See Mohammedan.","saurioid":"Same as Sauroid.","brindle":"1. The state of being brindled. 2. A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.\n\nBrindled.","crayer":"See Crare. [Obs.]","compassionable":"Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. [R.] Barrow.","univalence":"The quality or state of being univalent.","beefeater":"1. One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person. 2. One of the yeomen of the guard, in England. 3. (Zoöl.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.","tailrace":"1. See Race, n., 6. 2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.","stuck-up":"Self-important and supercilious, [Colloq.] The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.","intercontinental":"Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.","savoy":"A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.","progenerate":"To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.","stemmer":"One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).","raisable":"Capable of being raised.","evanescently":"; imperceptibly. Chalmers.","detractory":"Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.","regnal":"Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.","quamash":"See Camass.","cheiropter":"One of the Cheiroptera.","contingent":"1. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke. 2. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. \"Uncertain and contingent causes.\" Tillotson. 3. (Law) Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone.\n\n1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency. His understanding could almost pierce into future contingets. South. 2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. Milman.","presuppose":"To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.","hile":"To hide. See Hele. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nSame as Hilum.","appropriable":"Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.","matter-of-fact":"Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.","mintman":"One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.","distinctively":"With distinction; plainly.","aftermost":"1. Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost. 2. (Naut.) Nearest the stern; most aft.","pleat":"See Plait.","sawer":"One who saws; a sawyer.","stadtholder":"Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.","equipollent":"1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon. 2. (Logic) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.","parsimonious":"Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo\"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo\"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money. Addison. Syn. -- Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving; mean; stingy; frugal. See Avaricious.","bicallose":"Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.","vulnerability":"The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.","dianthus":"A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.","holocephali":"An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimæras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimæra; also Illustration in Appendix.","securely":"In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.","pegmatoid":"Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.","berceuse":"A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.","monseigneur":"My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) MONSEL'S SALT Mon\"sel's salt`. (Med.) A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman. MONSEL'S SOLUTION Mon\"sel's so*lu\"tion. Etym: [See Monsel's salt.] (Med.) An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.","herbose":"Abounding with herbs. \"Fields poetically called herbose.\" Byrom.","smit":"imp. & p. p. of Smite. Spenser. Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene. Cowper.\n\n3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite. Chaucer.","theomachy":"1. A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods. 2. A battle or strife among the gods. Gladstone. 3. Opposition to God or the divine will. Bacon.","ear":"1. The organ of hearing; the external ear. Note: In man and the higher vertebrates, the organ of hearing is very complicated, and is divisible into three parts: the external ear, which includes the pinna or auricle and meatus or external opening; the middle ear, drum, or tympanum; and the internal ear, or labyrinth. The middle ear is a cavity connected by the Eustachian tube with the pharynx, separated from the opening of the external ear by the tympanic membrane, and containing a chain of three small bones, or ossicles, named malleus, incus, and stapes, which connect this membrane with the internal ear. The essential part of the internal ear where the fibers of the auditory nerve terminate, is the membranous labyrinth, a complicated system of sacs and tubes filled with a fluid (the endolymph), and lodged in a cavity, called the bony labyrinth, in the periotic bone. The membranous labyrinth does not completely fill the bony labyrinth, but is partially suspended in it in a fluid (the perilymph). The bony labyrinth consists of a central cavity, the vestibule, into which three semicircular canals and the canal of the cochlea (spirally coiled in mammals) open. The vestibular portion of the membranous labyrinth consists of two sacs, the utriculus and sacculus, connected by a narrow tube, into the former of which three membranous semicircular canals open, while the latter is connected with a membranous tube in the cochlea containing the organ of Corti. By the help of the external ear the sonorous vibrations of the air are concentrated upon the tympanic membrane and set it vibrating, the chain of bones in the middle ear transmits these vibrations to the internal ear, where they cause certain delicate structures in the organ of Corti, and other parts of the membranous labyrinth, to stimulate the fibers of the auditory nerve to transmit sonorous impulses to the brain. 2. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear. Tennyson. 3. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell. 4. (Arch.) (a) Same as Acroterium (a). (b) Same as Crossette. 5. Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit. Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Shak. About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera. -- Ear stones (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear trumpet, an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person. -- Ear vesicle (Zoöl.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, mollusks, etc. It consists of a small sac containing a fluid and one or more solid concretions or otocysts. -- Rose ear (in dogs), an ear which folds backward and shows part of the inside. -- To give ear to, to listen to; to heed, as advice or one advising. \"Give ear unto my song.\" Goldsmith. -- To have one's ear, to be listened to with favor. -- Up to the ears, deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.]\n\nTo take in with the ears; to hear. [Sportive] \"I eared her language.\" Two Noble Kinsmen.\n\nThe spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.\n\nTo put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.\n\nTo plow or till; to cultivate. \"To ear the land.\" Shak.","undermirth":"Suppressed or concealed mirth. [Obs.] The Coronation.","asweve":"To stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","monticule":"See Monticle.","isobarism":"The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.","unflesh":"To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. \"Unfleshed humanity.\" Wordsworth.","scattergood":"One who wastes; a spendthrift.","embryological":"Of or pertaining to embryology.","inclinatory":"Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin\"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.","glutaric":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers. Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.","thionaphthene":"A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives. [Written also thionaphtene.]","depilous":"Hairless. Sir t. Browne.","geoduck":"A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.","incongealable":"Not congealable; incapable of being congealed. -- In`con*geal\"a*ble*ness, n.","las":"A lace. See Lace. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nLess. [Obs.] Chaucer.","antiphlogistian":"An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.","asperse":"1. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Heywood. 2. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper. Syn. -- To slander; defame; detract from; calumniate; vilify. -- To Asperse, Defame, Slander, Calumniate. These words have in common the idea of falsely assailing the character of another. To asperse is figuratively to cast upon a character hitherto unsullied the imputation of blemishes or faults which render it offensive or loathsome. To defame is to detract from a man's honor and reputation by charges calculated to load him with infamy. Slander (etymologically the same as scandal) and calumniate, from the Latin, have in common the sense of circulating reports to a man's injury from unworthy or malicious motives. Men asperse their neighbors by malignant insinuations; they defame by advancing charges to blacken or sully their fair fame; they slander or calumniate by spreading injurious reports which are false, or by magnifying slight faults into serious errors or crimes.","pentagonally":"In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.","poy nette":"A bodkin. [Obs.]","leze majesty":"Any crime committed against the sovereign power.","thrum-eyed":"Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.","synecdochically":"By synecdoche.","backing":"1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability. 3. Support or aid given to a person or cause. 4. (Bookbinding) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.","synacmy":"Same as Synanthesis.","sobriquet":"An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.]","turritella":"Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.","chilling":"Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill\"ing\"ly, adv.","conspecific":"Of the same species.","transcendentally":"In a transcendental manner.","rappage":"The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.","capillaceous":"Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.","surquedous":"Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent. [Obs.] Gower. James II. of Scot.","dionysia":"Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.","worshipful":"Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. \"This is worshipful society.\" Shak. [She is] so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor\"ship*ful*ly, adv. -- Wor\"ship*ful*ness, n.","anemony":"See Anemone. Sandys.","handed":"1. With hands joined; hand in hand. Into their inmost bower, Handed they went. Milton. 2. Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. As poisonous tongued as handed. Shak. Note: Handed is used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed; heavy-handed; left- handed; single-handed.","corroboration":"1. The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information. 2. That which corroborates.","metisse":"1. The offspring of a white person and an American Indian. 2. The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.","antecursor":"A forerunner; a precursor. [Obs.]","anacamptic":"Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo). Note: The word was formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. See Catoptrics.","jingal":"A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. [Written also gingal and jingall.] [India]","blear-eyed":"1. Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant. 2. Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.","howdah":"A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders. [Written also houdah.]","cyatholith":"A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from","charlatanical":"Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan\"ic*al*ly, adv.","heroism":"The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. Hare. Syn. -- Heroism, Courage, Fortitude, Bravery, Valor, Intrepidity, Gallantry. Courage is generic, denoting fearlessness or defiance of danger; fortitude is passive courage, the habit of bearing up nobly under trials, danger, and sufferings; bravery is courage displayed in daring acts; valor is courage in battle or other conflicts with living opponents; intrepidity is firm courage, which shrinks not amid the most appalling dangers; gallantry is adventurous courage, dashing into the thickest of the fight. Heroism may call into exercise all these modifications of courage. It is a contempt of danger, not from ignorance or inconsiderate levity, but from a noble devotion to some great cause, and a just confidence of being able to meet danger in the spirit of such a cause. Cf. Courage.","aggrandizement":"The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. Syn. -- Augmentation; exaltation; enlargement; advancement; promotion; preferment.","ill-wisher":"One who wishes ill to another; an enemy.","bookshop":"A bookseller's shop. [Eng.]","burlesquer":"One who burlesques.","aphoristic":"In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.","trivialism":"A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle.","cultivate":"1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth. 3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. Burke. 4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson. 5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.","manucode":"Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.","unburden":"1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.","papulous":"Covered with, or characterized by, papulæ; papulose.","covey":"1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin. 2. A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls. Addison.\n\nTo brood; to incubate. [Obs.] [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch. Holland.\n\nA pantry. [Prov. Eng.] Parker.","amulet":"An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. Note: [Also used figuratively.]","godhead":"1. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood. 2. The Deity; God; the Supreme Being. The imperial throne Of Godhead, fixed for ever. Milton. 3. A god or goddess; a divinity. [Obs.] Adoring first the genius of the place, The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown. Dryden.","gastropoda":"One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.] Note: The Gastropoda are divided into three subclasses; viz.: (a) The Streptoneura or Dioecia, including the Pectinibranchiata, Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, and Heteropoda. (b) The Euthyneura, including the Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia. (c) The Amphineura, including the Polyplacophora and Aplacophora.","uncomely":"Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner. 1 Cor. vii. 36.","spurway":"A bridle path. [R.]","vitrifacture":"The manufacture of glass and glassware.","hyposulphuric":"Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state of oxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid. Hyposulphuric acid, an acid, H2S2O6, obtained by the action of manganese dioxide on sulphur dioxide, and known only in a watery solution and in its salts; -- called also dithionic acid. See Dithionic.","selves":"pl. of Self.","spiritualizer":"One who spiritualizes.","blundering":"Characterized by blunders.","bugfish":"The menhaden. [U.S.]","pacane":"A species of hickory. See Pecan.","snaphance":"1. A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached. [Obs.] 2. A trifling or second-rate thing or person. [Obs.]","contemptuously":"In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.","retrievement":"Retrieval.","profoundness":"The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.","baptistery":"(a) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near. (b) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.","tractor screw":"A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.","subdivine":"Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree. Bp. Hall.","starlike":"1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers. 2. Shining; bright; illustrious. Dryden. The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. Boyle.","hyperotreta":"An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]","escheat":"1. (Law) (a) (Feud. & Eng. Law) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder. Tomlins. Blackstone. (b) (U. S. Law) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. Note: A distinction is carefully made, by English writers, between escheat to the lord of the fee and forfeiture to the crown. But in this country, where the State holds the place of chief lord of the fee, and is entitled to take alike escheat and by forfeiture, this distinction is not essential. Tomlins. Kent. (c) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone. 2. Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. 3. That which falls to one; a reversion or return To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser.\n\nTo revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. Note: In this country it is the general rule that when the title to land fails by defect of heirs or devisees, it necessarily escheats to the State; but forfeiture of estate from crime is hardly known in this country, and corruption of blood is universally abolished. Kent. Bouvier.\n\nTo forfeit. Bp. Hall.","hery":"To worship; to glorify; to praise. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","liquation":"1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid. 2. (Metal.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.","tepefaction":"Act of tepefying.","gecarcinian":"A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.","aspartic":"Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.","wayfaring":"Traveling; passing; being on a journey. \"A wayfaring man.\" Judg. xix. 17. Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. -- American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the (Viburnum lantanoides).","palatine":"Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.\n\n1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count. 2. The Palatine hill in Rome.\n\nOf or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.\n\n, (Anat.) A palatine bone.","typothetae":"Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetæ of America.","somatical":"Somatic.","morganatic":"Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband. Brande & C. -- Mor`ga*nat\"ic*al*ly, adv.","trephine":"An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.\n\nTo perforate with a trephine; to trepan.","detachment":"1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft. 3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.","picric":"Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter. Note: Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly carbazotic acid.","passenger mileage":"Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.","reconciliatory":"Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.","scratch":"1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bite your nails.Swift. 2. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. Scratch out a pamphlet.\" Swift. 3. To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out. 4. To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow. To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety. [U.S.]\n\n1. To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches. Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch. Dr. H. More. 2. (Billiards) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]\n\n1. A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision. The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work. Moxon. These nails with scratches deform my breast. Prior. God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this. Shak. 2. (Pugilistic Matches) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. [Cant] Grose. 3. pl. (Far.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser). 4. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head. 5. (Billiards) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke. [Cant, U.S.] Scratch cradle. See Cratch cradle, under Cratch. -- Scratch grass (Bot.), a climbing knotweed (Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles. -- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. Thackeray.\n\nMade, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. [Slang] Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot.","subdented":"Indented beneath.","bracken":"A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.","lanceolate":"Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.","plunderage":"The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.","dewrot":"To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.","mew":"A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.\n\nTo shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.\n\nTo cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.\n\n1. A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth. 2. A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.\n\nTo shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mewed. Shak. Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. Dryden.\n\nTo cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.] Shak.\n\nThe common cry of a cat. Shak.","netty":"Like a net, or network; netted. [R.]","obfirm":"To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.","sancho":"The nine of trumps in sancho pedro.","preelection":"Election beforehand.","sunsetting":"1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell (Zoöl.), a West Indian marine bivalve (Tellina radiata) having a smooth shell marked with radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at sunset or before sunrise; -- called also rising sun.","undigne":"Unworthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","agast":"See Aghast.\n\nTo affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","heterogenetic":"Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.","nickeliferous":"Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.","intercommonage":"The right or privilege of intercommoning.","tourniquet":"An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.","adiaphorist":"One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.","forlay":"To lie in wait for; to ambush. An ambushed thief forlays a traveler. Dryden.","periscopic":"Viewing all around, or on all sides. Periscopic spectacles (Opt.), spectacles having concavo-convex or convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.","aegis":"A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.","rebucous":"Rebuking. [Obs.] She gave unto him many rebucous words. Fabyan.","wait-a-bit":"Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as: (a) The greenbrier. (b) Any of various species of hawthorn. (c) In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas. (d) The grapple plant. (e) The prickly ash.","earless":"Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.","muskmelon":"The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.","hysterophyte":"A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph\"y*tal, a.","primity":"Quality of being first; primitiveness. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.","anamorphoscope":"An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.","whinstone":"A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.","noyance":", Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.","thienone":"A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.","silesian":"Of or pertaining to Silesia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Silesia.","statuelike":"Like a statue; motionless.","syndesmography":"A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.","correctness":"The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.","alhenna":"See Henna.","sternocostal":"Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.","consecutive":"1. Following in a train; suceeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. 2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. The actions of a man consecutive to volition. Locke. 3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind suceeding one another without interruption.","utterable":"Capable of being uttered.","fickle":"Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting.","dangler":"One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. \" Danglers at toilets.\" Burke.","thousandfold":"Multiplied by a thousand.","fruticant":"Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.","plebe":"1. The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester. 2. Etym: [Cf. Plebeian.] A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point. [Cant, U.S.]","unacceptable":"Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un`ac*cept\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ac*cept\"a*bly, adv.","inanitiate":"To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]","anorthic":"Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.","insolvent":"(a) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor. (b) Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate. (c) Relating to persons unable to pay their debts. Insolvent law, or Act of insolvency, a law affording relief, -- subject to various modifications in different States, -- to insolvent debtors, upon their delivering up their property for the benefit of their creditors. See Bankrupt law, under Bankrupt, a.\n\nOne who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders. Bouvier.","accolade":"1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. 2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves.","couched":"Same as Couch.","coziness":"The state or quality of being cozy.","pluviograph":"A self-registering rain gauge.","cosmothetic":"Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.","lochaber ax":"A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.","reluctate":"To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose. [Obs.] \"To delude their reluctating consciences.\" Dr. H. More.","peasantry":"1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. \"A bold peasantry.\" Goldsmith. 2. Rusticity; coarseness. [Obs.] p. Butler.","evangile":"Good tidings; evangel. [R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.","circumjacent":"Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.","childbed":"The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.","flow":"imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.\n\n1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes. 2. To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3. 3. To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. Milton. 4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. Dryden. 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson. 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. The imperial purple flowing in his train. A. Hamilton. 7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. Shak. 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.\n\n1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. 2. To cover with varnish.\n\n1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. 2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. 3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope. 4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. 5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.] Jamieson.","poppyhead":"A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.","basanite":"Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.","peachy":"Resembling a peach or peaches.","engrailment":"1. The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C. 2. (Her.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.","noteful":"Useful. [Obs.] Chaucer.","chiffonier":"1. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. 2. A receptacle for rags or shreds. 3. A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.","catfall":"A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.","crustily":"In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.","imperfectible":"Incapable of being mad perfect. [R.]","slowh":"imp. of Slee,to slay. Chaucer.","vocative":"Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.\n\nThe vocative case.","checkless":"That can not be checked or restrained.","romeward":"Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nTending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect. Gladstone.","underplant":"To plant under; specif. (Forestry), to plant (young trees) under an existing stand.","despisement":"A despising. [R.] Holland.","coprolitic":"Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.","crocoisite":"Same as Crocoite.","divarication":"1. A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence. 2. An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion. Sir T. Browne. 3. (Biol.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.","krameria":"A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.","chalaze":"Same as Chalaza.","compassion":"Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; mercy; condolence. See Pity.\n\nTo pity. [Obs.] Shak.","goggle-eyed":"Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.","pasturage":"1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.","whilere":"A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. [Obs.] Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.","stroke":"Struck.\n\n1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes. Prov. xviii. 6. He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke. Bacon. 2. The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness. In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isa. xxx. 26. 3. The striking of the clock to tell the hour. Well, but what's o'clock - Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike. Shak. 4. A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking. Dryden. 5. A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke. O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope. 6. Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay. Addison. 7. A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death. At this one stroke the man looked dead in law. Harte. 8. A throb or beat, as of the heart. Tennyson. 9. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also: (Rowing) (a) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke. (b) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar. (c) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman. 10. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy. 11. (Mach.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke. Note: The respective strokes are distinguished as up and down strokes, outward and inward strokes, forward and back strokes, the forward stroke in stationary steam engines being toward the crosshead, but in locomotives toward the front of the vehicle. 12. Power; influence. [Obs.] \"Where money beareth [hath] all the stroke.\" Robynson (More's Utopia). He has a great stroke with the reader. Dryden. 13. Appetite. [Obs.] Swift. To keep stroke, to make strokes in unison. The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. Shak.\n\n1. To strike. [Obs.] Ye mote with the plat sword again Stroken him in the wound, and it will close. Chaucer. 2. To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe. He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, He stroked her cheeks. Dryden. 3. To make smooth by rubbing. Longfellow. 4. (Masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to. 5. To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.","sigmoidally":"In a sigmoidal manner.","rabbinite":"Same as Rabbinist.","foot ton":"A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.","dowager":"1. (Eng. Law) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill. 2. A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank. With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. Tennyson. Queen dowager, the widow of a king.","computation":"1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; account.","hanselines":"A sort of breeches. [Obs..] Chaucer.","cedry":"Of the nature of cedar. [R.]","chatter":"1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak. 3. To make a noise by rapid collisions. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.\n\nTo utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser.\n\n1. Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. Your words are but idle and empty chatter. Longfellow. 2. Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.","freestone":"A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.\n\nHaving the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.","incommensurability":"The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid.","astonied":"Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.","arrester":"1. One who arrests. 2. (Scots Law) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. [Also written arrestor.]","accessoriness":"The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.","sensated":"Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.] Baxter.","tatouay":"An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.","inwork":"To work in or within.","alferes":"An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.","arbalest":"A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.","comic":"1. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson. 2. Causing mirth; ludicrous. \"Comic shows.\" Shak.\n\nA comedian. [Obs.] Steele.","espier":"One who espies. Harmar.","xylem":"That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloëm.","escambio":"A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. Cowell.","pneumometer":"A spirometer.","exuvial":"Of or pertaining to exuviæ. \"Exuvial layers.\" \"Exuvial deposits.\"","whist":"Be silent; be still; hush; silence.\n\nA certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed. Note: Points are scored for the tricks taken in excess of six, and for the honors held. In long whist, now seldom played, ten points make the game; in short whist, now usually played in England, five points make the game. In American whist, so-called, honors are not counted, and seven points by tricks make the game.\n\nTo hush or silence. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute. [R.] Surrey.\n\nNot speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet. \"So whist and dead a silence.\" Sir J. Harrington. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed. Milton. Note: This adjective generally follows its noun, or is used predicatively.","virger":"See Verger. [Obs.]","annodated":"Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans.","whitewort":"(a) Wild camomile. (b) A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale).","selenate":"A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.","zeta":"A Greek letter [z] corresponding to our z.","anomaloflorous":"Having anomalous flowers.","manred":"Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage. [Obs. or Scots Law] Jamieson.","sea mile":"A geographical mile. See Mile.","apprentice":"1. One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him. 2. One not well versed in a subject; a tyro. 3. (Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.\n\nTo bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.","griminess":"The state of being grimy.","organling":"A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.","subtribe":"A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.","antiquitarian":"An admirer of antiquity. Note: [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] [Obs.]","glave":"See Glaive.","uncertain":"1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze. O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! Sir W. Scott. 3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. \"The fashion of uncertain evils.\" Milton. From certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. 4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden. Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone. Gay. Syn. -- See Precarious.\n\nTo make uncertain. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.","gurgeons":"Coarse meal. [Obs.]\n\nSee Grudgeons.","right-lined":"Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.","vitreo-electic":"Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.","louri":"See Lory.","reprehender":"One who reprehends.","macrozoospore":"A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.","muriculate":"Minutely muricate.","trespasser":"One who commits a trespass; as: (a) (Law) One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights. (b) A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.","archidiaconal":"Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.","aeronautical":"Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.","telemotor":"A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.","slab-sided":"Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank. [Colloq. U. S.]","tasset":"A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.","nirvana":"In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.","librate":"To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all liberate on too nice a beam. Clifton.\n\nTo poise; to balance.","race suicide":"The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.","obliquity":"1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. 2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. To disobey [God]...imports a moral obliquity. South.","deprecatory":"Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.","corselet":"1. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece. 2. (Zoöl.) The thorax of an insect.","snary":"Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious. Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread. Dryden.","metamorphose":"To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.\n\nSame as Metamorphosis.","treasure-house":"A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.","enure":"See Inure.","braving":"A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.","eastward":"Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.","estreat":"A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.\n\n(a) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. (b) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.","caseworm":"A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.","pseudo-peripteral":"Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n. A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.\n\nFalsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n. A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.","quitch grass":"A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.","hyalospongia":"An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinæ.","reprefe":"Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.","eternalize":"To make eternal. Shelton.","unbed":"To raise or rouse from bed. Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder. Wa","pasquilant":"A lampooner; a pasquiler. [R.] Coleridge.","derogatorily":"In a derogatory manner; disparagingly. Aubrey.","sepidaceous":"Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.","eozooen":"A peculiar structure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.","snast":"The snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle. [Obs.] Bacon.","parasitism":"1. The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. \"Court parasitism.\" Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) The state of being parasitic.","championship":"State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.","mercantile":"Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine, the persons and vessels employed in commerce, taken collectively. -- Mercantile paper, the notes or acceptances given by merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned. McElrath. Syn. -- Mercantile, Commercial. Commercial is the wider term, being sometimes used to embrace mercantile. In their stricter use, commercial relates to the shipping, freighting, forwarding, and other business connected with the commerce of a country (whether external or internal), that is, the exchange of commodities; while mercantile applies to the sale of merchandise and goods when brought to market. As the two employments are to some extent intermingled, the two words are often interchanged.","ogam":"Same as Ogham.","poup":"See Powp. [Obs.] Chaucer. POUPART'S LIGAMENT Pou*part's\" lig\"a*ment. (Anat.) A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.","germanize":"To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.\n\nTo reason or write after the manner of the Germans.","trifling":"Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri\"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri\"fling*ness, n.","pertinence":"The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. Bentley.","greatness":"1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.","decilitre":"A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.","caeca":"See Cæcum.","involucrate":"Having an involucre; involucred.","olympic games":"A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.","snapsack":"A knapsack. [Obs.] South.","taphrenchyma":"Same as Bothrenchyma.","sundial":"An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate. Sundial shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Solarium. See Solarium.","pagodite":"Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.","reperusal":"A second or repeated perusal.","wirble":"To whirl; to eddy. [R.] The waters went wirbling above and around. Owen. Meredith.","half-sighted":"Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.","flatworm":"Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.","frogshell":"One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.","chipper":"To chirp or chirrup. [ Prov. Eng.] Forby.\n\nLively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]","felon":"1. (Law) A person who has committed a felony. 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. 3. (Med.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint. Syn. -- Criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit.\n\nCharacteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. Pope.","thecophora":"A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.","rhizostomata":"A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.","ichthyophagous":"Eating, or subsisting on, fish.","ametabola":"A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. [Written also Ametabolia.]","virago":"1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope. 2. Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen. Virago . . . serpent under femininity. Chaucer.","stork":"Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Black-necked stork, the East Indian jabiru. -- Hair-crested stork, the smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica). -- Giant stork, the adjutant. -- Marabou stork. See Marabou. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See Jabiru. -- Stork's bill (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; -- so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See Pelargonium.","promisee":"The person to whom a promise is made.","hesperian":"Western; being in the west; occidental. [Poetic] Milton.\n\nA native or an inhabitant of a western country. [Poetic] J. Barlow.\n\nOf or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidæ, or skippers. -- n. Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidæ; a skipper.","amorphism":"A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. Note: There are stony substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is spoken of as a state of amorphism.","fungate":"A salt of fungic acid. [Formerly written also fungiate.]","faculae":"Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. Newcomb.","waahoo":"The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.","northward":"Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.\n\nToward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.","calyculate":"Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.","shinty":"A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson.","hiberno-celtic":"The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.","dialogical":"Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical. Burton.","sporangium":"A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.","trajetour":"See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]","shopwalker":"One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.","ousel":"One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). [Written also ouzel.] Rock ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Water ousel (Zoöl.), the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus).","infundibulum":"1. (Anat.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads. (b) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.","mult-":"See Multi-.\n\nA prefix signifying much or many; several; more than one; as, multiaxial, multocular.","vulgarism":"1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call \"slang,\" which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.","patronymical":"Same as Patronymic.","muscling":"Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.] A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.","lochan":"A small lake; a pond. [Scot.] A pond or lochan rather than a lake. H. Miller.","parallelable":"Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. [R.] Bp. Hall.","azotometer":"An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.","anthracosis":"A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.","aetites":"See Eaglestone.","chapiter":"1. (Arch.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital. Ex. xxxvi. 38. 2. (Old Eng. Law) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. Jacob.","osanne":"Hosanna. [Obs.] Chaucer.","spumescent":"Resembling froth or foam; foaming.","pinyon":"(a) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America. (b) See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]","acclaim":"1. To applaud. \"A glad acclaiming train.\" Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.\n\nTo shout applause.\n\nAcclamation. [Poetic] Milton.","inequivalvular":"Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.","inappeasable":"Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.","operculigenous":"Producing an operculum; -- said of the foot, or part of the foot, of certain mollusks.","guilloche":"An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.","enforcer":"One who enforces.","irreducibility":"The state or quality of being irreducible.","arbitrable":"Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.","phyllomorphosis":"The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons. R. Brown.","departable":"Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.","ischiorectal":"Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and ishial tuberosity.","tinsmith":"One who works in tin; a tinner.","kalsomine":"Same as Calcimine.","misruly":"Unruly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","unseldom":"Not seldom; frequently. [R.]","cetic":"Of or pertaining to a whale.","divinement":"Divination. [Obs.]","geld":"Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.] Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.\n\n1. To castrate; to emasculate. 2. To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak. 3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.","astronomy":"1. Astrology. [Obs.] Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy. Shak. 2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena. 3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. Physical astronomy. See under Physical.","vinose":"Vinous.","apiol":"An oily liquid derived from parsley.","marcantant":"A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.","telamones":"Same as Atlantes.","unlook":"To recall or retract, as a look. [R.] Richardson.","possessive":"Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. -- Possessive pronoun, a pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book.\n\n1. (Gram.) The possessive case. 2. (Gram.) A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.","alternat":"A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.","appay":"To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.","bismare":"Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.","cytoblastema":"See Protoplasm.","camisated":"Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.","siphonobranchiate":"Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. -- n. One of the Siphonobranchiata.","stomodaeum":"1. (Anat.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron. 2. (Zoöl.) The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.","parnellism":"The policy or principles of the Parnellites.","rancorous":"Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.","ammoniac":"Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.\n\nThe concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.","anomalistically":"With irregularity.","capellet":"A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.","sandy":"1. Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil. 2. Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.","frith":"1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. 2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] Carew.\n\n1. A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] Drayton. 2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.] Sir J. Wynne.","motion":"1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton. 2. Power of, or capacity for, motion. Devoid of sense and motion. Milton. 3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east. In our proper motion we ascend. Milton. 4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts. This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion. Dr. H. More. 5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South. 6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn. Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion. Shak. 7. (Law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. 8. (Mus.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. Grove. Note: Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is that when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is that when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is that when parts move in the same direction. 9. A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.] What motion's this the model of Nineveh Beau. & Fl. Note: Motion, in mechanics, may be simple or compound. Simple motions are: (a) straight translation, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. (b) Simple rotation, which may be either continuous or reciprocating, and when reciprocating is called oscillating. (c) Helical, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. Compound motion consists of combinations of any of the simple motions. Center of motion, Harmonic motion, etc. See under Center, Harmonic, etc. -- Motion block (Steam Engine), a crosshead. -- Perpetual motion (Mech.), an incessant motion conceived to be attainable by a machine supplying its own motive forces independently of any action from without. Syn. -- See Movement.\n\n1. To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat. 2. To make proposal; to offer plans. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. [Obs.] I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.","honeybee":"Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.","herbiferous":"Bearing herbs or vegetation.","geason":"Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.","golden":"1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 -- A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote. Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature. -- Golden balls, three gilt balls used as a sign of a pawnbroker's office or shop; -- originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. -- Golden chain (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms. -- Golden club (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minute yellow flowers. -- Golden cup (Bot.), the buttercup. -- Golden eagle (Zoöl.), a large and powerful eagle (Aquila Chrysaëtos) inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is called the royal eagle; the young in the second year is the ring-tailed eagle. -- Golden fleece. (a) (Mythol.) The fleece of gold fabled to have been taken from the ram that bore Phryxus through the air to Colchis, and in quest of which Jason undertook the Argonautic expedition. (b) (Her.) An order of knighthood instituted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early in the 18th century. -- Golden Legend, a hagiology (the \"Aurea Legenda\") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation. Angels guard him in the golden mean. Pope. -- Golden mole (Zoöl), one of several South African Insectivora of the family Chrysochloridæ, resembling moles in form and habits. The fur is tinted with green, purple, and gold. -- Golden number (Chronol.), a number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having formerly been written in the calendar in gold. -- Golden oriole. (Zoöl.) See Oriole. -- Golden pheasant. See under Pheasant. -- Golden pippin, a kind of apple, of a bright yellow color. -- Golden plover (Zoöl.), one of several species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; -- called also yellow, black-breasted hill, and whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead. -- Golden robin. (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. -- Golden rule. (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of proportion, or rule of three. -- Golden samphire (Bot.), a composite plant (Inula crithmoides), found on the seashore of Europe. -- Golden saxifrage (Bot.), a low herb with yellow flowers (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium), blossoming in wet places in early spring. -- Golden seal (Bot.), a perennial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); -- called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird. -- Golden wasp (Zoöl.), a bright-colored hymenopterous insect, of the family Chrysididæ. The colors are golden, blue, and green. -- Golden wedding. See under Wedding.","upholder":"1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obs.] 2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.] The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. 3. An upholsterer. [Obs.] 4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.","prickpunch":"A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.","peasantly":"Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton.","preterist":"1. One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor. 2. (Theol.) One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled. Farrar.","orthotomous":"Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.","polytechnic":"Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.","boneset":"A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.","fool-happy":"Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.","vouchor":"Same as Voucher, 3 (b).","mozarab":"Same as Muzarab, Muzarabic.","crackaloo":"A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]","sordet":"A sordine.","ambages":"A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.","guardable":"Capable of being guarded or protected.","abatvoix":"The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.","papistic":"Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly. \"The old papistic worship.\" T. Warton. -- Pa*pis\"tic*al*ly, adv.","inquirent":"Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. [Obs.] Shenstone.","asserter":"One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman.","double-hung":"Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.","iridescent":"Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.","dilogy":"An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.]","antipeptone":"A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.","shaftman":"A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]","flintwood":"An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.","knaw":"See Gnaw. [Obs.] Sir T. More.","dishabilitate":"To disqualify. [R.]","funiculate":"Forming a narrow ridge.","wardroom":"1. (Naut.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. Totten. 2. A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. [U.S.]","diaspore":"A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.","chiefly":"1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay. Swift.","hollow-horned":"Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.","myriameter":"A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.","volator":"Same as Volador, 1.","aphtha":"(a) One of the whitish specks called aphthæ. (b) The disease, also called thrush.","exsiccative":"Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.","surfeiter":"One who surfeits. Shak.","touch-paper":"Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.","hexagon":"A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.","restful":"1. Being at rest; quiet. Shak. 2. Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry. Shak. -- Rest\"ful*ly, adv. -- Rest\"ful*ness, n.","dirtily":"In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.","excitative":"Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. Barrow.","amendful":"Much improving. [Obs.]","eclat":"1. Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. \"The eclat of Homer's battles.\" Pope. 2. Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause. Prescott.","predisponent":"Disposing beforehand; predisposing. -- n. That which predisposes. Predisponent causes. (Med.) See Predisposing causes, under Predispose. Dunglison.","redelivery":"1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.","electrolytic":"Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action. -- E*lec`tro*lyt\"ic*al*ly, adv.","interplead":"To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]","gelsemine":"An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.","lander":"1. One who lands, or makes a landing. \"The lander in a lonely isle.\" Tennyson. 2. (Mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.","mandatory":"Containing a command; preceptive; directory.\n\nSame as Mandatary.","hopeite":"A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.","torsional":"Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.","wendish":"Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.","epizootic":"1. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to an epizoön. 2. (Geol.) Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like. [Obs.] Epizoötic mountains are of secondary formation. Kirwan. 3. Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.\n\nAn epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.","orthopteran":"One of the Orthoptera.","mesodermal":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.","semicalcined":"Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.","bass horn":"A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.","elegiac":"1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning. 2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.\n\nElegiac verse.","sea rocket":"See under Rocket.","rosebud":"The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.","bulger":"A driver or a brassy with a convex face.","aleatory":"Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.","flatlong":"; 115), adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. Shak.","promethea":"A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.","indusiate":"Furnished with an indusium.","prioress":"A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.","suggillation":"A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.","digression":"1. The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. Sir W. Temple. 2. A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. [R.] Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face. Shak. 3. (Anat.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.]","multiscious":"Having much or varied knowledge. [Obs.]","sindon":"1. A wrapper. [Obs.] \"Wrapped in sindons of linen.\" Bacon. 2. (Surg.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine. Dunglison.","levite":"1. (Bib. Hist.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc. 2. A priest; so called in contempt or ridicule.","warmonger":"One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.] Spenser.","flushing":"1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the [Eng.] 2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.","atimy":"Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.","appearingly":"Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","encrust":"To incrust. See Incrust.","politician":"1. One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman. While empiric politicians use deceit. Dryden. 2. One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician. Like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. Shak. The politician . . . ready to do anything that he apprehends for his advantage. South.\n\nCunning; using artifice; politic; artful. \"Ill-meaning politician lords.\" Milton.","lisper":"One who lisps.","disenthrallment":"Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]","main yard":"The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.","indicate":"1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. That turns and turns to indicate From what point blows the weather. Cowper. 2. (Med.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. 3. (Mach.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. Syn. -- To show; mark; signify; denote; discover; evidence; evince; manifest; declare; specify; explain; exhibit; present; reveal; disclose; display.","praam":"A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]","amniota":"That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.","tremble":"1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing. The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. Milton. 3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.\n\nAn involuntary shaking or quivering. I am all of a tremble when I think of it. W. Black.","flat-headed":"Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.","goosewinged":"(a) Having a \"goosewing.\" (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.","rebury":"To bury again. Ashmole.","peaty":"Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.","spermism":"The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoön contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.","fool":"A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.\n\n1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. 2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Franklin. 3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Ps. xiv. 1. 4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. -- Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. -- Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. -- Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. -- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. \"I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.\" 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.\n\nTo play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. Is this a time for fooling Dryden.\n\n1. To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. Dryden. 2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.","haustellum":"The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.","workfolk":"People that labor.","catholical":"Catholic. [Obs.]","rampacious":"High-spirited; rampageous. [Slang] Dickens.","octene":"Same as Octylene.","couchancy":"State of lying down for repose. [R.]","orthodoxality":"Orthodoxness. [R.]","encomiastical":"Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as\"tic*al*ly, adv.","bassorin":"A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. Ure.","fantail":"(a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. (b) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.","jail":"A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. -- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott. -- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.\n\nTo imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.","cruciform":"Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.","jewish":"Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish. -- Jew\"ish*ly, adv. -- Jew\"ish*ness, n.","spending":"The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]","traducian":"A believer in traducianism.","hanaper":"A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.","hurlbat":"See Whirlbat. [Obs.] Holland.","undern":"The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won. R. of Brunne. In a bed of worts still he lay Till it was past undern of the day. Chaucer.","wimbrel":"The whimbrel.","phyllodium":"A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.","whichever":"Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.","guelf":"One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.","unisonous":"Being in unison; unisonant. Busby.","suspensory":"1. Suspended; hanging; depending. 2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray. 3. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.\n\nThat which suspends, or holds up, as a truss; specifically (Med.), a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.","volt ampere":"A unit of electric measurement equal to the product of a volt and an ampere. For direct current it is a measure of power and is the same as a watt; for alternating current it is a measure of apparent power.","squeamous":"Squeamish. [Obs.]","praecordia":"The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.","beachy":"Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.","volcanization":"The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.","augurist":"An augur. [R.]","hydriad":"A water nymph.","emblem":"1. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton. 2. A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity. \"His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek.\" Shak. 3. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation. Note: Writers and artists of the 17th century gave much attention and study to the composition of such emblems, and many collections of them were published. Syn. -- Sign; symbol; type; device; signal; token. -- Sign, Emblem, Symbol, Type. Sign is the generic word comprehending all significant representations. An emblem is a visible object representing another by a natural suggestion of characteristic qualities, or an habitual and recognized association; as, a circle, having no apparent beginning or end, is an emblem of eternity; a particular flag is the emblem of the country or ship which has adopted it for a sign and with which it is habitually associated. Between emblem and symbol the distinction is slight, and often one may be substituted for the other without impropriety. See Symbol. Thus, a circle is either an emblem or a symbol of eternity; a scepter, either an emblem or a symbol of authority; a lamb, either an emblem or a symbol of meekness. \"An emblem is always of something simple; a symbol may be of something complex, as of a transaction . . . In consequence we do not speak of actions emblematic.\" C. J. Smith. A type is a representative example, or model, exhibiting the qualities common to all individuals of the class to which it belongs; as, the Monitor is a type of a class of war vessels.\n\nTo represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.] Emblemed by the cozening fig tree. Feltham.","amaze":"1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. 2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. \"Amazing Europe with her wit.\" Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23. Syn. -- To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise. -- Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the\n\nTo be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.\n\nBewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.","toothshell":"Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.","dissonancy":"Discord; dissonance.","connotation":"The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.","debauchee":"One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.","franklinite":"A kind of mineral of the spinel group.","zoide":"See Meride.","composture":"Manure; compost. [Obs.] Shak.","verbose":"Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose\"ly, adv. -- Ver*bose\"ness, n.","outbrag":"To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior. Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear. Shak.","insinuator":"One who, or that which, insinuates. De Foe.","bullfight":"A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull\"fight`er (, n.","demurrer":"1. One who demurs. 2. (Law) A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further. Demurrer to evidence, an exception taken by a party to the evidence offered by the opposite party, and an objecting to proceed further, on the allegation that such evidence is not sufficient in law to maintain the issue, and a reference to the court to determine the point. Bouvier.","flirt-gill":"A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl.","obverse":"Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.\n\n1. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse. 2. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief. H. Spencer.","dubitation":"Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.","congenitally":"In a congenital manner.","scall":"A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head. Lev. xiii. 30.\n\nScabby; scurfy. [Obs.] Shak.","understanding":"Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.\n\n1. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation. 2. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another. He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. Clarendon. 3. The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand. Locke. In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension. Coleridge. 4. Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which \"verstand\" is now employed by the Germans. Sir W. Hamilton. Syn. -- Sense; intelligence; perception. See Sense.","unglaze":"To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.","capelin":"A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.] Note: This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina. Fisheries of U. S. (1884).","intermaxillary":"An intermaxilla.","prodrome":"A forerunner; a precursor.","bob":"1. Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden. 2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson. 3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float. 4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line. 5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc. 6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head. 7. (Steam Engine) A working beam. 8. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig. A plain brown bob he wore. Shenstone. 9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells. 10. The refrain of a song. To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. L'Estrange. 11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist. 12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak. 13. A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.\n\n1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. \"He bobbed his head.\" W. Irving. 2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. Elyot. 3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak. 4. To mock or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Turbervile. 5. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.\n\n1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. \"Bobbing and courtesying.\" Thackeray. 2. To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.","pottle":"1. A liquid measure of four pints. 2. A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott. 3. A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","nunatak":"In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.","stacte":"One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax. Ex. xxx. 34.","axminster":"An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng.\n\n(a) [More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made. (b) A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.","dempster":"1. A deemster. 2. (O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.","demagogism":"The practices of a demagogue.","per-":"1. A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much. 2. (Chem.) Originally, denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed in the respective compounds exercised its highest valence; now, only that the element has a higher valence than in other similar compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides of those elements.","sounst":"Soused. See Souse. [Obs.]","allmouth":"The angler.","anchylose":"To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.","papular":"1. Covered with papules. 2. (Med.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.","ewe-necked":"Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.","post-fine":"A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.","survene":"To supervene upon; to come as an addition to. [Obs.] A suppuration that survenes lethargies. Harvey.","antiscoletic":"Anthelmintic.","renewal":"The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.","anaemic":"Of or pertaining to anæmia.","despume":"To free from spume or scum. [Obs.] If honey be despumed. Holland.","ophite":"Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]\n\nA greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance. -- O*phi\"ic, a.\n\nA mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.","hydrocephaloid":"Resembling hydrocephalus. Hydrocephaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.","manus":"The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.","rhine":"A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.","vena":"A vein. Vena cava; pl. Venæ cavæ. Etym: [L., literally, hollow vein.] (Anat.) Any one of the great systemic veins connected directly with the heart.-- Vena contracta. Etym: [L., literally, contracted vein.] (Hydraulics) The contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which it issues. -- Vena portæ; pl. VenÆ portæ. Etym: [L., literally, vein of the entrance.] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver. See under Portal.","lonely":"1. Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell. 2. Alone, or in want of company; forsaken. To the misled and lonely traveler. Milton. 3. Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood. 4. Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James. Syn. -- Solitary; lone; lonesome; retired; unfrequented; sequestered; secluded.","reimportation":"The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.","umbraculiferous":"Bearing something like an open umbrella.","elemin":"A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.","gynaecian":"The same as Gynecian.","remonstrate":"To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson.\n\nTo present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles. Waterland. Syn. -- Expostulate, Remonstrate. These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the parliament or the people.","woodhole":"A place where wood is stored.","cruse":"1. A cup or dish. Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey. 1 Kings xiv. 3. 2. A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc. So David took . . . the cruse of water. 1 Sam. xxvi. 12.","hoodwink":"1. To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak. 2. To cover; to hide. [Obs.] Shak. 3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. \"Hoodwinked with kindness.\" Sir P. Sidney.","draffish":"Worthless; draffy. Bale.","celery":"A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.","tetrastyle":"Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. -- n. A tetrastyle building.","coopering":"Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.","shorer":"One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.","unsettlement":"The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.","rheinberry":"One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.","dziggetai":"The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus). Note: The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See Koulan.","ballister":"A crossbow. [Obs.]","exhibitive":"Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris. -- Ex*hib\"it*ive*ly, adv.","kurdish":"Of or pertaining to the Kurds. [Written also Koordish.]","aristarchian":"Severely critical.","importer":"One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.","langret":"A kind of loaded die. [Obs.]","proscenium":"1. (Anc. Theater) The part where the actors performed; the stage. 2. (Modern Theater) The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework. proscenium arch, the framework around the front of the stage.","goeland":"A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).","onde":"Hatred; fury; envy. [Obs.]","dossil":"1. (Surg.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent. 2. (Printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.","metabole":"A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.","metazoa":"Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.","antiburgher":"One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.","subpeduncular":"Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.","triplasian":"Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] Cudworth.","crout":"See Sourkrout.","ellachick":"A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.","circumscissile":"Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.","sublition":"The act or process of laying the ground in a painting. [R.]","assimilative":"Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.","overglide":"To glide over. Wyatt.","incondensable":"Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.","kawaka":"a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.","soiree":"An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinée.","sticking":"a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. -- Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses. -- Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.","brasier":"An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.\n\nA pan for holding burning coals.","pattern":"1. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak. 2. A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. He compares the pattern with the whole piece. Swift. 3. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern. 4. Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern. 5. Something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix. 23. 6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern. 7. (Founding) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus. -- Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns. -- Pattern wheel (Horology), a count-wheel.\n\n1. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Milton. [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. Sir T. Herbert. 2. To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. To pattern after, to imitate; to follow. PATTINSON'S PROCESS Pat\"tin*son's proc\"ess. (Metal.) A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.","obtrusion":"1. The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world. 2. That which is obtruded. Milton.","polyphagous":"Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals.","flocculate":"To aggregate into small lumps.\n\nFurnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.","monstrous":"1. Marvelous; strange. [Obs.] 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor. 3. Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story. 4. Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak. 5. Abounding in monsters. [R.] Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton.\n\nExceedingly; very; very much. \"A monstrous thick oil on the top.\" Bacon. And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryden.","epipubis":"A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.","galvanoscopy":"The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.","distinguished":"1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked; noted; famous; conspicuous; celebrated; transcendent; eminent; illustrious; extraordinary; prominent. -- Distinguished, Eminent, Conspicuous, Celebrated, Illustrious. A man is eminent, when he stands high as compared with those around him; conspicuous, when he is so elevated as to be seen and observed; distinguished, when he has something which makes him stand apart from others in the public view; celebrated, when he is widely spoken of with honor and respect; illustrious, when a splendor is thrown around him which confers the highest dignity.","geet":"Jet. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hemipteral":"Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.","acidulent":"Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. \"With anxious, acidulent face.\" Carlyle.","pouch":"1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc. 2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zoöl.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials. (c) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. S. Sharp. (d) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse. (e) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.\n\n1. To put or take into a pouch. 2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. Derham. 3. To pout. [Obs.] Ainsworth. 4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] Sir W. Scott.","coenenchym":"The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.","collaboration":"The act ofworking together; united labor.","incongenial":"Not congenial; uncongenial. [R.] -- In`con*ge`ni*al\"i*ty. [R.]","invalidity":"1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. 2. Want of health; infirmity. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.","rubefacient":"Making red. -- n. (Med.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.","imitability":"The quality of being imitable. Norris.","undueness":"The quality of being undue.","gomuti":"A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.","skrimp":"See Scrimp.","disenchained":"Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.","margrave":"1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.","repugnance":"The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. Let the foes quietly cut their throats, Without repugnancy. Shak. Syn. -- Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike.","tippled":"Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk. [R.] Dryden.","make-believe":"A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. \"Childlike make-believe.\" Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.\n\nFeigned; insincere. \"Make-believe reverence.\" G. Eliot.","pyxidium":"(a) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane. (b) The theca of mosses.","blockish":"Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. \"Blockish Ajax.\" Shak. -- Block\"ish*ly, adv. -- Block\"ish*ness, n.","debonairly":"Courteously; elegantly.","prettyism":"Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. [R.] Ed. Rev.","steatitic":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.","orthodoxly":"In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith. Sir W. Hamilton.","tagbelt":"Same as Tagsore. [Obs.]","trifid":"Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.","meconate":"A salt of meconic acid.","desiderative":"Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.\n\n1. An object of desire. 2. (Gram.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.","maidpale":"Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.","potence":"Potency; capacity. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.","scrapple":"An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.","evangel":"Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.","taguan":"A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.","bustling":"Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. \"A bustling wharf.\" Hawthorne.","kippernut":"A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.","aureole":"1. (R. C. Theol.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence. Note: Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola. Fairholt. 3. A halo, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes. 4. (Anat.) See Areola, 2.","presidio":"A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.","viscera":"pl. of Viscus.","phonocamptic":"Reflecting sound. [R.] \"Phonocamptic objects.\" Derham.","celibatist":"One who lives unmarried. [R.]","populace":"The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson. Syn. -- Mob; people; commonalty.","questor":"An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state. [Written also quæstor.] Note: At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the office was soon abolished.","cicurate":"To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","homotypic":"Same as Homotypal.","bookmonger":"A dealer in books.","dielytra":"See Dicentra.","gypsiferous":"Containing gypsum.","tachygraphical":"Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.","constuprate":"To ravish; to debauch. Burton.","pasturable":"Fit for pasture.","phonographic":"1. Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography. 2. Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.","sarcologic":"Of or pertaining to sarcology.","outdo":"To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass. An imposture outdoes the original. L' Estrange. I grieve to be outdone by Gay. Swift.","saccholic":"Saccholatic. [Obs.]","sicca":"A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains. Sicca rupee, an East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.","three-way":"Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.","replicate":"To reply. [Obs.]\n\nFolded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.","rabbinic":"Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins. \"Comments staler than rabbinic.\" Lowell. We will not buy your rabbinical fumes. Milton.\n\nThe language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.","conveyor":"A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.","payen":"Pagan. Etym: [F.] [Obs.] Chaucer.","gale":"1. A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests. Note: Gales have a velocity of from about eighteen (\"moderate\") to about eighty (\"very heavy\") miles an our. Sir. W. S. Harris. 2. A moderate current of air; a breeze. A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. Shak. And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings. Milton. 3. A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity. The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. Brooke (Eastford). Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.\n\nTo sale, or sail fast.\n\nA song or story. [Obs.] Toone.\n\nTo sing. [Obs.] \"Can he cry and gale.\" Court of Love.\n\nA plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.\n\nThe payment of a rent or annuity. [Eng.] Mozley & W. Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.","glaciate":"To turn to ice.\n\n1. To convert into, or cover with, ice. 2. (Geol.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.","gubernate":"To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.","-logy":"A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.","overdate":"To date later than the true or proper period. Milton.","during":"In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.","cacaine":"The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.","encalendar":"To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.","jovial":"1. Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. Sir T. Browne. 2. Sunny; serene. [Obs.] \"The heavens always joviall.\" Spenser. 3. Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak. His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. Dryden. Note: This word is a relic of the belief in planetary influence. Other examples are saturnine, mercurial, martial, lunatic, etc. Syn. -- Merry; joyous; gay; festive; mirthful; gleeful; jolly; hilarious.","octave":"1. The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. \"The octaves of Easter.\" Jer. Taylor. 2. (Mus.) (a) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. (b) The whole diatonic scale itself. Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2 as regards the number of vibrations producing the tones. 3. (Poet.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. With mournful melody it continued this octave. Sir P. Sidney. Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double. -- Octave flute (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also piccolo. See Piccolo. 4. A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.\n\nConsisting of eight; eight. Dryden.","country club":"A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.","kinetics":"See Dynamics.","crime":"1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. \"To part error from crime.\" Tennyson. Note: Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors. 3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity. Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope. 4. That which occasion crime. [Obs.] The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death. Syn. -- Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong. -- Crime, Sin,Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.","commination":"1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. I. Taylor. 2. An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.","dormancy":"The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.","stinkard":"1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson. 2. (Zoöl.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.","carousal":"A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne. Syn. -- Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See Feast.","sternness":"The quality or state of being stern.","fastly":"Firmly; surely.","outground":"Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.","decury":"A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh.","obdormition":"Sleep. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","velvetbreast":"The goosander. [Local, U. S.]","suspensible":"Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.","caudle":"A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.\n\n1. To make into caudle. 2. Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh. [R.] Shak.","vicount":"See Viscount.","apheresis":"1. (Gram.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute. 2. (Surg.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.","strickler":"See Strickle.","box kite":"A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave, or cellular, kite.","tikoor":"An East Indian tree (Garcinia pedunculata) having a large yellow fleshy fruit with a pleasant acid flavor.","precant":"One who prays. [R.] Coleridge.","molybdenous":"See Molybdous.","neoplasm":"A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.","strychnia":"Strychnine.","pinnet":"A pinnacle. [R.] Sir W. Scott.","unlay":"To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.","campanology":"The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.","disconsolated":"Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.","floriated":"Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.","missa":"The service or sacrifice of the Mass.","concentric":"Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.\n\nThat which has a common center with something else. Its pecular relations to its concentrics. Coleridge.","macrodiagonal":"The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.","ericinol":"A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.","outparish":"A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.","congest":"1. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore. 2. (Med.) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.","likely":"1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain. 3. Similar; like; alike. [Obs.] Spenser. 4. Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome. Shak. Milton. 5. Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.\n\nIn all probability; probably. While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know. Glanvill.","bicuspidate":"Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.","clock":"1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. 2. A watcg, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] Walton. 3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden. 4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift. Note: The phrases what o'clock it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock it is nine of the clock, etc. Alarm clock. See under Alarm. -- Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. -- Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. -- Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. -- Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.\n\nTo ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.\n\nTo call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]\n\nA large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).","parsnip":"The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself. Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip, the European cow parsnip. -- Poison parsnip, the wild stock of the parsnip. -- Water parsnip, any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.","naphthoquinone":"A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.","pentecostal":"Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.","wrangler":"1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. \"Noisy and contentious wranglers.\" I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.","ponderously":"In a ponderous manner.","cantoon":"A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.","bulled":"Swollen. [Obs.]","disaffirmance":"1. The act of disaffirming; denial; negation. 2. (Law) Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.","lithotypic":"Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.","withstood":"oWithstand.","aleak":"In a leaking condition.","kalasie":"A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.","invitatory":"Using or containing invitations. The \"Venite\" [Psalm xcv.], which is also called the invitatory psalm. Hook.\n\nThat which invites; specifically, the invitatory psalm, or a part of it used in worship.","histiology":"Same as Histology.","toe drop":"A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated.","strop":"A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.\n\nTo draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.\n\nA piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.","gleeful":"Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.","symarr":"See Simar.","omniferous":"All-bearing; producing all kinds.","voraginous":"Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. [R.] Mallet.","multiplicator":"The number by which another number is multiplied; a multiplier.","perflate":"To blow through. [Obs.] Harvey.","configure":"To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.","anchor space":"In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.","domination":"1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke. 2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.] Burke. 3. pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton.","tireling":"Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]","sunflower state":"Kansas; a nickname.","offskip":"That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.","spendthrifty":"Spendthrift; prodigal. [R.]","consarcination":"A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.","unhealth":"Unsoundness; disease.","alkalify":"To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.\n\nTo become changed into an alkali.","corivalry":"Joint rivalry.","scissible":"Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument. [R.] con.","renegado":"See Renegade.","lade":"1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. And they laded their asses with the corn. Gen. xlii. 26. 2. To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak. 3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.\n\n1. To draw water. [Obs.] 2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.\n\n1. The mouth of a river. [Obs.] Bp. Gibson. 2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.]","stintless":"Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.","capsulated":"Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.","tromp":"A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]\n\nA trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.","forslack":"To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.","guidguid":"A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.","rocambole":"A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.","cheddar":"Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.","diarthrodial":"Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.","opisometer":"An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.","double-lock":"To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.","quartine":"A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.","mistrist":"To mistrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.","vinculum":"1. A bond of union; a tie. 2. (Math.) A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y. 3. (Anat.) A band or bundle of fibers; a frænum. 4. (Zoöl.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.","fraight":"Same as Fraught. [Obs.] Spenser.","gaudily":"In a gaudy manner. Guthrie.","qualification":"1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke. 3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.","impersonator":"One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.","diocesan":"Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.\n\n1. A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York. 2. pl. The clergy or the people of a diocese. Strype.","chromosphere":"An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.","rome penny":"See Peter pence, under Peter.","wintry":"Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery. Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile. Keble.","hereditability":"State of being hereditable. Brydges.","walhalla":"See Valhalla.","ganza":"A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.","flatulence":"The state or quality of being flatulent.","dehiscence":"1. The act of gaping. 2. (Biol.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.","herea-bout":"1. About this place; in this vicinity. 2. Concerning this. [Obs.]","amphigamous":"Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.","marconi system":"A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.","gargoulette":"A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.","nemalite":"A fibrous variety of brucite.","goodlyhead":"Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] Spenser.","overdraft":"The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.","foreseer":"One who foresees or foreknows.","barrowist":"A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.","heteroclite":"Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.\n\n1. (Gram.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension. 2. Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms. Howell.","reexpulsion":"Renewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.\n\nRenewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.","khaki":"Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army. In the United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.\n\nAny kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or, rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field.","gagger":"1. One who gags. 2. (Founding) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.","chops":"1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth. 2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.","coheirship":"The state of being a coheir.","hydrobromic":"Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid. Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr, usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide.","occasioner":"One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.","contagious":"1. (Med.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. 2. Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. 3. Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. His genius rendered his courage more contagious. Wirt. The spirit of imitation is contagious. Ames. Syn. -- Contagious, Infectious. These words have been used in very diverse senses; but, in general, a contagious disease has considered as one which is caught from another by contact, by the breath, by bodily effluvia, etc.; while an infectious disease supposes some entirely different cause acting by a hidden influence, like the miasma of prison ships, of marshes, etc., infecting the system with disease. \"This distinction, though not universally admitted by medical men, as to the literal meaning, of the words, certainly applies to them in their figurative use. Thus we speak of the contagious influence of evil associates; their contagion of bad example, the contagion of fear, etc., when we refer to transmission by proximity or contact. On the other hand, we speak of infection by bad principles, etc., when we consider anything as diffused by some hidden influence.","heptade":"The sum or number of seven.","priceless":"1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. [R.] J. Barlow.","cassock":"1. A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform. 2. (Eccl.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.","impugnment":"The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned. Ed. Rev.","outterm":"An external or superficial thing; outward manner; superficial remark, etc. [Obs.] Not to bear cold forms, nor men's outterms. B. Jonson.","slobber":"See Slabber.\n\n1. See Slabber. 2. (Zoöl.) A jellyfish. [Prov. Eng.] 3. pl. (Vet.) Salivation.","mameluco":"A child born of a white father and Indian mother. [S. Amer.]","supplicant":"Entreating; asking submissively. Shak. -- Sup\"pli*cant*ly, adv.\n\nOne who supplicates; a suppliant. The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God. Rogers.","droughty":"1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.","biangulated":"Biangular.","orlo":"A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.","remercie":"To thank. [Obs.] She him remercied as the patron of her life. Spenser.","admeasure":"1. To measure. 2. (Law) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. 3. (Law) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.","transmission dynamometer":"A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.","gallicism":"A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.","plenilune":"The full moon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","arbitration":"The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties. Note: This may be done by one person; but it is usual to choose two or three called arbitrators; or for each party to choose one, and these to name a third, who is called the umpire. Their determination is called the award. Bouvier Arbitration bond, a bond which obliges one to abide by the award of an arbitration. -- Arbitration of Exchange, the operation of converting the currency of one country into that of another, or determining the rate of exchange between such countries or currencies. An arbitrated rate is one determined by such arbitration through the medium of one or more intervening currencies.","cremasteric":"Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.","advisable":"1. Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South. 2. Ready to receive advice. [R.] South. Syn. -- Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting.","doziness":"The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.","lambale":"A feast at the time of shearing lambs.","cartographically":"By cartography.","circumscription":"1. An inscription written around anything. [R.] Ashmole. 2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray. 3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.","lumbosacral":"Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.","euhemeristic":"Of or pertaining to euhemerism.","saturator":"One who, or that which, saturates.","trunk piston":"In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.","encanker":"To canker. [Obs.]","draw":"1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury. 2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak. All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. Dryden. 3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman. (b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9. (c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive. Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. Cheyne. Until you had drawn oaths from him. Shak. (d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. Burke. (e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman. 4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman. (b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King. 5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. \"Where I first drew air.\" Milton. Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. Dryden. 6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire. How long her face is drawn! Shak. And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. J. R. Green. 7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture. 8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe. A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power Prior. 9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange. Clerk, draw a deed of gift. Shak. 10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water. 11. To withdraw. [Obs.] Chaucer. Go wash thy face, and draw the action. Shak. 12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term. Note: Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. -- To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. -- To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. \"Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws.\" Herbert. -- To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. -- To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. -- To draw breath, to breathe. Shak. -- To draw cuts or lots. See under Cut, n. -- To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. -- To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. -- To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison. -- To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. \"War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured.\" Hayward. -- To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. -- To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. -- \"Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations\" Ps. lxxxv. 5. \"Linked sweetness long drawn out.\" Milton. -- To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. -- To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. -- To draw (one) to or on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. \"How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy\" Shak. -- To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. \"Drawn up in battle to receive the charge.\" Dryden. Syn. -- To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases.\n\n1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. Note: A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. 2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. John iv. 11. 3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement. Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much. Addison. 4. (Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc. 5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc. 6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible. Shak. 7. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. \"Skill in drawing.\" Locke. 8. To become contracted; to shrink. \"To draw into less room.\" Bacon. 9. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect. 10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon. You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. Jay. 11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily. 12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. \"Greater hulks draw deep.\" Shak. To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.\n\n1. The act of drawing; draught. 2. A lot or chance to be drawn. 3. A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.] 4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. [U.S.]","anarthrous":"1. (Gr. Gram.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive. 2. (Zoöl.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.","demission":"1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. \"Demission of mind.\" Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. 2. Resignation of an office. [Scot.]","vanadious":"Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid. [Sometimes written also vanadous.]","borel":"See Borrel.","kinesthetic":"Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinæsthesis.","ploughpoint":"A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.","polyzoarium":"Same as Polyzoary.","improvability":"The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.","estafette":"A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.","superfluity":"1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. \"By a superfluity abominable.\" Chaucer. 3. Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury. Syn. -- Superabundance; excess; redundancy.","orthographically":"In an orthographical manner: (a) according to the rules of proper spelling; (b) according to orthographic projection.","escheator":"An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.","hydrodynamical":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power. Hydrodynamic friction, friction produced by the viscosity of a liquid in motion.","theoric":"1. Of or pertaining to the theorica. 2. (pron. Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled. [Obs.] A man but young, Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic In all humanity. Massinger.\n\nSpeculation; theory. [Obs.] Shak.","lichenography":"A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.","whenceforth":"From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. [Obs.] Spenser.","crop":"1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] \"Crop and root.\" Chaucer. 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton. 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. 5. Anything cut off or gathered. Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden. 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. 7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.] 8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight. 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]\n\n1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22. 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech. 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.\n\nTo yield harvest. To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. -- To crop up, to sprout; to spring up. \"Cares crop up in villas.\" Beaconsfield.","elenctical":"Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.","disperple":"To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.","inofficiously":"Not-officiously.","pass-key":"A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.","present worth":"The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.","fulness":"See Fullness.\n\nSee Fullness.","specifical":"Specific. Bacon.","capsulate":"Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.","alternating current":"A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.","syringa":"(a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.","missay":"1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.]\n\nTo speak ill. [Obs.] Spenser.","disburden":"To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond. Syn. -- To unload; unburden; discharge; free.\n\nTo relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind. Milton.","eleutheromania":"A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.","stripling":"A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.","coney":"1. (Zoöl.) A rabbit. See Cony. 2. (Zoöl.) A fish. See Cony.","representation":"1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced. 3. The state of being represented. Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.","electro-puncturation":"See Electropuncture.","blarney":"Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.\n\nTo influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. \"Blarneyed the landlord.\" Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.","next":"1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer. Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest. Dryden. Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way. Bunyan. 2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour. 3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay. 4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant. The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. Ruth ii. 20. Note: Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition. Next friend (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.\n\nIn the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.","angel fish":"See under Angel.","dead beat":"See Beat, n., 7. [Low, U.S.]","encompass":"To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J. Smith. The love of all thy sons encompass thee. Tennyson. Syn. -- To encircle; inclose; surround; include; environ; invest; hem in; shut up.","hendecagon":"A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]","startish":"Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. [Colloq.]","arrogantly":"In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.","bon silene":"A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.","operancy":"The act of operating or working; operation. [R.]","megaweber":"A million webers.","trout-colored":"White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.","varisse":"An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size. Craig.","vascularity":"The quality or state of being vascular.","self-satisfying":"Giving satisfaction to one's self.","navigable":"Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. Note: By the comon law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in several of the United tates. In other States, the doctrine of thje civil law prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river capable of being navigated, in the common sense of the term. Kent. Burrill. -- Nav\"i*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Nav\"i*ga*bly, adv.","numero":"Number; -- often abbrev. No.","umbellifer":"A plant producing an umbel or umbels.","subgenus":"A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.","bordlode":"The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.","jonesian":"Of or pertaining to Jones. The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.","patriarch":"1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses. 2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. 3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.","ridge":"1. The back, or top of the back; a crest. Hudibras. 2. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. \"The frozen ridges of the Alps.\" Shak. Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton. 3. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc. 4. (Arch.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault. 5. (Fort.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. Stocqueler.\n\n1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars. Milton. 2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land. 3. To wrinkle. \"With a forehead ridged.\" Cowper.","ad libitum":". At one's pleasure; as one wishes.","economize":"To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.\n\nTo be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich. [Written also economise.] Milton.","taslet":"A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.","yorker":"A tice.","maltose":"A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.","unlimited":"1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. \"Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities.\" Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not restrained; unrestricted. Ascribe not unto God such an unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice. Rogers. Unlimited problem (Math.), a problem which is capable of an infinite number of solutions. -- Unlimited pump, a kind of deep-well pump placed at the level of the water, and operated from above ground. -- Un*lim\"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Un*lim\"it*ed*ness, n.","bewrayment":"Betrayal. [R.]","fergusonite":"A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.","obtuse-angular":"Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.","overthwartly":"In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.","strombus":"A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.","psychologue":"A psychologist.","xanthorhoea":"A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See Grass tree.","tricentenary":"Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n. A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.","jetteau":"See Jet d'eau. [R.] Addison.","unpastor":"To cause to be no longer pastor; to deprive of pastorship. [R.] Fuller.","illuminism":"The principles of the Illuminati.","guerilla":"See Guerrilla.","clee":"A claw. [Holland.\n\nThe redshank.","moralize":"1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to. While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth. 3. To render moral; to correct the morals of. It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country. D. Ramsay. 4. To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse. Good and bad stars moralize not our actions. Sir T. Browne.\n\nTo make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.","ottoman":"Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.\n\n1. A Turk. 2. Etym: [F. ottomane, from ottoman Turkish.] A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.","blessedness":"The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. \"Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.\" Shak. Syn. -- Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See Happiness.","delaware":"An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.","aviator":"(a) An experimenter in aviation. (b) A flying machine.","inculcate":"To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility. The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon men's minds. S. Clarke. Syn. -- To instill; infuse; implant; engraft; impress.","lantanuric":"Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.","telestereograph":"An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph. -- Tel`e*ste`re*og\"ra*phy (#), n.","hebetate":"To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey\n\n1. Obtuse; dull. 2. (Bot.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point. Gray.","host plant":"A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.","reject":"1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4. 2. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate. That golden scepter which thou didst reject. Milton. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. Hog. iv. 6. 3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request. Syn. -- To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.","rooster":"The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. W. Irving.","gramineal":"Gramineous.","seceder":"1. One who secedes. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.","participial":"Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.\n\nA participial word.","rustical":"Rustic. \"Rustical society.\" Thackeray. -- Rus\"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus\"tic*al*ness, n.","trappings":"1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak. 2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses. Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton.","forte":"1. The strong point; that in which one excels. fort\"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey. 2. The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.\n\nLoudly; strongly; powerfully.","disencrese":"To decrease. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nDecrease. [Obs.]","ampullar":"Resembling an ampulla.","self-destructive":"Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.","seducing":"Seductive. \"Thy sweet seducing charms.\" Cowper. -- Se*du\"cing*ly, adv.","humming":"Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.\n\nA sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. -- Humming bird (Zoöl.), any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size, and are not for their very brilliant colors and peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus culubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat. -- Humming-bird moth (Zoöl.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird.","oidium":"A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.","fourthly":"In the fourth place.","phlogogenous":"Causing inflammation.","vermuth":"A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite. [Written also vermouth.]","irrelative":"Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel\"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords (Mus.), those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition (Biol.), the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection. Owen.","lewdster":"A lewd person. [Obs.] Shak.","turbid":"1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. Whittier. 2. Disturbed; confused; disordered. \" Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners.\" Howell.","cubature":"The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.","seld":"Rare; uncommon; unusual. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.\n\nRarely; seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.","loud":"1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder. They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. Luke xxiii. 23. 2. Clamorous; boisterous. She is loud and stubborn. Prov. vii. 11. 3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. [Colloq.] 4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang] Syn. -- Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous; turbulent; blustering; vehement.\n\nWith loudness; loudly. To speak loud in public assemblies. Addison.","mendicant":"Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.\n\nA beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.","leafy":"1. Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. \"The leafy month of June.\" Coleridge. 2. Consisting of leaves. \"A leafy bed.\" Byron.","arachnitis":"Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.","unpraise":"To withhold praise from; to deprive of praise. [R.]","uniate":"A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.","wolframate":"A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.","fog belt":"A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland.","growthful":"Having capacity of growth. [R.] J. Hamilton.","redwood":"(a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium.","unpervert":"To free from perversion; to deliver from being perverted; to reconvert. [Obs.]","cologne":"A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.","rectrix":"1. A governess; a rectoress. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.","frankpledge":"(a) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety. (b) The tithing itself. Bouvier. The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. Macaulay.","reconstruct":"To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.","salable":"Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. -- Sal\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sal\"a*bly, adv.","willy":"1. A large wicker basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. (Textile Manuf.) Same as 1st Willow, 2.","controversal":"1. Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. [Obs.] Boyle.","orderer":"1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.","lower":"Compar. of Low, a.\n\n1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag. Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Tennyson. 2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret. 3. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes. 4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors. 5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride. 6. To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.\n\nTo fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.\n\n1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak. 2. To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.\n\n1. Cloudiness; gloominess. 2. A frowning; sullenness.","avidiously":"Eagerly; greedily.","lidded":"Covered with a lid. Keats.","seriate":"Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series. -- Se\"ri*ate*ly, adv.","comprehensible":"1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon. 2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke.","statemonger":"One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.","revengeless":"Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.","brachypinacoid":"A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.","icicle":"A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.","perianth":"(a) The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished. (b) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.","rep":"A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.\n\nFormed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; - - applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.","yelp":"1. To boast. [Obs.] I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer. 2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.\n\nA sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.","direct primary":"A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.","superinjection":"An injection succeeding another.","varnish":"1. A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture. Note: According to the sorts of solvents employed, the ordinary kinds of varnish are divided into three classes: spirit, turpentine, and oil varnishes. Encyc. Brit 2. That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance. The varnish of the holly and ivy. Macaulay. 3. An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss. And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you. Shak. Varnish tree (Bot.), a tree or shrub from the juice or resin of which varnish is made, as some species of the genus Rhus, especially R. vernicifera of Japan. The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from the Melanorrhoea usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family. See Copal, and Mastic.\n\n1. To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting. 2. To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt. \"Beauty doth varnish age.\" Shak. Close ambition, varnished o'er with zeal. Milton. Cato's voice was ne'er employed To clear the guilty and to varnish crimes. Addison.","tufted":"1. Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck. 2. Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty. The tufted crowtoe, and pale jessamine. Milton. Tufted trees and springing corn. Pope. Tufted duck (Zoöl.), the ring-necked duck. [Local, U.S.]","upbuoyance":"The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.","myrmidonian":"Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. Pope.","delectable":"Highly pleasing; delightful. Delectable both to behold and taste. Milton. -- De*lec\"ta*ble*ness, n. -- De*lec\"ta*bly, adv.","hendecasyllable":"A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.","wheel-shaped":"1. Shaped like a wheel. 2. (Bot.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.","presbyter":"1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1. 2. (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest. I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. Hooker. New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Milton. 3. (Presbyterian Ch.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical. 4. A Presbyterian. [Obs.] Hudibras.","fantasticness":"Fantasticalness. [Obs.]","abreaction":"See Catharsis, below.","gazogene":"A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale. Knight.","calceated":"Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. Johnson.","trifle":"1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young. 2. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.\n\nTo act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.\n\n1. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. \"We trifle time.\" Shak.","templed":"Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.","aggroupment":"Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.","disgrade":"To degrade. [Obs.] Foxe.","indistinguished":"Indistinct. [R.] \"That indistinguished mass.\" Sir T. Browne.","mockle":"See Mickle.","dichloride":"Same as Bichloride.","tool steel":"Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.","prythee":"See Prithee.","hydriodate":"Same as Hydriodide.","cleanness":"1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.","nine-bark":"A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.","porterage":"1. The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper. 2. Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.","troublable":"Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] troublable ire.\" Chaucer.","vanner hawk":"The kestrel. [Prov. Eng.]","circuit":"1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow. 3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. Shak. 4. The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton. 5. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. 6. (a) (Law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. Bouvier. (b) (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. 7. Circumlocution. [Obs.] \"Thou hast used no circuit of words.\" Huloet. Circuit court (Law), a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circuit or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.\n\nTo move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. [Obs.] J. Philips.\n\nTo travel around. [Obs.] \"Having circuited the air.\" T. Warton.","sup":"To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip. There I'll sup Balm and nectar in my cup. Crashaw.\n\nA small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip. Tom Thumb had got a little sup. Drayton.\n\nTo eat the evening meal; to take supper. I do entreat that we may sup together.\n\nTo treat with supper. [Obs.] Sup them well and look unto them all. Shak.","exclusion":"1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume. 2. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb. 3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne.","waftage":"Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. Shak. Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. Drayton.","myxoedema":"A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. -- Myx`o*dem\"a*tous (#), a., Myx`o*dem\"ic (#), a.","bibacity":"The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.","triploblastic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.","nucleal":"Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.","climacterical":"See Climacteric. Evelyn.","erythroleic":"Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.","migniardise":"Delicate fondling. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","splint":"1. A piece split off; a splinter. 2. (Surg.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. 3. (Anat.) A splint bone. 4. (Far.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. 5. (Anc. Armor.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel. Sir. W. Scott. 6. Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. Splint armor,a kind of ancient armor formed of thin plates of metal, usually overlapping each other and allowing the limbs to move freely. -- Splint bone (Anat.), one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones on either side of the cannon bone in the limbs of the horse and allied animals. -- Splint coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.\n\nTo split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. [Obs. or R.] Florio. 2. To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2. [R.] Shak.","ooezoa":"Same as Acrita.","peba":"An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.","delphinoid":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.","plancher":"1. A floor of wood; also, a plank. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Arch.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.\n\nTo form of planks. [Obs.] Golding.","jararaca":"A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.","outpray":"To exceed or excel in prayer.","proofless":"Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved. Boyle. -- Proof\"less*ly, adv.","deuto-":"A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.","stele":"Same as Stela. One of these steles, containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).\n\nA stale, or handle; a stalk. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.","orrery":"An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.","lob":"1. A dull, heavy person. \" Country lobs.\" Gauden. 2. Something thick and heavy.\n\nTo let fall heavily or lazily. And their poor jades Lob down their heads. Shak. To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.\n\nSee Cob, v. t.\n\nThe European pollock.","micronometer":"An instrument for noting minute portions of time.","verbenate":"To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.","allodial":"Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.\n\nAnything held allodially. W. Coxe.","donatistic":"Pertaining to Donatism.","limberness":"The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.","rental":"1. A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll. 2. A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.","boxhaul":"To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.","triolet":"A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth. Brande & C.","mammalogical":"Of or pertaining to mammalogy.","bronchi":"See Bronchus.","mantrap":"1. A trap for catching trespassers. [Eng.] 2. A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.","sestetto":"A sestet.","mercify":"To pity. [Obs.] Spenser.","hardy":"1. Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolue; intrepid. Hap helpeth hardy man alway. Chaucer. 2. Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless. 3. Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South. 4. Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner. 5. Able to withstand the cold of winter. Note: Plants which are hardy in Virginia may perish in New England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand mild winters or moderate frosts.\n\nA blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.","womby":"Capacious. [Obs.] Shak.","guaranine":"An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.","miterwort":"Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap. False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (Tiarella cardifolia).","recourse":"1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] \"Swift recourse of flushing blood.\" Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne. 2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. Sir H. Wotton. Our last recourse is therefore to our art. Dryden. 3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] Give me recourse to him. Shak. Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.\n\n1. To return; to recur. [Obs.] The flame departing and recoursing. Foxe. 2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.","heteronomous":"Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.","convellent":"Tending to tear or pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.","dwaule":"To be delirious. [Obs.] Junius.","dulcite":"A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.","jingo":"1. A word used as a jocular oath. \"By the living jingo.\" Goldsmith. 2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. [Cant, Eng.] Note: This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: -- We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too.","mimetic":"1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative. 2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See Mimicry.","sauterne":"A white wine made in the district of sauterne, France.","misdo":"1. To do wrongly. Afford me place to show what recompense To wards thee I intend for what I have misdone. Milton. 2. To do wrong to; to illtreat. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo do wrong; to commit a fault. I have misdone, and I endure the smart. Dryden.","landwehr":"That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.","episodical":"Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- Ep`i*so\"dic*al*ly, adv. Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait. H. James.","bestar":"To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. \"Bestarred with anemones.\" W. Black.","qualifier":", One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.","preordination":"The act of foreordaining: previous determination. \"The preordination of God.\" Bale.","croftland":"Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.","brackish":"Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.","deiparous":"Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Bailey.","sprechery":"Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [Scot]","tickler":"1. One who, or that which, tickles. 2. Something puzzling or difficult. 3. A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U.S.] Bartlett. 4. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]","opulent":"Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen. -- Op\"u*lent*ly, adv. I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms. Shak.","kever":"i. To cover. [Obs.] Chaucer.","checkers":"A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.","crosstrees":"Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the \"top.\"","hobit":"A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.","diathetic":"Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.","festlich":"Festive; fond of festive occasions. [Obs.] \"A festlich man.\" Chaucer.","physiophyly":"The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly. Haeckel.","thalamic":"Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.","whitethroat":"Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).","ferny":"Abounding in ferns.","aeronat":"A dirigible balloon.","ovarial":"Of or pertaining to an ovary.","whenas":"Whereas; while [Obs.] Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter. Barrow.","laudanine":"A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.","intrados":"The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.","fieldwork":"Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.","pug nose":"A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug\"-nosed`, a. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.","drib":"To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden. (c) To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.\n\nTo shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.\n\nA drop. [Obs.] Swift.","conspurcation":"This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.","lama":"See Llama.\n\nIn Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama Etym: [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. See Lamaism.","twenty":"1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.\n\n1. The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score. 2. A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.","dryandra":"A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.","empirical":"1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer. 2. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies. Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula. Syn. -- See Transcendental.","monkeytail":"A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.","enlard":"To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.","enwheel":"To encircle. Shak.","outwear":"1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. Milton. 2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. \"If I the night outwear.\" Pope.","odorless":"Free from odor.","kingston metal":". An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.","arenarious":"Sandy; as, arenarious soil.","gnathopod":"A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.","sempervivum":"A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.","laryngotracheotomy":"The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.","speechifier":"One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.","kattimundoo":"A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.","porcupine":"1. (Zoöl.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known. 2. (Zoöl.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species. Porcupine ant-eater (Zoöl.), the echidna. -- Porcupine crab (Zoöl.), a large spiny Japanese crab (Acantholithodes hystrix). -- Porcupine disease (Med.). See Ichthyosis. -- Porcupine fish (Zoöl.), any plectognath fish having the body covered with spines which become erect when the body is inflated. See Diodon, and Globefish. -- Porcupine grass (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.","appoint":"1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29. 2. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak. 3. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9. 4. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward. 5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton. 6. (Law) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.\n\nTo ordain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithoph2 Sam. xvii. 14.","bibliophile":"A lover of books.","quindecemvirate":"The body or office of the quindecemviri.","advice":"1. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin. 2. Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak. 3. Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural. Note: In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; -- used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice. McElrath. 4. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.","condolatory":"Expressing condolence. Smart.","reimprint":"To imprint again.","switzer":"A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.","andranatomy":"The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.","overhent":"To overtake. [Obs.] So forth he went and soon them overhent. Spenser.","maistrie":"Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer.","desponsate":"To betroth. [Obs.] Johnson.","librettist":"One who makes a libretto.","morris":"1. A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets. 2. A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters. 3. An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak. Note: The figure consists of three concentric squares, with lines from the angles of the outer one to those of the inner, and from the middle of each side of the outer square to that of the inner. The game is played by two persons with nine or twelve pieces each (hence called nine-men's morris or twelve-men's morris). The pieces are placed alternately, and each player endeavors to prevent his opponent from making a straight row of three. Should either succeed in making a row, he may take up one of his opponent's pieces, and he who takes off all of his opponent's pieces wins the game.\n\nA marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.","succula":"A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.","sulphantimonious":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.","inextinguible":"Inextinguishable. [Obs.] Sir T. More.","gambit":"A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.","manhood":"1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. 2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.","penitential":"Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. \"Penitential stripes.\" Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.\n\nA book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.","stackstand":"A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.","estimably":"In an estimable manner.","calamary":"A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.","frier":"One who fries.","frisky":"Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.","analyzation":"The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.","consist":"1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. i. 17. 2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of. The land would consist of plains and valleys. T. Burnet. 3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in. If their purgation did consist in words. Shak. A man's life consisteth not in the abudance of the things which he possesseth. Luke xii. 15. 4. To be cosistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. This was a consisting story. Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton. 5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- To Consist, Consist of, Consist in. The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, \"Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review.\" When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, \"There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected.\" \"Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty.\"","soul":"Sole. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nSole. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo afford suitable sustenance. [Obs.] Warner.\n\n1. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, \"an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence.\" Tylor. The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing. Law. 2. The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part. \"The hidden soul of harmony.\" Milton. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul. Milton. 3. The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able gemeral is the soul of his army. He is the very soul of bounty! Shak. 4. Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness. That he wants algebra he must confess; But not a soul to give our arms success. Young. 5. A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper. 6. A pure or disembodied spirit. That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee. Milton. Note: Soul is used in the formation of numerous compounds, most of which are of obvious signification; as, soul-betraying, soul- consuming, soul-destroying, soul-distracting, soul-enfeebling, soul- exalting, soul-felt, soul-harrowing, soul-piercing, soul-quickening, soul-reviving, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, soul-withering, etc. Syn. -- Spirit; life; courage; fire; ardor. Cure of souls. See Cure, n., 2. -- Soul bell, the passing bell. Bp. Hall. -- Soul foot. See Soul scot, below. [Obs.] -- Soul scot or Soul shot. Etym: [Soul + scot, or shot; cf. AS. sawelsceat.] (O. Eccl. Law) A funeral duty paid in former times for a requiem for the soul. Ayliffe.\n\nTo indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind. [Obs.] Chaucer.","commodity":"1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.] Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker. 2. That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc. 3. A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.] A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak.","indistinguishing":"Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.","quarteron":"A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.\n\nA quadroon.","maxillar":"1. (Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n. The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.","saturnist":"A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.","henotic":"Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.","trekometer":"A field range finger used in the British service.","pictoric":"Pictorial. [Obs.]","paugy":"The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.","aworking":"At work; in action. [Archaic or Colloq.] Spenser.","deciduousness":"The quality or state of being deciduous.","intersidereal":"Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar.","phasing":"Pertaining to phase or differences of phase.","passer":"One who passes; a passenger.","piquantly":"In a piquant manner.","attainder":"1. The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott. Note: Formerly attainder was the inseparable consequence of a judicial or legislative sentence for treason or felony, and involved the forfeiture of all the real and personal property of the condemned person, and such \"corruption of blood\" that he could neither receive nor transmit by inheritance, nor could he sue or testify in any court, or claim any legal protection or rights. In England attainders are now abolished, and in the United States the Constitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed; and no attainder of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. 2. A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.","alkoranist":"Same as Alcoranist.","orthometric":"Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.","gustless":"Tasteless; insipid. [R.]","trochleary":"Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.","apprehensible":"Capable of being apprehended or conceived. \"Apprehensible by faith.\" Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen\"si*bly, adv.","wove":"p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.","disuniter":"One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.","sonties":"Probably from \"saintes\" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.","plasmon":"A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.","tilly-vally":"A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.","galactose":"A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).","pectinate":"1. Resembling the teeth of a comb. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennæ. 3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] \"Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.\" Sir T. Browne. Pectinate claw (Zoöl.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.","hostelry":"An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. \"Homely brought up in a rude hostelry.\" B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.","relinquisher":"One who relinquishes.","onocerin":"A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.","sumatran":"Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants. -- n. A native of Sumatra.","rhamadan":"See Ramadan.","spurling-line":"The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.","algarot":"A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.","inde":"Azure-colored; of a bright blue color. [Obs.] Rom. of R.","theatin":"1. One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction. Note: Their name is derived from Theate, or Chieti, a city of Naples, the archbishop of which was a principal founder of the order; but they bore various names; as, Regular Clerks of the Community, Pauline Monks, Apostolic Clerks, and Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence. The order never flourished much out of Italy. 2. (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.","counter tenor":"One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.","crier":"One who cries; one who makes proclamation. Specifically, an officer who proclams the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier. He openeth his mouth like a crier. Ecclus. xx. 15.","borsholder":"The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.","parenthesis":"1. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. \"Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis.\" Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts. 2. (Print.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas are logically parenthetical. In def. 1, the phrase \"by way of comment or explanation\" is inserted for explanation, and the sentence would be grammatically complete without it. The present tendency is to avoid using the distinctive marks, except when confusion would arise from a less conspicuous separation.","prancer":"A horse which prances. Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer. Evelyn.","testaceology":"The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]","denture":"An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.","heavisome":"Heavy; dull. [Prov.]","mazdeism":"The Zoroastrian religion.","nutty":"1. Abounding in nuts. 2. Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.","destitute":"1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke. 2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.\n\n1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute a plantation. Bacon. 2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Destituted of all honor and livings. Holinshed. 3. To disappoint. [Obs.] When his expectation is destituted. Fotherby.","resurrectionize":"To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.","lanier":"1. A thong of leather; a whip lash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. Fairholt.","widdy":"A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch. [Scot.]","goodwife":"The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).","avertiment":"Advertisement. [Obs.]","lamellose":"Composed of, or having, lamellæ; lamelliform.","gummy":"Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor (Med.), a gumma.","tasteful":"1. Having a high relish; savory. \"Tasteful herbs.\" Pope. 2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste\"ful*ly, adv. -- Taste\"ful*ness, n.","eatable":"Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n. Something fit to be eaten.","gallinipper":"A large mosquito.","cushionet":"A little cushion.","adventive":"1. Accidental. 2. (Bot.) Adventitious. Gray.\n\nA thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.","spathous":"Spathose.","locomotion":"1. The act of moving from place to place. \" Animal locomotion.\" Milton. 2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.","retroactively":"In a retroactive manner.","partable":"See Partible. Camden.","cercopod":"One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.","firebare":"A beacon. [Obs.] Burrill.","freezer":"One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.","peridrome":"The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.","pharyngal":"Pharyngeal. H. Sweet.","yuman":"Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in their native state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.","fistular":"Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.","university":"1. The universe; the whole. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. [Obs.] The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others. Eng. Cyc. 3. An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology. A. Smith. Note: From the Roman words universitas, collegium, corpus, are derived the terms university, college, and corporation, of modern languages; and though these words have obtained modified significations in modern times, so as to indifferently applicable to the same things, they all agree in retaining the fundamental signification of the terms, whatever may have been added to them. There is now no university, college, or corporation, which is not a juristical person in the sense above explained [see def. 2, above]; wherever these words are applied to any association of persons not stamped with this mark, it is an abuse of terms. Eng. Cyc.","enlarged":"Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar\"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar\"ged*ness, n.","invalescence":"Strength; health. [Obs.]","bergeret":"A pastoral song. [Obs.]","intriguery":"Arts or practice of intrigue.","chilblain":"A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.\n\nTo produce chilblains upon.","rocker":"1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. Fuller. 2. One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks. 3. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water. 4. A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse. 5. A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair. 6. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle. 7. (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft. Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft. To be off one's rocker, to be insane.","intestacy":"The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will. Blackstone.","dilettanteism":"The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.","chromium":"A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.","progne":"(a) A swallow. (b) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin. (c) An American butterfly (Polygonia, or Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.","extratropical":"Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.","ganger":"One who oversees a gang of workmen. [R.] Mayhew.","jagger":"One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.\n\nOne who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t. Jagger spring, a spring beneath a seat, and resting on cleats or blocks in the body of a vehicle. Knight.","suspiciency":"Suspiciousness; suspicion. [Obs.] Hopkins.","accumulate":"To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.\n\nTo grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.\n\nCollected; accumulated. Bacon.","deliberatively":"In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.","duct":"1. Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed. 2. (Anat.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination. 3. (Bot.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber. Note: Ducts are classified, according to the character of the surface of their walls, or their structure, as annular, spiral, scalariform, etc. 4. Guidance; direction. [Obs.] Hammond.","scythestone":"A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.","exocetus":"A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.","syren":"See Siren. [R.]","guze":"A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.","valvular":"1. Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease. 2. Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.","undermeal":"1. The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In undermeals and in mornings. Chaucer. 2. Hence, something occurring or done in the afternoon; esp., an afternoon meal; supper; also, an afternoon nap; a siesta. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.","votist":"One who makes a vow. [Obs.] Chapman.","alomancy":"Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.","tsar":"The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.","ardently":"In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.","weighmaster":"One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.","to-brest":"To burst or break in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.","trigonia":"A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.","erubescency":"The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.","potator":"A drinker. [R.] Southey.","cypripedium":"A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.","iodocresol":"Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, C6H3I(CH3)OH, esp. one, an odorless amorphous powder, used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.","altissimo":"The part or notes situated above F in alt.","flaxy":"Like flax; flaxen. Sir M. Sandys.","misnumber":"To number wrongly.","zincking":"The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.","glaum":"To grope with the hands, as in the dark. [Scot.] To glaum at, to grasp or snatch at; to aspire to. Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three. Burns.","elocution":"1. Utterance by speech. [R.] [Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. \"The elocution of a reader.\" Whately 3. Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. [Obs.] To express these thoughts with elocution. Dryden.","incicurable":"Untamable. [R.]","tetrazine":"A hypothetical compound, C2H2N4 which may be regarded as benzene with four CH groups replaced by nitrogen atoms; also, any of various derivatives of the same. There are three isomeric varieties.","indenting":"Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.","osmaterium":"One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.","publicly":"1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.","appealer":"One who makes an appeal.","fanega":"A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1 De Colange.","imposturage":"Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","stiffish":"Somewhat stiff.","nosological":"Of or pertaining to nosology.","philosophistical":"Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry. [R.]","spermalist":"See Spermist.","dovish":"Like a dove; harmless; innocent. \"Joined with dovish simplicity.\" Latimer.","loiteringly":"In a loitering manner.","heaving":"A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak.","girt":"imp. & p. p. of Gird.\n\nTo gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree. We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword. Shak.\n\nBound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.\n\nSame as Girth.","serrous":"Like the teeth off a saw; jagged. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","conidium":"A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.","productive":"1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator. 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc\"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc\"tive*ness, n.","universalistic":"Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.","bandon":"Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.","inoperation":"Agency; influence; production of effects. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","scumber":"To void excrement. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.\n\nDung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]","culvertail":"Dovetail.","embosser":"One who embosses.","folk":"1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green. 2. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.] In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. Shak. 3. The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] Bartlett. Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.","outclimb":"To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.","postfact":"Relating to a fact that occurs after another.\n\nA fact that occurs after another. \"Confirmed upon the postfact.\" Fuller.","fuzzy":"1. Not firmly woven; that ravels. [Written also fozy.] [Prov. Eng.] 2. Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.","divorcive":"Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. \"This divorcive law.\" Milton.","broom":"1. (Bot.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth. 2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. -- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.\n\nSee Bream.","creasote":"See Creosote.","sleeved":"Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.","aliquant":"An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.","iridectomy":"The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil.","of":"In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as: 1. Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke i. 35. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. 1 Cor. xi. 23. 2. Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven. \"Poor of spirit.\" Macaulay. 3. Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water. 4. Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. Lam. iii. 22. It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received. Franklin. 5. Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Josh. xi. 20. 6. Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements. Knew you of this fair work Shak. 7. Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time. 8. Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba. 9. Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by. And told to her of [by] some. Chaucer. He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. Luke iv. 15. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. Luke iv. 1, 2. Note: The use of the word in this sense, as applied to persons, is nearly obsolete. 10. Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod. 11. Denoting passage from one state to another; from. [Obs.] \"O miserable of happy.\" Milton. 12. During; in the course of. Not be seen to wink of all the day. Shak. My custom always of the afternoon. Shak. Note: Of may be used in a subjective or an objective sense. \"The love of God\" may mean, our love for God, or God's love for us. Note: From is the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off, the same word differently written for distinction. But this radical sense disappears in most of its application; as, a man of genius; a man of rare endowments; a fossil of a red color, or of an hexagonal figure; he lost all hope of relief; an affair of the cabinet; he is a man of decayed fortune; what is the price of corn In these and similar phrases, of denotes property or possession, or a relation of some sort involving connection. These applications, however all proceeded from the same primary sense. That which proceeds from, or is produced by, a person or thing, either has had, or still has, a close connection with the same; and hence the word was applied to cases of mere connection, not involving at all the idea of separation. Of consequence, of importance, value, or influence. -- Of late, recently; in time not long past. -- Of old, formerly; in time long past. -- Of one's self, by one's self; without help or prompting; spontaneously. Why, knows not Montague, that of itself England is safe, if true within itself Shak.","brahmoism":"The religious system of Brahmo-somaj. Balfour.","telotrochous":"Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvæ of certain annelids.","pinnated":"1. (Bot.) Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly. 2. (Zoöl.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck. Pinnated grouse (Zoöl.), the prairie chicken.","carpintero":"A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.","cephalalgic":"Relating to, or affected with, headache. -- n. A remedy for the headache.","sitz bath":"A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.","thrumwort":"A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus). Dr. Prior.","alpaca":"1. (Zoöl.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. 2. Wool of the alpaca. 3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.","hydria":"A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.","valve-shell":"Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.","nicker nut":"A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Cæsalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C.Bonducella, bluish gray. [Spelt also neckar nut, nickar nut.]","grassless":"Destitute of grass.","marginated":"Same as Marginate, a.","avoid":"1. To empty. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon. 4. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided Spenser. 5. To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay. 6. To get rid of. [Obs.] Shak. 7. (Pleading) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone. Syn. -- To escape; elude; evade; eschew. -- To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. Mason. So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. Dryden.\n\n1. To retire; to withdraw. [Obs.] David avoided out of his presence. 1 Sam. xviii. 11. 2. (Law) To become void or vacant. [Obs.] Ayliffe.","mullion":"(a) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc. (b) An upright member of a framing. See Stile.\n\nTo furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.","kathetal":"Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.","granitic":"1. Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture. 2. Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.","moory":"Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.\n\nA kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour (Cyc of India).","staith":"A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.","strictured":"Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.","orison":"A prayer; a supplication. [Poetic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.","stillatitious":"Falling in drops; drawn by a still.","cementer":"A person or thing that cements.","mesogloea":"A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates. -- Mes`o*gloeal, a.","annulation":"A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson.","siliquosa":"A Linnæan order of plants including those which bear siliques.","unbonnet":"To take a bonnet from; to take off one's bonnet; to uncover; as, to unbonnet one's head. Sir W. Scott.","filar":"Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.","puckerer":"One who, or that which, puckers.","drawbench":"A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.","nitency":"Brightness; luster. [R.]\n\nEndeavor; rffort; tendency. [R.] Boyle.","scrutator":"One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer. Ayliffe.","metaphysically":"In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.","outvillain":"To exceed in villainy.","stow":"1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden. 2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter Shak. 3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.","metasilicate":"A salt of metasilicic acid.","alizarin":"A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.","ragged":"1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. 2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. 3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] \"A ragged noise of mirth.\" Herbert. 4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. 5. Rough; shaggy; rugged. What shepherd owns those ragged sheep Dryden. Ragged lady (Bot.), the fennel flower (Nigella Damascena). -- Ragged robin (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lychnis (L. Flos- cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes. -- Ragged sailor (Bot.), prince's feather (Polygonum orientale). -- Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.] -- Rag\"ged*ly, adv. -- Rag\"ged*ness, n.","cirrhosis":"A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.","vulgarization":"The act or process of making vulgar, or common.","veneficial":"Acting by poison; used in poisoning or in sorcery. [Obs.] \"An old veneficious practice.\" Sir T. Browne. -- Ven`e*fi\"cious*ly, adv. [Obs.]","radiciflorous":"Rhizanthous.","intentively":"Attentively; closely. [Obs.] \"Intentively to observe.\" Holland.","ovidian":"Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.","tabor":"A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]\n\n1. To play on a tabor, or little drum. 2. To strike lightly and frequently.\n\nTo make (a sound) with a tabor.","generator":"1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces. 2. An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc. 3. (Mus.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.","torpedo body":"An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. [Cant]","antonomasy":"Antonomasia.","waterer":"One who, or that which, waters.","capitate":"1. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers. 2. (Bot.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.","gonimia":"Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.","addax":"One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus). Note: It is now believed to be the Strepsiceros (twisted horn) of the ancients. By some it is thought to be the pygarg of the Bible.","almah":"Same as Alme.","coralliform":"resembling coral in form.","spannishing":"The full blooming of a flower. [Obs.] Rom. of R.","handcraft":"Same as Handicraft.","fore tooth":"One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.","knew":"of Know.","stereometric":"Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry. -- Ste`re*o*met\"ric*al*ly, adv.","uncastle":"To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.","magniloquent":"Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil\"o*quent*ly, adv.","hide":"1. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. Shak. 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope. 3. To remove from danger; to shelter. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. Ps. xxvi. 5. To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. \"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.\" Prov. xxii. 3. -- To hide the face, to withdraw favor. \"Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.\" Ps. xxx. 7. -- To hide the face from. (a) To overlook; to pardon. \"Hide thy face from my sins.\" Ps. li. 9. (b) To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with. Syn. -- To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.\n\nTo lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation. Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide. Pope. Hide and seek, a play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them. Swift.\n\n(a) An abode or dwelling. (b) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]\n\n1. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc. 2. The human skin; -- so called in contempt. O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide! Shak.\n\nTo flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S.]","armet":"A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.","acquisitiveness":"1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. 2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.","assorted":"Selected; culled.","creditor":"1. One who credits, believes, or trusts. The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel. 2. One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin.","cushiony":"Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.","gabelle":"A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.","uncorrigible":"Incorrigible; not capable of correction. [Obs.]","inexorability":"The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty. Paley.","scenical":"Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. De Quincey.","leptomeningitis":"Inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.","spectrological":"Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments. -- Spec`tro*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","schism":"Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause. Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. Eikon Basilike. Greek schism (Eccl.), the separation of the Greek and Roman churches. -- Great schism, or Western schism (Eccl.) a schism in the church in the latter part of the 14th century, on account of rival claimants to the papal throne. -- Schism act (Law), an act of the English Parliament requiring all teachers to conform to the Established Church, -- passed in 1714, repealed in 1719.","sortilegious":"Pertaining to sortilege.","stomate":"A stoma.","pyaemia":"A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.","munjeet":"See Indian madder, under Madder.","wardcorps":"Guardian; one set to watch over another. [Obs.] \"Though thou preyedest Argus . . . to be my wardcorps.\" Chaucer.","proxyship":"The office or agency of a proxy.","farewell":"Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. Milton. Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well. Byron. Note: The primary accent is sometimes placed on the first syllable, especially in poetry.\n\n1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu. 2. Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something. And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Shak. Before I take my farewell of the subject. Addison.\n\nParting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.","endlessness":"The quality of being endless; perpetuity.","sutile":"Done by stitching. [R.] Boswell.","copist":"A copier. [Obs.] \"A copist after nature.\" Shaftesbury.","heptad":"An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.","pauser":"One who pauses. Shak.","unific":"Making one or unity; unifying.","recipe":"A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.","addle-head":"A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]","circumlocutional":"Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.","hool":"Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.","acronyc":"Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical. Note: The word is sometimes incorrectly written acronical, achronychal, acronichal, and acronical.","bringer":"One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.","corporate":"1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. 2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. \"Corporate property.\" Hallam. 3. United; general; collectively one. They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak. Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.\n\nTo incorporate. [Obs.] Stow.\n\nTo become incorporated. [Obs.]","lirella":"A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.","simple":"1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks. 2. Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. \"Simple truth.\" Spenser. \"His simple story.\" Burns. 3. Mere; not other than; being only. A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin. Shak. 4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true. Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them. Marston. Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue Byron. To be simple is to be great. Emerson. 5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward. In simple manners all the secret lies. Young. 6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language. 7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. \"You have simple wits.\" Shak. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going. Prov. xiv. 15. 8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living. Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights. Cowper. 9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished. A simple husbandman in garments gray. Spenser. Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire. Fuller. 10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf. 11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a. Note: A simple body is one that has not as yet been decomposed. There are indications that many of our simple elements are still compound bodies, though their actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be accomplished.fundamental particle 12. (Min.) Homogenous. 13. (Zoöl.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound. Simple contract (Law), any contract, whether verbal or written, which is not of record or under seal. J. W. Smith. Chitty. -- Simple equation (Alg.), an eqyation containing but one unknown quantity, and that quantity only in the first degree. -- Simple eye (Zoöl.), an eye having a single lens; -- opposed to Ant: compound eye. -- Simple interest. See under Interest. -- Simple larceny. (Law) See under Larceny. -- Simple obligation (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event. Burrill. Syn. -- Single; uncompounded; unmingled; unmixed; mere; uncombined; elementary; plain; artless; sincere; harmless; undesigning; frank; open; unaffected; inartificial; unadorned; credulous; silly; foolish; shallow; unwise. -- Simple, Silly. One who is simple is sincere, unaffected, and inexperienced in duplicity, -- hence liable to be duped. A silly person is one who is ignorant or weak and also self-confident; hence, one who shows in speech and act a lack of good sense. Simplicity is incompatible with duplicity, artfulness, or vanity, while silliness is consistent with all three. Simplicity denotes lack of knowledge or of guile; silliness denotes want of judgment or right purpose, a defect of character as well as of education. I am a simple woman, much too weak To oppose your cunning. Shak. He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion. Law.\n\n1. Something not mixed or compounded. \"Compounded of many simples.\" Shak. 2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. Sir W. Temple. 3. (Weaving) (a) A drawloom. (b) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.\n\nTo gather simples, or medicinal plants. As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed. Garth.","physicism":"The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion. Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. Huxley.","convexed":"Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.","oculiform":"In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.","furtively":"Stealthily by theft. Lover.","unworthy":"Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor\"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor\"thi*ness, n.","dote":"1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt. 2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.\n\n1. To act foolishly. [Obs.] He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer. 2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South. 3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.\n\nAn imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell.","rooky":"Misty; gloomy. [Obs.] Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak. Note: Some make this Shakespearean word mean \"abounding in rooks.\"","hazel":"1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray. 2. A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.\n\n1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble. 2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. \"Thou hast hazel eyes.\" Shak.","meteor":"1. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall. 2. Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak. Note: The term is especially applied to fireballs, and the masses of stone or other substances which sometimes fall to the earth; also to shooting stars and to ignes fatui. Meteors are often classed as: aerial meteors, winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, rain, hail, snow, dew, etc.; luminous meteors, rainbows, halos, etc.; and igneous meteors, lightning, shooting stars, and the like.","depredicate":"To proclaim; to celebrate. [R.]","turbary":"A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.","antrustion":"A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.","impartance":"Impartation.","osteogeny":"The formation or growth of bone.","baguette":"1. (Arch.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead. 2. (Zoöl) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.","sesquiduplicate":"Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.","slep":"imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.","scot":"A name for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.\n\nA portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot. Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. [Eng.] Cowell. Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly. Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along. Emerson.","tole":"To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.","reexaminable":"Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.","formedon":"A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.","dago":"A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]","precipitancy":"The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. \"Precipitance of judgment.\" I. Watts.","filbert":"The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate. Note: In England filberts are usually large hazelnuts, especially the nuts from selected and cultivated trees. The American hazelnuts are of two other species. Filbert gall (Zoöl.), a gall resembling a filbert in form, growing in clusters on grapevines. It is produced by the larva of a gallfly (Cecidomyia).","ingelable":"Not congealable.","trussing":"1. (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale. 2. (Arch. & Engin.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss. 3. The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.]","nonmetal":"Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.","insulite":"An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.","scoptic":"Jesting; jeering; scoffing. [Obs.] South. -- Scop\"tic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]","tamis":"1. A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth. 2. The cloth itself; tammy. Tamis bird (Zoöl.), a Guinea fowl.","enclitics":"The art of declining and conjugating words.","drofland":"An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.","prakrit":"Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.","morrow":"1. Morning. [Obs.] \"White as morrow's milk.\" Bp. Hall. We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine. Chaucer. 2. The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood. Lev. vii. 16. Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn. Crashaw. 3. The day following the present; to-morrow. Good morrow, good morning; -- a form of salutation. -- To morrow. See To-morrow in the Vocabulary.","baccalaureate":"1. The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges. 2. A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]\n\nPertaining to a bachelor of arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.","rationalization":"The act or process of rationalizing.","wafter":"1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.","taplash":"Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).","homodemic":"A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.","tumbril":"1. A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds. 2. A rough cart. Tusser. Tatler. 3. (Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like. 4. A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]","gelder-rose":"Same as Guelder-rose.","sulphine":"Any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. In general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium.","synanthrose":"A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositæ.","blue-eye":"The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.","basinet":"Same as Bascinet.","flamingly":"In a flaming manner.","ranker":"One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.","triquetrous":"Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.","phthisiology":"A treatise on phthisis. Dunglison.","shameless":"1. Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. \"Such shameless bards we have.\" Pope. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Shak. 2. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem. Syn. -- Impudent; unblushing; audacious; immodest; indecent; indelicate. -- Shame\"less*ly, adv. -- Shame\"less*ness, n.","inconsisting":"Inconsistent. [Obs.]","aknow":"Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]","epiplexis":"A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.","messenger":"1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages. 2. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. Shak. 3. (Naut.) A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. 4. (Law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent. Bouvier. Tomlins. Syn. -- Carrier; intelligencer; courier; harbinger; forerunner; precursor; herald. Messenger bird, the secretary bird, from its swiftness.","overmuch":"Too much. -- adv. In too great a degree; too much. -- n. An excess; a surplus.","gatewise":"In the manner of a gate. Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.","ensearch":"To make search; to try to find something. [Obs.] -- v. t. To search for. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.","aulnage":"See Alnage and Alnager.","mutton":"1. A sheep. [Obs.] Chapman. Not so much ground as will feed a mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam. 2. The flesh of a sheep. The fat of roasted mutton or beef. Swift. 3. A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Mutton bird (Zoöl.), the Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus). -- Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. -- Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden. -- Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman. -- To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous] I willingly return to my muttons. H. R. Haweis.","slate-color":"A dark bluish gray color.","share":"1. The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare. 2. The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.\n\n1. A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence. 2. Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. \"My share of fame.\" Dryden. 3. Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares. 4. The pubes; the sharebone. [Obs.] Holland. To go shares, to partake; to be equally concerned. -- Share and share alike, in equal shares.\n\n1. To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide. Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. Swift. 2. To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another. While avarice and rapine share the land. Milton. 3. To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. [Obs.] The shared visage hangs on equal sides. Dryden.\n\nTo have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others. A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father. Locke.","labret":"A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.","phosphorized":"Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.","volitive":"1. Of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will. \"They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive.\" Sir M. Hale. 2. (Gram.) Used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition.","interpedencular":"Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.","euthyneura":"A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.","afrit":"A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.","applicancy":"The quality or state of being applicable. [R.]","caprification":"The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. Note: It is supposed that the little insects insure fertilization by carrying the pollen from the male flowers near the opening of the fig down to the female flowers, and also accelerate ripening the fruit by puncturing it. The practice has existed since ancient times, but its benefit has been disputed.","pass":"1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. \"But now pass over [i.e., pass on].\" Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorly. So death passed upon all men. Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. Mark vi. 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. \"Let him pass for a man.\" Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live alogn. \"The play may pass.\" Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] \"This passes, Master Ford.\" Shak. 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing) To decline to play in one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. Prior. To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. -- To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. \"The heavens shall pass away.\" 2 Pet. iii. 10. \"I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.\" Tennyson. -- To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. -- To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. -- To pass on, to proceed. -- To pass on or upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. \"So death passed upon all men.\" Rom. v. 12. \"Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.\" Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. \"We may not pass upon his life.\" Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.\n\n1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. \"To pass commodiously this life.\" Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. Shak. (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden. (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. Byron. (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate. 2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon. (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak. Father, thy word is passed. Milton. (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. \"Pass the happy news.\" Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad. 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate. 4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. Shak. Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman. -- To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. -- To pass away, to spend; to waste. \"Lest she pass away the flower of her age.\" Ecclus. xlii. 9. -- To pass by. (a) To disregard; to neglect. (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook. -- To pass off, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. \"Passed himself off as a bishop.\" Macaulay. -- To pass (something) on or upon (some one), to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. \"She passed the child on her husband for a boy.\" Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.\n\n1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. \"Try not the pass!\" the old man said. Longfellow. 2. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. Shak. 3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist. 4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls. 5. State of things; condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. Shak. Matters have been brought to this pass. South. 6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. Kent. 7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. Shak. 8. Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. Shak. 9. Etym: [Cf. Passus.] A part; a division. [Obs.] Chaucer. Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book. (a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. -- Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning.","tunnage":"See Tonnage.","ingulf":"To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton.","bladdery":"Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.","barking irons":"1. Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner. 2. A pair of pistols. [Slang]","affectible":"That may be affected. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.","peelhouse":"See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.","thermetograph":"A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.","ovicell":"One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.","rogueship":"The quality or state of being a rogue. [Jocose] \"Your rogueship.\" Dryden.","anfractuous":"Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac\"tu*ous*ness, n.","penaunt":"A penitent. [Obs.] Chaucer.","abjugate":"To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.","musquet":"See Musket.","hoit":"To leap; to caper; to romp noisily. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","tenter":"1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. 2. (Mach.) A kind of governor.\n\nA machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.\n\nTo admit extension. Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacon.\n\nTo hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.","unmeant":"Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.","regenerateness":"The quality or state of being rgenerate.","didal":"A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.]","arrack":"A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.","enlightenment":"Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.","prospectively":"In a prospective manner.","tete-de-pont":"A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.","playground":"A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.","kalmuck":"1. pl. (Ethnol.) See Calmucks. 2. A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin. 3. A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.","ultrared":"Situated beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.","azoleic":"Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. [R.]","unbusied":"Not required to work; unemployed; not busy. [R.] These unbusied persons can continue in this playing idleness till it become a toil. Bp. Rainbow","frogs-bit":"Frogbit.","mien":"Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen. Pope.","ventral":"1. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal. 2. (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower. (b) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to Ant: dorsal. Ventral fins (Zoöl.), the posterior pair of fins of a fish. They are often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.","gryphite":"A shell of the genus Gryphea.","helio-":"A combining form from Gr. \"h`lios the sun.","bito tree":"A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia. The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called zachun. The African name of the tree is hajilij.","level":"1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere. 2. A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point. 3. An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the l of the plateau and then descent to the level of the valley or of the sea. After draining of the level in Northamptonshire. Sir M. Hale. Shot from the deadly level of a gun. Shak. 4. Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation. Providence, for the most part, sets us on a level. Addison. Somebody there of his own level. Swift. Be the fair level of thy actions laid As temperance wills and prudence may persuade. Prior. 5. A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level. When merit shall find its level. F. W. Robertson. 6. (Mech. & Surv.) (a) An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line. (b) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level. 7. A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in mine. Air level, a spirit level. See Spirit level (below). -- Box level, a spirit level in which a glass-covered box is used instead of a tube. -- Garpenter's level, Mason's level, either the plumb level or a straight bar of wood, in which is imbedded a small spirit level. -- Level of the sea, the imaginary level from which heights and depths are calculated, taken at a mean distance between high and low water. -- Line of levels, a connected series of measurements, by means of a level, along a given line, as of a railroad, to ascertain the profile of the ground. -- Plumb level, one in which a horizontal bar is placed in true position by means of a plumb line, to which it is at right angles. -- Spirit level, one in which the adjustment to the horizon is shown by the position of a bubble in alcohol or ether contained in a nearly horizontal glass tube, or a circular box with a glass cover. -- Surveyor's level, a telescope, with a spirit level attached, and with suitable screws, etc., for accurate adjustment, the whole mounted on a tripod, for use in leveling; -- called also leveling instrument. -- Water level, an instrument to show the level by means the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.\n\n1. Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake. Ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement. Milton. 2. Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level. 3. Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to. Young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone. Shak. Everything lies level to our wish. Shak. 4. Straightforward; direct; direct; clear; open. A very plain and level account. M. Arnold. 5. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.] \" A level consideration.\" Shak. 6. (Phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection. H. Sweet. Level line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a section which is horizontal crosswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise. Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.\n\n1. To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden. 2. To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower. And their proud structures level with the ground. Sandys. He levels mountains and he raises plains. Dryden. 3. To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct. Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow. Stow. 4. Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men. 5. To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children. For all his mind on honor fixed is, To which he levels all his purposes. Spenser.\n\n1. To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak. 2. To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object. The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shak. The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level. Hooker. She leveled at our purposes. Shak.","mercenarian":"A mercenary. [Obs.]","unface":"To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose.","mortuary":"1. A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty. 2. A burial place; a place for the dead. 3. A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.\n\nOf or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments. Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes of the dead.","strifeful":"Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.","chargeably":"At great cost; expensively. [Obs.]","contentment":"1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible. 3. Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction. [Obs.] At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city. Sir H. Wotton.","abundance":"An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh. Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. -- Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc.","animalcular":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. \"Animalcular life.\" Tyndall.","despumate":"To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.","pled":"imp. & p. p. of Plead [Colloq.] Spenser.","unciatim":"Ounce by ounce.","unexceptive":"Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception.","pollicitation":"1. A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet. 2. (Roman Law) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made. Bouvier.","monosyllabic":"Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language. -- Mon`o*syl*lab\"ic*al*ly, adv.","behooveful":"Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove\"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove\"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]","invade":"1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.] Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain. Such an enemy Is risen to invade us. Milton. 3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people. 4. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue. Syn. -- To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.\n\nTo make an invasion. Brougham.","inveil":"To cover, as with a vail. W. Browne.","delphinic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]\n\nPertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).","premonstrator":"One who, or that which, premonstrates. [R.]","advolution":"A rolling toward something. [R.]","im-":". A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter.","drought":"1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden. 2. Thirst; want of drink. Johnson. 3. Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.","leafcup":"A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).","abdominales":"A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.","whilom":"Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, There was a duke that highte Theseus. Chaucer.","massive":"1. Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy. \"Massive armor.\" Dr. H. More. 2. (Min.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.","stereotyper":"One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.","aperea":"The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).","ear-piercer":"The earwig.","stereotypographer":"A stereotype printer.","deed":"Dead. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\n1. That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done Gen. xliv. 15. We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. Would serve his kind in deed and word. Tennyson. 2. Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. \"Knightly deeds.\" Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden. 3. Power of action; agency; efficiency. [Obs.] To be, both will and deed, created free. Milton. 4. Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed. 5. (Law) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract. Note: The term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate, and it is the prevailing doctrine that a deed must be signed as well as sealed, though at common law signing was formerly not necessary. Blank deed, a printed form containing the customary legal phraseology, with blank spaces for writing in names, dates, boundaries, etc. 6. Performance; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Shak. In deed, in fact; in truth; verily. See Indeed.\n\nTo convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. [Colloq. U. S.]","deaden":"1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow. 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.","masonry":"1. The art or occupation of a mason. 2. The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry. 3. That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar. 4. The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.","palampore":"See Palempore.","quelquechose":"A trifle; a kickshaw. Donne.","efflux":"1. The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor. 2. That which flows out; emanation; effluence. Prime cheerer, light! . . . Efflux divine. Thomson.\n\nTo run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] Boyle.","mitotic":"Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. --Mi*tot\"ic*al*ly (#), adv.","oppilation":"The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines. Jer. Taylor.","binnacle":"A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.","espial":"1. The act of espying; notice; discovery. Screened from espial by the jutting cape. Byron. 2. One who espies; a spy; a scout. [Obs.] \"Their espials . . . brought word.\" Holland.","innermostly":"In the innermost place. [R.] His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.","parabola":"(a) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. (b) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.","appoggiatura":"A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.","zomboruk":"See Zumbooruk.","introspective":"1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious. 2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. J. S. Mill.","jinny road":"An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.","plebeianism":"1. The quality or state of being plebeian. 2. The conduct or manners of plebeians; vulgarity.","excentricity":". (Math.) Same as Eccentricity.","viperine":"Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. (Zoöl.) (a) Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. (b) A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles the viper in color.","caliber":"1. (Gunnery) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. The caliber of empty tubes. Reid. A battery composed of three guns of small caliber. Prescott. Note: The caliber of firearms is expressed in various ways. Cannon are often designated by the weight of a solid spherical shot that will fit the bore; as, a 12-pounder; pieces of ordnance that project shell or hollow shot are designated by the diameter of their bore; as, a 12 inch mortar or a 14 inch shell gun; small arms are designated by hundredths of an inch expressed decimally; as, a rifle of .44 inch caliber. 2. The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column. 3. Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind. Burke. Caliber compasses. See Calipers. -- Caliber rule, a gunner's calipers, an instrument having two scales arranged to determine a ball's weight from its diameter, and conversely. -- A ship's caliber, the weight of her armament.","calyon":"Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. Haliwell.","exsudation":"Exudation.","interosseous":"Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.","plumule":"1. (Bot.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A down feather. (b) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather. (c) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.","welew":"To welk, or wither. [Obs.]","moppet":"1. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman. 2. (Zoöl.) A long-haired pet dog.","informous":"Of irregular form; shapeless. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","levelly":"In an even or level manner.","multinodate":"Having many knots or nodes.","octamerous":"Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.","alopecy":"Loss of the hair; baldness.","worldly-minded":"Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World\"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.","megasthenic":"Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.","skyed":"Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] \"The skyed mountain.\" Thomson.","binuclear":"Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.","prenomination":"The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first. Sir T. Browne.","parietary":"See Parietal, 2.\n\nAny one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.","pacable":"Placable. [R.] Coleridge.","telethermograph":"(a) A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. (b) An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.","haemochrome":"Same as Hæmachrome.","returner":"One who returns.","placoides":"A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.","gnarled":"Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak. Shak.","semiadherent":"Adherent part way.","polemist":"A polemic. [R.]","hispanicize":"To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.","micropegmatite":"A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit\"ic, a.","telangiectasy":"Telangiectasis.","popularly":"In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported. The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed. Dryden.","launce":"A lance. [Obs.]\n\nA balance. [Obs.] Fortune all in equal launce doth sway. Spenser.\n\nSee Lant, the fish.","caries":"Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.","notum":"The back.","cupulate":"Having or bearing cupeles; cupuliferous.","alan":"A wolfhound. [Obs.] Chaucer.","aliferous":"Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]","recumbency":"Recumbence.","snobbism":"Snobbery.","unpractical":"Not practical; impractical. \"Unpractical questions.\" H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.","electron":"Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.","weather signal":"Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.","lentoid":"Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.","compliancy":"Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.","discursion":"The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.","scalloping":"Fishing for scallops.","in transitu":"In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.","disfavorable":"Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.","omnifarious":"Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. \"Omnifarious learning.\" Coleridge.","carbonide":"A carbide. [R.]","crenelled":"Same as Crenate.","hone":"To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.\n\nA kind of swelling in the cheek.\n\nA stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.\n\nTo sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.","hematocele":"A tumor filled with blood.","marketable":"1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.","plaudit":"A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow. Syn. -- Acclamation; applause; encomium; commendation; approbation; approval.","saturnism":"Plumbum. Quain.","secularness":"The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly- minded-ness.","twelfthtide":"The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.","competence":"1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke. 2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sifficiency without excess. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak. 3. (Law) (a) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence. (b) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court. Kent.","alienable":"Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.","parochialize":"To render parochial; to form into parishes.","calyptriform":"Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.","staidness":"The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age wanting. Dryden. Syn. -- Sobriety; gravity; steadiness; regularity; constancy; firmness; stability; sedateness.","synonyme":"Same as Synonym.","irreconcilability":"The quality or state of being irreconcilable; irreconcilableness.","dressmaking":"The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.","commutability":"The quality of being commutable.","anchoress":"A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.","conventionalism":"1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson. 2. (Fine Arts) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.","engager":"One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.","vapor tension":"The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury.","delight":"1. A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2. 2. That which gives great pleasure or delight. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton. 3. Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear. Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.\n\nTo have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in. Love delights in praises. Shak. I delight to do thy will, O my God. Ps. xl. 8.","beryl":"A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.","campaign":"1. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath. 2. (Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. 3. Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. [Cant, U. S.] 4. (Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.\n\nTo serve in a campaign.","nudum pactum":"A bare, naked contract, without any consideration. Tomlins.","dynamitism":"The work of dynamiters.","escaloped":"1. Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped. 2. (Her.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped.","grass-grown":"Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.","seminifical":"Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.","craterous":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.","helminthology":"The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.","steinbock":"(a) The European ibex. (b) A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok. [Written also steinboc, and steinbok; also called stonebock, and stonebuck.]","thoughtful":"1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. Glanvill. 3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned. Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear, And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. Prior. Syn. -- Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet. -- Thoughtful, Considerate. He who is habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect and guard himself against error. One who is not thoughtful by nature, if he can be made considerate, will usually be guarded against serious mistakes. \"He who is thoughtful does not forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and considers properly what is his duty. It is a recommendation to a subordinate person to be thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the recommendation of a confidential person to be considerate, as he has often Crabb. -- Thought\"ful*ly, adv. -- hought\"ful*ness, n.","itchy":"Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation. Cowper.","subbrachial":"Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.","fonly":"Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] Spenser.","echinoid":"Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. -- n. One of the Echinoidea.","isagelous":"Containing the same information, as isagelous sentences. The coded message and the original, though appearing entirely unlike, are completely isagelous. Bacon The complementary strands have isagelous sequences. J. D. Watson. -- Isagel I*sag\"e*lous (i*sâg\"ê*lûs), a. Etym: [Is- + Gr. a`gelos information.] Containing the same information, as isagelous sentences. \"The coded message and the original, though appearing entirely unlike, are completely isagelous.\" Bacon \"The complementary strands have isagelous sequences.\" J. D. Watson. -- Is\"a*gel n. One of two or more objects containing the same information.","slobberer":"1. One who slobbers. 2. A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor. [Prov. Eng.]","roarer":"1. One who, or that which, roars. Specifically: (a) A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger. (b) (Far.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2. 2. (Zoöl.) The barn owl. [Prov.Eng.]","columbella":"A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.","viola":"A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.\n\nAn instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass. Viola da braccio Etym: [It., viol for the arm], the tenor viol, or viola, a fifth lower than the violin. Its part is written in the alto clef, hence it is sometimes called the alto. -- Viola da gamba Etym: [It., viol for the leg], an instrument resembling the viola, but larger, and held between the knees. It is now rarely used. -- Viola da spalla Etym: [It., viol for the shoulder], an instrument formerly used, resembling the viola, and intermediate in size between the viola and the viola da gamba. -- Viola di amore Etym: [It., viol of love: cf. F. viole d'amour], a viol, larger than the viola, having catgut strings upon, and brass or steel wires under, the keyboard. These, sounding sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery sound. It is now seldom used.","knight service":"A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE Knight service. Also Knight's service. 1. (Feud. Law) The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England [in the 13th century] is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In order to understand this tenure we must form the conception of a unit of military service. That unit seems to be the service of one knight or fully armed horseman (servitium unius militis) to be done to the king in his army for forty days in the year, if it be called for. . . . The limit of forty days seems to have existed rather in theory than practice. Pollock & Mait. 2. Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. KNIGHT'S FEE Knight's fee. (Feudal Law) The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.","cultivable":"Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.","heraldship":"The office of a herald. Selden.","illegalize":"To make or declare illegal or unlawful.","nude":"1. Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue. 2. (Law) Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum. Blackstone. The nude, the undraped human figure in art. -- Nude\"ly, adv.- Nude\"ness, n.","plunder":"1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. Syn. -- To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.\n\n1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North. 2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. \"He shared in the plunder.\" Cowper. 3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]","fricative":"Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. -- n. A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-206, etc.","lamprel":"See Lamprey.","negotious":"Very busy; attentive to business; active. [R.] D. Rogers.","marsipobranchia":"A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.","-oid":"A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.","maked":"Made. Chaucer.","rhinoscope":"A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.","greengrocer":"A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.","headboard":"A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.","ascendable":"Capable of being ascended.","shopwoman":"A woman employed in a shop.","sagene":"A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.","ensilage":"1. The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder. 2. The fodder preserved in a silo.\n\nTo preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.","amole":"Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [Sp. Amer. & Mex.]","auction pitch":"A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or \"pitching\" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.","archpriest":"A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.","interception":"The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.","abeyancy":"Abeyance. [R.] Hawthorne.","omega":"1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha. 2. The last; the end; hence, death. \"Omega! thou art Lord,\" they said. Tennyson. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole. Rev. i. 8. The alpha and omega of science. Sir J. Herschel.","bewrought":"Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","compromissorial":"Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.","swatte":"imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.","black snake":"A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.","torsibillty":"The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.","mowing":"1. The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows. 2. Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.","subjectivist":"One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.","erugate":"Freed from wrinkles; smooth.","baulk":"See Balk.","micronesian":"Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.","voortreker":"One who treks before or first; a pioneer. [South Africa]","bishopdom":"Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. \"Divine right of bishopdom.\" Milton.","indazol":"A nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indol, and produced from a diazo derivative or cinnamic acid.","nidorose":"Nidorous. [R.] Arbuthnot.","thuggism":"Thuggee.","translatress":"A woman who translates.","kibe":"A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain. \"He galls his kibe.\" Shak.","assenter":"One who assents.","guidable":"Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.","aneroid":"Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.\n\nAn aneroid barometer.","definitive":"1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nA word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns. Note: Definitives . . . are commonly called by grammarians articles. . . . They are of two kinds, either those properly and strictly so called, or else pronominal articles, such as this, that, any, other, some, all, no, none, etc. Harris (Hermes).","embarcation":"Same as Embarkation.","indictable":"Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.","zoophilist":"A lover of animals. Southey.","dentition":"1. The development and cutting of teeth; teething. 2. (Zoöl.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.","itineracy":"The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.","plotinian":"Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.","anglicize":"To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.","certitude":"Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty. J. H. Newman.","comptograph":"A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.","head-cheese":"A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.","cooter":"(a) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida. (b) The box tortoise.","emaculate":"To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.] Hales.","calefactive":"See Calefactory. [R.]","eudaemon":"A good angel. Southey.","paleozoic era":"The Paleozoic time or strata.","spot stroke":"The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.","warnstore":"To furnish. [Obs.] \"To warnstore your house.\" Chaucer.","tubicole":"One of the Tubicolæ.","mallet":"A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.","bandanna":"1. A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form. 2. A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.","loose":"1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak. 2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of. Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts Addison. 3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. Milton. 5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation. Whewel. 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. Sir W. Scott. 7. Unconnected; rambling. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. I. Watts. 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke. 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser. 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.\n\n1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] Prior. 2. A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. To give a loose, to give freedom. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. Addison.\n\n1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion Job. xxxviii. 31. Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. Matt. xxi. 2. 2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit. Art thou loosed from a wife seek not a wife. 1 Cor. vii. 27. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Matt. xvi. 19. 3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. The joints of his loins were loosed. Dan. v. 6. 4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nTo set sail. [Obs.] Acts xiii. 13.","escalator":"A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- a trade term.","hurra":"A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.","cross-tining":"A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.","prighte":"imp. of Prick. Chaucer.","myriametre":"A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.","gaberdine":"A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.\n\nSee Gabardine.","deleble":"Capable of being blotted out or erased. \"An impression easily deleble.\" Fuller.","boiling":"Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 º Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96º; for ether, 94.8º; for mercury, about 675º. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. -- Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. -- To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. -- To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.]\n\n1. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation. 2. Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.","devanagari":"The character in which Sanskrit is written.","disinfectant":"That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.","levant":"Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.\n\n1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters. 2. A levanter (the wind so called).\n\nEastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.\n\nTo run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.","vulpic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.","byland":"A peninsula. [Obs.]","impinguate":"To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.","arbalester":"A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.","allegretto":"Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n. A movement in this time.","condylopod":"An arthropod.","readeption":"A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Obs.] Bacon.","benzene":"A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benzene nucleus, Benzene ring (Chem.), a closed chain or ring, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hydrogen atom attached, regarded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed.","nuchal":"Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.","bagwig":"A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.","constupration":"The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.","kinetophone":"A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.","tetradrachma":"A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.","endall":"Complete termination. [R.] That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.","considerative":"Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic] I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.","reverent":"1. Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. \"They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent.\" Milton. 2. Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior. Joye.","ringleader":"1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.","sentimentally":"In a sentimental manner.","connusance":"See Cognizance. [Obs.]","billyboy":"A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]","singe":"1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin. You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head! Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange. 2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red- hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.\n\nA burning of the surface; a slight burn.","considerate":"1. Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp. 2. Having respect to; regardful. [R.] They may be . . . more considerate of praise. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Thoughtful; reflective; careful; discreet; prudent; deliberate; serious. See Thoughtful. -- Con*sid\"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Con*sid\"er*ate*ness, n.","ferris wheel":"An amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.","roral":"Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy. [R.] M. Green.","nationalness":"The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.","short-circuit":"To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.","sural":"Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.","nardine":"Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.","dekabrist":"A Decembrist.","dumpy":"1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From Dump sadness.] 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. 2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","unsecret":"To disclose; to divulge. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\nNot secret; not close; not trusty; indiscreet. [Obs.] \"We are unsecret to ourselves.\" Shak.","semioxygenated":"Combined with oxygen only in part. Kirwan.","neo-hellenism":"Hellenism as surviving or revival in modern times; the practice or pursuit of ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance.","grouper":"(a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. (b) The tripletail (Lobotes). (c) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [Written also groper, gruper, and trooper.]","nit":"The egg of a louse or other small insect. Nit grass (Bot.), a pretty annual European grass (Gastridium lendigerum), with small spikelets somewhat resembling a nit. It is also found in California and Chili.","removed":"1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. \"Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.\" Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov\"ed*ness (r, n. Shak.","apologetics":"That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.","san jose scale":"A very destructive scale insect (Aspidiotus perniciosus) that infests the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at San José, California.","blighting":"Causing blight.","bassa":"See Bashaw.","browsing":"Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.","measurable":"1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas\"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas\"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. Latimer.","subinfeudation":"(a) The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure. Craig. (b) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy. The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation, or undertenancy. Blackstone.","ureide":"Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides. [Written also ureid.]","unicameral":"Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly. [R.] F. Lieber.","tetragrammaton":"The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.","chiromonic":"Relating to chironomy.","portcullis":"1. (Fort.) A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. \"Let the portcullis fall.\" Sir W. Scott. She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. Milton. 2. An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.\n\nTo obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar. [R.] Shak.","seke":"Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo seek. [Obs.] Chaucer.","drama":"1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. Milton. 2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. \"The drama of war.\" Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp. 3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. Note: The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces. The romantic drama, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. J. A. Symonds.","arctogeal":"Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.","erudiate":"To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.","hodiern":"Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.","understatement":"The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.","subordinate":"1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South.\n\nOne who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal. Milton.\n\n1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another. 2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. -- Sub*or\"di*nate*ly, adv. -- Sub*or\"di*nate*ness, n.","tattler":"1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. Jer. Taylor. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus. Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale (T. melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs (T. flavipes), the solitary tattler (T. solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.","modeling":"The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.] Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling.","enteron":"The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.","gongorism":"An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet. J. A. Symonds.","floscularian":"One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.","coessential":"Partaking of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen\"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.","after-note":"One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.","trumpetwood":"A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.","feeling":"1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.\n\n1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused Milton. 2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shak. 3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. 4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay. 5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt. Syn. -- Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment.","outmost":"Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.","outwalk":"To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking. B. Jonson.","peritoneum":"The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac. [Written also peritonæum.]","goost":"Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.","evenness":"The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness. Jer. Taylor.","hythe":"A small haven. See Hithe. [Obs.]","mutualism":"The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.","hendecasyllabic":"Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.","gasolier":"Same as Gasalier.","limulus":"The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.","opprobry":"Opprobrium. [Obs.] Johnson.","glandage":"A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.","slaughterhouse":"A house where beasts are butchered for the market.","dissemble":"1. To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs J. P. Kemble. 2. To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. Tatler. Syn. -- To conceal; disguise; cloak; cover; equivocate. See Conceal.\n\nTo conceal the real fact, motives, He that hateth dissembleth with his lips. Prov. xxvi. 24. He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship. C. J. Smith.","rakehell":"A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.\n\nDissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.","pedicel":"1. (Bot.) (a) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns. 2. (Zoöl.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. 3. (Anat.) (a) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. (b) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.","repulse":"1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton. 2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.\n\n1. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back. By fate repelled, and with repulses tired. Denham. He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in the body. Shak. 2. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.","storax":"Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant. Note: A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax. Cf. Liquidambar.","queenhood":"The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.","calif":"Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.","hygienic":"Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.","sheerly":"At once; absolutely. [Obs.]","zampogna":"A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete. [Written also zampugna.]","retroaction":"1. Action returned, or action backward. 2. Operation on something past or preceding.","presbyterian":"Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.\n\nOne who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church. Reformed Presbyterians. See Cameronian.","festoon":"1. A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way. 2. (Arch. & Sculp.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.\n\nTo form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.","silicula":"A silicle.","epithelium":"The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.","tissued":"Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.","neuritis":"Inflammation of a nerve.","gymnopaedic":"Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.","endear":"1. To make dear or beloved. \"To be endeared to a king.\" Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.] King James I. (1618).","binervate":"1. (Bot.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves. 2. (Zoöl.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.","sackful":"As much as a sack will hold.\n\nBent on plunder. [Obs.] Chapman.","sponsion":"1. The act of becoming surety for another. 2. (Internat. Law) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.","jugal":"1. Relating to a yoke, or to marriage. [Obs.] 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.","pentyl":"The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.","venew":"A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney. [Obs.] Fuller.","printing in":"A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.","futhork":"The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). The letters are called Runes and the alphabet bears the name Futhorc from the first six letters. I. Taylor. The spelling futharc represents most accurately the original values of these six Runic letters.","remorate":"To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] Johnson.","coward":"1. (Her.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion. 2. Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch. Shak. 3. Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. He raised the house with loud and coward cries. Shak. Invading fears repel my coward joy. Proir.\n\nA person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon. A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse. Dryden. Syn. -- Craven; poltroon; dastard.\n\nTo make timoroys; to frighten. [Obs.] That which cowardeth a man's heart. Foxe.","bistoury":"A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.","intagliated":"Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.","oncometer":"An instrument for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc.","piculet":"Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.","leucophyllous":"Having white or silvery foliage.","overdight":"Covered over. [Obs.] Spenser.","inappreciable":"Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated. Hallam.","fattener":"One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.","uncomfortable":"1. Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position. 2. Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison. -- Un*com\"fort*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*com\"fort*a*bly, adv.","corn":"A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak. Note: The substance of a corn usually resembles horn, but where moisture is present, as between the toes, it is white and sodden, and is called a soft corn.\n\n1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain. 2. The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats. Note: In Scotland, corn is generally restricted to oats, in the United States, to maize, or Indian corn, of which there are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping. 3. The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton. 4. A small, hard particle; a grain. \"Corn of sand.\" Bp. Hall. \"A corn of powder.\" Beau & Fl. Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called \"gout,\" on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (b) A small fly (Anthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through its batter. [U. S.] -- Corn laws, laws regulating trade in corn, especially those in force in Great Britain till 1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate. -- Corn marigold. (Bot.) See under Marigold. -- Corn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum ssegetum), a weed in parts of Europe and Asia. -- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas), common in European cornfields; -- also called corn rose. -- Corn rent, rent paid in corn. -- Corn rose. See Corn poppy. -- Corn salad (Bot.), a name given to several species of Valerianella, annual herbs sometimes used for salad. V. olitoria is also called lamb's lettuce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk of maize near the root, often doing great damage. See Grain weevil, under Weevil.\n\n1. To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue. 2. To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder. 3. To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses. Jamieson. 4. To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one. [Colloq.] Corning house, a house or place where powder is corned or granulated.","drunken":"1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. 3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift.","billfish":"A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).","aesculin":"Same as Esculin.","bicrural":"Having two legs. Hooker.","bourbon":"1. A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France. 2. A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.","righteous":"Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton. Syn. -- Upright; just; godly; holy; uncorrupt; virtuous; honest; equitable; rightful.","fencer":"One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.","smee":"(a) The pintail duck. (b) The widgeon. (c) The poachard. (d) The smew. [Prov. Eng.]","ferriprussic":"Ferricyanic. [R.]","logroll":"To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]","gobbing":"(a) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C. (b) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.","definitively":"In a definitive manner.","rubiform":"Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun. [R.] Sir I. newton.","sol-fa":"To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.\n\nThe gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.","settle":"1. A seat of any kind. [Obs.] \"Upon the settle of his majesty\" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit. Ezek. xliii. 14. Settle bed, a bed convertible into a seat. [Eng.]\n\n1. To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like. And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed. 2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.) The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son. Dryden. 2. To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister. [U. S.] 3. To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose. God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. Chapman. Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. Bunyan. 4. To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee. 5. To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads. 6. To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it. 7. To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance. It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. Swift. 8. To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel. 9. To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account. 10. Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill. [Colloq.] Abbott. 11. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620. To settle on or upon, to confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to. \"I . . . have settled upon him a good annuity.\" Addison. -- To settle the land (Naut.), to cause it to sink, or appear lower, by receding from it. Syn. -- To fix; establish; regulate; arrange; compose; adjust; determine; decide.\n\n1. To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state. The wind came about and settled in the west. Bacon. Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red. Arbuthnot. 2. To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain. 3. To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder. As people marry now and settle. Prior. 4. To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law. 5. To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring. 6. To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing. A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles. Addison. 7. To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir. 8. To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc. 9. To become calm; to cease from agitation. Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him. Shak. 10. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors. 11. To make a jointure for a wife. He sighs with most success that settles well. Garth.","enfleurage":"A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.","velvetleaf":"A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennæ, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.","warmth":"1. The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth. Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments. Addison. 2. A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth. \"Spiritual warmth, and holy fires.\" Jer. Taylor. That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal. Sprat. 3. (Paint.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; vehemence.","plate":"1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. 2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. Mangled . . . through plate and mail. Milton. 3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. 4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. 5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. 6. Etym: [Cf. Sp. plata silver.] A piece of money, usually silver money. [Obs.] \"Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.\" Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. 8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. 9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. 10. (Arch.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters. 11. (Her.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. 12. (Photog.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. 13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest. Note: Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases of obvious signification; as, plate basket or plate-basket, plate rack or plate- rack. Home plate. (Baseball) See Home base, under Home. -- Plate armor. (a) See Plate, n., 2. (b) Strong metal plates for protecting war vessels, fortifications, and the like. -- Plate bone, the shoulder blade, or scapula. -- Plate girder, a girder, the web of which is formed of a single vertical plate, or of a series of such plates riveted together. -- Plate glass. See under Glass. -- Plate iron, wrought iron plates. -- Plate layer, a workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties. -- Plate mark, a special mark or emblematic figure stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the local mark for London is a lion. -- Plate paper, a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates. Fairholt. -- Plate press, a press with a flat carriage and a roller, -- used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates. -- Plate printer, one who prints from engraved plates. -- Plate printing, the act or process of printing from an engraved plate or plates. -- Plate tracery. (Arch.) See under Tracery. -- Plate wheel (Mech.), a wheel, the rim and hub of which are connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by arms or spokes.\n\n1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. 2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. Thus plated in habiliments of war. Shak. 3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness. 4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ. 5. To calender; as, to plate paper.","psychosis":"1. Any vital action or activity. Mivart. 2. (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.","hippophagism":"Hippophagy. Lowell.","extraprovincial":"Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.","withhold":"1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. Milton. 3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. Chaucer.","ciceronian":"Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.","refund":"To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.\n\n1. To pour back. [R. & Obs.] Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. Ray. 2. To give back; to repay; to restore. A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange. 3. To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [Obs.]","camaraderie":"Comradeship and loyalty. The spirit of camaraderie is strong among these riders of the plains. W. A. Fraser.","unsoot":"Not sweet. [Obs.] Spenser.","wood-sere":"The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. [Written also wood-seer.] [Obs.] Tusser.","eremite":"A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.","orbical":"Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular. [R.] Bacon.","marmoratum opus":"A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.","photopsy":"Same as Photopsia.","costated":"Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.","dynamo":"A dynamo-electric machine.","fummel":"A hinny.","stiff-necked":"Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.","reseda":"1. (Bot.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. 2. A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.","ladkin":"A little lad. [R.] Dr. H. More.","engine":"1. (Pronounced, in this sense, [Obs.] A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also. Chaucer. 2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak. You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak. 3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. \"Terrible engines of death.\" Sir W. Raleigh. 4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine. Note: The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power, as steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.\n\n1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.] To engine and batter our walls. T. Adams. 2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. 3. (Pronounced, in this sense, [Obs.] Chaucer.","flowering":"Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.\n\n1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. 2. The act of adorning with flowers.","phosphoroscope":"An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.","odorous":"Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. \"Odorous bloom.\" Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O\"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O\"dor*ous*ness, n.","leviratical":"Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. Alford.","proof-arm":"To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. [R.] Beau. & Fl.","compotation":"The act of drinking or tippling together. [R.] The fashion of compotation. Sir W. Scott.","snift":"1. To snort. [Obs.] \"Resentment expressed by snifting.\" Johnson. 2. To sniff; to snuff; to smell. It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. Landor.\n\n1. A moment. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. Slight snow; sleet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","thermogram":"The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.","phalaenid":"Any moth of the family Phalænidæ, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.","paunchy":"Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.","brainsick":"Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain\"sick*ness, n.","revision":"1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. 2. That which is made by revising. Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.","artlessly":"In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.","describent":"Same as Generatrix.","rattle-headed":"Noisy; giddy; unsteady.","sunn":"An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp. [Written also sun.]","slowness":"The quality or state of being slow.","sonderclass":"A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4,035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, not more than 550 square yards; and the cost of construction (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built.","cataian":"A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. Shak.","hurrier":"One who hurries or urges.","misobserve":"To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.","boulework":"Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.","parallelize":"To render parallel. [R.]","corb":"1. A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf. 2. (Arch.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.","assamar":"The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.","rheomotor":"Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]","putridness":"Putridity. Floyer.","cloom":"To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.","slabby":"1. Thick; viscous. They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden. 2. Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy. Gay.","mesopodial":"Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.","parenesis":"Exhortation. [R.]","para":"A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.","derogator":"A detractor.","gesso":"1. Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared. 2. A work of art done in gesso. [Obs.]","paltock":"A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","araise":"To raise. [Obs.] Shak.","metamorphoser":"One who metamorphoses. [R.] Gascoigne.","pilifera":"Same as Mammalia.","chorograph":"An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.","dethronization":"Dethronement. [Obs.] Speed.","sartorial":"1. Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work. Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages. Lowell. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to thesartorius muscle.","strawy":"Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.","syntony":"State of being adjusted to a certain wave length; agreement or tuning between the time period of an apparatus emitting electric oscillations and that of a receiving apparatus, esp. in wireless telegraphy.","schoolward":"Toward school. Chaucer.","gusty":"Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous. Upon a raw and gusty day. Shak.","embryotic":"Embryonic.","hydropiper":"A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.","lowk":"See Louk. [Obs.] Chaucer.","lunated":"Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.","olivaster":"Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.","troubler":"One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.","cham":"To chew. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. More.\n\nThe sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan. Shak.","pavisor":"A soldier who carried a pavise.","advantageous":"Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.","cadillac":"A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.","disk clutch":"A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.","perforative":"Having power to perforate or pierce.","towage":"1. The act of towing. 2. The price paid for towing.","gelidness":"The state of being gelid; gelidity.","hercogamous":"Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.","pyromancy":"Divination by means of fire.","dermic":"1. Relating to the derm or skin. 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified. Huxley. Dermic remedies (Med.), such as act through the skin.","fougasse":"A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.","pausingly":"With pauses; haltingly. Shak.","emplastration":"1. The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland. 2. Etym: [See 1st Emplaster.] (Med.) The application of a plaster or salve.","odorament":"A perfume; a strong scent. [Obs.] Burton.","dodecasyllabic":"Having twelve syllables.","finger":"1. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb. 2. Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion. 3. The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins. 4. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument. [R.] She has a good finger. Busby. Ear finger, the little finger. -- Finger alphabet. See Dactylology. -- Finger bar, the horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play. -- Finger board (Mus.), the part of a stringed instrument against which the fingers press the strings to vary the tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. -- Finger bowl or glass, a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger flower (Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguinale) with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See Crab grass, under Crab. -- Finger nut, a fly nut or thumb nut. -- Finger plate, a strip of metal, glass, etc., to protect a painted or polished door from finger marks. -- Finger post, a guide post bearing an index finger. -- Finger reading, reading printed in relief so as to be sensible to the touch; -- so made for the blind. -- Finger shell (Zoöl.), a marine shell (Pholas dactylus) resembling a finger in form. -- Finger sponge (Zoöl.), a sponge having finger-shaped lobes, or branches. -- Finger stall, a cover or shield for a finger. -- Finger steel, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife. To burn one's fingers. See under Burn. -- To have a finger in, to be concerned in. [Colloq.] -- To have at one's fingers' ends, to be thoroughly familiar with. [Colloq.]\n\n1. To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with. Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me. Shak. 2. To touch lightly; to toy with. 3. (Mus.) (a) To perform on an instrument of music. (b) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing. 4. To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin. Shak. 5. To execute, as any delicate work.\n\nTo use the fingers in playing on an instrument. Busby.","phytopathology":"The science of diseases to which plants are liable.","semiannular":"Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.","extensometer":"An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.","diactinic":"Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.","confectionary":"A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13.\n\nPrepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. Cowper.","friended":"1. Having friends; [Obs.] 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. [Obs.] Shak.","heptaspermous":"Having seven seeds.","cauter":"A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. Minsheu.","contracted":"1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak.","captivate":"1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. Small landscapes of captivating loveliness. W. Irving. Syn. -- To enslave; subdue; overpower; charm; enchant; bewitch; facinate; capture; lead captive.\n\nTaken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. Women have been captivate ere now. Shak.","crimpy":"Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.","inquiringly":"In an inquiring manner.","erethism":"A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.","moon-faced":"Having a round, full face.","brougham":"A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.","improver":"One who, or that which, improves.","lady":"1. A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou The which answered, Fro the face of Sara my lady. Wyclif (Gen. xvi. 8.). 2. A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. \"Lord or lady of high degree.\" Lowell. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady. Shak. 3. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. Waller. 4. A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. 5. A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman. 6. A wife; -- not now in approved usage. Goldsmith. 7. (Zoöl.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. Ladies' man, a man who affects the society of ladies. -- Lady altar, an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley. -- Lady chapel, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. -- Lady court, the court of a lady of the manor. -- Lady crab (Zoöl.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab (Platyonichus ocellatus) very common on the sandy shores of the Atlantic coast of the United States. -- Lady fern. (Bot.) See Female fern, under Female, and Illust. of Fern. -- Lady in waiting, a lady of the queen's household, appointed to wait upon or attend the queen. -- Lady Mass, a Mass said in honor of the Virgin Mary. Shipley. Lady of the manor, a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord. Lady's maid, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray. -- Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.\n\nBelonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike. \"Some lady trifles.\" Shak.","dimication":"A fight; contest. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","movable":"1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year. Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent.\n\n1. An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. Evelyn. 2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil. Note: The word is not convertible with personal property, since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are personal property by our law are immovables by the Roman law. Wharton.","rhipidoglossa":"A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.","fragrant":"[fragrans. -antis, p.pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; swetacented; redolent; ambrosial; balmy; spicy; aromatic. -- Fra\"grant*ly, adv.","contrayerva":"A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.","awny":"Having awns; bearded.","rakish":"Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.\n\nHaving a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","glancingly":"In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. Hakewill.","agriculturism":"Agriculture. [R.]","gondolet":"A small gondola. T. Moore.","han":"To have; have. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.","magneto-":"A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.","pearlwort":"A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.","retinerved":"Having reticulated veins.","vaporization":"The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.","long-suffering":"Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.\n\nLong patience of offense. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long- suffering Rom. ii. 4.","vehemence":"1. The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence. 2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. I . . . tremble at his vehemence of temper. Addison.","gerfalcon":"See Gyrfalcon.","barbison school":"A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.","falk":"The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]","low-minded":"Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind. Low-minded and immoral. Macaulay. All old religious jealousies were condemned as low-minded infirmities. Bancroft.","torilto":"A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa.","integropallial":"Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.","lutanist":"A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.","anaphora":"A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.","oatmeal":"1. Meal made of oats. Gay. 2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.","derk":"Dark. [Obs.] Chaucer.","harmonometer":"An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.","theme":"1. A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. Shak. 2. Discourse on a certain subject. Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme. Piers Plowman. It was the subject of my theme. Shak. 3. A composition or essay required of a pupil. Locke. 4. (Gram.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem. 5. That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. [Obs.] Swift. 6. (Mus.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement.","additament":"An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.","tractate":"A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.","overbrim":"To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]","thuyin":"A substance extracted from trees of the genus Thuja, or Thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin. [Written also thujin.]","calculatory":"Belonging to calculation. Sherwood.","trogon":"Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidæ. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. Note: Some of the species have a train of long brilliant feathers lying over the tail and consisting of the upper tail coverts. Unlike other birds having two toes directed forward and two backward, they have the inner toe turned backward. A few species are found in Africa and India, but the greater number, including the most brilliant species, are found in tropical America. See Illust. of Quesal.","buyer":"One who buys; a purchaser.","gradational":"By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.","liparite":"A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.","auctioneer":"A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.\n\nTo sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.","fraying":"The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.","atrium":"1. (Arch.) (a) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. (b) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery. 2. (Anat.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart. 3. (Zoöl.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.","pustule":"A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.","au fait":"Expert; skillful; well instructed.","otaheite apple":"(a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.","kenspeckle":"Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized. [Scot.]","violoncello":"A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.","tobogganer":"One who practices tobogganing.","overleather":"Upper leather. Shak.","gallein":"A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.","pessulus":"A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.","organoscopy":"Phrenology. Fleming.","apparel":"1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler. 2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. 3. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. Syn. -- Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments.\n\n1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. 3. To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25. 4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.","craniotomy":"The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.","antagonistic":"Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis\"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.","subpodophyllous":"Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.","compunct":"Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]","residue":"1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder. The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jer. xv. 9. If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. I. Taylor. 2. (Law) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. 3. (Chem.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense. Note: The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue being applied to the others. 4. (Theory of Numbers) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues. Syn. -- Rest; remainder; remnant; balance; residuum; remains; leavings; relics.","nefasch":"Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.","podophyllum":"1. (Bot.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. 2. (Med.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.","crow":"1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. \"The cock had crown.\" Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak. 2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses. Tennyson. To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. Bp. Hall.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw. Note: The common crow of Europe, or carrion crow, is C. corone. The common American crow is C. Americanus. See Carrion crow, and Illustr., under Carrion. 2. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell. Shak. 3. The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1. 4. The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers. Carrion crow. See under Carrion. -- Crow blackbird (Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike (Zoöl.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia. -- Red-legged crow. See Crough. -- As the crow flies, in a direct line. -- To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).","introcession":"A depression, or inward sinking of parts.","unendly":"Unending; endless. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.","vivifical":"Giving life; reviving; enlivening. [R.]","indefinable":"Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. Bp. Reynolds.","tam-tam":"(a) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom. (b) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.","gravelliness":"State of being gravelly.","rectangularity":"The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.","dendrometer":"An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.","lamellibranch":"One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.","pichey":"A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]","yellowish":"Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. -- Yel\"low*ish*ness, n.","encloud":"To envelop in clouds; to cloud. [R.] Spenser.","agrypnotic":"Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.","caespitose":"Same as Cespitose.","assailant":"Assailing; attacking. Milton.\n\nOne who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. An assailant of the church. Macaulay.","unfledged":"Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.","overlate":"Too late; exceedingly late.","whiting":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin. (b) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake. (c) Any one of several species of North American marine sciænoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting. Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish (a), the sailor's choice (b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes. 2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. (Zoöl.) Same as Pollack. -- Whiting pout (Zoöl.), the bib, 2.","arrogance":"The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak. Syn. -- Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness; presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit; conceitedness. See Haughtiness.","cipherhood":"Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.","uncrudded":"Not cruddled, or curdled. [Obs.] Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Spenser.","barracuda":"1. (Zoöl.) A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food. Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyræna spet (or S. vulgaris); a southern species is S. picuda; the Californian is S. argentea. 2. (Zoöl.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).","boa constrictor":"A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa.","pulvinar":"A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.","flexibility":"The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.","ecraseur":"An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.","helpmate":"A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. Macaulay.","nominal":"1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. \"Nominal attendance on lectures.\" Macaulay.\n\n1. A nominalist. [Obs.] Camden. 2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun. 3. A name; an appellation. A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. Moore (Encyc. of Music. )","erratic":"1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore. 2. Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct. 3. Irregular; changeable. \"Erratic fever.\" Harvey. Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes. -- Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.\n\n1. One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character. 2. A rogue. [Obs.] Cockeram. 3. (Geol.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder. Note: In the plural the term is applied especially to the loose gravel and stones on the earth's surface, including what is called drift.","grammarless":"Without grammar.","clavel":"See Clevis.","edible":"Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. Anything edible. Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. -- Edible crab (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. -- Edible frog (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. -- Edible snail (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.","precation":"The act of praying; supplication; entreaty. Cotton.","fiddlestick":"The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.","winnowing":"The act of one who, or that which, winnows.","astral":"Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.","noematic":"Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.","brant":"A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.\n\nSteep. [Prov. Eng.]\n\n1. Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham. 2. Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.","outre":"Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.","therein":"In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect. Wyclif. He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast. Chaucer. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gen. ix. 7. Therein our letters do not well agree. Shak.","sheepbiter":"One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.","astringer":"A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]","rutic":"pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.","rowed":"Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.","self-opinioned":"Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.","misjoinder":"An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.","lap-jointed":"Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.","vertical":"1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line. Vertical angle (Astron. & Geod.), an angle measured on a vertical circle, called an angle of elevation, or altitude, when reckoned from the horizon upward, and of depression when downward below the horizon. -- Vertical anthers (Bot.), such anthers as stand erect at the top of the filaments. -- Vertical circle (Astron.), an azimuth circle. See under Azimuth. -- Vertical drill, an drill. See under Upright. -- Vertical fire (Mil.), the fire, as of mortars, at high angles of elevation. -- Vertical leaves (Bot.), leaves which present their edges to the earth and the sky, and their faces to the horizon, as in the Australian species of Eucalyptus. -- Vertical limb, a graduated arc attached to an instrument, as a theodolite, for measuring vertical angles. -- Vertical line. (a) (Dialing) A line perpendicular to the horizon. (b) (Conic Sections) A right line drawn on the vertical plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone. (c) (Surv.) The direction of a plumb line; a line normal to the surface of still water. (d) (Geom., Drawing, etc.) A line parallel to the sides of a page or sheet, in distinction from a horizontal line parallel to the top or bottom. -- Vertical plane. (a) (Conic Sections) A plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis. (b) (Projections) Any plane which passes through a vertical line. (c) (Persp.) The plane passing through the point of sight, and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the picture. -- Vertical sash, a sash sliding up and down. Cf. French sash, under 3d Sash. -- Vertical steam engine, a steam engine having the crank shaft vertically above or below a vertical cylinder.\n\n1. Vertical position; zenith. [R.] 2. (Math.) A vertical line, plane, or circle. Prime vertical, Prime vertical dial. See under Prime, a.","picklock":"1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. \"A picklock of secrets.\" Jer. Taylor.","impute":"1. To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay. 2. (Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. It was imputed to him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 22. They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds. Milton. 3. To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.] If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. Gibbon. Syn. -- To ascribe; attribute; charge; reckon; consider; imply; insinuate; refer. See Ascribe.","archery":"1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. 2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607).","mezzotinto":"Mezzotint.\n\nTo engrave in mezzotint; to represent by mezzotint.","uglesome":"Ugly. [Obs.] \"Such an uglesome countenance.\" Latimer.","neckweed":"(a) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod. (b) The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals. Dr. prior.","argali":"A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia. Note: The bearded argali is the aoudad. See Aoudad. The name is also applied to the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains. See Bighorn.","champleve":"Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n. A piece of champlevé enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlevé work.","variolous":"Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.","osteologer":"One versed in osteology; an osteologist.","pentagynia":"A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.","misuse":"1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. 2. To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. Syn. -- To maltreat; abuse; misemploy; misapply.\n\n1. Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use. Words little suspected for any such misuse. Locke. 2. Violence, or its effects. [Obs.] Shak.","powdry":"See Powdery.","sumoom":"See Simoom.","shardy":"Having, or consisting of, shards.","rout cake":"A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties. Twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate. Thackeray.","uniterable":"Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. [Obs.] \"To play away an uniterable life.\" Sir T. Browne.","bridalty":"Celebration of the nuptial feast. [Obs.] \"In honor of this bridalty.\" B. Jonson.","carefully":"In a careful manner.","fag-end":"1. An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect. 2. The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.","seismographic":"Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.","denegation":"Denial. [Obs.]","trochoidal":"1. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid. 2. (Anat. & Zoöl.) See Trochoid, a.","preadamite":"1. An inhabitant of the earth before Adam. 2. One who holds that men existed before Adam.","unfriend":"One not a friend; an enemy. [R.] Carlyle.","gynandromorph":"An animal affected with gynandromorphism,","humpless":"Without a hump. Darwin.","short-lived":"Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.","transmove":"To move or change from one state into another; to transform. [Obs.] Spenser.","arminianism":"The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians.","totty":"Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Scott. For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must. Spenser.","dray":"A squirrel's nest. Cowper.\n\n1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. Addison. 2. A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.","earles penny":"Earnest money. Same as Arles penny. [Obs.]","nepa":"A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.","rehibition":"The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.","collar":"1. Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog. 2. (Arch.) (a) A ring or cinture. (b) A collar beam. 3. (Bot.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray. 4. An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devises to designate their rank or order. 5. (Zoöl.) (a) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus. (b) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. 6. (Mech.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for rastraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hibing an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars. 7. (Naut.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured. 8. (Mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. Raymond. Collar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.\n\n1. To seize by the collar. 2. To put a collar on. To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.","geodesist":"One versed in geodesy.","dreamless":"Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream\"less*ly, adv.","outrun":"To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond. Your zeal outruns my wishes. Sir W. Scott. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Jhon xx. 4.","chameck":"A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.","inburning":"Burning within. Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser.","flapjack":"1. A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake. 2. A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover. [Prov. Eng.]","stentorious":"Stentorian. [R.]","monotheism":"The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.","conscribe":"To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.","deflective":"Causing deflection. Deflective forces, forces that cause a body to deviate from its course.","fovilla":"One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.","demisemiquaver":"A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.","repealability":"The quality or state of being repealable.","radiotelegram":"A message transmitted by radiotelegraph.","ammodyte":"(a) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel. (b) A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]","dill":"An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dill-seed. Dr. Prior.\n\nTo still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. [Obs.]","briolette":"An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.","hellhound":"A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.","infraspinal":"(a) Below the vertebral column, subvertebral. (b) Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.","ataxy":"1. Disorder; irregularity. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 2. (Med.) (a) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions. (b) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.","morindin":"A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).","sgraffito":"Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.","yond":"Furious; mad; angry; fierce. [Obs.] \"Then wexeth wood and yond.\" Spenser.\n\nYonder. [Obs.] \"Yond in the garden.\" Chaucer.","bang":"1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak. 2. To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.\n\nTo make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.\n\n1. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras. 2. The sound produced by a sudden concussion.\n\nTo cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.\n\nThe short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.\n\nSee Bhang.","besaint":"To make a saint of.","regle":"To rule; to govern. [Obs.] \"To regle their lives.\" Fuller.","cowblakes":"Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.","staurolite":"A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.","thickness":"The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).","blusteringly":"In a blustering manner.","trypsinogen":"The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.","amorpha":"A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.","misdepart":"To distribute wrongly. [Obs.] He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer.","scriptural":"Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.","osculant":"1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. 2. (Zoöl.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. 3. (Biol.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.","cautelous":"1. Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] \"Cautelous, though young.\" Drayton. 2. Crafty; deceitful; false. [Obs.] Shak. -- Cau\"te*lous*ly, adv. -- Cau\"te*lous*ness, n. [Obs.]","shiftiness":"The quality or state of being shifty. Diplomatic shiftiness and political versatility. J. A. Syminds.","loover":"See Louver.","copartnery":"the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [R.]","insulter":"One who insults. Shak.","cultivation":"1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.","slacken":"1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. 4. To abate; to become less violent. Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. Milton. 5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. 6. To languish; to fail; to flag. 7. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.] That through your death your lineage should slack. Chaucer. They will not of that firste purpose slack. Chaucer.\n\n1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) 2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.] Shak. Slack not the pressage. Dryden. 3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. 4. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. \"Rancor for to slack.\" Chaucer. I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. Addison. In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. South. With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. Milton. 5. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion. Milton. Air-slacked lime, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and hydrate of lime.\n\nA spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion. [Written also slakin.]","exhumation":"The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.","admirance":"Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.","hydroxanthane":"A persulphocyanate. [Obs.]","suburbed":"Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.","complaintful":"Full of complaint. [Obs.]","selaginella":"A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.","transiliency":"A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] \"An unadvised transiliency.\" Glanvill.","chalkcutter":"A man who digs chalk.","dithyrambus":"See Dithyramb.","amateurish":"In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur\"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur\"ish*ness, n.","aerolithology":"The science of aërolites.","shrub":"A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.\n\nA woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.\n\nTo lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).","lapwing":"A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the \"plover's eggs\" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.","precedented":"Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.","seesaw":"1. A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down. 2. A plank or board adjusted for this play. 3. A vibratory or reciprocating motion. He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact. Sir W. Hamilton. 4. (Whist.) Same as Crossruff.\n\nTo move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.\n\nTo cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. He seesaws himself to and fro. Ld. Lytton.\n\nMoving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.","frisker":"One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.","moistness":"The quality or state of being moist.","articulator":"One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.","underwork":"1. To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine. But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king. Shak. 2. To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting. Dryden. 3. To do like work at a less price than; as, one mason may underwork another.\n\n1. To work or operate in secret or clandestinely. B. Jonson. 2. To do less work than is proper or suitable. 3. To do work for a less price than current rates.\n\nInferior or subordinate work; petty business. Addison.","literatus":"A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.","helmwind":"A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [Prov. Eng.]","ovulary":"Pertaining to ovules.","tenebrous":"Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten\"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.","maziness":"The state or quality of being mazy.","waltron":"A walrus. [Obs.] Woodward.","self-devised":"Devised by one's self.","peerweet":"Same as Pewit (a & b).","torpescent":"Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.","zabian":"See Sabian.","magnet":"1. The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet. Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone. Holland. Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss, The larger loadstone that, the nearer this. Dryden. 2. (Physics) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet. Note: An artificial magnet, produced by the action of a voltaic or electrical battery, is called an electro-magnet. Field magnet (Physics & Elec.), a magnet used for producing and maintaining a magnetic field; -- used especially of the stationary or exciting magnet of a dynamo or electromotor in distinction from that of the moving portion or armature.","lythe":"The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]\n\nSoft; flexible. [Obs.] Spenser.","persona":"Same as Person, n., 8.","cultch":"Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]","boasting":"The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.","employable":"Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.","retributive":"Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.","stoccade":"See Stockade.","eventerate":"To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.","fixing":"1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl. Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]","continently":"In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.","thiosulphate":"A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite. Note: The sodium salt called in photography by the name sodium hyposulphite, being used as a solvent for the excess of unchanged silver chloride, bromide, and iodide on the sensitive plate.","clicky":"Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. \"Their strange clicky language.\" The Century.","uvulatome":"An instrument for removing the uvula.","sere":"[OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.\n\nDry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.\n\nClaw; talon. [Obs.] Chapman.","sailer":"1. A sailor. [R.] Sir P. Sidney. 2. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.","plus":"1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to Ant: minus. 2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. Emerson. Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.","illecebration":"Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.","zuche":"A stump of a tree. Cowell.","eyestalk":"One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.","kaleidoscopical":"Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.","ebracteate":"Without bracts.","rutty":"Ruttish; lustful.\n\nFull of ruts; as a rutty road.\n\nRooty. [Obs.] Spenser.","upsarokas":"See Crows.","bucolical":"Bucolic.","mycetozoa":"The Myxomycetes; -- so called by those who regard them as a class of animals. -- My*ce`to*zo\"an (#), a.","exprobratory":"Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.","grundsel":"Grounsel. [Obs.]","rocking-horse":"The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.","precognizable":"Cognizable beforehand.","dioxindol":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.","manta":"See Coleoptera and Sea devil.","spunky":"Full of spunk; quick; spirited. [Colloq.]","apostate":"1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade. 2. (R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.\n\nPertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.\n\nTo apostatize. [Obs.] We are not of them which apostate from Christ. Bp. Hall.","cultured":"1. Under culture; cultivated. \"Cultured vales.\" Shenstone. 2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.","cenatory":"Of or pertaining to dinner or supper. [R.] The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment. Sir T. Browne.","viva voce":"By word of mouth; orally.","sylph":"1. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy. 2. Fig.: A slender, graceful woman. 3. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).","trimming":"a. from Trim, v. The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey. Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.\n\n1. The act of one who trims. 2. That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings.. 3. The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]","plankton":"All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton\"ic (#), a.","bare":"1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert. 3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear ! Milton. 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. \"Uttering bare truth.\" Shak. 5. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. \"A bare treasury.\" Dryden. 6. Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak. 7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. \"The bare necessaries of life.\" Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.\n\n1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston. 2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.\n\nTo strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.\n\nBore; the old preterit of Bear, v.","larder":"A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. Shak.","clucking":"The noise or call of a brooding hen.","institute":"Established; organized; founded. [Obs.] They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).\n\n1. To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc. 2. To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society. Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ). 3. To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.] We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France. Shak. 4. To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit. And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak. 5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.] If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. Dr. H. More. 6. (Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. Blackstone. Syn. -- To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize; appoint; ordain.\n\n1. The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] \"Water sanctified by Christ's institute.\" Milton. 2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. Glover. 3. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. Burke. To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden. 4. An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute. 5. (Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. Tomlins. Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.","distracter":"One who, or that which, distracts away.","magician":"One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.","birse":"A bristle or bristles. [Scot.]","tend":"To make a tender of; to offer or tender. [Obs.]\n\n1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks. Shak. And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge. Milton. There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson. 2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.\n\n1. To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon. Was he not companion with the riotous knights That tend upon my father Shak. 2. Etym: [F. attendre.] To await; to expect. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards. Two gentlemen tending towards that sight. Sir H. Wotton. Thus will this latter, as the former world, Still tend from bad to worse. Milton. The clouds above me to the white Alps tend. Byron. 2. To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Prov. xxi. 5. The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind. Tillotson.","allomorph":"(a) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. (b) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.","homogeny":"1. Joint nature. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Biol.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.","physa":"A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.","eridanus":"A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.","acaudate":"Tailless.","pithiness":"The quality or state of being pithy.","sexradiate":"Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.","evolatical":"Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] Blount.","tamanoir":"The ant-bear.","deuteronomy":"The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.","frore":"Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.","by-wash":"The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.","hysteroepilepsy":"A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep\"tic, a.","dabster":"One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. [Colloq.] Note: Sometimes improperly used for dabbler; as, \"I am but a dabster with gentle art.\"","incendiary":"1. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property. 2. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.\n\n1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime. 2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. Paley. Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.","isochor":"A line upon a thermodynamic diagram so drawn as to represent the pressures corresponding to changes of temperature when the volume of the gas operated on is constant. -- I`so*chor\"ic (#), a.","iconograph":"An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.","hexyl":"A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.","ripper":"One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.] But what's the action we are for now Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau & Fl.\n\n1. One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool. 2. A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates. 3. Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. [Slang.]","chafe":"1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. Her intercession chafed him. Shak. 3. To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- To rub; fret; gall; vex; excite; inflame.\n\nTo rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak. 2. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. 3. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser. He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak.\n\n1. Heat excited by friction. 2. Injury or wear caused by friction. 3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.","acute-angled":"Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.","embarrass":"1. To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. 2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed. 3. (Com.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements. Syn. -- To hinder; perplex; entangle; confuse; puzzle; disconcert; abash; distress. -- To Embarrass, Puzzle, Perplex. We are puzzled when our faculties are confused by something we do not understand. We are perplexed when our feelings, as well as judgment, are so affected that we know not how to decide or act. We are embarrassed when there is some bar or hindrance upon us which impedes our powers of thought, speech, or motion. A schoolboy is puzzled by a difficult sum; a reasoner is perplexed by the subtleties of his opponent; a youth is sometimes so embarrassed before strangers as to lose his presence of mind.\n\nEmbarrassment. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.","ideological":"Of or pertaining to ideology.","technicals":"Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.","adulterate":"1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator. Syn. -- To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.\n\nTo commit adultery. [Obs.]\n\n1. Tainted with adultery. 2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul\"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul\"ter*ate*ness, n.","continue":"1. To remain ina given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire. Milton. They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matt. xv. 32. 2. To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Sam. xiii. 14. 3. To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31. Syn. -- To persevere; persist. See Persevere.\n\n1. To unite; to connect. [Obs.] the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother. Sir T. browne. 2. To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee. Ps. xxxvi. 10. You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long acustomed to lead. Pope. 3. To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frall world. Milton. 4. To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live. And how shall we continue Claudio. Shak.","gilt-edge":"1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper. 2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc. [Slang, U. S.]","right-about":"A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.","unctious":"Unctuous. [Obs.]","porites":"An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve- rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.","pentahedrical":"Pentahedral. [R.]","bloomingly":"In a blooming manner.","porteress":"See Portress.","vixenly":"Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow.","hotel-de-ville":"A city hall or townhouse.","foothot":"Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. Gower. Custance have they taken anon, foothot. Chaucer.","outdweller":"One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]","discontentation":"Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.","omphalomancy":"Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.","tetaug":"See Tautog. [R.]","isomorphous":"Having the quality of isomorphism.","indoaniline":"Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes.","intermede":"A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera.","invaletudinary":"Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]","vitro-di-trina":"A kind of Venetian glass or glassware in which white threads are embedded in transparent glass with a lacelike or netlike effect.","magnetograph":"An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.","patronymic":"Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.\n\nA modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name. M. A. Lower.","insession":"1. The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. \"Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath.\" [R.] Holland. 2. That in which one sits, as a bathing tub. [R.] Insessions be bathing tubs half full. Holland.","mara":"The principal or ruling evil spirit. E. Arnold.\n\nA female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.\n\nThe Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus.)","poursuivant":"See Pursuivant.","outrunner":"An offshoot; a branch. [R.] \"Some outrunner of the river.\" Lauson.","vulnerose":"Full of wounds; wounded.","teint":"Tint; color; tinge, See Tint. [Obs.] Time shall . . . embrown the teint. Dryden.","refix":"To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.","noddle":"1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. [Obs.] For occasion ... turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken. Bacon.","admixture":"1. The act of mixing; mixture. 2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together. 3. That which is mixed with anything.","regelation":"The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice. Note: Two pieces of ice at (or even) 32regelation. Faraday.","nazaritism":"The vow and practice of a Nazarite.","troppo":"Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.","assot":"To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.\n\nDazed; foolish; infatuated. [Obs.] Willie, I ween thou be assot. Spenser.","capricorn":"1. (Astron.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden. 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.","dangleberry":"A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.","tetrathionate":"A salt of tetrathionic acid.","clef":"A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff. Note: The clefs are three in number, called the C, F, and G clefs, and are probably corruptions or modifications of these letters. They indicate that the letters of absolute pitch belonging to the lines upon which they are placed, are respectively C, F, and G. The F or bass clef, and the G or treble clef, are fixed in their positions upon the staff. The C clef may have three positions. It may be placed upon the first or lower line of the staff, in which case it is called soprano clef, upon the third line, in which case it called alto clef, or upon the fourth line, in which case tenor clef. It rarely or never is placed upon the second line, except in ancient music. See other forms of C clef under C, 2. Alto clef, Bass clef. See under Alto, Bass.","sicklied":"Made sickly. See Sickly, v.","periculum":"1. Danger; risk. 2. In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.","polycarpellary":"Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.","ring-tailed":"Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. Ring- tailed cat (Zoöl.), the cacomixle. -- Ring-tailed eagle (Zoöl.), a young golden eagle.","please":"1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. Ps. cxxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. J. Edwards. 3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. \"It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.\" Col. i. 19. To-morrow, may it please you. Shak. To be pleased in or with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in. -- To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. Dryden.\n\n1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson. 2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.","scalary":"Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","confessorship":"The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.","crucifix":"1. A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions. The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix. Milman. And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew. Warner. 2. The cross or religion of Christ. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","browse":"The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.\n\n1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak. 2. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.\n\n1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer. 2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble. Shak.","tricker":"One who tricks; a trickster.\n\nA trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Boyle.","endostyle":"A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.","wagonage":"1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon. 2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.","blindstory":"The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.","geognostical":"Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [R.]","recondensation":"The act or process of recondensing.","coupure":"A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.","unpardonable":"Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.","presidentship":"The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker.","shiver-spar":"A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.","cray":"See Crare. [Obs.]","chewet":"A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]","haystack":"A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.","crumb":"1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21. 2. Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort. 3. The soft part of bread. Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. Old Song. Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum, with great exactness; completely.\n\nTo break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]","scriber":"A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.","helot":"A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf. Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community. I. Taylor.","pterobranchia":"An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.","coigne":"A quoin. See you yound coigne of the Capitol yon corner stone Shak.\n\nThe practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. [Ireland] Spenser.","scrag-necked":"Having a scraggy neck.","emboyssement":"An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.","hoveringly":"In a hovering manner.","rumbler":"One who, or that which, rumbles.","turbinoid":"Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidæ.","urinogenital":"Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.","segmental":"1. Relating to, or being, a segment. 2. (Anat. & Zoöl.) (a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. (b) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.","podophthalmia":"The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.","polypragmaty":"The state of being overbusy. [R.]","symbolistic":"Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.","earthiness":"The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.","shag-haired":"Having shaggy hair. Shak.","maim":"1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. Blackstone. 2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. Spenser. You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak. Syn. -- To mutilate; mangle; cripple.\n\n1. The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. 2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. Hooker. A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward.","cotillon":"1. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. 2. A tune which regulates the dance. 3. A kind of woolen material for women's skrits.","superessential":"Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing. J. Ellis.","sagamore":"1. Etym: [Cf. Sachem.] The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. \"Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow.\" Longfellow. 2. A juice used in medicine. [Obs.] Johnson.","scaphism":"An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.","underdolven":"p. p. of Underdelve.","sprad":"p. p. of Spread. Chaucer.","pupation":"the act of becoming a pupa.","psellism":"Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.","seid":"A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.","hellbred":"Produced in hell. Spenser.","inly":"Internal; interior; secret. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love. Shak.\n\nInternally; within; in the heart. \"Whereat he inly raged.\" Milton.","civil service reform":"The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.","deligate":"To bind up; to bandage.","ignorantism":"The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.","semicalcareous":"Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.","maryolatry":"Mariolatry.","inventorial":"Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to\"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.","morioplasty":"The restoration of lost parts of the body.","unexpert":"Not expert; inexpert. Milton.","boatbill":"1. A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. 2. A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.","sept":"A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland. The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example. S. Lover.","heliciform":"Having the form of a helix; spiral.","altiloquence":"Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.","transcend":"1. To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds. Howell. 2. To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed. Such popes as shall transcend their limits. Bacon. 8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed. How much her worth transcended all her kind. Dryden.\n\n1. To climb; to mount. [Obs.] 2. To be transcendent; to excel. [R.]","bivial":"Of or relating to the bivium.","piperic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.","crone":"1. An old ewe. [Obs.] Tusser. 2. An old woman; -- usually in contempt. But still the crone was constant to her note. Dryden. 3. An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.] The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him. W. Irving. A few old battered crones of office. Beaconsfield.","stradometrical":"Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]","shot-free":"Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. [Obs.] Feltham.\n\nFree from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free. [Obs.] Shak.","acronycally":"In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.","barrier":"1. (Fort.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy. 2. A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach. 3. pl. A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott. 4. An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack. \"Constitutional barriers.\" Hopkinson. 5. Any limit or boundary; a line of separation. 'Twixt that [instinct] and reason, what a nice barrier ! Pope. Barrier gate, a heavy gate to close the opening through a barrier. -- Barrier reef, a form of coral reef which runs in the general direction of the shore, and incloses a lagoon channel more or less extensive. -- To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. [Obs.]","plait":"1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. (Med.) Same as Plica.\n\n1. To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle. 2. To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.","immanency":"The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling. [Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world. A. V. G. Allen.","chirologist":"One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.","dilapidation":"1. The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke. 2. Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York. Strype. 3. (Law) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay. Burrill.","collarette":"A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.","flannen":"Made or consisting of flannel. [Obs.] \"Flannen robes.\" Dryden.","semisteel":"Puddled steel. [U. S. ]","obdured":"Obdurate; hard. [Obs.] This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.","indignly":"Unworthily. [Obs.]","lexipharmic":"See Alexipharmic.","naturalist":"1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.","brood":"1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator. 2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. 3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman. 4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.\n\n1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs. 2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.\n\n1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton. 2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.\n\n1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens. 2. To cherish with care. [R.] 3. To think anxiously or moodily upon. You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden.","induct":"1. To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott. 2. To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. The prior, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands. Bp. Burnet.","locutory":"A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.","tender":"1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. 2. (Naut.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.\n\n1. (Law) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. 2. To offer in words; to present for acceptance. You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon. Shak.\n\n1. (Law) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. Note: To constitute a legal tender, such money must be offered as the law prescribes. So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due. 2. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. South. 3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. Shak. Legal tender. See under Legal. -- Tender of issue (Law), a form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. Burrill.\n\n1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. 2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. L'Estrange. 3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. The tender and delicate woman among you. Deut. xxviii. 56. 4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. Fuller. 5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! Shak. 6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. \"Tender of property.\" Burke. The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. Tillotson. 7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good. Shak. 8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. 9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. \"Things that are tender and unpleasing.\" Bacon. 10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender- mouthed, and the like. Syn. -- Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.\n\nRegard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. [Obs.] For first, next after life, he tendered her good. Spenser. Tender yourself more dearly. Shak. To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. Fuller.","bodiless":"1. Having no body. 2. Without material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.","confinable":"Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.","benignity":"1. The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. \"Benignity of aspect.\" Sir W. Scott. 2. Mildness; gentleness. The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator. 3. Salubrity; wholesome quality. Wiseman.","disproportionable":"Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por\"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por\"tion*a*bly, adv.","pronounceable":"Capable of being pronounced.","fitness":"The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.","pyroboric":"Pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid, H2B4O7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.","pimpled":"Having pimples. Johnson.","quey":"A heifer. [Scot.]","shama":"A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut.","wher":"Whether. [Sometimes written whe'r.] [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Men must enquire (this is mine assent), Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.","untented":"Having no tent or tents, as a soldier or a field.\n\nNot tended; not dressed. See 4th Tent. The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee! Shak.","eristic":"Controversial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.","vergette":"Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.\n\nA small pale.","interlocutrice":"A female interlocutor.","christ":"The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.","innoxious":"1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. \"Innoxious flames.\" Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox\"ious*ness, n.","regardful":"Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard\"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.","pyrexia":"The febrile condition.","amicable":"Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other. Syn. -- Friendly; peaceable; kind; harmonious. -- Amicable, Friendly. Neither of these words denotes any great warmth of affection, since friendly has by no means the same strength as its noun friendship. It does, however, imply something of real cordiality; while amicable supposes very little more than that the parties referred to are not disposed to quarrel. Hence, we speak of amicable relations between two countries, an amicable adjustment of difficulties. \"Those who entertain friendly feelings toward each other can live amicably together.\"","trespass":"1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.] Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. Ld. Berners. 2. (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. 3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. 4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.\n\n1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. The fatal trespass done by Eve. Milton. You . . . who were dead in trespasses and sins. Eph. if. 1. 3. (Law) (a) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another. (b) An action for injuries accompanied with force. Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass. -- Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case. Syn. -- Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.","horning":"Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning (Scots Law), the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.","ule":"A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.","traitoress":"A traitress. [Obs.] Rom. of R.","bride-ale":"A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.","supremacy":"The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes. Blackstone. Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.","bivaulted":"Having two vaults or arches.","fraischeur":"Freshness; coolness. [R.] Dryden.","hanger":"1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: (a) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. (b) (Mach.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft. (c) A bridle iron. 3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword. 4. A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] Gilbert White.","rattlewort":"Same as Rattlebox.","garfish":"(a) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike. (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbæus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; - - called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.","stepparent":"Stepfather or stepmother.","singult":"A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.","siluridan":"Any fish of the family Silurid or of the order Siluroidei.","exercisable":"That may be exercised, used, or exerted.","sacramentary":"1. Of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental. 2. Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.\n\n1. An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany. 2. Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1. Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries. Jer. Taylor.","quartic":"Of the fourth degree.\n\n(a) (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic. (b) (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.","famoused":"Renowned. [Obs.] Shak.","salangana":"The salagane.","detractor":"One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay. Syn. -- Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.","came":"imp. of Come.\n\nA slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.","sulkiness":"The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.","grecian":"Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. [Collog.] -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.\n\n1. A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek. 2. A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist. Acts vi. 1. Note: The Greek word rendered Grecian in the Authorized Version of the New Testament is translated Grecian Jew in the Revised Version. 6. One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.","ondoyant":"Wavy; having the surface marked by waves or slightly depressed furrows; as, ondoyant glass.","ephemeran":"One of the ephemeral flies.","two-phase":"Same as Diphase, Diphaser.","overwrought":"Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.","raparee":"See Rapparee.","uncoined":"1. Not coined, or minted; as, uncoined silver. Locke. 2. Not fabricated; not artificial or counterfeit; natural. \"Plain and uncoined constancy.\" Shak.","barbarism":"1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton. 3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.","empugn":"See Impugn.","corpuscule":"A corpuscle. [Obs.]","oilskin":"Cloth made waterproof by oil.","illiberality":"The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.","matelasse":"Ornamented by means of an imitation or suggestion of quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.\n\nA quilted ornamented dress fabric of silk or silk and wool.","tensiled":"Made tensile. [R.]","historiography":"The art of employment of an historiographer.","pourer":"One who pours.","countervote":"To vote in opposition ti; to balance or overcome by viting; to outvote. Dr. J. Scott.","miniver":"A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.","congestion":"1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn. 2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.","well-known":"Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.","organization":"1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. \"The first organization of the general government.\" Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition. What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means Coleridge. 3. That wich is organized; an organized existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.","esopian":"Of or pertaining to Æsop, or in his manner.\n\nSame as Æsopian, Æsopic.","lymphoma":"A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.","scholium":"1. Marginal anotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian. 2. A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.","vaticinator":"One who vaticinates; a prophet.","extinction":"1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc. 2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.","swarmspore":"1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoöspore.","cryptographist":"Same as Cryptographer.","consecrate":"Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.\n\n1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. Sharp. 2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. Ex. xxix. 9. 3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor. 4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke. Syn. -- See Addict.","provender":"1. Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed. \"Hay or other provender.\" Mortimer. Good provender laboring horses would have. Tusser. 2. Food or provisions. [R or Obs.]","alluvion":"1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank. 2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell. 3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden. 4. (Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.","demonstrator":"1. One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence. 2. (Anat.) A teacher of practical anatomy.","accusatorial":"Accusatory.","bawler":"One who bawls.","pedaneous":"Going on foot; pedestrian. [R.]","spaghetti":"A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.","sepulture":"1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden. 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.","exasperation":"1. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South. 2. Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. \"Exasperation of the fits.\" Sir H. Wotton.","weakfish":"Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague. Spotted weakfish (Zoöl.), the spotted squeteague.","hoofed":"Furnished with hoofs. Grew.","underplay":"1. To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part. 2. (Card Playing) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.\n\nThe act of underplaying.","idiosyncratical":"Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.","outreason":"To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.","intertexture":"The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. \"Knit in nice intertexture.\" Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.","anisol":"Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.","endopleura":"The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.","decylic":"Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.","incontestable":"Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts. Locke. Syn. -- Incontrovertible; indisputable; irrefragable; undeniable; unquestionable; intuitable; certain. -- In`con*test\"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*test\"a*bly, adv.","oxyacetic":"Hydroxyacetic; designating an acid called also glycolic acid.","misnurture":"To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. Bp. Hall.","earlock":"A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.","spermic":"Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.","chromogenic":"Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.","uncinata":"A division of marine chætopod annelids which are furnished with uncini, as the serpulas and sabellas.","potale":"The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.","allocatur":"\"Allowed.\" The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.","turner":"1. One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe. 2. (Zoöl.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.\n\nA person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.","sesquipedal":"Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.","continuo":"Basso continuo, or continued bass.","onerous":"Burdensome; oppressive. \"Too onerous a solicitude.\" I. Taylor. Onerous cause (Scots Law), a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.","roily":"Turbid; as, roily water.","shrag":"A twig of a tree cut off. [Obs.]\n\nTo trim, as trees; to lop. [Obs.]","petrology":"1. The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology. 2. A treatise on petrology.","foreordination":"Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.","lepidodendron":"A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.","shoveboard":"The same as Shovelboard.","clergyable":"Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.","hypnotize":"To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.","pesky":"Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.] Judd.","disinterment":"The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.","aid-de-camp":"An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.","hydraemia":"An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.","pronominalize":"To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc. Early.","badge":"1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. \"Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. \" Prescott. 2. Something characteristic; a mark; a token. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Shak. 3. (Naut.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.\n\nTo mark or distinguish with a badge.","outwit":"To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.\n\nThe faculty of acquiring wesdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","agrostological":"Pertaining to agrostology.","assessee":"One who is assessed.","cul-de-sac":"1. A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. 2. (Mil.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. 3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.","deep":"1. Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak. 2. Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak. 3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley. 4. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5. 5. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. Deep clerks she dumbs. Shak. 6. Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror. \"Deep despair.\" Milton. \"Deep silence.\" Milton. \"Deep sleep.\" Gen. ii. 21. \"Deeper darkness.\" Hoole. \"Their deep poverty.\" 2 Cor. viii. 2. An attitude of deep respect. Motley. 7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson. 8. Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. \"The deep thunder.\" Byron. The bass of heaven's deep organ. Milton. 9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.\n\nTo a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope. Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut, deep-seated, deep-toned, deep- voiced, \"deep-uddered kine.\"\n\n1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope. 2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. Thy judgments are a great. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. The deep of night is crept upon our talk. Shak.","approof":"1. Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak. 2. Approval; commendation. Shak.","lampron":"See Lamprey.","depopulacy":"Depopulation; destruction of population. [R.] Chapman.","relesse":"To release. [Obs.] Chaucer.","feigner":"One who feigns or pretends.","perineorrhaphy":"The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.","boy scout":"Orig., a member of the \"Boy Scouts,\" an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In \"The Boy Scouts of America\" the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.","dedecoration":"Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.","digenesis":"The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.","croton bug":"A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.","ethological":"treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character. J. S. Mill.","scylla":"A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying \"Between Scylla and Charybdis,\" signifying a great peril on either hand.","pilot balloon":"A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.","bellona":"The goddess of war.","dedecorate":"To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.","griffin":"An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe. H. Kingsley.\n\n1. (Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art. 2. (Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge. 3. (Zoöl.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; - - called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the \"eagle\" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. [Written also gryphon.] 4. An English early apple.","unculpable":"Inculpable; not blameworthy. [R.] Hooker.","interspersion":"The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.","datura":"A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of capsule), white flowers and green stem, and D. tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.","doughtren":"Daughters. [Obs.] Chaucer.","septuary":"Something composed of seven; a week. [R.] Ash.","spermophore":"A spermatophore.","dragonnade":"The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley. DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL Drag\"on's blood, Drag\"on's head, Drag\"on's tail. See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.","darn":"To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockins. Swift. Darning last. See under Last. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. Note: [In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.] Called also devil's darning-needle.\n\nA place mended by darning.\n\nA colloquial euphemism for Damn.","hurly-burly":"Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.","contend":"1. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. For never two such kingdoms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut. ii. 9. In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. Shak. 2. To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. You sit above, and see vain men below Contend for what you only can bestow. Dryden. 3. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. The question which our author would contend for. Locke. Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- To struggle; fight; combat; vie; strive; oppose; emulate; contest; litigate; dispute; debate.\n\nTo struggle for; to contest. [R.] Carthage shall contend the world with Rome.Dryden.","adipescent":"Becoming fatty.","cot":"1. A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith. 2. A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote. 3. A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. 4. Etym: [Cf. Ir. cot.] A small, rudely-formed boat. Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell.\n\nA sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]","horde":"A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.","cooperation":"1. The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon. 2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.","drawspring":"The spring to which a drawbar is attached.","anthropophuism":"Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.","jobation":"A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof. [Law] Grose.","unfirmness":"Infirmness. [R.]","showbread":"Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.","ralliance":"The act of rallying.","panderism":"The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. Bp. Hall.","dephlegmate":"To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.","bilinguous":"Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]","secco":"Dry. Secco painting, or Painting in secco, painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, which is on wet or fresh plaster.","scherzo":"A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.","occlude":"1. To shut up; to close. Sir T. Browne. 2. (Chem.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen.","undoubtable":"Indubitable.","pursuable":"Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted. Sherwood.","smew":"(a) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. (b) The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]","genian":"Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.","plebeiance":"1. Plebeianism. [Obs.] 2. Plebeians, collectively. [Obs.]","water chickweed":"A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.","punctual":"1. Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended. [R.] \"This punctual spot.\" Milton. The theory of the punctual existence of the soul. Krauth. 2. Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise. Punctual to tediousness in all that he relates. Bp. Burnet. So much on punctual niceties they stand. C. Pitt. 3. Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment. \"The race of the undeviating and punctual sun.\" Cowper. These sharp strokes [of a pendulum], with their inexorably steady intersections, so agree with our successive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. J. Martineau.","tame":"To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.\n\n1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird. 2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon. 3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery. Syn. -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.\n\n1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. Macaulay. 2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.","stable":"1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character. And to her husband ever meek and stable. Chaucer. 3. Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position. Stable equibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that if disturbed it returns to its former position, as in the case when the center of gravity is below the point or axis of support; -- opposed to unstable equilibrium, in which the body if disturbed does not tend to return to its former position, but to move farther away from it, as in the case of a body supported at a point below the center of gravity. Cf. Neutral equilibrium, under Neutral. Syn. -- Fixed; steady; constant; abiding; strong; durable; firm.\n\nTo fix; to establish. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nA house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable. Milton. Stable fly (Zoöl.), a common dipterous fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) which is abundant about stables and often enters dwellings, especially in autumn. These files, unlike the common house files, which they resemble, bite severely, and are troublesome to horses and cattle.\n\nTo put or keep in a stable.\n\nTo dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel. Milton.","bosky":"1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton. 2. Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.","manganese steel":"Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.","stomapoda":"An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.","enharmonic":"1. (Anc. Mus.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. 2. (Mus.) (a) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A for G#. (b) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.","dazzle":"1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light. Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright. Milton. An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. Sir H. Taylor. 2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. \"Dazzled and drove back his enemies.\" Shak.\n\n1. To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. Pope. 2. To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle. Bacon. I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise. Dryden.\n\nA light of dazzling brilliancy.","tuscor":"A tush of a horse.","inertia":"1. (Physics) That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness. Men . . . have immense irresolution and inertia. Carlyle. 3. (Med.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased. Center of inertia. (Mech.) See under Center.","foothook":"See Futtock.","bumptious":"Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.","ruby-tailed":"Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.","dilluing":"A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [Written also deluing.]","subaid":"To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly. [R.] Daniel.","pteron":"The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.","compte rendu":"A report of an officer or agent.","black pudding":"A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.","subway":"An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.","saltire":"A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.","rebaptize":"To baptize again or a second time.","one-hand":"Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.","complainable":"That may be complained of. [R.] Feltham.","displeasure":"1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure. Milton. 2. That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury. Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself Shak. 3. State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor. [Obs.] He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham. Syn. -- Dissatisfaction; disapprobation; disfavor; distaste; dislike; anger; hate; aversion; indignation; offense.\n\nTo displease. [Obs.] Bacon.","boatable":"1. Such as can be transported in a boat. 2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.","blizzard":"A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]","fomalhaut":"A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.","calker":"1. One who calks. 2. A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.","countersink":"1. To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw. 2. To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.\n\n1. An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt. Note: In the United States a flaring cavity formed by chamfering the edges of a round hole is called a countersink, while a cylindrical flat-bottomed enlargement of the mouth of the hole is usually called a conterbore. 2. A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.","notodontian":"Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.","synartesis":"A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union. [R.] Coleridge.","duebill":"A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill.","hires":"Hers; theirs. See Here, pron. [Obs.] Chaucer.","mangostan":"A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.","praesternum":"Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.","gnathostegite":"One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.","spang":"To spangle. [Obs.]\n\nTo spring; to bound; to leap. [Scot.] But when they spang o'er reason's fence, We smart for't at our own expense. Ramsay.\n\nA bound or spring. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.\n\nA spangle or shining ornament. [Obs.] With glittering spangs that did like stars appear. Spenser.","alcyonaria":"One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.","unobedient":"Disobedient. [Obs.] Milton.","ypsiloid":"In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.","indorsement":"1. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument. 2. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred. Story. Byles. Burrill. 3. Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct. Blank indorsement. See under Blank.","foolhardihood":"The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.","anthobian":"A beetle which feeds on flowers.","interstratification":"Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.","rayonnant":"Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.","tricarbimide":"See under Cyanuric.","pressor":"Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.","impoon":"The duykerbok.","atmospherology":"The science or a treatise on the atmosphere.","impart":"1. To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden. 2. To obtain a share of; to partake of. [R.] Munday. 3. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose. Gentle lady, When I did first impart my love to you. Shak. Syn. -- To share; yield; confer; convey; grant; give; reveal; disclose; discover; divulge. See Communicate.\n\n1. To give a part or share. He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none. Luke iii. 11. 2. To hold a conference or consultation. Blackstone.","rip cord":"A cord by which the gas bag of a balloon may be ripped open for a limited distance to release the gas quickly and so cause immediate descent.","anion":"An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.","sensorial":"Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker.","butcherly":"Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. \"The victim of a butcherly murder.\" D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. BUTCHER'S BROOM Butch\"er's broom`. (Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.","mess beef":"Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.","demonomania":"A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.","nothing":"1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to Ant: anything and Ant: something. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. Dryden. 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak. 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. Is. xli. 24. 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. Dryden. 4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. Chaucer. -- To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. \"We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.\" Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.\n\nIn no degree; not at all; in no wise. Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. Milton. The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. Burke. Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.","multigranulate":"Having, or consisting of, many grains.","fossa":"A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.","ciliograde":"Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ.","quiddany":"A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.","swiller":"One who swills.","dogfish":"1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, or horned dogfish (Squalus acanthias) abundant on both sides of the Atlantic. 2. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin. 3. The burbot of Lake Erie.","crepitate":"To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.","deserve":"1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John Gay deserved to be a favorite. Thackeray. Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension. Burke. 2. To serve; to treat; to benefit. [Obs.] A man that hath So well deserved me. Massinger.\n\nTo be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well. One man may merit or deserve of another. South.","pediform":"Shaped like a foot.","neoterical":"Recent in origin; modern; new. \"Our neoteric verbs.\" Fitzed. Hall. Some being ancient, others neoterical. Bacon.","nolde":"Would not. [Obs.] Chaucer.","thrillant":"Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] \"His thrillant spear.\" Spenser.","winding":"A call by the boatswain's whistle.\n\nTwisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. Keble.\n\nA turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton. A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine. -- Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped. -- Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. Totten.","yielding":"Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- Obsequious; attentive. -- Yielding, Obsequious, Attentive. In many cases a man may be attentive or yielding in a high degree without any sacrifice of his dignity; but he who is obsequious seeks to gain favor by excessive and mean compliances for some selfish end. -- Yield\"ing*ly, adv. -- Yield\"ing*ness, n.","mixtilinear":"Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. [R.]","wesleyanism":"The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.","anaseismic":"Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.","underpart":"A subordinate part. It should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dryden.","nutant":"Nodding; having the top bent downward.","antisocial":"Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.","mackintosh":"A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.","feoff":", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feoffed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Feoffing.] Etym: [OE. feffen, OF. feffer, fieffer, F. fieffer, fr. fief fief; cf. LL. feoffare, fefare. See Fief.] (Law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.\n\nA fief. See Fief.","clerstory":"See Clearstory.","blowpoint":"A child's game. [Obs.]","microcline":"A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.","sprug":"To make smart. [Obs.]","water blackbird":"The European water ousel, or dipper.","estuary":"1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle. 2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.\n\nBelonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.","intelligencer":"One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.","sorghe":"The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish. [Prov. Eng.]","avatar":"1. (Hindoo Myth.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu. 2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.","protectingly":"By way of protection; in a protective manner.","carbonarism":"The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.","fredstole":"See Fridstol. Fuller.","hysteranthous":"Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.","depriment":"Serving to depress. [R.] \"Depriment muscles.\" Derham.","subalmoner":"An under almoner.","enfreedom":"To set free. [Obs.] Shak.","heved":"The head. [Obs.] Chaucer.","uncut velvet":"A fabric woven like velvet, but with the loops of the warp threads uncut.","jester":"1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.","viperoidea":"A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.","ejaculator":"A muscle which helps ejaculation.","aruspicy":"Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.","fortissimo":"Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.","pandarism":"Same as Panderism. Swift.","trowl":"See Troll.","browless":"Without shame. L. Addison.","rossel":"Light land; rosland. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.","husbandry":"1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser.","sternothyroid":"Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.","diverticle":"1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. [Obs.] Hales. 2. (Anat.) A diverticulum.","carthamin":"A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.","cupping":"The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. -- Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.","declass":"To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.","demephitize":"To purify from mephitic. -- De*meph`i*ti*za\"tion, n.","clamminess":"State of being clammy or viscous.","weeping":"The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.\n\n1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. \"Weeping eyes.\" I. Watts. 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. \"Weeping grounds.\" Mortimer. 3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. 4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence. -- Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues. -- Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. [Colloq.] -- Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly. -- Weeping willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.","erastianism":"The principles of the Erastains.","fearsome":"1. Frightful; causing fear [Scotch] \"This fearsome wind.\" Sir W. Scott 2 . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. \"A silly fearsome thing.\" B. Taylor","pat":"To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. Pope.\n\n1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap. 2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. Dickens.\n\nExactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. \"Pat allusion.\" Barrow.\n\nIn a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.","pseudoturbinal":"See under Turbinal.","dilatable":"Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.","tormentry":"Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. [Obs.] Chaucer.","pandoor":"Same as Pandour.","black monk":"A Benedictine monk.","mutuation":"The act of borrowing or exchanging. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","achromatic":"1. (Opt.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors. 2. (Biol.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives images free from extraneous color.","crwth":"See 4th Crowd.","drugget":"(a) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. (b) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.","massoret":"Same as Masorite.","sycock":"The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]","firk":"To beat; to strike; to chastise. [Obs.] I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.\n\nTo fly out; to turn out; to go off. [Obs.] A wench is a rare bait, with which a man No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.B.Jonson.\n\nA freak; trick; quirk. [Obs.] Ford.","emew":"See Emu.","chiminage":"A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.","despairful":"Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.","interreceive":"To receive between or within.","marker":"One who or that which marks. Specifically: (a) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. (b) A counter used in card playing and other games. (c) (Mil.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. (d) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.","peculation":"The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.","sentencer":"One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.","divorce":"1. (Law) (a) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. \"from the bond of matrimony.\" (b) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (or thoro), \"from bed board.\" 2. The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved. 3. Separation; disunion of things closely united. To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shak. 4. That which separates. [Obs.] Shak. Bill of divorce. See under Bill.\n\n1. To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce. 2. To separate or disunite; to sunder. It [a word] was divorced from its old sense. Earle. 3. To make away; to put away. Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities. Shak.","thermotical":"Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat; as, thermotical phenomena. Whewell.","legislatorial":"Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.","clashingly":"With clashing.","goth":"1. (Ethnol.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire. Note: Under the reign of Valens, they took possession of Dacia (the modern Transylvania and the adjoining regions), and came to be known as Ostrogoths and Visigoths, or East and West Goths; the former inhabiting countries on the Black Sea up to the Danube, and the latter on this river generally. Some of them took possession of the province of Moesia, and hence were called Moesogoths. Others, who made their way to Scandinavia, at a time unknown to history, are sometimes styled Suiogoths. 2. One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.","enfever":"To excite fever in. [R.] A. Seward.","supperless":"Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.","gentlemanhood":"The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [R.] Thackeray.","sinistrin":"A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroödextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.","proverbialism":"A proverbial phrase.","butteris":"A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.","ginglymus":"A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.","fissilingual":"Having the tongue forked.","excremental":"Of or pertaining to excrement.","exarillate":"Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.","sperm":"The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen. Sperm cell (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed. -- Sperm morula. (Biol.) Same as Spermosphere.\n\nSpermaceti. Sperm oil, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale. -- Sperm whale. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.","concerning":"Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.\n\nImportant. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.\n\n1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. \"Our everlasting concernments.\" I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. Jer. Taylor. 3. Concern; participation; interposition. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon. 4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.","alkaline":"Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating alkalinity, as by the action on limits, turmeric, etc.","millepore":"Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.","ocarina":"A kind of small simple wind instrument.","wagonry":"Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] Milton.","whistlingly":"In a whistling manner; shrilly.","muggy":"1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw. 2. Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.","centricity":"The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.","surquedry":"Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence. [Obs.] Chaucer. Then pay you the price of your surquedry. Spenser.","clootie":"1. A little hoof. 2. The Devil. \"Satan, Nick, or Clootie.\" Burns.","prorector":"An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.","tetrazo-":"A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.","inshaded":"Marked with different shades. W. Browne.","phalangist":"Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.","thomsonian":"Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n. A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.","strictness":"Quality or state of being strict.","legislatrix":"A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.","agrostologic":"Pertaining to agrostology.","repentance":"The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. Hammond. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated. Rambler. Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.","praefoliation":"Same as Prefoliation. Gray.","handiwork":"Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.","mateology":"A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry. [R.]","sparterie":"Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (or Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. Loudon.","willying":"The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow. Willying machine. Same as 1st Willow, 2","retribute":"To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal. [Obs. or R.] Locke.","phlegmatical":"Phlegmatic. Ash.","professoriat":"See Professoriate.","alfilaria":"The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.","saker":"1. (Zo\\'94l.) (a) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner. Note: The female is called chargh, and the male charghela, or sakeret. (b) The peregrine falcon. [Prov. Eng.] 2. (Mil.) A small piece of artillery. Wilhelm. On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.","undumpish":"To relieve from the dumps. [Obs.] Fuller.","answerable":"1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift. 2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson. 3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton. 4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it. 5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.","dredge":"1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea. 2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.\n\nTo catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. R. Carew. Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.\n\nA mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] Kersey.\n\nTo sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.","shader":"One who, or that which, shades.","sepoy":"A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.","haecceity":"Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.","creepie":"A low stool. [Scot.]","claw":"1. A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. 2. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc. 3. Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails. 4. (Bot.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.\n\n1. To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails. 2. To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.] Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise. Holland. 3. To rail at; to scold. [Obs.] In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. \"The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it.\" L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the gall, to find falt with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. \"Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal.\" W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.","awe-stricken":"Awe-struck.","headfirst":"With the head foremost.","lixiviation":"Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.","reviler":"One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10.","fisherman":"1. One whose occupation is to catch fish. 2. (Naut.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.","myristone":"The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.","pentagram":"A pentacle or a pentalpha. \"Like a wizard pentagram.\" Tennyson.","sombrero":"A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.","self-contradictory":"Contradicting one's self or itself.","homoeomorphous":"Manifesting homoeomorphism.","theftbote":"The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.","bromoform":"A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects. Watts.","ouranography":"See Uranography.","giblet":"Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.","enfranchise":"1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. 2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. 3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.","isothermobathic":"Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.","importancy":"Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important. [Obs.] Shak. \"Careful to conceal importancies.\" Fuller.","longinquity":"Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.","supplicator":"One who supplicates; a supplicant.","embracement":"1. A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney. 2. State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon. 3. Willing acceptance. [Obs.] A ready embracement of . . . his kindness. Barrow.","varier":"A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.","tetractinellid":"Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.","ereption":"A snatching away. [Obs.] Cockeram.","gaze":"To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11. Syn. -- To gape; stare; look. -- To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.\n\nTo view with attention; to gaze on . [R.] And gazed a while the ample sky. Milton.\n\n1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. Milton. 2. The object gazed on. Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. Milton. At gaze (a) (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing. I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.","chambermaid":"1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. [Obs.] Johnson.","back fire":"(a) A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel. (b) A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.","statuary":"1. One who practices the art of making statues. On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets. Addison. 2. Etym: [L. statuaria (sc. ars): cf. F. statuaire.] The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively.","colera":"Bile; choler. [Obs.] Chaucer.","replenish":"1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound. Multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl. Milton. 2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. Shak.\n\nTo recover former fullness. [Obs.] The humors will not replenish so soon. Bacon.","indestructible":"Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed. -- In`de*struc\"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`de*struc\"ti*bly, adv.","planimetric":"Of or pertaining to planimetry.","allignment":"See Alignment.","calcarine":"Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.","equestrianism":"The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.","eligibility":"The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.","strawboard":"Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.","purprise":"A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor. Bacon.","breathing":"1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. 2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer. \"Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state.\" Tillotson. 5. Exercising; promotion of respiration. Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak. 6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words. I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak. 7. Breathing place; vent. Dryden. 8. Stop; pause; delay. You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak. 9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. 10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. Breathing place. (a) A pause. \"That cæsura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse.\" Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. -- Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. -- Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. -- Rough breathing (spiritus asper) (. See 2d Asper, n. -- Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai).","rouble":"A coin. See Ruble.","caduke":"Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes. The caduke pleasures of his world. Bp. Fisher.","courtling":"A sycophantic courtier. B. Jonson.","limburg cheese":"A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor.","aleppo grass":"One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.","ontologic":"Ontological.","vibration":"1. The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string. As a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow. 2. (Physics) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever. Note: Vibration and oscillation are both used, in mechanics, of the swinging, or rising and falling, motion of a suspended or balanced body; the latter term more appropriately, as signifying such motion produced by gravity, and of any degree of slowness, while the former applies especially to the quick, short motion to and fro which results from elasticity, or the action of molecular forces among the particles of a body when disturbed from their position of rest, as in a spring. Amplitude of vibration, the maximum displacement of a vibrating particle or body from its position of rest. -- Phase of vibration, any part of the path described by a particle or body in making a complete vibration, in distinction from other parts, as while moving from one extreme to the other, or on one side of the line of rest, in distinction from the opposite. Two particles are said to be in the same phase when they are moving in the same direction and with the same velocity, or in corresponding parts of their paths.","emperorship":"The rank or office of an emperor.","deplanate":"Flattened; made level or even.","hobbist":"One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.","pernicity":"Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.","lagenian":"Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.","sea fan":"Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.","seedtime":"The season proper for sowing. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22.","preciousness":"The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.","sheep-headed":"Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)","agoing":"In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.","pregnance":"Pregnancy. [Obs.] Milton.","premunitory":"Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.","whipstock":"The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.","utilize":"To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.","turney":"Tourney. [Obs.] Chaucer. \"In open turney.\" Spenser. Milton.","coat":"1. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. Let each His adamantine coat gird well. Milton. 2. A petticoat. [Obs.] \"A child in coats.\" Locke. 3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak. 4. An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton. 5. A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish. 6. Same as Coat of arms. See below. Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, Or tear the lions out of England's coat. Shak. 7. A coat card. See below. [Obs.] Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. Coat armor. See under Armor. -- Coat of arms (Her.), a translation of the French cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged with the heraldic bearings of the wearer. Hence, an heraldic achievement; the bearings of any person, taken together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of playing cards. \"`I am a coat card indeed.' `Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'\" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat. -- Coat of mail, a defensive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.\n\n1. To cover with a coat or outer garment. 2. To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.","gyrostatic":"Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.","dietic":"Dietetic.","archeological":"Same as Archæology, etc.","tappester":"A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.","insufficiency":"1. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc. The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. Hooker. 2. Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.","siphonarid":"Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- Si`pho*na\"rid, a.","cavalierish":"Somewhat like a cavalier.","glossarially":"In the manner of a glossary.","superstitious":"1. Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances. 2. Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion. Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Acts xvii. 22. 3. Overexact; scrupulous beyond need. Superstitious use (Law), the use of a gift or bequest, as of land, etc., for the maintenance of the rites of a religion not tolerated by the law. [Eng.] Mozley & W. -- Su`per*sti\"tious*ly, adv. -- Su`per*sti\"tious*ness, n.","piratic":"Piratical.","improperty":"Impropriety. [Obs.]","dampish":"Moderately damp or moist. -- Damp\"ish*ly, adv. -- Damp\"ish*ness, n.","semeiotic":"1. Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought. 2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.","camblet":"See Camlet.","amazonite":"A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.","sargo":"Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomodasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.","second-rate":"Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.","ionize":"To separate (a compound) into ions, esp. by dissolving in water. --I`on*i*za\"tion (#), n.","floating lien":"A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.","repullulation":"The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.","galley-bird":"The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. 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Syn. -- To banter; ridicule; satirize; deride; mock.\n\nTo use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.\n\nGood-humored raillery.","unbear":"To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).","unlaugh":"To recall, as former laughter. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. More.","actionary":"A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]","tyrannicide":"1. The act of killing a tyrant. Hume. 2. One who kills a tyrant.","pise":"A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pisé work. Gwilt.","acrocephalic":"Characterized by a high skull.","cholecystotomy":"The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.","corporealness":"Corporeality; corporeity.","hazardable":"1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne. 2. Such as can be hazarded or risked.","perfectibilist":"A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2. [R.]","salicyl":"The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.","didelphia":"The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.","knife switch":"A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.","skitter":"To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip. The angler, standing in the bow, 'skitters' or skips the spoon over the surface. James A. Henshall.\n\nTo pass or glide lightly or with quick touches at intervals; to skip; to skim. Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a feet before settling down. T. Roosevelt.","thuriferous":"Producing or bearing frankincense.","don":"1. Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant. 2. A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] \"The great dons of wit.\" Dryden.\n\nTo put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. Should I don this robe and trouble you. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.","gonochorism":"(a) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism. (b) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. (c) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.","hedonistic":"Same as Hedonic, 2.","parisienne":"A female native or resident of Paris.","ideography":"The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.","priser":"See 1st Prizer. [Obs.]","apathetic":"Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.","exmoor":"1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton. 2. A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.","wisp":"1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden. 2. A whisk, or small broom. 3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus. The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. Tennyson.\n\n1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp. 2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","anisotropous":"Anisotropic.","recoilment":"Recoil. [R.]","solpugidea":"Same as Solifugæ.","cholericly":"In a choleric manner; angrily.","yerd":"See 1st & 2d Yard. [Obs.] Chaucer.","conglaciation":"The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.","outliver":"One who outlives. [R.]","axolotl":"An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon. Note: When it breeds in captivity the young develop into true salamanders of the genus Amblystoma. This also occurs naturally under favorable conditions, in its native localities; although it commonly lives and breeds in a larval state, with persistent external gills. See Siredon.","saucily":"In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness. Addison.","candlestick":"An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.","invection":"An inveighing against; invective. [Obs.] Fulke.","unfaith":"Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. [R.] Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.","poultive":"A poultice. [Obs.] W. Temple.","moor":"1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. 2. (Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. \"In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous.\" Internat. Cyc.\n\n1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew. 2. A game preserve consisting of moorland. Moor buzzard (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. -- Moor cock (Zoöl.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. -- Moor coot. (Zoöl.) See Gallinule. -- Moor fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse (Lagopus Scoticus). (b) The European heath grouse. See under Heath. -- Moor game. (Zoöl.) Same as Moor fowl (above). -- Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe. -- Moor hawk (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. -- Moor hen. (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the moor fowl. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). -- Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).\n\n1. (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf. 2. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. Brougham.\n\nTo cast anchor; to become fast. On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.","outvie":"To exceed in vying. Dryden.","importunely":"In an importune manner. [Obs.]","exonerator":"One who exonerates or frees from obligation.","pointsman":"A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. [Eng.]","toxication":"Poisoning.","abrasive":"Producing abrasion. Ure.","discordous":"Full of discord. [Obs.]","megerg":"One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.","revocation":"1. The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall. One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. Hooker. 2. The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.","lanky":"Somewhat lank. Thackeray. The lanky Dinka, nearly seven feet in height. The Century.","candidacy":"The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.","dismal":"1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey. Syn. -- Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.","bleaky":"Bleak. [Obs.] Dryden.","priorship":"The state or office of prior; priorate.","piedmont":"Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.","scleroderma":"A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.","tajassu":"The common, or collared, peccary.","moha":"A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.","booking clerk":"A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.","disprove":"1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury. 2. To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] Stirling.","ratsbane":"Rat poison; white arsenic.","utopianism":"The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.","almucantar":"A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.","traverse drill":"A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.","meteoroscope":"(a) An astrolabe; a planisphere. [Obs.] (b) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.","preterimperfect":"Old name of the tense also called imperfect.","ketch":"An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden. Bomb ketch. See under Bomb.\n\nA hangman. See Jack Ketch.\n\nTo catch. [Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.] To ketch him at a vantage in his snares. Spenser.","steep-up":"Lofty and precipitous. [R.] Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.","sooshong":"See Souchong.","locale":"1. A place, spot, or location. 2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.","lyopomata":"An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms. [Written also Lyopoma.]","cancan":"A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.","pyrena":"A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe. Gray.","remissful":"Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.","connectively":"In connjunction; jointly.","whoever":"Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be. \"Whoever envies or repines.\" Milton. \"Whoever the king favors.\" Shak.","perturbability":"The quality or state of being perturbable.","length":"1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line. 2. A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural. Large lengths of seas and shores. Shak. The future but a length behind the past. Dryden. 3. The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk. 4. A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence. 5. Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length. May Heaven, great monarch, still augment your bliss. With length of days and every day like this. Dryden. 6. Distance.[Obs.] He had marched to the length of Exeter. Clarendon. At length. (a) At or in the full extent; without abbreviation; as, let the name be inserted at length. (b) At the end or conclusion; after a long period. See Syn. of At last, under Last. -- At arm's length. See under Arm.\n\nTo lengthen. [Obs.] Shak.","inquartation":"Quartation.","apagoge":"An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.","pontine":"Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]","gorma":"The European cormorant.","skeed":"See Skid.","saprophytic":"Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.","pappiform":"Resembling the pappus of composite plants.","requicken":"To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.","anosmia":"Loss of the sense of smell.","yttriferous":"Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements; as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals.","bisexuous":"Bisexual.","anoura":"See Anura.","sustainment":"The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.","pianist":"A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.","crumbcloth":"A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]","pilgarlic":"One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.","tinge":"To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron. His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance. Addison. Syn. -- To color; dye; stain.\n\nA degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church. Macaulay.","bullate":"Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.","checkage":"1. The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list. 2. The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.","incumbently":"In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.","raip":"A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod. [Scot.]","cylindroid":"1. A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical. 2. (Geom.) A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.","overtrading":"The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.","career":"1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. 3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay. 4. (Falconary) The fight of a hawk.\n\nTo move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.","latchstring":"A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]","desolator":"Same as Desolater. Byron.","dexterousness":"The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.","liquorish":"See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.","paid":"1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney. 2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] \"Paid of his poverty.\" Chaucer.","pew":"1. One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; - - sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow. 2. Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] Pepys. Milton. Pew opener, an usher in a church. [Eng.] Dickens.\n\nTo furnish with pews. [R.] Ash.","ventilation":"1. The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation. F. W. Robertson. 2. The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood. [Obs.] Harvey. 3. The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain. 4. The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world. Bp. Hall. 5. The act of giving vent or expression. \"Ventilation of his thoughts.\" Sir H. Wotton.","murr":"A catarrh. [Obs.] Gascoigne.","allay":"1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions. 2. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak. Syn. -- To alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet. See Alleviate.\n\nTo diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. \"When the rage allays.\" Shak.\n\nAlleviation; abatement; check. [Obs.]\n\nAlloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.","palsied":"Affected with palsy; paralyzed.","curvet":"1. (Man.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.\n\n1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. 'Oft and high he did curvet.\" Drayton. 2. To leap and frisk; to frolic. Shak.\n\nTo cause to curvet. Landor.","your":"The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. Note: The possessive takes the form yours when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied; as, this book is yours. \"An old fellow of yours.\" Chaucer.","imbrocado":"Cloth of silver or of gold. [R.]","bric a brac":"Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively. A piece of bric-a-brac, any curious or antique article of virtu, as a piece of antiquated furniture or metal work, or an odd knickknack.","latitudinal":"Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.","plaguer":"One who plagues or annoys.","auscult":"To auscultate.","pas":"1. A pace; a step, as in a dance. Chaucer. 2. Right of going foremost; precedence. Arbuthnot.","disregardfully":"Negligently; heedlessly.","mutable":"1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. \"Most mutable wishes.\" Byron. Syn. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.","kelpfish":"A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.","remanet":"A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case. [Eng.]","roturier":"A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.","glyn":"A glen. See Glen. Note: [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.] He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot. Spenser.","mallee bird":"The leipoa. See Leipoa.","maieutic":"1. Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth. 2. Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language. Payne.","baggily":"In a loose, baggy way.","wharl":"A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6. A strange, uncouth wharling in their speech. Fuller.","excursionist":"One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.","calibration":"The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.","enforcive":"Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive. Marsion. -- En*for\"cive*ly, adv.","desperation":"1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond. 2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords. W. Irving.","prebendal":"Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.","stunted":"Dwarfed. -- Stunt\"ed*ness, n.","make-up":"The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.","therapy":"Therapeutics.","anseres":"A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.","weekly":"1. Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor. 2. Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.\n\nA publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.\n\nOnce a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.","anorexy":"Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.","coccosphere":"A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.","estuarine":"Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.","miscibility":"Capability of being mixed.","constriction":"1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.","urethroscopy":"Examination of the urethra by means of the urethroscope.","hebdomad":"A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","explain":"1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. \"Those explain the meaning quite \"away.\" Pope. Syn. -- To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.\n\nTo give an explanation.","by-product":"A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.","whydah bird":"The whidah bird.","gaud":"1. Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. \"An idle gaud.\" Shak.\n\nTo sport or keep festival. [Obs.] \"Gauding with his familiars. \" [Obs.] Sir T. North.\n\nTo bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] \"Nicely gauded cheeks.\" Shak.","luxuriant":"Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.","thedom":"Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.] Evil thedom on his monk's snout. Chaucer.","bufferhead":"The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.","the gapes":"(a) A fit of yawning. (b) A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.","assurer":"1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.","haemometer":"Same as Hemadynamometer.","interveniency":"Intervention; interposition. [R.]","slip":"1. To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide. 2. To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip. 3. To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place. 4. To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work. Thus one tradesman slips away, To give his partner fairer play. Prior. Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away. Dryden. 5. To err; to fall into error or fault. There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart. Ecclus. xix. 16. To let slip, to loose from the slip or noose, as a hound; to allow to escape. Cry, \"Havoc,\" and let slip the dogs of war. Shak.\n\n1. To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly. He tried to slip a powder into her drink. Arbuthnot. 2. To omit; to loose by negligence. And slip no advantage That my secure you. B. Jonson. 3. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper. The branches also may be slipped and planted. Mortimer. 4. To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. Lucento slipped me like his greyhound. Shak. 5. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar. 6. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink. To slip a cable. (Naut.) See under Cable. -- To slip off, to take off quickly; as, to slip off a coat. -- To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.\n\n1. The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice. 2. An unintentional error or fault; a false step. This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom. Fuller. 3. A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine. A native slip to us from foreign seeds. Shak. The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride. R. Browning. 4. A slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper. Moonlit slips of silver cloud. Tennyson. A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon Sure to be rounded into beauty soon. Longfellow. 5. A leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand. We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. Sir S. Baker. 6. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip. Shak. 7. (Print.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley. 8. Any covering easily slipped on. Specifically: (a) A loose garment worn by a woman. (b) A child's pinafore. (c) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip. (d) The slip or sheath of a sword, and the like. [R.] 9. A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Obs.] Shak 10. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools. [Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Petty. 11. Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handless and other applied parts. 12. A particular quantity of yarn. [Prov. Eng.] 13. An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair. 14. An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip. [U. S.] 15. A narrow passage between buildings. [Eng.] 16. A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door. [U. S.] 17. (Mining.) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity. Knight. 18. (Engin.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller. 19. (Zoöl.) A fish, the sole. 20. (Cricket) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip. To give one the slip, to slip away from one; to elude one. -- Slip dock. See under Dock. -- Slip link (Mach.), a connecting link so arranged as to allow some play of the parts, to avoid concussion. -- Slip rope (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. Totten. -- Slip stopper (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the anchor suddenly.","eluctation":"A struggling out of any difficulty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","bobsled":"A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.] The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells.","pyromagnetic":"Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents.","grammalogue":"Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.","presupposal":"Presupposition. [R.] \"Presupposal of knowledge.\" Hooker.","sphygmic":"Of or pertaining to the pulse.","garrot":"A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.\n\nThe European golden-eye.","erica":"A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.","quantity":"1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question \"How much\"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses: (a) (Logic) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations. (b) (Gram.) The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable. (c) (Mus.) The relative duration of a tone. 2. That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable. Note: Quantity is discrete when it is applied to separate objects, as in number; continuous, when the parts are connected, either in succession, as in time, motion, etc., or in extension, as by the dimensions of space, viz., length, breadth, and thickness. 3. A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton (Law Dict. ) -- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its momentum under a given velocity. -- Quantity of motion (Mech.), in a body, the relative amount of its motion, as measured by its momentum, varying as the product of mass and velocity. -- Known quantities (Math.), quantities whose values are given. -- Unknown quantities (Math.), quantities whose values are sought.","stryphnic":"Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.","olfaction":"The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.","lowbred":"Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.","near":"1. At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. Milton. 2. Nearly; almost; well-nigh. \"Near twenty years ago.\" Shak. \"Near a fortnight ago.\" Addison. Near about the yearly value of the land. Locke. 3. Closely; intimately. Shak. Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. -- To come near to, to want but little of; to approximate to. \"Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him.\" Addison. -- Near the wind (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled.\n\n1. Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. \"As one near death.\" Shak. He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear. Dryden. 2. Closely connected or related. She is thy father's near kinswoman. Lev. xviii. 12. 3. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend. 4. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original. 5. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape. 6. Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a. 7. Immediate; direct; close; short. \"The nearest way.\" Milton. 8. Close-fisted; parsimonious. [Obs. or Low, Eng.] Note: Near may properly be followed by to before the thing approached'; but more frequently to is omitted, and the adjective or the adverb is regarded as a preposition. The same is also true of the word nigh. Syn. -- Nigh; close; adjacent; proximate; contiguous; present; ready; intimate; dear.\n\nAdjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.\n\nTo approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.\n\nTo draw near; to approach. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared. Coleridge.","replier":"One who replies. Bacon.","scroll":"1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa. xxxiv. 4. Here is the scroll of every man's name. Shak. 2. (Arch.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern. 3. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Burrill. 4. (Geom.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew. Linen scroll (Arch.) See under Linen. -- Scroll chuck (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws. -- Scroll saw. See under Saw.","portulacaceous":"Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceæ), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.","pleuritis":"Pleurisy.","absinth":"1. The plant absinthium or common wormwood. 2. A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.","lithontriptist":"Same as Lithotriptist.","hysterical":"Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful. With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience. Bancroft.","descensional":"Pertaining to descension. Johnson.","spark plug":"In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder head, having through it an insulated wire which is connected with the induction coil or magneto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.","practice":"1. Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices. 2 Pet. ii. 14. 2. Customary or constant use; state of being used. Obsolete words may be revived when they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice. Dryden. 3. Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness. [R.] \"His nice fence and his active practice.\" Shak. 4. Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory. There are two functions of the soul, -- contemplation and practice. South. There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice; each, to a certain extent, supposes the other; theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory. Sir W. Hamilton. 5. Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music. 6. Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice. Practice is exercise of an art, or the application of a science in life, which application is itself an art. Sir W. Hamilton. 7. Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense. [Obs.] Bacon. He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. Sir P. Sidney. 8. (Math.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. 9. (Law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. Bouvier. Syn. -- Custom; usage; habit; manner.\n\n1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. \"Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works.\" Ps. cxli. 4. 2. To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine. 2. To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music. 4. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. \"Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practice your severity.\" Shak. As this advice ye practice or neglect. Pope. 5. To make use of; to employ. [Obs.] In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her. Massinger. 6. To teach or accustom by practice; to train. In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. Landor.\n\n1. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano. practise 2. To learn by practice; to form a habit. They shall practice how to live secure. Milton. Practice first over yourself to reign. Waller. 3. To try artifices or stratagems. He will practice against thee by poison. Shak. 4. To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law. [I am] little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me. Sir W. Temple.","stomachless":"1. Being without a stomach. 2. Having no appetite. [R.] Bp. Hall.","selenography":"The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; - - corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. \"Accurate selenography, or description of the moon.\" Sir T. Browne.","atmiatry":"Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.","osmometry":"The study of osmose by means of the osmometer.","antistrophon":"An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton.","dissociation":"1. The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke. 2. (Chem.) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.","yaulp":"To yaup.","villus":"1. (Anat.) One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface. 2. pl. (Bot.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.","two-edged":"Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.","osteotome":"Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.","praetores":"A division of butterflies including the satyrs.","drawshave":"See Drawing knife.","card":"1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray. 2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak. 4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. 5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. -- Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. -- Card catalogue. See Catalogue. -- Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. -- Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. -- On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. -- Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. -- To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. -- To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. -- To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. -- To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. -- Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.\n\nTo play at cards; to game. Johnson.\n\n1. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back. 2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.\n\n1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer. 2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book ust] be carded and purged. T. Shelton. 3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene. Note: In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away. See Combing.","aliseptal":"Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.","hirundo":"A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.","pretermission":"1. The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton. 2. (Rhet.) See Preterition.","pearly":"1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.","antiquely":"In an antique manner.","curule":"1. Of or pertaining to a charoit. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official. Note: The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. It was at first ornamented with ivory, and later sometimes made of ivory and inlaid with gold. Curule dignity right of sitting in the curule chair.","hebetation":"1. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid. 2. The state of being blunted or dulled.","emparadise":"Same as Imparadise.","lettish":"Of or pertaining to the Letts. -- n. The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.","closen":"To make close. [R.]","endomysium":"The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.","quoddies":"Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.","levelness":"The state or quality of being level.","lawn":"1. An open space between woods. Milton. \"Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.\" Tennyson. 2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. -- Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.\n\nA very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice in lawn. Pope.","alleluia":"An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.","medullin":"A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.","rhetorical":"Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense. M. Arnold. -- Rhe*tor\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Rhe*tor\"ic*al*ness, n.","diplomatics":"The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.","plunderer":"One who plunders or pillages.","secureness":"The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.","suadible":"Suasible. [Obs.] Wyclif (James iii. 17).","apocopate":"To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.\n\nShortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.","uranoso-":"A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.","appeasable":"Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas\"a*ble*ness, n.","pierced":"Penetrated; entered; perforated.","escorial":"See Escurial.","spindling":"Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.","car":"1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. 2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car introduced into England from America are called cars; as, tram car. Pullman car. See Train. 3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson. 4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. Dryden. 5. The cage of a lift or elevator. 6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a ballon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. 7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.] Car coupling, or Car coupler, a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.] -- Dummy car (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive. -- Freight car (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goods. [U. S.] -- Hand car (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.] -- Horse car, or Street car, an ommibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.] -- Palace car, Drawing- room car, Sleeping car, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.","saber":"A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zoöl.), the cutlass fish.\n\nTo strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke.","sextillion":"According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.","oxlip":"The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).","wirework":"Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.","synastry":"Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation. [R.] Motley.","nitriferous":"Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.","soger":"Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang] R. H. Dana, Jr.","after-wit":"Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. \"After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done.\" L'Estrange.","hilarious":"Mirthful; noisy; merry.","unstrain":"To relieve from a strain; to relax. B. Jonson.","pot lace":"Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.","slyly":"In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.","ballad monger":"A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.","shammy":"1. (Zoöl.) The chamois. 2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying. [Written also chamois, shamoy, and shamois.]","solarization":"Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.","zulu":"1. Any member of the tribe of Zulus; a Zulu-Kaffir. See Zulus. 2. (Philol.) One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; -- called also Zulu- Kaffir.","myrmicine":"Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others.","immoble":"See Immobile.","string":"1. A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior. 2. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. \"A string of islands.\" Gibbon. 3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Milton. 4. The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme. \"An instrument of ten strings.\" Ps. xxx. iii. 2. Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still. Milton. 5. The line or cord of a bow. Ps. xi. 2. He twangs the grieving string. Pope. 6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom. Bacon. 7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark vii. 35. 8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. 9. (Bot.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans. 10. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Ure. 11. (Arch.) Same as Stringcourse. 12. (Billiards) The points made in a game. String band (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. -- String beans. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off. (b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean. -- To have two strings to one's bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.\n\n1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street Gay. 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. Addison. 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. 4. To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. Dryden. 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.","surquedrous":"Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent. [Obs.] Gower. James II. of Scot.","casually":"Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.","tawdrily":"In a tawdry manner.","predisponency":"The state of being predisposed; predisposition. [R.]","equip":"1. To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow. 2. To dress up; to array; accouter. The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.","obelisk":"1. An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom. 2. (Print.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [&dag;]. See Dagger, n., 2.\n\nTo mark or designate with an obelisk.","paludinal":"Inhabiting ponds or swamps.","utis":"See Utas. [Obs.]","water canker":"See Canker, n., 1.","diorthotic":"Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.","dentinal":"Of or pertaining to dentine.","cumacea":"An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.","maffle":"To stammer. [Obs.]","margosa":"A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker.","bewinter":"To make wintry. [Obs.]","hail":"Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky. Milton.\n\nTo pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.\n\nTo pour forcibly down, as hail. Shak.\n\nHealthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).\n\n1. To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address. 2. To name; to designate; to call. And such a son as all men hailed me happy. Milton.\n\n1. To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York. 2. To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. [Colloq.] G. G. Halpine.\n\nAn exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. \"Hail, brave friend.\" Shak. All hail. See in the Vocabulary. -- Hail Mary, a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.\n\nA wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. \"Their puissant hail.\" M. Arnold. The angel hail bestowed. Milton.","paltriness":"The state or quality of being paltry.","traversable":"1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region. 2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.","reiter":"A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.","suent":"Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant. Thoreau.","paune":"A kind of bread. See Pone.","dart":"1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. 2 Sa. xviii. 14. 2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. Hannan More. 3. A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] Chaucer. 4. (Zoöl.) A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.\n\n1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch. 2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart Pope.\n\n1. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart. 2. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.","expeditionist":"One who goes upon an expedition. [R].","boredom":"1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens. 2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.","unanswerable":"Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an\"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an\"swer*a*bly, adv.","passionist":"A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.","humbug":"1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.\n\nTo deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.","ashame":"To shame. [R.] Barrow.","enthusiasm":"1. Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse. Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke. 2. A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft. 3. Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson. 4. Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.","multisulcate":"Having many furrows.","lineolate":"1. (Zoöl.) Marked with little lines. 2. (Bot.) Marked longitudinally with fine lines. Gray.","smithsonian":"Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n. The Smithsonian Institution.","ted":"To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.","blackener":"One who blackens.","grillroom":"A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service.","thyrse":"A thyrsus.","sethic":"See Sothic.","suprasternal":"Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.","scrappy":"Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.","allod":"See Allodium.","recuse":"To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.","liberally":"In a liberal manner.","dynamometrical":"Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.","geodiferous":"Producing geodes; containing geodes.","hereunto":"Unto this; up to this time; hereto.","corrasive":"Corrosive. [Obs.] Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh. Holland.","trackage":"The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.","twinkler":"One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.","misname":"To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.","chitinous":"Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.","largifluous":"Flowing copiously. [Obs.]","pettiness":"The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.","sheepfold":"A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.","cachucha":"An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembing the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.","overking":"A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes. J. R. Green.","knacky":"Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.","browser":"An animal that browses.","pulsion":"The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to Ant: suction or Ant: traction. [R.]","superman":"= Overman, above.","reliefless":"Destitute of relief; also, remediless.","depeinct":"To paint. [Obs.] Spenser.","ovicular":"Of or pertaining to an egg.","ply":"1. To bend. [Obs.] As men may warm wax with handes plie. Chaucer. 2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak. 3. To employ diligently; to use steadily. Go ply thy needle; meddle not. Shak. 4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller.\n\n1. To bend; to yield. [Obs.] It would rather burst atwo than plye. Chaucer. The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. L'Estrange. 2. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow. 3. (Naut.) To work to windward; to beat.\n\n1. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. Arbuthnot. 2. Bent; turn; direction; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon. Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving. The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. Macaulay. Note: Ply is used in composition to designate folds, or the number of webs interwoven; as, a three-ply carpet.","neutralize":"1. To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality. So here I am neutralized again. Sir W. Scott. 2. (Chem.) To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference inefficience; to counteract; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc. Counter citations that neutralize each other. E. Everett.","carphology":"See Flaccillation.","aposiopesis":"A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, \"I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here.\"","slidden":"p. p. of Slide.","inaffected":"Unaffected. [Obs.] -- In`af*fect\"ed*ly, adv. [Obs.]","sepalody":"The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.","tartralic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid.","unweary":"To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. [Obs.] Dryden.","hamilton period":"A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.","additionally":"By way of addition.","luctual":"Producing grief; saddening. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.","isethionic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid, HO.C2H4.SO3H, obtained as an oily or crystalline substance, by the action of sulphur trioxide on alcohol or ether. It is derivative of sulphuric acid.","sucker":"1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. 6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.\n\nTo strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.\n\nTo form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.","vitascope":"A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.","umbilical":"1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. 2. Pertaining to the center; central. [R.] De Foe. Umbilical cord. (a) (Anat.) The cord which connects the fetus with the placenta, and contains the arteries and the vein through which blood circulates between the fetus and the placenta; the navel-string. (b) (Bot.) The little stem by which the seeds are attached to the placenta; -- called also funicular cord. -- Umbilical hernia (Med.), hernia of the bowels at the umbilicus. -- Umbilical point (Geom.), an umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5. -- Umbilical region (Anat.), the middle region of the abdomen, bounded above by the epigastric region, below by the hypogastric region, and on the sides by the lumbar regions. -- Umbilical vesicle (Anat.), a saccular appendage of the developing embryo, containing the nutritive and unsegmented part of the ovum; the yolk sac. See Illust. in Appendix.","aftershaft":"The hypoptilum.","ellinge":"See Elenge, Elengeness. [Obs.]","shrilly":"In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.\n\nSomewhat shrill. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. Keats.","endognathal":"Pertaining to the endognath.","specimen":"A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art. Syn. -- Sample; model; pattern. -- Specimen, Sample. A specimen is a representative of the class of things to which it belongs; as, a specimen of photography. A sample is a part of the thing itself, designed to show the quality of the whole; as, a sample of sugar or of broadcloth. A cabinet of minerals consists of specimens; if a part be broken off from any one of these, it is a sample of the mineral to which it belongs. \"Several persons have exhibited specimens of this art before multitudes of beholders.\" Addison. \"I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.\" Woodward.","enthymeme":"An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.","prunelle":"A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.","impletion":"1. The act of filling, or the state of being full. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which fills up; filling. Coleridge.","discretively":"In a discretive manner.","unsanctification":"Absence or lack of sanctification. Shak.","angriness":"The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.","visage":"The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. Chaucer. \"A visage of demand.\" Shak. His visage was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14. Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller.\n\nTo face. [Obs.] Chaucer.","diddler":"A cheat. [Colloq.] Jeremy Diddler, a character in a play by James Kenney, entitled \"Raising the wind.\" The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.","exoskeletal":"Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.","hurdy-gurdy":"1. A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys. 2. In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.","minyan":"A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.","asphyxial":"Of or relating to asphyxia; as, asphyxial phenomena.","supralapsarianism":"The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.","imponderability":"The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.","greyhound":"A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. [Written also grayhound.]","surmise":"1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. [We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false. Milton. No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises. Swift. 2. Reflection; thought. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Conjecture; supposition; suspicion; doubt.\n\nTo imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. Dryden. This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. Woodward.","inevident":"Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure.","chaise":"1. A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse. 2. Loosely, a carriage in general. Cowper.","benet":"To catch in a net; to insnare. Shak.","nightshade":"A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). -- Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. -- Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.","platonizer":"One who Platonizes.","tripod":"1. Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet. Note: On such, a stool, in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Pythian priestess sat while giving responses to those consulting the Delphic oracle. 2. A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; -- so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.","milliliter":"A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.","psilanthropy":"The doctrine of the merely human existence of Christ.","cyanean":"Having an azure color. Pennant.","jettison":"1. (Mar. Law) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. 2. See Jetsam, 1.","rather":"Prior; earlier; former. [Obs.] Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.\n\n1. Earlier; sooner; before. [Obs.] Thou shalt, quod he, be rather false than I. Chaucer. A good mean to come the rather to grace. Foxe. 2. More readily or willingly; preferably. My soul chooseth . . . death rather than my life. Job vii. 15. 3. On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead. Was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26. 4. Of two alternatives conceived of, by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat. He sought throughout the world, but sought in vain, And nowhere finding, rather feared her slain. Dryden. 5. More properly; more correctly speaking. This is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shak. 6. In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp. The rather, the more so; especially; for better reason; for particular cause. You are come to me in happy time, The rather for I have some sport in hand. Shak. -- Had rather, or Would rather, prefer to; prefers to; as, he had, or would, rather go than stay. \"I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousands words in an unknown tongue.\" 1 Cor. xiv. 19. See Had rather, under Had.","flannel":"A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. (Bot.) See under Adam. -- Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.","siderographist":"One skilled in siderography.","caruncle":"1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. 2. (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. 3. (Zoöl.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.","polyzoon":"One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.","countless":"Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.","lime-twigged":"Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.","splayfooted":"Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.","discoverer":"1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.","haematozooen":"A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.: (a) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc. (b) The trematode, Bilharzia hæmatobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.","juggleress":"1. A female juggler. T. Warton.","impendence":"The state of impending; also, that which impends. \"Impendence of volcanic cloud.\" Ruskin.","impermissible":"Not permissible.","flowerful":"Abounding with flowers. Craig.","amiableness":"The quality of being amiable; amiability.","necrophagan":"Eating carrion. -- n. (Zoöl.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.","polycystine":"Pertaining to the Polycystina. -- n. One of the Polycystina.","workful":"Full of work; diligent. [R.]","beetle-browed":"Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. Note: The earlier meaning was, \"Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.\"","champaign":"A flat, open country. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.\n\nFlat; open; level. A wide, champaign country, filled with herds. Addison.","fieldpiece":"A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.","martyrologic":"Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.","water drain":"A drain or channel for draining off water.","microsporic":"Of or pertaining to microspores.","incognizant":"Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice. Of the several operations themselves, as acts of volition, we are wholly incognizant. Sir W. Hamilton.","arundineous":"Abounding with reeds; reedy.","free-milling":"Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond.","degum":"To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.","amethodist":"One without method; a quack. [Obs.]","methodology":"The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.","urogastric":"Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.","praetexta":"A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.","stack-guard":"A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.","abdominous":"Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.","stone-blind":"As blind as a stone; completely blind.","inwith":"Within. [Obs.] This purse hath she inwith her bosom hid. Chaucer.","peopled":"Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. \"The peopled air.\" Gray.","midfeather":"1. (Steam Boilers) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber. 2. (Mining) A support for the center of a tunnel.","agitator":"1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators. 2. (Eng. Hist.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon. 3. An implement for shaking or mixing.","napierian":"Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms. NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS Na\"pi*er's bones`, Na\"pi*er's rods`. A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.","votress":"A votaress. Dryden.","imbibition":"The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.","audacious":"1. Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton. 2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. \" Audacious traitor.\" Shak. \" Such audacious neighborhood.\" Milton. 3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. \"Audacious cruelty.\" \"Audacious prate.\" Shak.","celature":"1. The act or art of engraving or embossing. 2. That which is engraved. [Obs.] Hakewill.","encephalic":"Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.","humanitian":"A humanist. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","abietene":"A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.","sea froth":"See Sea foam, 2.","landslip":"1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. 2. The land which slips down.","semaphorically":"By means a semaphore.","tetrabasic":"Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.","fumily":"Smokily; with fume.","claspered":"Furnished with tendrils.","loanable":"Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.","starlit":"Lighted by the stars; starlight.","dirl":"To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","cinnoline":"A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.","hydrorhiza":"The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.","brickwork":"1. Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson. 2. The act of building with or laying bricks.","ahigh":"On high. [Obs.] Shak.","bathygraphic":"Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.","pachacamac":"A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.","unresistance":"Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.","pamperize":"To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.","regnative":"Ruling; governing. [Obs.]","scarlet":"A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color. 2. Cloth of a scarlet color. All her household are clothed with scarlet. Prov. xxxi. 21.\n\nOf the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread. Scarlet admiral (Zoöl.), the red admiral. See under Red. -- Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean (Phaseolus multiflorus) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner. -- Scarlet fever (Med.), a contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day. -- Scarlet fish (Zoöl.), the telescope fish; -- so called from its red color. See under Telescope. -- Scarlet ibis (Zoöl.) See under Ibis. -- Scarlet maple (Bot.), the red maple. See Maple. -- Scarlet mite (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of bright red carnivorous mites found among grass and moss, especially Thombidium holosericeum and allied species. The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects. -- Scarlet oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus coccinea) of the United States; -- so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn. -- Scarlet runner (Bot.), the scarlet bean. -- Scarlet tanager. (Zoöl.) See under Tanager.\n\nTo dye or tinge with scarlet. [R.] The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath. Ford.","comatula":"A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.","trifacial":"See Trigeminal.","unwisely":"In an unwise manner; foolishly.","magniloquous":"Magniloquent. [Obs.]","lindiform":"Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvæ. [See Illust. under Larva.]","ypsiliform":"Resembling the","inframundane":"Lying or situated beneath the world.","dernier":"Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: [F.], last resort or expedient.","pecary":"See Peccary.","fringent":"Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] \"The fringent air.\" Emerson.","meg-":"Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.","paraphraser":"One who paraphrases.","sorbent":"An absorbent. [R.]","neologization":"The act or process of neologizing.","teamed":"Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.] Let their teamed fishes softly swim. Spenser.","rejoin":"1. To join again; to unite after separation. 2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope. 3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.\n\n1. To answer to a reply. 2. (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.","bibulous":"1. Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper. 2. Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.","ungot":"1. Not gotten; not acquired. 2. Not begotten. [Obs. or Poetic] \"His loins yet full of ungot princes.\" Waller.","unheedy":"Incautious; precipitate; heedless. [Obs.] Milton.","chincona":"See Cinchona.","conchological":"Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.","syntonize":"To adjust or devise so as to emit or respond to electric oscillations of a certain wave length; to tune; specif., to put (two or more instruments or systems of wireless telegraphy) in syntony with each other. -- Syn`to*ni*za\"tion (#), n.","sagging":"A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.","bracer":"1. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. 2. A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer. 3. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body. Johnson.","orbed":"Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.","inconsistentness":"Inconsistency. [R.]","heliometry":"The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.","expiring":"1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.","epiphany":"1. An appearance, or a becoming manifest. Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey. 2. (Eccl.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.","dasypaedes":"Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.","bayman":"In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.","disgarland":"To strip of a garland. [Poetic] \"Thy locks disgarland.\" Drummond.","inoperative":"Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.","ophiomorpha":"An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.","transference":"The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.","meatus":"A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.","modiolar":"Shaped like a bushel measure.","praetorium":"See Pretorium.","diarrhoeal":"Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.","permuter":"One who permutes.","curative":"Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.","metamere":"One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.","evangelist":"A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.","lagniappe":"In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity. Lagniappe . . .is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. Mark Twain.","primal":"First; primary; original; chief. It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. Shak. The primal duties shine aloft like stars. Wordsworth.","miniardize":"To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.","comparable":"Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com\"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com\"pa*ra*bly, adv.","reptantia":"A divisiom of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.","incubus":"1. A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky. 2. (Med.) The nightmare. See Nightmare. Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden, as we call it. Burton. 3. Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties. Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.","slice":"1. A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread. 2. That which is thin and broad, like a slice. Specifically: (a) A broad, thin piece of plaster. (b) A salver, platter, or tray. [Obs.] (c) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. (d) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant] (e) (Shipbuilding) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. (f) (Printing) A removable sliding bottom to galley. Slice bar, a kind of fire iron resembling a poker, with a broad, flat end, for stirring a fire of coals, and clearing it and the grate bars from clinkers, ashes, etc.; a slice.\n\n1. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from. 2. To cut into parts; to divide. 3. To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.","undepartable":"Incapable of being parted; inseparable. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.","caromel":"See Caramel.","calotte":"A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.","steganopodes":"A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.","ausonian":"Italian. Milton.","monostrophic":"Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.","wilder":"To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant.","microbe":"A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.","swordtail":"(a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.","center":"1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place. 2. The middle or central portion of anything. 3. A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction. 4. The earth. [Obs.] Shak. 5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left. 6. (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. 7. (Mech.) (a) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves. (b) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe. Note: In a lathe the live center is in the spindle of the head stock; the dead center is on the tail stock. Planer centers are stocks carrying centers, when the object to be planed must be turned on its axis. Center of an army, the body or troops ossupying the place in the line between the wings. -- Center of a curve or surface (Geom.) (a) A point such that every line drawn through the point and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at the point. (b) The fixed point of reference in polar coördinates. See Coördinates. -- Center of curvature of a curve (Geom.), the center of that circle which has at any given point of the curve closer contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever. See Circle. -- Center of a fleet, the division or column between the van and rear, or between the weather division and the lee. -- Center of gravity (Mech.), that point of a body about which all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported, the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by gravity. -- Center of gyration (Mech.), that point in a rotating body at which the whole mass might be concentrated (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the intertia of the body to angular acceleration or retardaton. -- Center of inertia (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body or system of bodies. -- Center of motion, the point which remains at rest, while all the other parts of a body move round it. -- Center of oscillation, the point at which, if the whole matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form and state of the body. -- Center of percussion, that point in a body moving about a fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without communicating a shock to the axis. -- Center of pressure (Hydros.), that point in a surface pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the whole pressure of the fluid.\n\n1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.\n\n1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point. Milton. 2. To collect to a point; to concentrate. Thy joys are centered all in me alome. Prior. 3. (Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.","water glass":"See Soluble glass, under Glass.","circumambage":"A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [Obs.] S. Richardson.","kinkajou":"A nocturnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidæ) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.","pape":"A spiritual father; specifically, the pope. [Obs.]","stal":"Stole.","nicely":"In a nice manner.","terminus":"1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit. 2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. 3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8. 4. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.","alumish":"Somewhat like alum.","pituitrin":"A substance or extract from the pituitary body.","sesquitertian":"Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).","laciniated":"1. Fringed; having a fringed border. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.","ben nut":"The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.","ita palm":"A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.","blub":"To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]","stain":"1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass. 3. To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish. Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton. 4. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison. She stains the ripest virgins of her age. Beau. & Fl. That did all other beasts in beauty stain. Spenser. Stained glass, glass colored or stained by certain metallic pigments fused into its substance, -- often used for making ornament windows. Syn. -- To paint; dye; blot; soil; sully; discolor; disgrace; taint. -- Paint, Stain, Dye. These denote three different processes; the first mechanical, the other two, chiefly chemical. To paint a thing is so spread a coat of coloring matter over it; to stain or dye a thing is to impart color to its substance. To stain is said chiefly of solids, as wood, glass, paper; to dye, of fibrous substances, textile fabrics, etc.; the one, commonly, a simple process, as applying a wash; the other more complex, as fixing colors by mordants.\n\nTo give or receive a stain; to grow dim.\n\n1. A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth. Shak. 2. A natural spot of a color different from the gound. Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope. 3. Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach. Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains. Dryden. Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker. 4. Cause of reproach; shame. Sir P. Sidney. 5. A tincture; a tinge. [R.] You have some stain of soldier in you. Shak. Syn. -- Blot; spot; taint; pollution; blemish; tarnish; color; disgrace; infamy; shame.","chafery":"An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.","heap":"1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [Now Low or Humorous] The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. He had heaps of friends. W.Black. 2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson. 3. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.\n\n1. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures. Though he heap up silver as the dust. Job. xxvii. 16. 2. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal. 3. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.","arthropleura":"The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.","granitiform":"Resembling granite in structure or shape.","concrescible":"Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. [Obs.] They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil. Fourcroy (Trans. ).","mammonite":"One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.","stiltify":"To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.","capitularly":"In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.","forejudgment":"Prejudgment. [Obs.] Spenser.","lacertine":"Lacertian.","quartet":"1. (Mus.) (a) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. (b) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts. 2. (Poet.) A stanza of four lines.","slumbery":"Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","liable":"1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident. Syn. -- Accountable; responsible; answerable; bound; subject; obnoxious; exposed. -- Liable, Subject. Liable refers to a future possible or probable happening which may not actually occur; as, horses are liable to slip; even the sagacious are liable to make mistakes. Subject refers to any actual state or condition belonging to the nature or circumstances of the person or thing spoken of, or to that which often befalls one. One whose father was subject to attacks of the gout is himself liable to have that disease. Men are constantly subject to the law, but liable to suffer by its infraction. Proudly secure, yet liable to fall. Milton. All human things are subject to decay. Dryden.","insensibility":"1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn. -- Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference.","sabelloid":"Like, or related to, the genus Sabella. -- Sa*bel\"loid, n.","obligement":"Obligation. [R.] I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.","azedarach":"1. (Bot.) A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree. 2. (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.","culinary":"Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.","gomarite":"One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.","mascle":"A lozenge voided.","chubbedness":"The state of being chubby.","cipolin":"A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.","lately":"Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.","pisay":"See Pisé.","pyrrhicist":"One two danced the pyrrhic.","coadjutrix":"A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.","pledgee":"The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.","forcipation":"Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers. Bacon.","gymnastics":"Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.","strychnos":"A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceæ. See Nux vomica.","redressal":"Redress.","wreeke":"See 2d Wreak. [Obs.]","pyrogallol":"A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.","mezza majolica":"Italian pottery of the epoch and general character of majolica, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.","damianist":"A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.","alpha paper":"A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]","scrutinous":"Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict. -- Scru\"ti*nous*ly, adv.","ouzel":"Same as Ousel. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson.","quadrijugate":"Same as Quadrijugous.","elucidatory":"Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]","oscillative":"Tending to oscillate; vibratory. [R.] I. Taylor.","thermochrosy":"The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.","elve":"An old form of Elf.","quarterfoil":"An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.","interwreathe":"To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. [R.] Lovelace.","synteretics":"That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]","thriftiness":"The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.","nipple":"1. (Anat.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap. 2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.] Derham. 3. Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge. 4. (Mech.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings. Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering.","farlie":"An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drayton.","isodrome":"A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points (90º), by means of paths of equal length for each ship. It is prohibited in the United States navy.","pragmatically":"In a pragmatical manner.","protean":"1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. \" Protean transformations.\" Cudworth. 2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.","proterosaurus":"An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.","perflation":"The act of perflating. [Obs.] Woodward.","polluter":"One who pollutes. Dryden.","anatine":"Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.","sandaliform":"Shaped like a sandal or slipper.","monoptote":"1. A noun having only one case. Andrews. 2. A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.","deistically":"After the manner of deists.","hostility":"1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. 2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb. Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.","vendee":"The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.","skiagraphy":"See Sciagraph, Sciagraphy, etc.","coffer":"1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak. 3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. 4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.\n\n1. To put into a coffer. Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to turnish with a coffer or coffers.","ouarine":"A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.","recusation":"1. Refusal. [Obs.] 2. (Old Law) The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. Blackstone.","replevisable":"Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.","escroll":"1. A scroll. [Obs.] 2. (Her.) (a) A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest. (b) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.","moros":"The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.","trilinear":"Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coördinates.","whitsuntide":"The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost. R. of Gloucester.","stuckle":"A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.","itaconic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.","beaver state":"Oregon; -- a nickname.","pasigraphic":"Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.","kest":"of Cast. [Obs.]","manliness":"The quality or state of being manly.","dromaeognathous":"Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.","thimbleberry":"A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.","acouchy":"A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).","earthlight":"The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or \"the old moon in the arms of the new.\"","ideational":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation. Certain sensational or ideational stimuli. Blackw. Mag.","rhaphe":"The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.","wartweed":"Same as Wartwort.","overbattle":"Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] \"Overbattle grounds.\" Hooker.","alcoholmetrical":"Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.","release":"To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.\n\n1. To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go. Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. Mark xv. 6. 2. To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty. 3. (Law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit. 4. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. [Obs.] Hooker. A sacred vow that none should aye Spenser. Syn. -- To free; liberate; loose; discharge; disengage; extracate; let go; quit; acquit.\n\n1. The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. \"Who boast'st release from hell.\" Milton. 2. Relief from care, pain, or any burden. 3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance. 4. (Law) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. Blackstone. 5. (Steam Engine) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape. Lease and release. (Law) See under Lease. -- Out of release, without cessation. [Obs.] Chaucer. Syn. -- Liberation; freedom; discharge. See Death.","interjectional":"1. Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an interjection; consisting of natural and spontaneous exclamations. Certain of the natural accompaniments of interjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization. Earle.","unportuous":"Having no ports. [Obs.] \"An unportuous coast.\" Burke.","studied":"1. Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson. 2. Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry. I shrewdly suspect that he is little studied of a theory of moral proportions. Burke. 3. Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult. \"Studied magnificence.\" Hawthorne. 4. Intent; inclined. [Obs.] Shak.","tumblerful":"As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.","lilly-pilly":"An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.","violist":"A player on the viol.","coit":"A quoit. [Obs.] Carew.\n\nTo throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.","twelfth-night":"The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.","nepaulese":"Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepaul.","conglobulate":"To gather into a small round mass.","redundancy":"1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison. 3. (Law) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.","nannyberry":"See Sheepberry.","huddler":"One who huddles things together.","i":"1. I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in pine, ice; and the short sound, as in pîn. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in words of foreign origin), as in machine, pique, regime. (c) That of consonant y (in many words in which it precedes another vowel), as in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in fail, field, seize, feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil, join, coin. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 98-106. Note: The dot which we place over the small or lower case i dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J were originally represented by the same character, and even after the introduction of the form J into English dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till a comparatively recent time, classed together. 2. In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it. 3. As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.\n\nThe nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.","links":"A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.","thider":"Thither. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rightwiseness":"Righteousness. [Obs.] In doom and eke in rightwisnesse. Chaucer.","cardinalize":"To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.","dashism":"The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. [R. & Colloq.] He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.","lachrymate":"To weep. [R.] Blount.","pigmental":"Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.","octylic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, octyl; as, octylic ether.","wrack":"A thin, flying cloud; a rack.\n\nTo rack; to torment. [R.]\n\n1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. \"A world devote to universal wrack.\" Milton. wrack and ruin 2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. 3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind. Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass.\n\nTo wreck. [Obs.] Dryden.","sloam":"A layer of earth between coal seams.","decimator":"One who decimates. South.","beslobber":"To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.","amphoric":"Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.","forespeak":"See Forspeak.\n\nTo foretell; to predict. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.","prenotion":"A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.","trigonometric":"Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry. --Trig`o*no*met\"ric*al*ly, adv. Trigonometrical curve, a curve one of whose coördinates is a trigonometric function of the other. -- Trigonometrical function. See under Function. -- Trigonometrical lines, lines which are employed in solving the different cases of plane and spherical trigonometry, as sines, tangents, secants, and the like. These lines, or the lengths of them, are trigonometrical functions of the arcs and angles to which they belong. -- Trigonometrical survey. See under Survey.","necrosis":"1. (med.) Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries. 2. (Bot.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.","afflictedness":"The state of being afflicted; affliction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","maladjustment":"A bad adjustment.","exceptive":"That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.","decimeter":"A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.","pythagoric":"See Pythagorean, a.","survival":"1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving. 2. (Arhæol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs. Tylor. Survival of the fittest. (Biol.) See Natural selection, under Natural.","amatorious":"Amatory. [Obs.] \"Amatorious poem.\" Milton.","dispost":"To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).","visayan":"A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.","turnicimorphae":"A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.","apiarian":"Of or relating to bees.","interdigitate":"To interweave. [R.]\n\nTo interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.","capella":"A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.","glyceride":"A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.","monoecian":"1. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious. -- n. One of the Monoecia. 2. (Zoöl.) A monoecious animal, as certain mollusks.","adit":"1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel. 2. Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.","couchant":"1. Lying down with head erect; squatting. 2. (Her.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.","forbidder":"One who forbids. Milton.","high-go":"A spree; a revel. [Low]","aswoon":"In a swoon. Chaucer.","mesoxalic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.","myositic":"Myotic.","reimbursable":"Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.","temper":"1. To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. Bancroft. Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Otway. But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher. Byron. She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors. Addison. 2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking. Wisdom xvi. 21. 3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism & Obs.] With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser. 5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. 6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. Syn. -- To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe; calm.\n\n1. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar. 2. Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment. Fuller. 3. Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heared and judged. Milton. The consequents of a certain ethical temper. J. H. Newman. 4. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope. Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. B. Jonson. 5. Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. [Colloq.] 6. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel. 7. Middle state or course; mean; medium. [R.] The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances. Macaulay. 8. (Sugar Works) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. Temper screw, in deep well boring, an adjusting screw connecting the working beam with the rope carrying the tools, for lowering the tools as the drilling progresses. Syn. -- Disposition; temperament; frame; humor; mood. See Disposition.\n\n1. To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Shak.","epithelioid":"Like epithelium; as, epithelioid cells.","trestle":"1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like. 2. The frame of a table. Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. -- Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.","stainless":"Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.","champlain period":"A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending the melting of the glaciers, while the later deposits are of finer material in more quiet waters, as the alluvium.","elison":"1. Division; separation. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Gram.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.","pulex":"A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.","scrotal":"Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.","slumberingly":"In a slumbering manner.","hellenistical":"Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.","cremona":"A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.","overcloud":"To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.","taker":"One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.","victual":"1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow. 2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] Jamieson.\n\nTo supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak.","fillipeen":"See Philopena.","immiscible":"Not capable of being mixed or mingled. A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. Cudworth.","ammiral":"An obsolete form of admiral. \"The mast of some great ammiral.\" Milton.","gymnast":"One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.","coxcomical":"Coxcombical. [R.]","overthrow":"1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak. Syn. -- To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.\n\n1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin. Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser. 2. (a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head. (b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that striker makes an additional run.","pulmogasteropoda":"Same as Pulmonata.","karyokinesis":"The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.","milliary":"Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles. A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.\n\nA milestone.","nugacity":"Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. [R.] Dr. H. More.","addictedness":"The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.","blench":"1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. 2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.\n\n1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More. 2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn.\n\nA looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.\n\nTo grow or make pale. Barbour.","butlership":"The office of a butler.","compartition":"The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.","payndemain":"The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.] PAYNE'S PROCESS Payne's process. A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn\"ize, v. t.","agalmatolite":"A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.","claim":"1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. 2. To proclaim. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. To call or name. [Obs.] Spenser. 4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]\n\nTo be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority. Locke.\n\n1. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact. 2. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. \"A bar to all claims upon land.\" Hallam. 3. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia] 4. A laoud call. [Obs.] Spenser To lay claim to, to demand as a right. \"Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance\" Shak.","dicebox":"A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.","lanuginose":"Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.","spoonworm":"A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.","serenader":"One who serenades.","centrally":"In a central manner or situation.","paien":"Pagan. [Obs.] Chaucer.","spinning":"from Spin. Spinning gland (Zoöl.), one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning. -- Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles revolving simultaneously. -- Spinning mite (Zoöl.), the red spider. -- Spinning wheel, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.","ritualistic":"Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.","latinize":"1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. \"Latinized races.\" Lowell. 3. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.\n\nTo use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden. 2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.","bloodstick":"A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.","inconveniently":"In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.","whoredom":"1. The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness. 2. (Script.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.","overtrust":"Excessive confidence.\n\nTo trust too much. Bp. Hall.","livraison":"A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.","win":"1. To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. \"This city for to win.\" Chaucer. \"Who thus shall Canaan win.\" Milton. Thy well-breathed horse Impels the flying car, and wins the course. Dryden. 2. To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship. Thy virtue wan me; with virtue preserve me. Sir P. Sidney. She is a woman; therefore to be won. Shak. 3. To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury. 4. To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake. [Archaic] Even in the porch he him did win. Spenser. And when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan. Sir W. Scott. 5. (Mining) To extract, as ore or coal. Raymond. Syn. -- To gain; get; procure; earn. See Gain.\n\nTo gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail. Nor is it aught but just That he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms. Milton. To win of, to be conqueror over. [Obs.] Shak. -- To win on or upon. (a) To gain favor or influence with. \"You have a softness and beneficence winning on the hearts of others.\" Dryden. (b) To gain ground on. \"The rabble . . . will in time win upon power.\" Shak.","tantalization":"The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. Gayton.","loftily":"In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.","irreflective":"Not reflective. De Quincey.","paganism":"The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.","responsory":"Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.\n\n1. (Eccl.) (a) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service. (b) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain. Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy. Milton. 2. (Eccl.) An antiphonary; a response book.","tessellated":"1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement. 2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.","time policy":"A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.","constableship":"The office or functions of a constable.","suppositional":"Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.","air cooling":"In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air\"-cooled`, a.","guaniferous":"Yielding guano. Ure.","aeolian":"1. Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect. 2. Pertaining to Æolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aërial. Viewless forms the æolian organ play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the volume of sound, etc., by forcing a stream of air upon the strings. Moore. -- Æolian harp, Æolian lyre, a musical instrument consisting of a box, on or in which are stretched strings, on which the wind acts to produce the notes; -- usually placed at an open window. Moore. -- Æolian mode (Mus.), one of the ancient Greek and early ecclesiastical modes.","rosalgar":"realgar. [Obs.] chaucer.","combative":"(","botts":"See Bots.","clavicular":"Of or pertaining to the clavicle.","conceptualist":"One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.","wrong":"imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.\n\n1. Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose. [Obs.] Wyclif (Lev. xxi. 19). 2. Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires. 3. Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way. I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places. Shak. 4. Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement. 5. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth. Syn. -- Injurious; unjust; faulty; detrimental; incorrect; erroneous; unfit; unsuitable.\n\nIn a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly. Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss. Pope.\n\nThat which is not right. Specifically: (a) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral Ant: right. When I had wrong and she the right. Chaucer. One spake much of right and wrong. Milton. (b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong. (c) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right. Friend, I do thee no wrong. Matt. xx. 18. As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but in his courts and by his courts. Milton. The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of paying a debt. E. Evereth. Note: Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community. Blackstone.\n\n1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me. I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men. Shak.","saturnicentric":"Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.","founder":"One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.\n\nOne who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.\n\n1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. 2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer. 3. To fail; to miscarry. \"All his tricks founder.\" Shak.\n\nTo cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.\n\n(a) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (b) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.","gable":"A cable. [Archaic] Chapman.\n\n(a) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence: (b) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. (c) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. Bell gable. See under Bell. -- Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end. -- Gable wall. Same as Gable (b). -- Gable window, a window in a gable.","miller":"1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. 2. A milling machine. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.] Miller's thumb. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (U. gobio), and the American (U. gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff- chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]","articulative":"Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush.","superlation":"Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","crown-post":"Same as King-post.","blasphemy":"1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. Note: When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence. 2. Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.","borrower":"One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.","pesterous":"Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. [Obs.] Bacon.","cordately":"In a cordate form.","sur-":"A prefix signifying over, above, beyond, upon.","bird":"1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20). 2. (Zoöl.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. 3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. 4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider (Zoöl.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.\n\n1. To catch or shoot birds. 2. Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.","veterinarian":"One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.","monogynia":"A Linnæan order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.","stridulate":"To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.","jahvist":"See Jehovist, Jehovistic.\n\nThe author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.","octogenary":"Of eighty years of age. \"Being then octogenary.\" Aubrey.","poculent":"Fit for drink. [Obs.] \"Some those herbs which are not esculent, are . . . poculent.\" Bacon.","colorimeter":"An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.","exestuation":"A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.","belated":"Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. \"Some belated peasant.\" Milton. -- Be*lat\"ed*ness, n. Milton.","reefing":"The process of taking in a reef. Reefing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.","polytheist":"One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.","macule":"1. A spot. [Obs.] 2. (Print.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.\n\nTo blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.","forespent":"Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nSee Forspent.","dietetic":"Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.","stintedness":"The state of being stinted.","-ency":"A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.","lucernarida":"(a) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. (b) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.","steeply":"In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.","passeres":"An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.","dappled":"Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott. Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. His steed was all dapple-gray. Chaucer. O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. Sir W. Scott.","zooephytoid":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a zoöphyte.","eurycerous":"Having broad horns.","ingannation":"Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.","cephalate":"Having a head.","cayenne":"Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper. (a) (Bot.) A species of capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.","intitle":"See Entitle.","antiloimic":"A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.","vitriform":"Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.","vartabed":"A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.","madly":"In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.","morrimal":"See Mormal.","diagnosis":"1. (Med.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. 2. Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species. 3. Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception pf, or judgment concerning, motives and character. The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram. Compton Reade. My diagnosis of his character proved correct. J. Payn. Differential diagnosis (Med.), the determination of the distinguishing characteristics as between two similar diseases or conditions.","painsworthy":"Worth the pains o","nocument":"Harm; injury; detriment. [Obs.]","lessener":"One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers (1839).","phycology":"The science of algæ, or seaweeds; algology.","sternohyoid":"Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.","manhole":"A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.","omnispective":"Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing. [R.] \"Omnispective Power!\" Boyse.","gesso duro":"A variety of gesso which when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames.","resistance":"1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38. 2. (Physics) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles. 3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Unfold to us some warlike resistance. Shak. 4. (Elec.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm. Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance. -- Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance. -- Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.","lagly":"Laggingly. [Prov. Eng.]","stannum":"The technical name of tin. See Tin.","endoscope":"An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.","fluo-":"A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.","formule":"A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] Johnson.","multiradiate":"Having many rays.","peonism":"Same as Peonage. D. Webster.","zambo":"The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.","saxicavid":"Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. -- n. A saxicava.","bandelet":"A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.","ad-":"As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.","epizoan":"An epizoön.\n\nAn epizoön.","echinated":"Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.","odontalgia":"Toothache.","excursive":"Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur\"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur\"sive*ness, , n.","acalycine":"Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.","grandpa":"A grandfather.","shimmy":"A chemise. [Colloq.]","sebic":"See Sebacic. [Obs.]","sifter":"1. One who, or that which, sifts. 2. (Zoöl.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell","pampano":"Same as Pompano.","southernwood":"A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.","tetrasyllabic":"Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.","inexplosive":"Not explosive.","podophthalmite":"The eyestalk of a crustacean.","chaudron":"See Chawdron. [Obs.]","encroach":"To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden. Syn. -- To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass.\n\nEncroachment. [Obs.] South.","nitrolic":"of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.","bagging":"1. Cloth or other material for bags. 2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag. 3. The act of swelling; swelling.\n\nReaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]","sharewort":"A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.","superaltar":"A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.","claustrum":"A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus\"tral, a.","exsufflation":"1. A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Eccles.) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. 3. (Physiol.) A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.","consignment":"1. The act of consigning; consignation. 2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. 3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke. 4. The writing by which anything is consigned.","volcanic neck":"A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.","khan":"A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them.\n\nAn Eastern inn or caravansary. [Written also kawn.]","perchloric":"Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.","tepidity":"The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.","perfervid":"Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.","premosaic":"Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.","precisive":"Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction. I. Watts.","visaged":"Having a visage. Shak.","definitiveness":"The quality of being definitive.","hackamore":"A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]","outstorm":"To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.","purpresture":"Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]","oration":"An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon. Syn. -- Address; speech. See Harangue.\n\nTo deliver an oration. Donne.","half-sister":"A sister by one parent only.","hederose":"Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.","precipitator":"One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness. Hammond.","water gang":"A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.","ordinative":"Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.","comport":"1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow. 2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with. How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.\n\n1. To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.] The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport. Daniel. 2. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. Burke.\n\nManner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.","adjection":"The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.","magged":"Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","bona fide":"In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.","polygordius":"A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva.","popularness":"The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.","weariness":"The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. Bacon.","viperous":"Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. \"This viperous slander.\" Shak. -- Vi\"per*ous*ly, adv.","lachrymary":"Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal. Addison.","pollinose":"Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.","septennate":"A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.","decandrous":"Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.","reimpose":"To impose anew.","truantship":"The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy. Ascham.","normalization":"Reduction to a standard or normal state.","usefully":"In a useful manner.","paraplegy":"Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord. -- Par`a*pleg\"ic, a.","slatter":"To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.","coliseum":"The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]","circumbendibus":"A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.","outscorn":"To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.","wantrust":"Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.","buddhist":"One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.\n\nOf or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.","rysimeter":"See Rhysimeter.","waistcoat":"(a) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. (b) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. Note: The waistcoat was a part of female attire as well as male . . . It was only when the waistcoat was worn without a gown or upper dress that it was considered the mark of a mad or profligate woman. Nares. Syn. -- See Vest.","circuity":"A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.","hypognatous":"Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.","sortita":"1. The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering. 2. A closing voluntary; a postlude.","taintlessly":"In a taintless manner.","water-furrow":"To make water furrows in.","chuffily":"Clownishly; surlily.","pataca":"The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. [Obs.]","sea pincushion":"(a) A sea purse. (b) A pentagonal starfish.","saxon":"1. (a) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the nothern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony. 2. The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon. old Saxon, the saxon of the continent of Europe in the old form of the language, as shown particularly in the \"Heliand\", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language. (b) Anglo-Saxon. (c) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants. Saxon blue (Dyeing), a deep blue liquid used in dyeing, and obtained by dissolving indigo in concentrated sulphuric acid. Brande & C. -- Saxon green (Dyeing), a green color produced by dyeing with yellow upon a ground of Saxon blue.","patible":"Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.","vivisection":"The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.","fermental":"Fermentative. [Obs.]","reave":"To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. \"To reave his life.\" Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.","conservational":"Tending to conserve; preservative.","rubythroat":"Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).","trophi":"The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.","facture":"1. The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon. 2. (Com.) An invoice or bill of parcels.","impoliticly":"In an impolitic manner.","magnetize":"1. To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle. 2. To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence. Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character. Motley. 3. To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.","distinctness":"1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness. Syn. -- Plainness; clearness; precision; perspicuity.","torace":"To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.","judaic":"Of or pertaining to the Jews. \"The natural or Judaical [religion].\" South.","mechanico-chemical":"Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.","annexionist":"An annexationist. [R.]","outflatter":"To exceed in flattering.","proximo":"In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.","gazeebo":"A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect. [Colloq.]","definitional":"Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.","tenioid":"See Tænoid.","blueback":"(a) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine. (b) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward. (c) An American river herring (Clupea æstivalis), closely allied to the alewife.","traulism":"A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.","italianize":"1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave. 2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. \"An Englishman Italianized.\" Lowell.","sorcery":"Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton.","quicksilvered":"Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.","junold":"See Gimmal.","unfathered":"1. Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. Shak. 2. Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.","water joint":"A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.","edictal":"Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.","kan":"To know; to ken. [Obs.] See Ken.\n\nSee Khan.","cheviot":"1. A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills. 2. A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.","limuloidea":"An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. Note: There are six pairs of leglike organs, surrounding the mouth, most of which terminate in claws; those of the first pair (probably mandibles) are the smallest; the others have the basal joints thickened and spinose, to serve as jaws, while the terminal joints serve as legs. This group is intermediate, in some characteristics, between crustaceans and certain arachnids (scorpions), but the respiration is by means of lamellate gills borne upon the five posterior abdominal appendages, which are flat and united in pairs by their inner edges, and are protected by the lidlike anterior pair, which also bear the genital orifices.","cannabin":"A pisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.","marver":"A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape.","storier":"A relater of stories; an historian. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.","reproductory":"Reproductive.","dout":"To put out. [Obs.] \"It douts the light.\" Sylvester.","happy":"1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle. 2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts. Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 15. The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. Pope. 3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. \"Happy-go-lucky carelessness.\" W. Black.","phrenograph":"An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.","observable":"Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable. Sir. T. Browne. The difference is sufficiently observable. Southey. -- Ob*serv\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ob*serv\"a*bly, adv.","benefactor":"One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.","tag":"1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label. 2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. 3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. 4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed. 5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment. Note: Frequently it is held in the private home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the seller. Similar to a yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea market, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.\n\n1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden. 2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke. 3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.\n\nTo follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.\n\nA child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.","simpleton":"A person of weak intellect; a silly person.","barble":"See Barbel.","woke":"Wake.","apochromatic":"Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro\"ma*tism (#), n.","deflagrator":"A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.","fantastic-alness":"The quality of being fantastic.","decreet":"The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.","sustenance":"1. The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life. 2. That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance. \"A man of little sustenance.\" Chaucer. For lying is thy sustenance, thy food. Milton.","negation":"1. The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of Ant: affirmation. Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay. Rogers. 2. (Logic) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.","carrageen":"A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]","nonsolvency":"Inability to pay debts; insolvency.","ksar":"See Czar.","overbuilt":"Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.","levet":"A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.","inimicitious":"Inimical; unfriendly. [R.] Sterne.","opossum":"Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana. Note: Several related species are found in South America. The water opossum of Brazil (Chironectes variegatus), which has the hind feet, webbed, is provided with a marsupial pouch and with cheek pouches. It is called also yapock. Opossum mouse. (Zoöl.) See Flying mouse, under Flying. -- Opossum shrimp (Zoöl.), any schizopod crustacean of the genus Mysis and allied genera. See Schizopoda.","pardo":"A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.","wryneck":"1. A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.","lustration":"1. The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. Dryden. 2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.","rhombohedron":"A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.","aisless":"Without an aisle.","purfling":"Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.","encephalos":"The encephalon. In man the encephalos reaches its full size about seven years of age. Sir W. Hamilton.","krooman":"One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.","sea gauge":"See under Gauge, n.","stillstand":"A standstill. [R.] Shak.","lixivial":"1. Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle. 2. Of the color of lye; resembling lye. 3. Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. Lixivial salts (Old Chem.), salts which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them.","contrarious":"Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] Milton. She flew contrarious in the face of God. Mrs. Browning.","opposability":"The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.","bide":"1. To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton. 2. To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. Shak.\n\n1. To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak. 2. To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.","dealbate":"To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.","drupaceous":"Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.","ovular":"Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.","fertileness":"Fertility. Sir P. Sidney.","selachian":"One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.","readopt":"To adopt again. Young.","repartotion":"Another, or an additional, separation into parts.","carpentering":"The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.","covenably":"Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] \"Well and covenably.\" Chaucer.","wicken tree":"Same as Quicken tree.","parabronchium":"One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.","filipino":"A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood. Then there are Filipinos, -- \"children of the country,\" they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood. The Century.","anamorphosy":"Same as Anamorphosis.","melchite":"One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.","glass maker":"One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass\" mak`ing, or Glass\"mak`ing, n.","vulcanization":"The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.","whang":"A leather thong. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]\n\nTo beat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]","unquick":"Not quick. [R.] Daniel.","retortive":"Containing retort.","textury":"The art or process of weaving; texture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","entonic":"Having great tension, or exaggerated action. Dunglison.","fulgury":"Lightning. [Obs.]","apohyal":"Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.","roasting":"a. & n., from Roast, v. Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. -- Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.","neoimpressionism":"A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).","cicutoxin":"The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.","perichaetous":"Surrounded by setæ; -- said of certain earthworms (genus Perichætus).","stalagmitic":"Having the form or structure of stalagmites. -- Stal`ag*mit\"ic*al*ly, adv.","cheiloplasty":"The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.","embedment":"The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.","intermination":"A menace or threat. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","hydrogen":"A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1. Note: Although a gas, hydrogen is chemically similar to the metals in its nature, having the properties of a weak base. It is, in all acids, the base which is replaced by metals and basic radicals to form salts. Like all other gases, it is condensed by great cold and pressure to a liquid which freezes and solidifies by its own evaporation. It is absorbed in large quantities by certain metals (esp. palladium), forming alloy-like compounds; hence, in view of quasi-metallic nature, it is sometimes called hydrogenium. It is the typical reducing agent, as opposed to oxidizers, as oxygen, chlorine, etc. Bicarbureted hydrogen, an old name for ethylene. -- Carbureted hydrogen gas. See under Carbureted. -- Hydrogen dioxide, a thick, colorless liquid, H2O2, resembling water, but having a bitter, sour taste, produced by the action of acids on barium peroxide. It decomposes into water and oxygen, and is manufactured in large quantities for an oxidizing and bleaching agent. Called also oxygenated water. -- Hydrogen oxide, a chemical name for water, H -- Hydrogen sulphide, a colorless inflammable gas, H2S, having the characteristic odor of bad eggs, and found in many mineral springs. It is produced by the action of acids on metallic sulphides, and is an important chemical reagent. Called also sulphureted hydrogen.","subvene":"To come under, as a support or stay; to happen. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. Bp. Warburton.","transpierce":"To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.","spellbound":"Bound by, or as by, a spell.","suppliant":"1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton. Syn. -- Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. -- Sup\"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup\"pli*ant*ness, n.\n\nOne who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden.","exponential":"Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent. -- Exponential quantity (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is unknown or variable, as ax. -- Exponential series, a series derived from the development of exponential equations or quantities.","palmitin":"A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.","mammoth":"An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man. Note: Several specimens have been found in Siberia preserved entire, with the flesh and hair remaining. They were imbedded in the ice cliffs at a remote period, and became exposed by the melting of the ice.\n\nResembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.","bur marigold":"See Beggar's ticks.","unipersonal":"1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. 2. (Gram.) Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal.","spleenwort":"Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.","misinterpret":"To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.","morphologic":"Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology. -- Mor`pho*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","purbeck stone":"A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.","tumbleweed":"Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.","venary":"Of or, pertaining to hunting.","giraffe":"An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.","plaga":"A stripe of color.","vexer":"One who vexes or troubles.","gobemouche":"Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.","stimie":"See Stymie.","terebrating":"1. (Zoöl.) Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc. 2. (Med.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.","chancellor":"A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with judicial powers, and had superintendence over the other officers of the empire. From the Roman empire this office passed to the church, and every bishop has his chancellor, the principal judge of his consistory. In later times, in most countries of Europe, the chancellor was a high officer of state, keeper of the great seal of the kingdom, and having the supervision of all charters, and like public instruments of the crown, which were authenticated in the most solemn manner. In France a secretary is in some cases called a chancellor. In Scotland, the appellation is given to the foreman of a jury, or assize. In the present German empire, the chancellor is the president of the federal council and the head of the imperial administration. In the United States, the title is given to certain judges of courts of chancery or equity, established by the statutes of separate States. Blackstone. Wharton. Chancellor of a bishop, or of a diocese (R. C. Ch. & ch. of Eng.), a law officer appointed to hold the bishop's court in his diocese, and to assist him in matter of ecclesiastical law. -- Chancellor of a cathedral, one of the four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation, and an officer whose duties are chiefly educational, with special reference to the cultivation of theology. -- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, an officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction. -- Chancellor of a university, the chief officer of a collegiate body. In Oxford, he is elected for life; in Cambridge, for a term of years; and his office is honorary, the chief duties of it devolving on the vice chancellor. -- Chancellor of the exchequer, a member of the British cabinet upon whom devolves the charge of the public income and expenditure as the highest finance minister of the government. -- Chancellor of the order of the Garter (or other military orders), an officer who seals the commissions and mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings, and delivers their acts under the seal of their order. -- Lord high chancellor of England, the presiding judge in the court of chancery, the highest judicial officer of the crown, and the first lay person of the state after the blood royal. He is created chancellor by the delivery into his custody of the great seal, of which he becomes keeper. He is privy counselor by his office, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription.","demagogic":"Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.","beware":"1. To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow. 2. To have a special regard; to heed. [Obs.] Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of him, and obey his voice. Ex. xxiii. 20, 21. Note: This word is a compound from be and the Old English ware, now wary, which is an adjective. \"Be ye war of false prophetis.\" Wyclif, Matt. vii. 15. It is used commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go with the infinitive.\n\nTo avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. [Obs.] \"Priest, beware your beard.\" Shak. To wish them beware the son. Milton.","neo-kantianism":"The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.","capper":"1. One whose business is to make or sell caps. 2. A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.]. 3. An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.","triweekly":"Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. -- adv. Three times a week. -- n. A triweekly publication. Note: This is a convenient word, but is not legitimately formed. It should mean occurring once in three weeks, as triennial means once in three years. Cf. Biweekly.","toaster":"1. One who toasts. 2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. Toaster oven. an electrical toaster.","truceless":"Without a truce; unforbearing. Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest. H. Brooke.","ultra vires":"Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.","confident":"See Confidant. South. Dryden.","mariet":"A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet.","tribalism":"The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.","karroo":"One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations. [Also karoo.] The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.","spiritually":"In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.","scumming":"(a) The act of taking off scum. (b) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.","pains":"Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.","thundering":"1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. [Slang] -- Thun\"der*ing*ly, adv.\n\nThunder. Rev. iv. 5.","aberrant":"See Aberr.] 1. Wandering; straying from the right way. 2. (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.","brasen":"Same as Brazen.","decrier":"One who decries.","homogenetic":"Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.","quap":"To quaver. [Obs.] See Quob.","vire":"An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton. Gower.","glost oven":"An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.","avesta":"The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.","sanableness":"The quality of being sanable.","farfetched":"1. Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne. 2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.","darkling":"In the dark. [Poetic] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.\n\n1. Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray. 2. Dark; gloomy. \"The darkling precipice.\" Moore.","hypotricha":"A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.","bessemer steel":"Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.","lathing":"The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.","revince":"To overcome; to refute, as error. [Obs.] Foxe.","scoot":"To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away. [Colloq. & Humorous, U.S.]","perdicine":"Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidæ, or partridges.","reconsecration":"Renewed consecration.","redress":"To dress again.\n\n1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.] The common profit could she redress. Chaucer. In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton. Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton. 2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress. Shak. 3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. \"'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress.\" Dryden. Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye Byron.\n\n1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.] Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker. 2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak. A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant. 3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.","transalpine":"Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine. \" Transalpine garbs.\" Beau. & Fl.\n\nA native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.","deceptive":"Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.","sanguisuge":"A bloodsucker, or leech.","catch-meadow":"meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.","heathenishly":"In a heathenish manner.","charm":"1. A melody; a song. [Obs.] With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser. 2. A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak. 3. That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope. The charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton. 4. Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune. 5. Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain. Syn. - Spell; incantation; conjuration; enchantment; fascination; attraction.\n\n1. To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.] Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. Spenser. 2. To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak. 3. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope. 4. To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. Milton. 5. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak. Syn. - To fascinate; enchant; enrapture; captivate; bewitch; allure; subdue; delight; entice; transport.\n\n1. To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms. The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Ps. lviii. 5. 2. To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating. 3. To make a musical sound. [Obs.] Milton.","disagreeableness":"The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.","unrivaled":"Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless. [Spelt also unrivalled.] Pope.","scooper":"1. One who, or that which scoops. 2. (Zoöl.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.","coombe":"A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.","mesocephalic":"(a) Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure. (b) Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic. (c) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.","mandment":"Commandment. [Obs.]","oratorize":"To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.","anacrotism":"A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.","blowtube":"1. A blowgun. Tylor. 2. A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles. 3. (Glassmaking) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of \"metal\" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.","clue":"1. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser. 2. That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay. 3. (Naut.) (a.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (c.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. Clew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. -- Clew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.\n\nA ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.","denarius":"A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the \"penny\" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.","dedalian":"See Dædalian.","logy":"Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [U.S.] Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. C. H. Merriam.","instillment":"The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]","expansure":"Expanse. [Obs.] \"Night's rich expansure.\"","handleable":"Capable of being handled.","incuriously":"In an curious manner.","sloppy":"Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.","idless":"Idleness. [Archaic] \"In ydlesse.\" Spenser. And an idlesse all the day Beside a wandering stream. Mrs. Browning.","respondent":"Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.\n\nOne who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant. Specifically: (a) (Law) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant. (b) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts.","obtension":"The act of obtending. [Obs.] Johnson.","higgledy-piggledy":"In confusion; topsy-turvy. [Colloq.] Johnson.","snider":"A breech-loading rifle formerly used in the British service; -- so called from the inventor.","therewhile":"At that time; at the same time. [Obs.] Laud.","match-cloth":"A coarse cloth.","overrighteous":"Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.","scripturalist":"One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.","quickening":"1. The act or process of making or of becoming quick. 2. (Physiol.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.","hypoarion":"An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.","cheaply":"At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.","cohabitant":"One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.","elogium":"The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.","chaetetes":"A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.","traduce":"1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke. 3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. Sir M. Hale. 4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl. 5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon. 6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden. Syn. -- To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.","roebuck":"A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capræa) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.","wonder-worker":"One who performs wonders, or miracles.","tantalizingly":"In a tantalizing or teasing manner.","tripersonalist":"A Trinitarian.","disinflame":"To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.","radiate":"1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. Howell. 2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes. Locke.\n\n1. To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat. 2. To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.]\n\n1. Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal. 2. (Bot.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc. 3. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Radiata.\n\nOne of the Radiata.","craniota":"A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.","teloogoo":"See Telugu. D. O. Allen.","satellitious":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, satellites. [R.] Cheyne.","we":"The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb. Note: We is frequently used to express men in general, including the speaker. We is also often used by individuals, as authors, editors, etc., in speaking of themselves, in order to avoid the appearance of egotism in the too frequent repetition of the pronoun I. The plural style is also in use among kings and other sovereigns, and is said to have been begun by King John of England. Before that time, monarchs used the singular number in their edicts. The German and the French sovereigns followed the example of King John in a. d. 1200.","exploitation":"The act of exploiting or utilizing. J. D. Whitney.","atonable":"Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.","retent":"That which is retained. Hickok.","overglaze":"(a) Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. (b) Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.","epidemic":"1. (Med.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic. 2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. It was the epidemical sin of the nation. Bp. Burnet.\n\n1. (Med.) An epidemic disease. 2. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.","umbellule":"An umbellet.","nis":"Is not. [Obs.] Chaucer.","miliary":"1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption. 2. (Med.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever. 3. (Zoöl.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.\n\nOne of the small tubercles of Echini.","ferment":"1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: (a) Formed or organized ferments. (b) Unorganized or structureless ferments. The latter are also called soluble or chemical ferments, and enzymes. Ferments of the first class are as a rule simple microscopic vegetable organisms, and the fermentations which they engender are due to their growth and development; as, the acetic ferment, the butyric ferment, etc. See Fermentation. Ferments of the second class, on the other hand, are chemical substances, as a rule soluble in glycerin and precipitated by alcohol. In action they are catalytic and, mainly, hydrolytic. Good examples are pepsin of the dastric juice, ptyalin of the salvia, and disease of malt. globular proteins, capable of catalyzing a wide variety of chemical reactions, not merely hydrolytic. The full set of enzymes causing production of ethyl alcohol from sugar has been identified and individually purified and studied. See enzyme 2. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups. 3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. [R.] Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran. Thomson. ferment oils, volatile oils produced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.\n\nTo cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. Pope.\n\n1. To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce. 2. To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. But finding no redress, ferment an rage. Milton. The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. De Quincey.","mono":"The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).","graftage":"The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.","brachyurous":"Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.","graphophone":"A kind of photograph.","chasing":"The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.","railing":"Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.\n\n1. A barrier made of a rail or of rails. 2. Rails in general; also, material for making rails.","mismanage":"To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.","chalcanthite":"Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.","shittim":"The wood of the shittah tree.","clarenceux":"See King-at-arms.","went":"imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go. To the church both be they went. Chaucer.\n\nCourse; way; path; journey; direction. [Obs.] \"At a turning of a wente.\" Chaucer. But here my weary team, nigh overspent, Shall breathe itself awhile after so long a went. Spenser. He knew the diverse went of mortal ways. Spenser.","jargle":"To emit a harsh or discordant sound. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","labyrinthic":"Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.","heterocercy":"Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.","costless":"Costing nothing.","irritant":"Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating. The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward.\n\nIrritating; producing irritation or inflammation.\n\n1. That which irritates or excites. 2. (Physiol. & Med.) Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant. 3. (Toxicology) A poison that produces inflammation. Counter irritant. See under Counter. -- Pure irritant (Toxicology), a poison that produces inflammation without any corrosive action upon the tissues.","mosaical":"Mosaic (in either sense). \"A mosaical floor.\" Sir P. Sidney.","tapetum":"An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.","telegraphist":"One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.","infra":"Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.","merke":"Murky. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.","computable":"Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned. Not easily computable by arithmetic. Sir M. Hale.","prorectorate":"The office of prorector.","tunicle":"1. A slight natural covering; an integument. The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye. Holland. 2. (R. C. Ch.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.","trio":"1. Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens. 2. (Mus.) (a) A composition for three parts or three instruments. (b) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.","ingot":"1. That in which metal is cast; a mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer. 2. A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine. Sir W. Jones. Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast. -- Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.","rechauffe":"A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash. It is merely a réchauffé of ancient philosophies. F. W. H. Myers.","biflagellate":"Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.","begrave":"To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.","depute":"1. To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate. There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2. Sam. xv. 3. Some persons, deputed by a meeting. Macaulay. 2. To appoint; to assign; to choose. [R.] The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow.\n\nA person deputed; a deputy. [Scot.]","dethrone":"To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. \"The Protector was dethroned.\" Hume.","creche":"A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.","indissolubility":"The quality or state of being indissoluble.","pinguefaction":"A making of, or turning into, fat.","suborbital":"Situated under or below the orbit.","swobber":"1. See Swabber. 2. pl. Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist. [Written also swabber.] Swift.","grene":"Green. [Obs.] Chaucer.","trimaculated":"Marked with three spots, or maculæ.","water milfoil":"Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.","advowtry":"Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.","molt":"of Melt. Chaucer. Spenser.\n\nTo shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.\n\nTo cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.\n\nThe act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.","skippingly":"In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.","tricrotous":"Tricrotic.","roborean":"Made of oak. [Obs.]","swinglebar":"A swingletree. De Quincey.","crescentwise":"In the form of a crescent; like a crescent. Tennyson.","firing pin":"In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.","genital":"Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.","underskinker":"Undertapster. [Obs.]","puff-leg":"Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.","arrose":"To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.","deportment":"Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carrige; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. Swift.","watertath":"A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.]","forsythia":"A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.","hammer lock":"A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.","acinetiform":"Resembling the Acinetæ.","trousers":"A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant","alchymy":"See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.","lychnobite":"One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.","impanelment":"The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.","adjectivally":"As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.","museum":"A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.","semasiology":"The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words. --Se*ma`si*o*log\"ic*al (#), a.","zittern":"See Cittern.","parcae":"The Fates. See Fate, 4.","discernibly":"In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly. Hammond.","illegitimacy":"The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone.","astrological":"Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. \"Astrologi learning.\" Hudibras. \"Astrological prognostication.\" Cudworth. -- As`tro*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","genetical":"Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.","exonerative":"Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.","meltable":"Capable of being melted.","teeong":"The mino bird.","out-herod":"To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. \"It out-Herods Herod.\" Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.","supervene":"To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley. A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.","cephalopode":"One of the Cephalopoda.","pending":"Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.\n\nDuring; as, pending the trail.","drevil":"A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.","proembryo":"(a) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. (b) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.","omnipresential":"Implying universal presence. [R.] South.","tag-rag":"The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. Shak.","compartment":"1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew. 2. (Shipbuilding) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.","jacchus":"The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus.","allure":"To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton. Syn. -- To attract; entice; tempt; decoy; seduce. -- To Allure, Entice, Decoy, Seduce. These words agree in the idea of acting upon the mind by some strong controlling influence, and differ according to the image under which is presented. They are all used in a bad sense, except allure, which has sometimes (though rarely) a good one. We are allured by the prospect or offer (usually deceptive) of some future good. We are commonly enticed into evil by appeals to our passions. We are decoyed into danger by false appearances or representations. We are seduced when drawn aside from the path of rectitude. What allures draws by gentle means; what entices leads us by promises and persuasions; what decoys betrays us, as it were, into a snare or net; what seduces deceives us by artful appeals to the passions.\n\nAllurement. [R.] Hayward.\n\nGait; bearing. The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag.","bracted":"Furnished with bracts.","pilaster":"An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.","adenopathy":"Disease of a gland.","stander-by":"One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.","seasoning":"1. The act or process by which anything is seasoned. 2. That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment. 3. Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation. Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings. Addison. Seasoning tub (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise. Knight.","farsighted":"1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious. 2. (Med.) Hypermetropic.","penally":"In a penal manner.","rake-vein":"See Rake, a mineral vein.","mitigatory":"Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.","telephonic":"1. Conveying sound to a great distance. 2. Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.","loki":"The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.","entoglossal":"Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.","frontignac":"1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France. 2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.","manto":"See Manteau. [Obs.] Bailey.","tardigrade":"1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] G. Eliot. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.\n\nOne of the Tardigrada.","opiparous":"Sumptuous. [Obs.] -- O*pip\"a*rous*ly, adv. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.","unmoral":"Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral. -- Un`mo*ral\"i*ty, n.","controversially":"In a controversial manner.","acclivous":"Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.","daybook":"A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.","xanthinine":"A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.","flooring":"A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison. 2. Material for the construction of a floor or floors.","hygroplasm":"The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.","hyalite":"A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.","flanerie":"Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.","gust":"1. A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw. Milton. 2. A sudden violent burst of passion. Bacon.\n\n1. The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto. An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite. Jer. Taylor. 2. Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment. Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust. Pope. 3. Intellectual taste; fancy. A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. Dryden.\n\nTo taste; to have a relish for. [Obs.]","bondswoman":"See Bondwoman.","sulphocyanate":"A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide. Ferric sulphocyanate (Chem.), a dark red crystalline substance usually obtained in a blood-red solution, and recognized as a test for ferric iron.","seasickness":"The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.","disembodiment":"The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.","yezidi":"Same as Izedi.","antitypous":"Resisting blows; hard. [Obs.] Cudworth.","hulky":"Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] \"A huge hulking fellow.\" H. Brooke.","delenifical":"Assuaging pain. [Obs.] Bailey.","separability":"Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.","oestrual":"Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.","polybranchia":"A division of Nudibranchiata including those which have numerous branchiæ on the back.","anaglyptographic":"Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, analyptographic engraving.","granivorous":"Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.","melada":"A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.","soam":"A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow. Knight.","tint":"A slight coloring. Specifically: -- (a) A pale or faint tinge of any color. Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. Pope. Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. Harte. (b) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.\n\nTo give a slight coloring to; to tinge.","kalendar":"See Calendar.","self-abuse":"1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. [Obs.] Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.","lovyer":"A lover. [Obs.] Chaucer.","marrowless":"Destitute of marrow.","murre":"Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot. Note: The murres are allied to the auks, and are abundant on the northern coasts of Europe and America. They often breed in large communities on the projecting ledges of precipituous cliffs, laying one or two large eggs on the bare rocks.","haemadromometer":"Same as Hemadrometer.","biscuit":"1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon. 2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card. 3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing. 4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.","detonization":"The act of detonizing; detonation.","xystus":"A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.","apetalous":"Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].","hydration":"The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration (Chem.), water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.","gastronomic":"Pertaining to gastromony.","immarginate":"Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.","rationalness":"The quality or state of being rational; rationality.","peccability":"The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin. The common peccability of mankind. Dr. H. More.","tranquilize":"To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify.","first":"1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others. 3. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece. At first blush. See under Blush. -- At first hand, from the first or original source; without the intervention of any agent. It is the intention of the person to reveal it at first hand, by way of mouth, to yourself. Dickens. -- First coat (Plastering), the solid foundation of coarse stuff, on which the rest is placed; it is thick, and crossed with lines, so as to give a bond for the next coat. -- First day, Sunday; -- so called by the Friends. -- First floor. (a) The ground floor. [U.S.] (b) The floor next above the ground floor. [Eng.] -- First fruit or fruits. (a) The fruits of the season earliest gathered. (b) (Feudal Law) One year's profits of lands belonging to the king on the death of a tenant who held directly from him. (c) (Eng. Eccl. Law) The first year's whole profits of a benefice or spiritual living. (d) The earliest effects or results. See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy implanted grace in man! Milton. -- First mate, an officer in a merchant vessel next in rank to the captain. -- First name, same as Christian name. See under Name, n. -- First officer (Naut.), in the merchant service, same as First mate (above). -- First sergeant (Mil.), the ranking non-commissioned officer in a company; the orderly sergeant. Farrow. -- First watch (Naut.), the watch from eight to twelve at midnight; also, the men on duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luster; -- said of gems, especially of diamond and pearls. Syn. -- Primary; primordial; primitive; primeval; pristine; highest; chief; principal; foremost.\n\nBefore any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles. Adam was first formed, then Eve. 1 Tim. ii. 13. At first, At the first, at the beginning or origin. -- First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden.\n\nThe upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preëminence in the combined effect.","diluteness":"The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.","vehmgericht":"A vehmic court.","torpidness":"The qualityy or state of being torpid.","yam":"A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated. Chinese yam, a plant (Dioscorea Batatas) with a long and slender tuber, hardier than most of the other species. -- Wild yam. (a) A common plant (Dioscorea villosa) of the Eastern United States, having a hard and knotty rootstock. (b) An orchidaceous plant (Gastrodia sesamoides) of Australia and Tasmania.","parishen":"A parishioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.","untimeliness":"Unseasonableness.","steerageway":"A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.","self-contradiction":"The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.","homestall":"Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.","humate":"A salt of humic acid.","dittander":"A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).","ursus":"A genus of Carnivora including the common bears.","stormglass":"A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.","phycoerythrin":"A red coloring matter found in algæ of the subclass Florideæ.","fleagh":"imp. of Fly.","addulce":"To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.","discourage":"1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21. 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor.\n\nLack of courage; cowardliness.","forenenst":"Over against; opposite to. [Now dialectic] The land forenenst the Greekish shore. Fairfax.","laft":"of Leave. Chaucer.","bogsucker":"The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.","idiorepulsive":"Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.","neurad":"Toward the neural side; -- opposed to hæmad.","scrag":"1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray. 2. A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell. 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.","barrator":"One guilty of barratry.","biga":"A two-horse chariot.","skiffling":"Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.","undersoil":"The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.","barky":"Covered with, or containing, bark. \"The barky fingers of the elm.\" Shak.","anecdotical":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. \"Anecdotical traditions.\" Bolingbroke.","spiniform":"Shaped like a spine.","nomad":"One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.\n\nRoving; nomadic.","tearless":"Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear\"less*ly, adv. -- Tear\"less*ness, n.","dal":"Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies]","carbon":"An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. I. Remsen -Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. -- Carbon light (Elec.), an extremely brilliant electric light produced by passing a galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with their apexes neary in contact. -- Carbon point (Elec.), a small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall contantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.","cenotaph":"An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.","topsy-turvy":"In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.","litigate":"To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.\n\nTo carry on a suit by judicial process.","medium":"1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange. (b) (Math.) See Mean. (c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection. 2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted. Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. Bacon. I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums. Denham. 3. An average. [R.] A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace. Burke. 4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper. 5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application. Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether coin, bank notes, or government notes. -- Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether. -- Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an exchange of commodities -- money or current representatives of money.\n\nHaving a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.","kantist":"A disciple or follower of Kant.","insuccation":"The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe. The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn.","sapor":"Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste. There is some sapor in all aliments. Sir T. Browne.","hybridity":"Hybridism.","alebench":"A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.","ursiform":"Having the shape of a bear.","grouping":"The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.","primulaceous":"Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.","beck":"See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nA small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.\n\nA vat. See Back.\n\nTo nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.\n\nTo notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.\n\nA significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.","independentism":"Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.","flagration":"A conflagration. [Obs.]","postic":"Backward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","consumedly":"Excessively. [Low] He's so consumedly pround of it. Thackeray.","invention":"1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. Tatham. 2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn. 3. Thought; idea. Shak. 4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak. 5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden. 6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.","conformity":"1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More. A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste. Addison. 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church. The king [James I.] soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity. Hallam.","refrigerator":"That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. Specifically: (a) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice. (b) An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc. Refrigerator car (Railroad), a freight car constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.","wrath":"1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii. 1. Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. Southey. 2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. \"A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.\" Rom. xiii. 4. Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.\n\nSee Wroth. [Obs.]\n\nTo anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] \"I will not wrathen him.\" Chaucer. If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. Piers Plowman.","plaisance":"See Pleasance.","plumelet":"A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.","fondler":"One who fondles. Johnson.","monostichous":"Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.","rentage":"Rent. [Obs.]","graveolence":"A strong and offensive smell; rancidity. [R.] Bailey.","hundred":"1. The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak. Note: The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. 2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.\n\nTen times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.","ocelot":"An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.","hollands":"1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl. See Holland.","afore":"1. Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak. 2. (Naut.) In the fore part of a vessel.\n\n1. Before (in all its senses). [Archaic] 2. (Naut.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.","disparity":"Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay. Syn. -- Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion; difference.","sloomy":"Sluggish; slow. [Prov. Eng.]","noon-flower":"The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.","therebefore":"Before that time; beforehand. [Obs.] Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.","caravansary":"A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]","wayed":"Used to the way; broken. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.","headlong":"1. With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18. 2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation. 3. Hastily; without delay or respite.\n\n1. Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly. 2. Steep; precipitous. [Poetic] Like a tower upon a headlong rock. Byron.","dretch":"See Drecche. [Obs.]","pewet":"Same as Pewit.","truage":"1. A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. 2. A tax or impost; tribute. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.","prosopocephala":"Same as Scaphopoda.","passenger":"1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak. 2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.","arching":"1. The arched part of a structure. 2. (Naut.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.","borofluoride":"A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.","prickle":"1. A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. Bacon. 2. A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson. 3. A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds. [Eng.]\n\nTo prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson.","pragmatist":"One who is pragmatic.","wickedness":"1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very wickedness. Ps. v. 9. 2. A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity. I'll never care what wickedness I do, If this man comes to good. Shak.","bromism":"A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.","deuterocanonical":"Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.","divalent":"Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.","make-peace":"A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.","strobile":"1. (Bot.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3. 2. (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. 3. (Zoöl.) Same as Strobila.","gwiniad":"A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly. [Written also gwyniad, guiniad, gurniad.]","spiketail":"The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]","otto":"See Attar.","retiracy":"Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.","enticeable":"Capable of being enticed.","broil":"A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke. Syn. -- Contention; fray; affray; tumult; altercation; dissension; discord; contest; conflict; brawl; uproar.\n\n1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. 2. To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.\n\nTo be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. Cheyne.","blast lamp":"A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.","eventration":"(a) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. (b) A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. (c) The act af disemboweling.","quotum":"Part or proportion; quota. [R.] \"A very small quotum.\" Max Müller.","bunchy":"1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail. 3. (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page.","prillion":"Tin extracted from the slag.","attemperly":"Temperately. [Obs.] Chaucer.","double-bank":"To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.","notability":"1. Quality of being notable. 2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. \"Parisian notabilities\" Carlyle. 3. A notable saying. [Obs.] Chaucer.","giantly":"Appropriate to a giant. [Obs.] Usher.","tractoration":"See Perkinism.","peppercorn":"1. A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum). 2. Anything insignificant; a particle.","sphaerospore":"One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.","spiritualty":"An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. Shak.","disseizee":"A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]","moon-eyed":"Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.","labefy":"To weaken or impair. [R.]","gibbon":"Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing. Note: The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar), the crowned (H. pilatus), the wou-wou or singing gibbon (H. agilis), the siamang, and the hoolock. are the most common species.","czech":"1. One of the Czechs. 2. The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.","inaquation":"The state of being inaquate. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.","spring":"1. To leap; to bound; to jump. The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. Philips. 2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. Dryden. 3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. Otway. 4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. 5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. 6. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out. Till well nigh the day began to spring. Chaucer. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job xxxviii. 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. Pope. 7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. [They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked. Milton. 8. To grow; to prosper. What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring Dryden. To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap. -- To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out. -- To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste. -- To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.\n\n1. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant. 2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light. Dryden. The friends to the cause sprang a new project. Swift. 3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine. 4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard. 5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap. 6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar. 7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence. To spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom. -- To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak. -- To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arcg over a lintel. -- To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman. -- To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel. Mar. Dict. -- To spring a mast or spar (Naut.), to strain it so that it is unserviceable.\n\n1. A leap; a bound; a jump. The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. Dryden. 2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow. 3. Elastic power or force. Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! Dryden. 4. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms are the spiral spring (Fig. a), the coil spring (Fig. b), the elliptic spring (Fig. c), the half-elliptic spring (Fig. d), the volute spring, the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring, etc. 5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. \"All my springs are in thee.\" Ps. lxxxvii. 7. \"A secret spring of spiritual joy.\" Bentley. \"The sacred spring whence and honor streams.\" red rose of the House of Lancaster. Sir J. Davies. 6. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. Pope. 7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as: (a) A race; lineage. [Obs.] Chapman. (b) A youth; a springal. [Obs.] Spenser. (c) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton. 8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 9. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. \"The green lap of the new-come spring.\" Shak. Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer solstice, about June 21st. 10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. \"The spring of the day.\" 1 Sam. ix. 26. O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. Shak. 11. (Naut.) (a) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. (b) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored. Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air, Boiling, etc. -- Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. -- Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel. -- Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box. See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n. -- Spring beauty. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime. (b) (Zoöl.) A small, elegant American butterfly (Erora læta) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue. -- Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity. -- Spring beetle (Zoöl.), a snapping beetle; an elater. -- Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of mechanism, in which the spring is contained. -- Spring fly (Zoöl.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it appears in the spring. -- Spring grass (Bot.), a vernal grass. See under Vernal. -- Spring gun, a firearm disharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved. -- Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame. -- Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring. -- Spring lock, a lock that fastens with a spring. -- Spring mattress, a spring bed. -- Spring of an arch (Arch.) See Springing line of an arch, under Springing. -- Spring of pork, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder. [Obs.] Nares. Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. Gayton. -- Spring pin (Locomotive Engines), an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles. -- Spring rye, a kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn. -- Spring stay (Naut.), a preventer stay, to assist the regular one. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Spring tide, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See Tide. -- Spring wagon, a wagon in which springs are interposed between the body and the axles to form elastic supports. -- Spring wheat, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn.","twagger":"A lamb. [Prov. Eng.]","dree":"To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]\n\nTo be able to do or endure. [Obs.]\n\nWearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]","alterableness":"The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.","mask shell":"Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.","pierce":"1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument. \"I pierce . . . her tender side.\" Dryden. 2. To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship. 3. Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery. \"Pierced with grief.\" Pope. Can no prayers pierce thee Shak.\n\nTo enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively. And pierced to the skin, but bit no more. Spenser. She would not pierce further into his meaning. Sir P. Sidney.","pottage":"A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.","stearoptene":"The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elæoptene.","linchi":"An esculent swallow.","nephilim":"Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33.","foremilk":"The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.","supraclavicle":"A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post- temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.","sclav":"Same as Slav.","organule":"One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense. Huxley.","outvote":"To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes. South.","lust":"1. Pleasure [Obs.] \" Lust and jollity.\" Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. Milton. 4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton. 5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] Bacon.\n\n1. To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. \" Do so if thou lust. \" Latimer. Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. Chaucer. 2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.","polypary":"Same as Polypidom.","palinurus":"An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass","bugler":"One who plays on a bugle.","smock":"1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer. 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.\n\nOf or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. -- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.","castoreum":"A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.","lobelia":"A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.","antique":"1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser. 2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. \"Antique words.\" Spenser. 3. Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's \"Castle of Indolence.\" 4. Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.] Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See Ancient.\n\nIn general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. Byron.","ipomoea":", and Gray.] (Bot.) A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine.","sclerometer":"An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.","fulminic":"Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid. Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. -- Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.","collectively":"In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.","roble":"The California white oak (Quercus lobata).","sortes":"pl. of Sors.","nerita":"A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.","involucrated":"Having an involucre; involucred.","wares":"See 4th Ware.","conscription":"1. An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. 2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.\n\nBelonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.","ecorche":"A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.","gynobase":"A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.","penguinery":"A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.","gonfalonier":"He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as: (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. (b) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediæveal Italy. (c) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.","fanatic":"Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. T. Moore.\n\nA person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.","phenacetin":"A white, crystalline compound, C10H13O2N, used in medicine principally as an antipyretic.","emerods":"Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.","hyne":"A servant. See Hine. [Obs.] Chaucer.","wishable":"Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable. Udall.","arrayer":"One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.","stellation":"Radiation of light. [Obs.]","bailiff":"1. Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison. 2. (Eng. Law) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc. Note: In American law the term bailiff is seldom used except sometimes to signify a sheriff's officer or constable, or a party liable to account to another for the rent and profits of real estate. Burrill. 3. An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]","spangly":"Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.","mountebank":"1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock. 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot.\n\nTo cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.\n\nTo play the mountebank.","arnicine":"An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.","bereavement":"The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.","marsipobranch":"One of the Marsipobranchia.","rhadamanthys":"One of the three judges of the internal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.","alutaceous":"1. Leathery. 2. Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.","regrant":"To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe.\n\n1. The act of granting back to a former proprietor. 2. A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly.","puoy":"Same as Poy, n., 3.","pleasance":"1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] Shak. \"Full great pleasance.\" Chaucer. \"A realm of pleasance.\" Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. Ruskin.","trisacramentarian":"One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.","belong":"1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8. 3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. \"Do not interpretations belong to God \" Gen. xl. 8. 4. To be suitable for; to be due to. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. No blame belongs to thee. Shak. 5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.\n\nTo be deserved by. [Obs.] More evils belong us than happen to us. B. Jonson.","involved":"Same as Involute.","electromotor":"1. (Physics) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity. 2. (Mech.) An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.","initiator":"One who initiates.","endosternite":"The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.","icequake":"The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.","quirky":"Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.","rouet":"A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them. Crabb.","gut":"1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso. 2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails. 3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut. 4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).\n\n1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate. 2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.","repealable":"Capable of being repealed. -- Re*peal\"a*ble*ness, n. Syn. -- Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible.","chevrette":"A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.","hilt":"1. A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.","adansonia":"A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.","elance":"To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.] While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.","infantry":"1. A body of children. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. (Mil.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.","outquench":"To quench entirely; to extinguish. \"The candlelight outquenched.\" Spenser.","semifloscular":"Semiflosculous.","chamade":"A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.","lazarist":"One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.","muscosity":"Mossiness. Jonhson.","aswing":"In a state of swinging.","eyebolt":"A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.","car mileage":"(a) Car miles collectively. (b) The amount paid by one road the use of cars of another road.","idiotical":"1. Common; simple. [Obs.] Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.","discommodious":"Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. [R.] Spenser. -- Dis`com*mo\"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo\"di*ous*ness, n.","lemuroid":"Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. -- n. One of the Lemuroidea.","dynamograph":"A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.","precinct":"1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. \"The precincts of light.\" Milton. 2. A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct. 3. A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support. [U.S.] The parish, or precinct, shall proceed to a new choice. Laws of Massachusetts.","rejourn":"To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.","monographer":"A writer of a monograph.","stock-still":"Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.","self-commune":"Self-communion. [R.]","slatt":"A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. Knight.","batatas":"An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).","corridor":"1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house. 2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]","perkinism":"A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.","murrhine":"Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; -- applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.","peripneumonia":"Pneumonia. (Obsoles.)","polygynous":"Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.","ustulate":"Blackened as if burned.","corollary":"1. That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous. [Obs.] Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit. Shak. 2. Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.","hyleosaur":"Same as Hylæosaur.","shackly":"Shaky; rickety. [Colloq. U. S.]","maimedly":"In a maimed manner.","kauri copal":"A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.","ceroplasty":"The art of modeling in wax.","instrumentist":"A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.","branchiostege":"The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.","salamandroidea":"A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.","fad":"A hobby ; freak; whim. -- Fad\"dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.","merlin":"A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. æsalon).","thebaic":"Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.","holdfast":"1. Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. \"His holdfast was gone.\" Bp. Montagu. 2. (Bot.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.","toxicological":"Of or pertaining to toxicology. -- Tox`i*co*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.","priority":"1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. Syn. -- Antecedence; precedence; preëminence.","bordure":"A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.","forethought":"Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. \"Forethought malice.\" Bacon.\n\nA thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor.","misderive":"1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.","desume":"To select; to borrow. [Obs.] Sir. M. Hale.","inscience":"Want of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]","allthing":"Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.","morice":"See Morisco.","use":"1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use. Books can never teach the use of books. Bacon. This Davy serves you for good uses. Shak. When he framed All things to man's delightful use. Milton. 2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book. Shak. 3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. Milton. 'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. Pope. 4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak. 5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.] O Cæsar! these things are beyond all use. Shak. 6. (Eccl.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer. 7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.] Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him. Jer. Taylor. 8. Etym: [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L. opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. Operate.] (Law) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B. 9. (Forging) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. -- In use. (a) In employment; in customary practice observance. (b) In heat; -- said especially of mares. J. H. Walsh. -- Of no use, useless; of no advantage. -- Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable. -- Out of use, not in employment. -- Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. -- Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. Blackstone. -- Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession. -- To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive service from; to use.\n\n1. To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation. Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak. Some other means I have which may be used. Milton. 2. To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. \"I will use him well.\" Shak. How wouldst thou use me now Milton. Cato has used me ill. Addison. 3. To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business. Use hospitality one to another. 1 Pet. iv. 9. 4. To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger. I am so used in the fire to blow. Chaucer. Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels. Milton. To use one's self, to behave. [Obs.] \"Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly.\" Shak. -- To use up. (a) To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies. (b) To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as, he was used up by fatigue. [Colloq.] Syn. -- Employ. -- Use, Employ. We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as, to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of \"making use of another\" generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue. I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all. Cowper. To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy. Dryden.\n\n1. To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between \"use to,\" and \"used to.\" They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser. Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon. Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room. South. Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp. Ex. xxxiii. 7 (Rev. Ver.) 2. To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of. [Obs.] \"Where never foot did use.\" Spenser. He useth every day to a merchant's house. B. Jonson. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. Milton.","sasin":"The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, or cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.","reinthrone":"See Reënthrone.","vesicant":"A vesicatory.","assibilation":"Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.","pyrolignite":"A crude acetate produced by treating pyroligneous acid with a metal or basic compound; as, pyrolignite of iron (iron liquor).","halibut":"A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidæ. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [Written also holibut.]","handicapper":"One who determines the conditions of a handicap.","outwin":"To win a way out of. [Obs.]","declined":"Declinate.","fraudulency":"The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.","sanguiferous":"Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.","anamorphism":"1. A distorted image. 2. (Biol.) A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley.","platycnemism":"Lateral flattening of the tibia.","bigha":"A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.","mumbo jumbo":"An object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens.","orthopedical":"Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.","vincibleness":"The quality or state of being vincible.","lightable":"Such as can be lighted.","achromatism":"The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.","heirloom":"Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir.","subatom":"A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.","peopler":"A settler; an inhabitant. \"Peoplers of the peaceful glen.\" J. S. Blackie. PEOPLE'S BANK Peo\"ple's bank. A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions. PEOPLE'S PARTY People's party. (U. S. Politics) A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.","merry-go-round":"Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.","gerlind":"A salmon returning from the sea the second time. [Prov. Eng.]","shemitish":"Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.","mutterer":"One who mutters.","unipolar":"1. (Physics) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only. 2. (Anat.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar. Unipolar induction (Elec.), induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet. -- Unipolar stimulation (Physiol.), the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied to a nerve; -- called also unipolar induction action. Du Bois-Reymond.","clavichord":"A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.","precisianism":"The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian. Milton.","nonrecurrent":"Not recurring.","rugosity":"The quality or state of being rugose.","centreboard":"A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States","spongiae":"The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera. Note: In the Spongiæ, the soft sarcode of the body is usually supported by a skeleton consisting of horny fibers, or of silleceous or calcareous spicules. The common sponges contain larger and smaller cavities and canals, and numerous small ampullæ which which are lined with ciliated cells capable of taking in solid food. The outer surface usually has minute pores through which water enters, and large openings for its exit. Sponges produce eggs and spermatozoa, and the egg when fertilized undergoes segmentation to form a ciliated embryo.","ubiquitous":"Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent. -- U*biq\"ui*tous*ly, adv. In this sense is he ubiquitous. R. D. Hitchcock.","dread":"To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.\n\nTo be in dread, or great fear. Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Deut. i. 29.\n\n1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. The secret dread of divine displeasure. Tillotson. The dread of something after death. Shak. 2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe. The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. Gen. ix. 2. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. Shak. 3. An object of terrified apprehension. 4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] \"Una, his dear dread.\" Spenser. 5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser. 6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] Chaucer. Syn. -- Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.\n\n1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. A dread eternity! how surely mine. Young. 2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.","breviped":"Having short legs. -- n. A breviped bird.","teracrylic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor.","sphigmometer":"See Sphygmometer.","water tabby":"A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.","dehydration":"The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.","flap-eared":"Having broad, loose, dependent ears. Shak.","workshop":"A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.","grease cup":"A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.","saleb":"See Salep.","carapax":"See Carapace.","project":"1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. [Obs.] Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. Vented much policy, and projects deep. Milton. Projects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers. He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott. 3. An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects. Syn. -- Design; scheme; plan; purpose. -- Project, Design. A project is something of a practical nature thrown out for consideration as to its being done. A design is a project when matured and settled, as a thing to be accomplished. An ingenious man has many projects, but, if governed by sound sense, will be slow in forming them into designs. See also Scheme.\n\n1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. Before his feet herself she did project. Spenser. Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope. 2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan. What sit then projecting peace and war Milton. 3. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.\n\n1. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree. 2. To form a project; to scheme. [R.] Fuller.","parabolically":"1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.","double-milled":"Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.","hygrodeik":"A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.","raise":"1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: -- (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. Sir W. Temple. (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: -- (a) To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job xiv. 12. (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden. (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: -- (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. Isa. xxxix. 3. (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. \"To raise up a rent.\" Chaucer. (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. \"He raised sheep.\" \"He raised wheat where none grew before.\" Johnson's Dict. Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. Paulding. (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. Milton. (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. Ex. xxiii. 1. (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. Dryden. (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. Spectator. 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. -- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. -- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure. -- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] -- To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] Syn. -- To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite.","consumer":"One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food. CONSUMER'S GOODS Con*sum\"er's goods. (Polit. Econ.) Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods. CONSUMER'S SURPLUS Consumer's surplus. (Polit. econ.) The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to, that which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it. . . . The excess of the price which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it, over that which he actually does pay, is the economic measure of this surplus satisfaction. It has some analogies to a rent; but is perhaps best called simply consumer's surplus. Alfred Marshall.","mette":"of Mete, to dream. Chaucer.","atomistic":"Of or pertaining to atoms; relating to atomism. [R.] It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge.","gesticulate":"To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. Sir T. Herbert.\n\nTo represent by gesture; to act. [R.] B. Jonson.","imbonity":"Want of goodness. [Obs.] Burton.","plasterwork":"Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.","non-episcopal":"Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.","stubbled":"1. Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay. 2. Stubbed; as, stubbled legs. [Obs.] Skelton.","butty":"One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.","deficience":"Same as Deficiency. Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found. Milton.","bronzine":"A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. -- a. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.","knockings":"Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.","compulsorily":"; by force or constraint.","grimily":"In a grimy manner.","misshapen":"Having a bad or ugly form. \"The mountains are misshapen.\" Bentley. -- Mis*shap\"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap\"en*ness, n.","orthopterous":"Of or pertaining to the Orthoptera.","foregame":"A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.","balbuties":"The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.","unease":"Want of ease; uneasiness. [Obs.]","untold":"1. Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets. 2. Not numbered or counted; as, untold money.","servage":"Serfage; slavery; servitude. [Obs.] Chaucer.","discal":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.","impale":"1. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison. 2. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround. Impale him with your weapons round about. Shak. Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire. Milton. 3. (Her.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.","applausable":"Worthy pf applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]","verdurous":"Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. Milton.","sideways":"Toward the side; sidewise. A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.","touraco":"Same as Turacou.","deranged":"Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.","hydrographic":"Of or relating to hydrography.","antigalastic":"Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.","spread":"1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail. He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. Gen. xxxiii. 19. Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. Byron. 2. To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit. Milton. 3. To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31. 4. To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease. 5. To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance. 6. To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground. 7. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] Evelyn. Syn. -- To diffuse; propogate; disperse; publish; distribute; scatter; circulate; disseminate; dispense.\n\n1. To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand. Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall. Bacon. Govrnor Winthrop, and his associates at Charlestown, had for a church a large, spreading tree. B. Trumbull. 2. To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty. 3. To be made known more extensively, as news. 4. To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city. Shak.\n\n1. Extent; compass. I have got a fine spread of improvable land. Addison. 2. Expansion of parts. No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine. Bacon. 3. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed. 4. A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.] 5. A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon. [Broker's Cant] 6. (Geom.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.\n\nimp. & p. p. of Spread, v. Spread eagle. (a) An eagle with outspread wings, the national emblem of the United States. (b) The figure of an eagle, with its wings elevated and its legs extended; often met as a device upon military ornaments, and the like. (c) (Her.) An eagle displayed; an eagle with the wings and legs extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2.","thionol":"A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.","caffeine":"A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.","therefore":"1. For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that. I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come. Luke xiv. 20. Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore Matt. xix. 27. 2. Consequently; by consequence. He blushes; therefore he is guilty. Spectator. Syn. -- See Then.","overknowing":"Too knowing or too cunning.","frontispiece":"The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.","high five":"See Cinch (the game).","corbel":"A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.\n\nTo furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.","volant":"1. Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current. English silver now was current, and our gold volant in the pope's court. Fuller. 2. Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid. \"His volant touch.\" Milton. 3. (Her.) Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant. Volant piece (Anc. Armor), an adjustable piece of armor, for guarding the throat, etc., in a joust.","ropewalker":"A ropedancer.","cuneated":"Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.","commence":"1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. Fuller.\n\nTo enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Many a wooer doth commence his suit. Shak. Note: It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced to study.","imperturbed":"Not perturbed.","ostentive":"Ostentatious. [Obs.]","taxonomic":"Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.","dissolutely":"In a dissolute manner.","fulsamic":"Fulsome. [Obs.]","lax":"1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. Ray. 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. J. A. Symonds. The word \"æternus\" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn. -- Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.\n\nA looseness; diarrhea.","heckle":"Same as Hackle.","pavin":"See Pavan.","vulturism":"The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.","inchipin":"See Inchpin.","tollhouse":"A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.","sulphinate":"A salt of a sulphinic acid.","potation":"1. The act of drinking. Jer. Taylor. 2. A draught. \"Potations pottle deep.\" Shak. 3. Drink; beverage. \"Thin potations.\" Shak.","vert":"1. (Eng. Forest Law) (a) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer. (b) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood. 2. (Her.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.","tractrix":"A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.","roamer":"One who roams; a wanderer.","exsect":"1. A cutting out or away. E. Darwin. 2. (Surg.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.","peristole":"Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.","cohesive":"1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force. 2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay. Cohesive attraction. See under Attraction. -- Co*he\"sive*ly, adv. -- Co*he\"sive*ness, n.","perversed":"Turned aside. [Obs.]","laticlave":"A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.","consoling":"Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.","conyrine":"A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.","engraffment":"See Ingraftment. [Obs.]","hue":"1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. \"Flowers of all hue.\" Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn. Keble. 2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.\n\nA shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him. Burrill.","clarisonus":"Having a clear sound. [Obs.] Ash.","negrita":"A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.","faren":"p. p. of Fare, v. i. Chaucer.","divisional":"That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.","dictatress":"A woman who dictates or commands. Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen. Byron.","rift":"p. p. of Rive. Spenser.\n\n1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.\n\nTo cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.\n\n1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon. 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","avis":"Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.","platypod":"An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.","begetter":"One who begets; a father.","analytics":"The science of analysis.","noology":"The science of intellectual phenomena.","fopling":"A petty fop. Landor.","fluviograph":"An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.","massy":"Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.","heraldry":"The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.","hicksite":"A member or follower of the \"liberal\" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.","pleuron":"(a) One of the sides of an animal. (b) One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect. (c) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.","genealogical":"Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. -- Gen`e*a*log\"ic*al*ly, adv. Genealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.","sporozoid":"Same as Zoöspore.","gomarist":"One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.","graver":"1. One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material. 2. An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.","pallometa":"A pompano.","home-bred":"1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. \" Home-bred mischief.\" Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth. 2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated. Only to me home-bred youths belong. Dryden.","pulse":"Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.\n\n1. (Physiol.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries. Note: In an artery the pulse is due to the expansion and contraction of the elastic walls of the artery by the action of the heart upon the column of blood in the arterial system. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards. These, in turn, as they already contain a certain quantity of blood, expand, recover by an elastic recoil, and transmit the movement with diminished intensity. Thus a series of movements, gradually diminishing in intensity, pass along the arterial system (see the Note under Heart). For the sake of convenience, the radial artery at the wrist is generally chosen to detect the precise character of the pulse. The pulse rate varies with age, position, sex, stature, physical and psychical influences, etc. 2. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement. The measured pulse of racing oars. Tennyson. When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke. Burke. Pulse glass, an instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; -- so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed. Pulse wave (Physiol.), the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. H. N. Martin. -- To feel one's pulse. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion; to try to discover one's mind.\n\nTo beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb. Ray.\n\nTo drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate. [R.]","staphyloma":"A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.","water measure":"A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.","animate":"1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. 2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. Dryden. 3. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles. Syn. -- To enliven; inspirit; stimulate; exhilarate; inspire; instigate; rouse; urge; cheer; prompt; incite; quicken; gladden.\n\nEndowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.","inusitation":"Want of use; disuse. [R.] Paley.","druse":"A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.\n\nOne of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God. Am. Cyc.","setigerous":"Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setæ; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.","megacoulomb":"A million coulombs.","neelghau":"See Nylghau.","ruthless":"Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. Their rage the hostile bands restrain, All but the ruthless monarch of the main. Pope. -- Ruth\"less*ly, adv. -- Ruth\"less*ness, n.","biochemistry":"The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.","hydrozoal":"Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa.","catch title":"A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.","coalescent":"Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.","lanciferous":"Bearing a lance.","unmanacle":"To free from manacles. Tennyson.","logodaedaly":"Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.","musculation":"The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.","mortifier":"One who, or that which, mortifies.","bipunctate":"Having two punctures, or spots.","suffrance":"Sufferance. [Obs.] Chaucer.","sloughy":"Full of sloughs, miry.\n\nResembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.","seraph":"One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. Seraph moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.","electro-chemistry":"That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.","heartburn":"An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.","discipliner":"One who disciplines.","martin":"A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.\n\nOne of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. [Written also marten.] Note: The American purple martin, or bee martin (Progne subis, or purpurea), and the European house, or window, martin (Hirundo, or Chelidon, urbica), are the best known species. Bank martin. (a) The bank swallow. See under Bank. (b) The fairy martin. See under Fairy. -- Bee martin. (a) The purple martin. (b) The kingbird. -- Sand martin, the bank swallow.","histrion":"A player. [R.] Pope.","horsewoman":"A woman who rides on horseback.","morale":"The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.","rondache":"A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.","barbary":"The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.","interclude":"To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt. Mitford. So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded. Boyle.","man":"1. A human being; -- opposed tobeast. These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. R. of Glouc. The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me. Shak. 2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. I Cor. xiii. 11. Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. Dryden. 3. The human race; mankind. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. Gen. i. 26. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope. 4. The male portion of the human race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. Cowper. 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. Shak. This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world \"This was a man! Shak. 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. Like master, like man. Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. Blackstone. 7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose ! 8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. I pronounce that they are man and wife. Book of Com. Prayer. every wife ought to answer for her man. Addison. 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. A man can not make him laugh. Shak. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. Addison. 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man- stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). Man ape (Zoöl.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. -- Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. -- Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. -- Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. -- Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. -- Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant (Ipomoea pandurata) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. -- Man of war. (a) A warrior; a soldier. Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. -- To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.\n\n1. To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort. See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! Shak. They man their boats, and all their young men arm. Waller. 2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. \"Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections.\" Addison. 3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] Shak. 4. To furnish with a servants. [Obs.] Shak. 5. To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.] Shak. Note: In \"Othello,\" V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage. To man a yard (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail. -- To man the yards (Naut.), to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.","ulnare":"One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.","everywhereness":"Ubiquity; omnipresence. [R.] Grew.","dispend":"To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.","selenographical":"Of or pertaining to selenography.","cyanaurate":"See Aurocyanide.","magneticalness":"Quality of being magnetic.","petromyzont":"A lamprey.","lifely":"In a lifelike manner. [Obs.] Chaucer.","neuralgic":"of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.","sphagnous":"Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.","wormhole":"A burrow made by a worm.","bombastic":"Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas\"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.","ambrosin":"An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.","ethionic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called. Ethionic acid (Chem.), a liquid derivative of ethylsulphuric and sulphuric (thionic) acids, obtained by the action of sulphur trioxide on absolute alcohol.","ludwigite":"A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.","melicerous":"Consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.","comprise":"To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.","switchel":"A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]","consequencing":"Drawing inference. [R.] Milton.","build":"1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton. 2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. Shak. 3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution. I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up. Acts xx. 32. Syn. -- To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.\n\n1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. 2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.\n\nForm or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.","ayeins":"Again; back against. [Obs.] Chaucer.","protandrous":"Proterandrous.","impairer":"One who, or that which, impairs.","spigot":"A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.","konze":"A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.","macadamization":"The process or act of macadamizing.","consensual":"1. (Law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties. 2. (Physiol.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions. Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.","distortion":"1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. 2. A wresting from the true meaning. Bp. Wren. 3. The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion. 4. (Med.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.","centre":"1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.\n\n1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point. Milton. 2. To collect to a point; to concentrate. Thy joys are centered all in me alome. Prior. 3. (Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.\n\nSee Center.","pick-me-up":"A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]","earth shine":"See Earth light, under Earth.","pimping":"1. Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe. 2. Puny; sickly. [Local, U.S.]","trophy":"1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people. Note: A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol. 2. The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive. 3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden. 4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace. Note: Some trophies(5) are unique, temporary possession of the same object passing to the new victors of some periodic contest in subsequent occurrences. Others are objects of little inherent worth, given by the authority sponsoring the contest to the victor. A trophy is sometimes shaped like a cup, and in such cases may be called a cup, as the America's Cup (in Yacht racing). Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia.","weigelia":"A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with withe or red flowers. It was introduced from China.","connate-perfoliate":"Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.","emplection":"See Emplecton.","scutal":"Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.","cocainize":"To treat or anæsthetize with cocaine. -- Co*ca`in*i*za\"tion (#), n.","purchaser":"1. One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee. 2. (Law) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance.","greith":"To make ready; -- often used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nGoods; furniture. [Obs.] Note: See Graith.","joulemeter":"An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine. JOULE'S CYCLE Joule's cycle. (Thermodynamics) The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines. JOULE'S LAW Joule's law. 1. (Elec.) The law that the rate at which heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current (i) is constant for an interval of time (t), the energy (H) in heat units equals i2Rt, R being resistance. 2. (Thermodynamics) The law that there is no change of temperature when a gas expands without doing external work and without receiving or rejecting heat.","underlock":"A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.","tensor":"1. (Anat.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense. 2. (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.","integrally":"In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.","water drainage":"The draining off of water.","manatee":"Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.] Note: One species (Trichechus Senegalensis) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another (T. Americanus) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee (T. latirostris) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of T. Americanus. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It is hunted for its oil and flesh.","valetudinarian":"Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.\n\nA person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. Swift.","treachour":"A traitor. [Obs.] \"Treachour full of false despite.\" Spenser.","neckerchief":"A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.","cystose":"Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.","setiger":"An annelid having setæ; a chætopod.","pyroantimonic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of antimony analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.","precedaneous":"Preceding; antecedent; previous. [Obs.] Hammond.","retractile":"CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.","underofficer":"A subordinate officer.","pantographical":"Of or pertaining to a pantograph; relating to pantography.","chastiser":"One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.","unmovable":"Immovable. \"Steadfast, unmovable.\" 1 Cor. xv. 58. Locke.","invaginated":"(a) Sheathed. (b) Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.","so-called":"So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).","satiate":"Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. \"Satiate of applause.\" Pope.\n\n1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; tho feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense. These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it. Bacon. I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. Eikon Basilike. 2. To full beyond matural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut. 3. To saturate. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Syn. -- To satisfy; sate; suffice; cloy; gorge; overfill; surfeit; glut. -- Satiate, Satisfy, Content. These words differ principally in degree. To Content is to make contented, even though every desire or appetite is not fully gratified. To satisfy is to appease fully the longings of desire. To satiate is to fill so completely that it is not possible to receive or enjoy more; hence, to overfill; to cause disgust in. Content with science in the vale of peace. Pope. His whole felicity is endless strife; No peace, no satisfaction, crowns his life. Beaumont. He may be satiated, but not satisfied. Norris.","indiscrimination":"Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.","vagrant":"1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay. 2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.\n\nOne who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.","domify":"1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.] 2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.","crinigerous":"Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]","evincive":"Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.","succiferous":"Producing or conveying sap.","perisse":"To perish. [Obs.] Chaucer.","adjutor":"A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.","examinator":"An examiner. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","cursorial":"(a) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. (b) Of or pertaining to the Cursores.","milliard":"A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.","penteconter":"A Grecian vessel with fifty oars. [Written also pentaconter.]","impressionableness":"The quality of being impressionable.","orographic":"Of or pertaining to orography.","unlive":"To [R.] Glanvill.","bold":"1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton. 2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. \"The bold design leased highly.\" Milton. 3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak. 4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in o composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. \"Bold tales.\" Waller. The cathedral church is a very bold work. Addison. 5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden. 6. Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.\n\nTo make bold or daring. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nTo be or become bold. [Obs.]","bitten":"of Bite.\n\nTerminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.","mope-eyed":"Shortsighted; purblind.","overcome":"1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser. 2. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] J. Philips. 3. To come or pass over; to spreads over. [Obs.] And overcome us like a summer's cloud. Shak. Syn. -- To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow; overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate; beat; surmount. See Conquer.\n\nTo gain the superiority; to be victorious. Rev. iii. 21.","sunless":"Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.","impressionable":"Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook.","hostage":"A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.","scarify":"1. To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein. 2. (Agric.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.","affiliable":"Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.","hektograph":"See Hectograph.","realm":"1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom. The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually alone. Motley. 2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.","temper screw":"1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.","self-delusion":"The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.","chase":"1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper. 2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles. 3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game. Chasing each other merrily. Tennyson.\n\nTo give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]\n\n1. Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt. \"This mad chase of fame.\" Dryden. You see this chase is hotly followed. Shak. 2. That which is pursued or hunted. Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. Shak. 3. An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.] 4. (Court Tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point. Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued. -- Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired. -- Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.\n\n1. A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed. 2. (Mil.) The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon. 3. A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile. 4. (Shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.\n\n1. To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like. 2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.","snapweed":"See Impatiens.","disengaged":"Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga\"ged*ness, n.","pledge":"1. (Law) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn. Note: Pledge is ordinarily confined to personal property; the title or ownership does not pass by it; possession is essential to it. In all these points it differs from a mortgage [see Mortgage]; and in the last, from the hypotheca of the Roman law. See Hypotheca. Story. Kent. 2. (Old Eng. Law) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage. \"I am Grumio's pledge.\" Shak. 3. A hypothecation without transfer of possession. 4. Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties. \"That voice, their liveliest pledge of hope.\" Milton. 5. A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges. 6. A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health. Dead pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. mortuum vadium.] (Law) A mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Living pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. vivum vadium.] (Law) The conveyance of an estate to another for money borrowed, to be held by him until the debt is paid out of the rents and profits. -- To hold in pledge, to keep as security. -- To put in pledge, to pawn; to give as security. Syn. -- See Earnest.\n\n1. To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch. 2. To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The Declaration of Independence. 3. To secure performance of, as by a pledge. [Obs.] To pledge my vow, I give my hand. Shak. 4. To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self. 5. To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast. Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise. Cowley.","carminated":"Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. Tomlinson.","habitude":"1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor. 2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company. Dryden. 3. Habit of body or of action. Shak. It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite Dryden.","intercidence":"The act or state of coming or falling between; occurrence; incident. [Obs.] Holland.","padow":"A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.","acraspeda":"A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.","mona":"A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.","outride":"To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. Shak.\n\n1. A riding out; an excursion. [R.] 2. A place for riding out. [R.]","nonemphatical":"Having no emphasis; unemphatic.","facto":"In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.","acrotism":"Lack or defect of pulsation.","phacolite":"A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.","poonah painting":"A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.","walk-mill":"A fulling mill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.","convolve":"To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.","coelacanth":"Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.","asthenia":"Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.","pluff":"To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs. [Scot.]\n\n1. A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder. [Scot.] 2. A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it. [Scot.]","rabbin":"Same as Rabbi.","ghast":"To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.","pickax":"A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak.","unmistakable":"Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak\"a*bly, adv.","ultimation":"State of being ultimate; that which is ultimate, or final; ultimatum. [R.] Swift.","dialectics":"That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle to be the method of arguing with probability on any given problem, and of defending a tenet without inconsistency. By Plato, it was used in the following senses: 1. Discussion by dialogue as a method of scientific investigation. 2. The method of investigating the truth by analysis. 3. The science of ideas or of the nature and laws of being -- higher metaphysics. By Kant, it was employed to signify the logic of appearances or illusions, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.","infralabial":"Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.","prefidence":"The quality or state of being prefident. [Obs.] Baxter.","animadversal":"The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","plain-dealing":"Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.","etesian":"Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.","fibroin":"A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.","spalt":"Spelter. [Colloq.]\n\n1. Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy. [Prov. Eng.]\n\nTo split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]","gastrolith":"See Crab's eyes, under Crab.","bunyon":"An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.","emydea":"A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh- water tortoises and terrapins.","apportion":"To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.","ephraim":"A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.","wapping":"Yelping. [R.] Fuller.","exhortatory":"Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.","sicle":"A shekel. [Obs.] The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. Jer. Taylor.","cretose":"Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.","mishcup":"The scup. [Local, U. S.]","protovertebral":"Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ.","thenal":"Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.","phonomotor":"An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.","conglutin":"A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.","finch":"A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ. Note: The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc. Bramble finch. See Brambling. -- Canary finch, the canary bird. -- Copper finch. See Chaffinch. -- Diamond finch. See under Diamond. -- Finch falcon (Zoöl.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax. -- To pull a finch, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. [Obs.] \"Privily a finch eke could he pull.\" Chaucer.","telechirograph":"An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.","strike":"1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile. He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius. Shak. 2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef. 3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts. Ex. xii. 7. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. Byron. 4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint. 5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep. 6. To punish; to afflict; to smite. To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity. Prov. xvii. 26. 7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march. 8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch. 9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror. Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view. Atterbury. They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. Pope. 10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor. 11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light. Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Milton. 12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match. 13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain. Note: Probably borrowed from the L. foedus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions. 14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money. [Old Slang] 15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top. 16. (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. 17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail. 18. To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang] 19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. B. Edwards. 20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 2 Kings v. 11. 21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. \"Well struck in years.\" Shak. To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. -- To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill. -- To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger, or an account, to balance it. -- To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. -- To strike off. (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt. (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book. (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt. -- To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] -- To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- To strike out. (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. \"To methodize is as necessary as to strike out.\" Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. \"Strike up the drums.\" Shak. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die. -- To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.\n\nTo move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields. A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. Piers Plowman. 2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. Spenser. Strike now, or else the iron cools. Shak. 3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. 4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Byron. 5. To make an attack; to aim a blow. A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. Shak. Struck for throne, and striking found his doom. Tennyson. 6. To touch; to act by appulse. Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish. Locke. 7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night. 8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. Till a dart strike through his liver. Prov. vii. 23. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. Dryden. 9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run. 10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. Bp. Burnet. 11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages. 12. To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters. 13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] Nares. To strike at, to aim a blow at. -- To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for. -- To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. -- To strike in. (a) To enter suddenly. (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease. (c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. \"I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.\" Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing. -- To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. \"To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace.\" South. To strike out. (a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. (b) To strike with full force. (c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat. -- To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. \"Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up.\" Shak.\n\n1. The act of striking. 2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. 3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] Tusser. 4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.] 5. Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality. Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike. Sir W. Scott. 6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.] 7. The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer. Strikes are the insurrections of labor. F. A. Walker. 8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer. 9. (Geol.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip. 10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing. Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon. -- Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.","caper bush":"See Capper, a plant, 2.","glen":"A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.","giddy-paced":"Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] Shak.","underaction":"Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.","firebrand":"1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.","phosgene":"Producing, or produced by, the action of light; -- formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.","humanify":"To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [R.] The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.","paratonnerre":"A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.","attractable":"Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract\"a*ble*ness, n.","bourgeois":"A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.\n\nA man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.","unknow":"1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. [Obs.] 2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of. [Obs.]\n\nUnknown. [Obs.] \"French of Paris was to her unknow.\" Chaucer.","schillerization":"The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.","helix":"1. (Geom.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane. 2. (Arch.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital. 3. (Anat.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear. 4. (Zoöl.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species. Note: The genus originally included nearly all shells, but is now greatly restricted. See Snail, Pulmonifera.","print":"1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something. A look will print a thought that never may remove. Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon. 2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure. Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. Dryden. 3. Specifically: To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book. 4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico. 5. (Photog.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.\n\n1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like. 2. To publish a book or an article. From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth. Pope.\n\n1. A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden. 2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print. 3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter. 4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print. 5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate. \"The prints which we see of antiquities.\" Dryden. (b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. Addison. (c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. (d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper. 6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core. Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper.blueprint for action -- In print. (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published. Shak. (b) To the letter; with accurateness. \"All this I speak in print.\" Shak. -- Out of print. See under Out. -- Print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.","penological":"Of or pertaining to penology.","dropsical":"1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.","organographic":"Of or pertaining to organography.","nasally":"In a nasal manner; by the nose.","pillau":"An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]","conditional":"1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton. 2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill.\n\n1. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. L. H. Atwater.","eluxate":"To dislocate; to luxate.","flicker":"1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson.\n\n1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame. 2. (Zoöl.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. Thoureau.","empiric":"1. One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience. 2. One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan. Among the Greek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.\n\n1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer. 2. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies. Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula. Syn. -- See Transcendental.","impassable":"Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass\"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass\"a*bly, adv.","worm":"1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. Longfellow. 2. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) Any helminth; an entozoön. (b) Any annelid. (c) An insect larva. (d) pl. Same as Vermes. 3. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! Shak. 4. A being debased and despised. I am a worm, and no man. Ps. xxii. 6. 5. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as: (a) The thread of a screw. The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. Moxon. (b) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. (c) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta. (d) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. (e) (Mach.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below. Worm abscess (Med.), an abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body. -- Worm fence. See under Fence. -- Worm gear. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel. (b) Worm gearing. -- Worm gearing, gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together. -- Worm grass. (Bot.) (a) See Pinkroot, 2 (a). (b) The white stonecrop (Sedum album) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. Dr. Prior. -- Worm oil (Med.), an anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of Chenopodium anthelminticum. -- Worm powder (Med.), an anthelmintic powder. -- Worm snake. (Zoöl.) See Thunder snake (b), under Thunder. -- Worm tea (Med.), an anthelmintic tea or tisane. -- Worm tincture (Med.), a tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc. [Obs.] -- Worm wheel, a cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; -- called also worm gear, and sometimes tangent wheel. See Illust. of Worm gearing, above.\n\nTo work slowly, gradually, and secretly. When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. Herbert.\n\n1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out. They find themselves wormed out of all power. Swift. They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. Dickens. 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b). 3. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. Sir W. Scott. 4. (Naut.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope. Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. Totten. To worm one's self into, to enter into gradually by arts and insinuations; as, to worm one's self into favor.","adorer":"One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. \"An adorer of truth.\" Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.","vitellogene":"A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.","gesling":"A gosling. [Prov. Eng.]","garvie":"The spart; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","underbranch":"1. A lower branch. 2. A twig or branchlet. [Obs.] Spenser.","enchiridion":"Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.","hesperornis":"A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.","fructification":"1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown. 2. (Bot.) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.","mediastine":"A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.","inconsumable":"Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent. Paley. -- In`con*sum\"a*bly, adv.","derf":"Strong; powerful; fierce. [Obs.] -- Derf\"ly, adv. [Obs.]","machiavelism":"The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.","jangler":"1. An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer. 2. A wrangling, noisy fellow.","report":"1. To refer. [Obs.] Baldwin, his son, . . . succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller. 2. To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer. 3. To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported. Shak. It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Neh. vi. 6. 4. To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reperts the recepts and expenditures. 5. To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. [Obs. or R.] \"A church with windowss only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times.\" Bacon. 6. (Parliamentary Practice) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry. 7. To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker. 8. To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race. 9. To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer. To be reported, or To be reported of, to be spoken of; to be mentioned, whether favorably or unfavorably. Acts xvi. 2. -- To report one's self, to betake one's self, as to a superior or one to whom service is due, and be in readiness to receive orders or do service. Syn. -- To relate; narrate; tell; recite; describe.\n\n1. To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock. 2. To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication. 3. To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.\n\n1. That which is reported. Specifically: (a) An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation. \"From Thetis sent as spies to make report.\" Waller. (b) A story or statement circulating by common talk; a rumor; hence, fame; repute; reputation. It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. 1 Kings x. 6. Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and . . . of good report among all the nation of the Jews. Acts x. 22. (c) Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon. (d) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like. (e) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports. (f) A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc. 2. Rapport; relation; connection; reference. [Obs.] The corridors worse, having no report to the wings they join to. Evelyn. Syn. -- Account; relation; narration; detail; description; recital; narrative; story; rumor; hearsay.","surcoat":"1. A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer. A long surcoat of pers upon he had.. Chaucer. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson. 2. A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.","satyrion":"Any one of several kinds of orchids. [Obs.]","casemate":"1. (Fort.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops. 2. (Arch.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.","counterflory":"Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.","cholaemaa":"A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.","corpulency":"1. Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity. 2. Thickness; density; compactness. [Obs.] The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.","anorthosite":"A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.","admittance":"1. The act of admitting. 2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak. 3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 4. Admissibility. [Obs.] Shak. 5. (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. \"No admittance.\" Its secondary or moral sense, as \"admittance to the church,\" is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.","slit":"3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide. Chaucer.\n\n1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps. 2. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose. 3. To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.] And slits the thin-spun life. Milton.\n\nA long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear. Gill slit. (Anat.) See Gill opening, under Gill.","auxometer":"An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.","faultily":"In a faulty manner.","pegmatite":"(a) Graphic granite. See under Granite. (b) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.","atole":"A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]","cutinize":"To change into cutin.","spherosome":"The body wall of any radiate animal.","polynia":"The open sea supposed to surround the north pole. Kane.","delawares":"A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.","isodynamic":"Of, pertaining to, having, or denoting, equality of force. Isodynamic foods (Physiol.), those foods that produce a similar amount of heat. -- Isodynamic lines (Magnetism), lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which the magnetic intensity is the same.","hamadryas":"The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).","woodcutting":"1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood. [R.]","fault-finding":"The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.","concordist":"The compiler of a concordance.","metatitanic":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.","thoroughstitch":"So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.","forecastle":"(a) A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. (b) That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. (c) In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.","persienne":"Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.","justificatory":"Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.","puissant":"Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire. \" Puissant deeds.\" Milton. Of puissant nations which the world possessed. Spenser. And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant. Mrs. Browning.","eraser":"One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.","cascarilla":"A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.","deathwatch":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick. She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison. I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson. 2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.","padre":"1. A Christian priest or monk; -- used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America. 2. In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. Kipling.","excusator":"One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.","fissipalmate":"Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.","convert":"1. To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson. 2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton. 3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott. 4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20. 5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. Cooley. 6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. 7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.] Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. -- Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation. Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.\n\nTo be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted. Latimer. A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. The public hope And eye to thee converting. Thomson.\n\n1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir. Syn. -- Proselyte; neophyte. -- Convert, Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or other subjects. properly considered, it is not confined to speculation alone, but affects the whole current of one's feelings and the tenor of his actions. As such a change carries with it the appearance of sincerity, the term convert is usually taken in a good sense. Proselyte is a term of more ambiguous use and application. It was first applied to an adherent of one religious system who had transferred himself externally to some other religious system; and is also applied to one who makes a similar transfer in respect to systems of philosophy or speculation. The term has little or no reference to the state of the heart. Pervert is a term of recent origin, designed to express the contrary of convert, and to stigmatize a person as drawn off perverted from the true faith. It has been more particulary applied by members of the Church of England to those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church.","aura":"1. Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc. 2. (Med.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.","leiotrichan":"Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi. -- n. One of the Leiotrichi.","isagogic":"Introductory; especially, introductory to the study of theology.","canker":"1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple. 3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black.\n\n1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.\n\n1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom. 2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.","perpetualty":"The state or condition of being perpetual. [Obs.] Testament of Love.","seemless":"Unseemly. [Obs.] Spenser.","oblige":"1. To attach, as by a bond. [Obs.] He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. Bacon. 2. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it. South. Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health. Tillotson. 3. To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate. Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more. Dryden. The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII. Evelyn. I shall be more obliged to you than I can express. Mrs. E. Montagu.","fantasia":"A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.","afghan":"Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.\n\n1. A native of Afghanistan. 2. A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.","commensurably":"In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.","mastodynia":"Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.","insessorial":"1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds. 2. Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.","nullipore":"A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.","oxanillamide":"A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.","flinders":"Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.","running":"1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; (a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. (b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. Law. 2. Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running. 3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand. 4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. \"A running conquest.\" Milton. What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature Hare. 5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. 6. (med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore. Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or lowered. -- Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive. -- Running bowsprit (Naut.) Same as Reefing bowsprit. -- Running days (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under working days. Simmonds. -- Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon. -- Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework. -- Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand. -- Running part (Naut.), that part of a rope that is hauled upon, -- in distinction from the standing part. -- Running rigging (Naut.), that part of a ship's rigging or ropes which passes through blocks, etc.; -- is distinction from standing rigging. -- Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.\n\nThe act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow. 2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still. 3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore. At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","bene":"See Benne.\n\nA prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.\n\nA hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).","phanerogamic":"Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.","natrolite":"A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.","rackabones":"A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]","astomatous":"Not possessing a mouth.","fjord":"See Fiord.","minable":"Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. Sir T. North.","surprising":"Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger. -- Sur*pris\"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pris\"ing*ness, n. Syn. -- Wonderful; extraordinary; unexpected; astonishing; striking.","budge":"To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.\n\nBrisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.\n\nA kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.\n\n1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. \"Budge gowns.\" Milton. 2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.","broody":"Inclined to brood. Ray.","fadaise":"A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.","drownage":"The act of drowning. [R.]","setireme":"A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.","palative":"Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] \"Palative delights.\" Sir T. Browne.","staircase":"A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc. To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture. Sir H. Wotton. Staircase shell. (Zoöl.) (a) Any scalaria, or wentletrap. (b) Any species of Solarium, or perspective shell.","wonted":"Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.","comes":"The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.","ganch":"To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die. Sandys.","raven":"A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven (Zoöl.), the cormorant.\n\nOf the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.\n\n1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.\n\n1. To obtain or seize by violence. Hakewill. 2. To devoir with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Shak.\n\nTo prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.","acinetae":"A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.","accustomable":"Habitual; customary; wonted. \"Accustomable goodness.\" Latimer.","divestible":"Capable of being divested.","subdulcid":"Somewhat sweet; sweetish. [R.]","coincide":"1. To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne. 2. To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America. 3. To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts.","quit":"Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.\n\nReleased from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. Chaucer. The owner of the ox shall be quit. Ex. xxi. 28. Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. \"To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.\" Fuller.\n\n1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it Wake. 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. Milton. 3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax. 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. I Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath guit himself Like Samson. Milton. 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. Daniel. 6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it South. Syn. -- To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. -- Quit, Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment.\n\nTo away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.","sliddery":"Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.","burgage":"A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.","frere":"A friar. Chaucer.","inaccurate":"Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd. Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect; incomplete; defective.","redshank":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. (b) The fieldfare. 2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser.","cloche":"An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.","warbler":"1. One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. Tickell. 2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidæ, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species. 3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidæ, or Sylvicolinæ. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. Note: The American warblers are often divided, according to their habits, into bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc. Bush warbler (Zoöl.) any American warbler of the genus Opornis, as the Connecticut warbler (O. agilis). -- Creeping warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small American warblers belonging to Parula, Mniotilta, and allied genera, as the blue yellow-backed warbler (Parula Americana), and the black-and-white creeper (Mniotilta varia). -- Fly-catching warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of warblers belonging to Setophaga, Sylvania, and allied genera having the bill hooked and notched at the tip, with strong rictal bristles at the base, as the hooded warbler (Sylvania mitrata), the black- capped warbler (S. pusilla), the Canadian warbler (S. Canadensis), and the American redstart (see Redstart). -- Ground warbler (Zoöl.), any American warbler of the genus Geothlypis, as the mourning ground warbler (G. Philadelphia), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see Yellowthroat). -- Wood warbler (Zoöl.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus Dendroica. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under Yellow), the black-throated green warbler (Dendroica virens), the yellow-rumped warbler (D. coronata), the blackpoll (D. striata), the bay-breasted warbler (D. castanea), the chestnut-sided warbler (D. Pennsylvanica), the Cape May warbler (D. tigrina), the prairie warbler (see under Prairie), and the pine warbler (D. pinus). See also Magnolia warbler, under Magnolia, and Blackburnian warbler.","conveniently":"In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.","ganoid":"Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.","flatling":"With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position. [Obs.] Spenser.","ravenous":"1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav\"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav\"en*ous*ness, n. RAVEN'S-DUCK Ra\"ven's-duck`, n. Etym: [Cf. G. ravenstuch.] A fine quality of sailcloth. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","smegma":"The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands. Specifically: (a) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants. (b) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.","vial":"A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. Shak.\n\nTo put in a vial or vials. \"Precious vialed liquors.\" Milton.","begrimer":"One who, or that which, begrimes.","jaspideous":"Consisting of jasper, or containing jasper; jaspery; jasperlike.","spongida":"Spongiæ.","worble":"See Wormil.","joss paper":"Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.","intolerated":"Not tolerated.","maltster":"A maltman. Swift.","murderess":"A woman who commits murder.","transelementation":"Transubstantiation. [Obs.]","free-lover":"One who believes in or practices free-love.","die":"1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson. 2. To suffer death; to lose life. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. v. 6. 3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. Great deeds can not die. Tennyson. 4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler. 5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. 6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator. 7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. \"There is one certain way,\" replied the Prince [William of Orange] \" by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.\" Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). -- To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out. Syn. -- To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.\n\n1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice. 2. Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts. 3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser. 4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. 5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. -- The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.","repress":"To press again.\n\n1. To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent. 2. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress. Milton. Syn. -- To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell; curb; check.\n\nThe act of repressing. [Obs.]","childbearing":"The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.","dependant":"See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency. Note: The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing it from the adjective, usually written dependent.","alco":"A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.","cong":"An abbreviation of Congius.","epileptical":"Epileptic.","faze":"See Feeze.","rectangled":"Rectangular. Hutton.","stuke":"Stucco. [Obs.]","zeus":"The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.","urgence":"Urgency. [Obs.]","aphthae":"Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.","tumbling":"a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v. Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4. -- Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.","seven-thirties":"A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.","cornered":"1 Having corners or angles. 2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.","tartlet":"A small tart. V. Knox.","shrinking":"from Shrink. Shrinking head (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.","oxyhaemocyanin":"See Hæmacyanin.","wherefore":"1. For which reason; so; -- used relatively. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matt. vii. 20. 2. For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively. But wherefore that I tell my tale. Chaucer. Wherefore didst thou doubt Matt. xiv. 31.\n\nthe reason why. [Colloq.]","inutterable":"Unutterable; inexpressible. Milton.","moquette":"A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.","nucumentaceous":"See Nucamentaceous.","predication":"1. The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion. Locke. 2. Preaching. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.","blusterous":"Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.","arhythmic":"See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous.","explat":"To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.","hypothetist":"One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]","unassured":"1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.","mandola":"An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.","mandlestone":"Amygdaloid.","tomfool":"A great fool; a trifler.","zinc":"An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9 [Formerly written also zink.] Butter of zinc (Old Chem.), zinc chloride, ZnCl2, a deliquescent white waxy or oily substance. -- Oxide of zinc. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, below. -- Zinc amine (Chem.), a white amorphous substance, Zn(NH2)2, obtained by the action of ammonia on zinc ethyl; -- called also zinc amide. -- Zinc amyle (Chem.), a colorless, transparent liquid, composed of zinc and amyle, which, when exposed to the atmosphere, emits fumes, and absorbs oxygen with rapidity. -- Zinc blende Etym: [cf. G. zinkblende] (Min.), a native zinc sulphide. See Blende, n. (a) -- Zinc bloom Etym: [cf. G. zinkblumen flowers of zinc, oxide of zinc] (Min.), hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; -- called also hydrozincite. -- Zinc ethyl (Chem.), a colorless, transparent, poisonous liquid, composed of zinc and ethyl, which takes fire spontaneously on exposure to the atmosphere. -- Zinc green, a green pigment consisting of zinc and cobalt oxides; -- called also Rinmann's green. -- Zinc methyl (Chem.), a colorless mobile liquid Zn(CH3)2, produced by the action of methyl iodide on a zinc sodium alloy. It has a disagreeable odor, and is spontaneously inflammable in the air. It has been of great importance in the synthesis of organic compounds, and is the type of a large series of similar compounds, as zinc ethyl, zinc amyle, etc. -- Zinc oxide (Chem.), the oxide of zinc, ZnO, forming a light fluffy sublimate when zinc is burned; -- called also flowers of zinc, philosopher's wool, nihil album, etc. The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty. -- Zinc spinel (Min.), a mineral, related to spinel, consisting essentially of the oxides of zinc and aluminium; gahnite. -- Zinc vitriol (Chem.), zinc sulphate. See White vitriol, under Vitriol. -- Zinc white, a white powder consisting of zinc oxide, used as a pigment.\n\nTo coat with zinc; to galvanize.","theretofore":"Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.","doorway":"The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.","upsetting":"Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [Scot.] Jamieson.","monothalamous":"One-chambered.","jucundity":"Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","anaglyphical":"Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.","weet-weet":"(a) The common European sandpiper. (b) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]","florideae":"A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.","sauger":"An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.","thurl":"1. A hole; an aperture. [Obs.] 2. (Mining) (a) A short communication between adits in a mine. (b) A long adit in a coalpit.\n\n1. To cut through; to pierce. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 2. (Mining) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.","inevidence":"Want of evidence; obscurity. [Obs.] Barrow.","kadiaster":"A Turkish judge. See Cadi.","legement":"See Ledgment.","hurries":"A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.","fleaking":"A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.","alchemistry":"Alchemy. [Obs.]","concho-spiral":"A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.","kedger":"A small anchor; a kedge.","photoluminescent":"Luminescent by exposure to light waves. -- Pho`to*lu`mi*nes\"cence (#), n.","chronography":"A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","stamineous":"1. Consisting of stamens or threads. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.","thickskull":"A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.","gayety":"1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See Liveliness.","forster":"A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.","extricable":"Capable of being extricated. Sir W. Jones.","intermean":"Something done in the meantime; interlude. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","fly-case":"The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.","regard":"1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.] It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn. 3. To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly. If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not. Shak. 4. To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy. 5. To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike. His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness. Macaulay. 6. To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem. He that regardeth thae day, regardeth it into the LOrd. Rom. xiv. 6. Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king. Shak. 7. To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition. \"Nether regarding that she is my child, nor fearing me as if II were her father.\" Shak. 8. To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that. Syn. -- To consider; observe; remark; heed; mind; respect; esteem; estimate; value. See Attend.\n\nTo look attentively; to consider; to notice. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. Milton. 2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice. Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard. Shak. 3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural. He has rendered himself worthy of their most favorable regards. A. Smith. Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne. 4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account. A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth or power. Spenser. 5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed. Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. Shak. 6. Matter for conssideration; account; condition. [Obs.] \"Reason full of good regard.\" Shak. 7. Respect; relation; reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts. Note: The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in regard to. G. P. Marsh. Change was thought necessary in regard of the injury the church did receive by a number of things then in use. Hooker. In regard of its security, it had a great advantage over the bandboxes. Dickens. 8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.] Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aërial blue An indistinct regard. Shak. 9. (O.Eng.Law) Supervision; inspection. At regard of, in consideration of; in comparison with. [Obs.] \"Bodily penance is but short and little at regard of the pains of hell.\" Chaucer. -- Court of regard, a forest court formerly held in England every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also survey of dogs. Blackstone. Syn. -- Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care; concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.","embasement":"Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.","carman":"A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.","rhyolite":"A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure. -- Rhy`o*lit\"ic, a.","tisar":"The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. Knight.","emigration":"1. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western. 2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.","sarcoma":"A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.","alveole":"Same as Alveolus.","polype":"See Polyp.","volcanic":"1. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat. 2. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa. 3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano. Volcanic bomb, a mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form. -- Volcanic cone, a hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions. -- Volcanic foci, the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active. -- Volcanic glass, the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian. -- Volcanic mud, fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano. -- Volcanic rocks, rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.","acanthophorous":"Spine-bearing. Gray.","infundibular":"Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zoöl.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.","faints":"The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.","perforation":"1. The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through. Bacon. 2. A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. \"Slender perforations.\" Sir T. Browne.","cotinga":"A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.","smear":"1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. \"Smear the sleepy grooms with blood.\" Shak. 2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.\n\n1. A fat, oily substance; oinment. Johnson. 2. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. Slow broke the morn, All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun, But in its place a moving smear of light. Alexander Smith.","readdress":"To address a second time; -- often used reflexively. He readdressed himself to her. Boyle.","shipbuilding":"Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.","didymous":"Growing in pairs or twins.","q":", the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (ku) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian. Etymologically, q or qu is most nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E. kitchen, OE. kichene, AS. cycene, L. coquina.","self-gratulation":"Gratulation of one's self.","dare-deviltry":"Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.","victory":"The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation. Bolingbroke.","half-moon":"1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton. 3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. 4. (Zoöl.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.","diphthongation":"See Diphthongization.","jawy":"Relating to the jaws. Gayton.","malleate":"To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.","denticle":"A small tooth or projecting point.","nazariteship":"The state of a Nazarite.","disclosure":"1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster. 2. That which is disclosed or revealed. Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten Macaulay.","ioduret":"Iodide. [Obs.]","noticer":"One who notices.","vestige":"The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population. What vestiges of liberty or property have they left Burke. Ridicule has followed the vestiges of Truth, but never usurped her place. Landor. Syn. -- Trace; mark; sign; token. -- Vestige, Trace. These words agree in marking some indications of the past, but differ to some extent in their use and application. Vestige is used chiefly in a figurative sense, for the remains something long passed away; as, the vestiges of ancient times; vestiges of the creation. A trace is literally something drawn out in a line, and may be used in this its primary sense, or figuratively, to denote a sign or evidence left by something that has passed by, or ceased to exist. Vestige usually supposes some definite object of the past to be left behind; while a trace may be a mere indication that something has been present or is present; as, traces of former population; a trace of poison in a given substance.","snide":"Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. [Slang]","meliaceous":"Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacæ) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.","camonflet":"A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.","archive":"1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue. 2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb. Syn. -- Registers; records; chronicles.","repose":"1. To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. [Obs.] But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom. Chapman. Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind. Woodward. 2. To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch. All being settled and reposed, the lord archibishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons. Fuller. After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue. Milton. 3. To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust. The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. Shak.\n\n1. To lie at rest; to rest. Within a thicket I reposed. Chapman. 2. Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms. It is upon these that the soul may repose. I. Taylor. 3. To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand. Syn. -- To lie; recline; couch; rest; sleep; settle; lodge; abide.\n\n1. A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. Shak. 2. Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment. 3. (Poetic) A rest; a pause. 4. (Fine Arts) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eue; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or side down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves. Syn. -- Rest; recumbency; reclination; ease; quiet; quietness; tranquillity; peace.","crosswort":"A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.","pharaon":"See Pharaoh, 2.","retroflexion":"The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.","chequing":"A coin. See Sequin. Shak.","hydrogenous":"Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.","gyrland":"To garland. [Obs.]","dingily":"In a dingy manner.","rose water":"Water tinctured with roses by distillation.","sponsible":"responsible; worthy of credit. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","inequidistant":"Not equally distant; not equidistant.","tumbler":"1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat. 2. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking. 3. (Firearms) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure. 5. (Zoöl.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. 6. (Zoöl.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits. 7. A kind of cart; a tumbrel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]","wagnerian":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.","double-ender":"(a) (Naut.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end. (b) (Railroad) A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.","hiding":"The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.\n\nA flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade.","butment":"1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. 2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.","soup":"A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth. Soup kitchen, an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor. -- Soup ticket, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.\n\nTo sup or swallow. [Obs.] Wyclif.\n\nTo breathe out. [Obs.] amden.\n\nTo sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop. [Obs.]","hariali grass":"The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.","cantharides":"See cantharis.","superfetate":"To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.","exhort":"To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.\n\nTo deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds. With many other words did he testify and exhort. Acts ii. 40.\n\nExhortation. [Obs.] Pope.","snatcher":"One who snatches, or takes abruptly.","sephardim":"Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.","something":"1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow. 2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little. Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. Something of it arises from our infant state. I. Watts. 3. A person or thing importance. If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal. vi. 3.\n\n, adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. It must be done to-night, And something from the palace. Shak.","inferobranchian":"One of the Inferobranchiata.","hemicerebrum":"A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.","nutpecker":"The nuthatch.","prismatical":"1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage. 2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors. 3. (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic. Prismatic borax (Chem.), borax crystallized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; -- distinguished from octahedral borax. -- Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors. See Primary colors, under Color. -- Prismatic compass (Surv.), a compass having a prism for viewing a distant object and the compass card at the same time. -- Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.","raphaelism":"The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.","unaccountability":"The quality or state of being unaccountable.","adnubilated":"Clouded; obscured. [R.]","league":"1. A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each. Note: The English land league is equal to three English statute miles. The Spanish and French leagues vary in each country according to usage and the kind of measurement to which they are applied. The Dutch and German leagues contain about four geographical miles, or about 4.6 English statute miles. 2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. [Obs.]\n\nAn alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc. And let there be 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity. Denham. Note: A league may be offensive or defensive, or both; offensive, when the parties agree to unite in attacking a common enemy; defensive, when they agree to a mutual defense of each other against an enemy. The Holy League, an alliance of Roman Catholics formed in 1576 by influence of the Duke of Guise for the exclusion of Protestants from the throne of France. -- Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant,2. -- The land league, an association, organized in Dublin in 1879, to promote the interests of the Irish tenantry, its avowed objects being to secure fixity of tenure fair rent, and free sale of the tenants' interest. It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it. Syn. -- Alliance; confederacy; confederation; coalition; combination; compact; coöperation.\n\nTo unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate South.\n\nTo join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.","psephism":"A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute. J. P. Mahaffy.","gushing":"1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. \"Gushing blood.\" Milton. 2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [Colloq.]","minutary":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes. [Obs.] Fuller.","erythrosin":"(a) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin. (b) A red dyestuff obtained from fluoresceïn by the action of iodine.","resistant":"Making resistance; resisting. -- n. One who, or that which, resists. Bp. Pearson.","henceforward":"From this time forward; henceforth.","fuller":"One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.\n\nA die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.\n\nTo form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.","infumation":"Act of drying in smoke.","conjector":"One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.","laryngoscopist":"One skilled in laryngoscopy.","london smoke":"A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.","ouroscopy":"Ourology.","vernaculous":"1. Vernacular. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 2. Etym: [L. vernaculi, pl., buffoons, jesters.] Scoffing; scurrilous. [A Latinism. Obs.] \"Subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator.\" B. Jonson.","syenite":"(a) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. (b) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elæolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elæolite) syenite or leucite syenite.","warye":"To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] \"Whom I thus blame and warye.\" Chaucer.","papillulate":"Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.","golding":"A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum). [This word is variously corrupted into gouland, gools, gowan, etc.]","debaser":"One who, or that which, debases.","flector":"A flexor.","degenerously":"Basely. [Obs.]","digraphic":"Of or pertaining to a digraph. H. Sweet.","glow":"1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope. 2. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc. Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. Dryden. And glow with shame of your proceedings. Shak. 3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats Addison. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. Gay. 4. To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope.\n\nTo make hot; to flush. [Poetic] Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak.\n\n1. White or red heat; incandscence. 2. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks. 3. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor. The red glow of scorn. Shak. 4. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.","hugy":"Vast. [Obs.] Dryden.","shack":"1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.] Grose. 2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.] 3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]\n\n1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. H. W. Beecher. Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. Cowell.","blin":"To stop; to cease; to desist. [Obs.] Spenser.\n\nCessation; end. [Obs.]","salinity":"Salineness. Carpenter.","tentative":"Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. \"A slow, tentative manner.\" Carlyle. -- Ten*ta\"tive*ly, adv.\n\nAn essay; a trial; an experiment. Berkley.","affodill":"Asphodel. [Obs.]","pattened":"Wearing pattens. \"Some pattened girl.\" Jane Austen.","hybernacle":"See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.","seduce":"1. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt. For me, the gold of France did not seduce. Shak. 2. Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation. Syn. -- To allure; entice; tempt; attract; mislead; decoy; inveigle. See Allure.","granade":"See Grenade.","viking":"One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow. Note: Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which frequently confounded. \"The sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys.\" Laing.","advisably":"With advice; wisely.","flavor":"1. That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose. 2. That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink. 3. That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors. 4. That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.\n\nTo give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.","botanologer":"A botanist. [Obs.]","baroscopical":"Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.","horned":"Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee (Zoöl.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. -- Horned dace (Zoöl.), an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. -- Horned frog (Zoöl.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -- Horned lizard (Zoöl.), the horned toad. -- Horned owl (Zoöl.), a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared. -- Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn. -- Horned pout (Zoöl.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. -- Horned rattler (Zoöl.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. -- Horned ray (Zoöl.), the sea devil. -- Horned screamer (Zoöl.), the kamichi. -- Horned snake (Zoöl.), the cerastes. -- Horned toad (Zoöl.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard. -- Horned viper. (Zoöl.) See Cerastes.","xanthomelanous":"Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.","mantelet":"1. (a) A short cloak formerly worn by knights. (b) A short cloak or mantle worn by women. A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging. Chaucer. 2. (Fort.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.","oquassa":"A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.","retainer":"1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. (Law) (a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. (b) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. (c) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee. Bouvier. Blackstone. 5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon.","willock":"(a) The common guillemot. (b) The puffin. [Prov. Eng.] WILL-O'-THE-WISP Will\"-o'-the-wisp`, n. See Ignis fatuus.","quietage":"Quietness. [Obs.] Spenser.","inter-":"A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.","indrench":"To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. [Obs.] Shak.","matrimonially":"In a matrimonial manner.","cabirian":"Same as Cabiric.","amalgamate":"1. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury. 2. To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.\n\n1. To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver. 2. To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.\n\nCoalesced; united; combined.","arches":"pl. of Arch, n. Court of arches, or Arches Court (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.","adoors":"At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).","single-hearted":"Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin\"gle-heart\"ed*ly, adv.","semiphlogisticated":"Partially impregnated with phlogiston.","uniat":"A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.","venery":"Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.\n\nThe art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase. \"Beasts of venery and fishes.\" Sir T. Browne. I love hunting and venery. Chaucer.","cornsheller":"A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.","jasmine":"A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.] Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.","moisture":"1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.","oculinacea":"A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.","substituted":"1. Exchanged; put in the place of another. 2. (Chem.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor (Law), an executor appointed to act in place of one removed or resigned.","tylarus":"One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.","understair":"Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]","stalwartness":"The quality of being stalwart.","myotomy":"The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.","hyoid":"1. Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [ 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. Hyoid arch (Anat.), the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull. -- Hyoid bone (Anat.), the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.\n\nThe hyoid bone.","carkanet":"A carcanet. Southey.","strontian":"Strontia.","tentaculata":"A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.","bishoply":"Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]\n\nIn the manner of a bishop. [Obs.]","incenter":"The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.","contradictive":"Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict\"ive*ly, adv..","foreslack":"See Forslack.","pactitious":"Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] Johnson.","lithotomical":"Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.","stoke":"1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.] Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting. Chaucer. 2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.\n\nTo poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.","arillate":"Having an aril.","foully":"In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably. I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do. Gay.","invious":"Untrodden. [R.] Hudibras. -- In\"vi*ous*ness, n. [R.]","superroyal":"Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.","neuropodium":"The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.","egression":"The act of going; egress. [R.] B. Jonson.","tying":"p. pr. of Tie.\n\nThe act or process of washing ores in a buddle.","laziness":"The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.","blandisher":"One who uses blandishments.","volitation":"The act of flying; flight. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","piped":"Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.","overmultitude":"To outnumber. [Obs.]","phlogopite":"A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.","sweepwasher":"One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.","architective":"Used in building; proper for building. Derham.","lu":"See Loo.","sanguine":"1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. 3. Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper. 4. Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success. Syn. -- Warm; ardent; lively; confident; hopeful.\n\n1. Blood color; red. Spenser. 2. Anything of a blood-red, as cloth. [Obs.] In sanguine and in pes he clad was all. Chaucer. 3. (Min.) Bloodstone. 4. Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.\n\nTo stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.\n\nIn a sanguine manner. I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does. Burke.","matfelon":"The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).","fustianist":"A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.","caxon":"A kind of wig. [Obs.] Lamb.","chromatism":"1. (Optics) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. 2. (Bot.) An abnormal coloring of plants.","orchanet":"Same as Alkanet, 2. Ainsworth.","superplus":"Surplus. [Obs.] Goldsmith.","bezoartic":"Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]","feat":"1. An act; a deed; an exploit. The warlike feats I have done. Shak. 2. A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.\n\nTo form; to fashion. [Obs.] To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.\n\nDexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. [Archaic] Never master had a page . . . so feat. Shak. And look how well my garments sit upon me --Much feater than before. Shak.","layner":"A whiplash. [Obs.]","vagissate":"To caper or frolic. [Obs.]","arctic":"Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the equator, 23º 28' from the north pole. This and the antarctic circle are called the polar circles, and between these and the poles lie the frigid zones. See Zone.\n\n1. The arctic circle. 2. A warm waterproof overshoe. [U.S.]","comprehension":"1. The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker. 2. That which is comrehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome. [Obs.] Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them. Chillingworth. 3. The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles. 4. (Logic) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term. 5. (Rhet.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.","conduplication":"A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]","zaratite":"A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.","daun":"A variant of Dan, a title of honor. [Obs.] Chaucer.","templet":"1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet. 2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.","marined":"Having the lower part of the body like a fish. Crabb.","whoremaster":"1. A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger. 2. One keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a procurer.","vengeance":"1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton. 2. Harm; mischief. [Obs.] Shak. What a vengeance, or What the vengeance, what! -- emphatically. [Obs.] \"But what a vengeance makes thee fly!\" Hudibras. \"What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair\" Shak. -- With a vengeance, with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. [Colloq.]","damper":"That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities. W. Black.","finance":"1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon. 2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue. \"Versed in the details of finance.\" Macaulay.","mansion":"1. A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.] In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den 2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension. 3. (Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer. 4. The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.\n\nTo dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.","nosegay":"A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope.","riotise":"Excess; tumult; revelry. [Obs.] His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.","plasma":"1. (Min.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments. 2. (Biol.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm. 3. Unorganized material; elementary matter. 4. (Med.) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments. U. S. Disp. Blood plasma (Physiol.), the colorless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended. -- Muscle plasma (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid, albuminous fluid contained within the sarcolemma, which on the death of the muscle coagulates to a semisolid mass.","cavilingly":"In a caviling manner.","strawed":"imp. & p. p. of Straw. [Obs.]","firefish":"A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpænidæ, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.","maracan":"A macaw.","unexpectation":"Absence of expectation; want of foresight. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","elucubrate":"See Lucubrate. [Obs.] Blount.","unliquidated":"Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages (Law), penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.","technics":"The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.","outsail":"To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than. Beau. & Fl.","meager":"1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. 2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. \"Meager soil.\" Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley. 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.\n\nTo make lean. [Obs.]","propeptone":"A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.","sanguinarily":"In a sanguinary manner.","hoboy":"A hautboy or oboe. [Obs.] HOBSON'S CHOICE Hob\"son's choice\". A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the stable door.","demirep":"A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.","microphthalmy":"An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.","elfishly":"In an elfish manner.","arew":"In a row. [Obs.] \"All her teeth arew.\" Spenser.","plaiding":"Plaid cloth.","officiary":"Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official. [R.] Heylin.","ansa":"A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.","actinolite":"A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.","raising":"1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.] 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup- shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] W. Irving. -- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal. -- Raising plate (Carp.), the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.","filthy":"Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. \"In the filthy-mantled pool.\" Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish; gross; vulgar; licentious. See Nasty.","oint":"To anoint. [Obs.] Dryden.","erasable":"Capable of being erased.","gash":"To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.\n\nA deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.","ape":"1. (Zoöl.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes. Note: The ape of the Old Testament was prqobably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms. 2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron. 3. A dupe. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. \"How he apes his sire.\" Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.","sediment":"1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. 2. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.","heirdom":"The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke.","nys":"Is not. See Nis. Chaucer. Spenser.","scaleless":"Destitute of scales.","ballatry":"See Balladry. [Obs.] Milton.","constitutive":"1. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow. 2. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.","decimetre":"A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.","quatre":"A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips","congo snake":"An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.","overfall":"1. A cataract; a waterfall. [Obs.] 2. (Naut.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.","vallation":"A rampart or intrenchment.","bretzel":"See Pretzel.","pristine":"Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.","lapsided":"See Lopsided.","delirant":"Delirious. [Obs.] Owen.","rivet":"A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.\n\n1. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron. 2. To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head. 3. Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection. Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye powers! Congreve. Thus his confidence was riveted and confirmed. Sir W. Scott.","kame":"A low ridge. [Scot.] See Eschar.","idiocratical":"Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.","kurd":"A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]","excommunication":"The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual. Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.","overlashing":"Excess; exaggeration. [Obs.]","eightling":"A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.","half-strained":"Half-bred; imperfect. [R.] \"A half-strained villain.\" Dryden.","bignonia":"A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.","sacrilegist":"One guilty of sacrilege.","speculation":"1. The act of speculating. Specifically: -- (a) Examination by the eye; view. [Obs.] (b) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts. Milton. (c) (Philos.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed. (d) (Com.) The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets. 1 year) is considered investment. Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation. A. Smith. Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be. F. A. Walker. (e) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits. 2. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture. From him Socrates derived the principles of morality, and most part of his natural speculations. Sir W. temple. To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the \"Oracles of Reason.\" Macaulay. 3. Power of sight. [Obs.] Thou hast no speculation in those eyes. Shak. 4. A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.","zantewood":"(a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic. (b) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).","teasle":"See Teasel.","procurement":"1. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment. 2. Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.","butting":"An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.","inalimental":"Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.","alible":"Nutritive; nourishing.","staniel":"See Stannel.","trichomanes":"Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.","pelvimeter":"An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the pelvis. Coxe.","vida finch":"The whidah bird.","saying":"That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm; saw; proverb; byword.","panary":"Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.\n\nA storehouse for bread. Halliwell.","apprehensiveness":"The quality or state of being apprehensive.","instinctivity":"The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. [R.] Coleridge.","delactation":"The act of weaning. [Obs.] Bailey.","camoys":"Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. [Obs.]","noctiluca":"1. (Old Chem.) That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucæ.","sodger":"Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]","divinistre":"A diviner. [Obs.] \" I am no divinistre.\" Chaucer.","denotative":"Having power to denote; designating or marking off. Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.","scratch player":"One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.","sunsted":"Solstice. [Obs.] \"The summer sunsted.\" Holland.","guardsman":"1. One who guards; a guard. 2. A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.","erratum":"An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.","alleviatory":"Alleviative. Carlyle.","demonological":"Of or Pertaining to demonology.","doubtless":"Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.\n\nUndoubtedly; without doubt.","elopement":"The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.","primigenial":"First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.","mercurification":"1. (Metal.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals. 2. (Chem.) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury. [R.]","thermoelectrometer":"An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.","dissipable":"Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.","deturbation":"The act of deturbating. [Obs.]","fils":"Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.","kennel coal":". See Cannel coal.","unlicked":"Not licked; hence, not properly formed; ungainly. Cf. To lick into shape, under Lick, v. Shak.","parodic":"Having the character of parody. Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical. T. Warton.","satisfactory":"1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology. A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorius death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ. Bp. Sanderson. -- Sat`is*fac\"to*ri*ty, adv. -- Sat`is*fac\"to*ri*ness, n.","schah":"See Shah.","mammology":"Mastology. See Mammalogy.","accentual":"Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.","vivisector":"A vivisectionist.","incensory":"The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.","nematoidean":"Nematoid.","toothpick":"A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.","lynden":"See Linden.","uncautious":"Incautious.","perverter":"One who perverts (a person or thing). \"His own parents his perverters.\" South. \"A perverter of his law.\" Bp. Stillingfleet.","pygopodes":"A division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.","critique":"1. The art of criticism. [Written also critic.] [R.] 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's \"Critique of Pure Reason.\" I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison. 3. A critic; one who criticises. [Obs.] A question among critiques in the ages to come. Bp. Lincoln.\n\nTo criticise or pass judgment upon. [Obs.] Pope.","nymphlike":"Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.","stepmother":"The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.","implement":"That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.\n\n1. To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.] Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. Sir W. Scott. 2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements. The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following. Nichol. 3. (Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.","stability":"1. The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution. 2. Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to Ant: fickleness, Ant: irresolution, or Ant: inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability. 3. Fixedness; -- as opposed to Ant: fluidity. Since fluidness and stability are contary qualities. Boyle. Syn. -- Steadiness; stableness; constancy; immovability; firmness.","phagedenic":"Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n. A phagedenic medicine.","compsognathus":"A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.","aretology":"That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.","waddy":"1. An aboriginal war club. 2. A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick.\n\nTo attack or beat with a waddy.","carping":"Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp\"ing*ly, adv.","curiality":"The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] Bacon.","fungicide":"Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci\"dal, n.","valerate":"A salt of valeric acid.","pigeonry":"A place for pigeons; a dovecote.","regular":"1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building. 2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits. 3. Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops. 4. Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy. 5. Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug. [Colloq.] 6. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. 7. (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric. Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular. -- Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. -- Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction. -- Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia. Syn. -- Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal.\n\n1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick. 2. (Mil.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.","bar iron":"See under Iron.","bimestrial":"Continuing two months. [R.]","closeness":"The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison. Syn. -- Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness.","recentness":"Quality or state of being recent.","imparsonee":"Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n. A clergyman so inducted.","outgaze":"To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.","montoir":"A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.","humanness":"The quality or state of being human.","allyl":"An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.","avenue":"1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. \"The avenues leading to the city by land.\" Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman. 2. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black. 3. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.","bourse":"An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.","refracted":"1. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf. 2. Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.","uphand":"Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge. [R.] Moxon.","bord":"1. A board; a table. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Mining) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.\n\nSee Bourd. [Obs.] Spenser.","night":"1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5. 2. Hence: (a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. Pope. (b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. (c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow. (d) The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden. (e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. \"Sad winter's night\". Spenser. Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-blooming, night- born, night-warbling, etc. Night by night, Night after night, nightly; many nights. So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. Shak. -- Night bird. (Zoöl.) (a) The moor hen (Gallinula chloropus). (b) The Manx shearwater (Puffinus Anglorum). -- Night blindness. (Med.) See Hemeralopia. -- Night cart, a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night. -- Night churr, (Zoöl.), the nightjar. -- Night crow, a bird that cries in the night. -- Night dog, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers. -- Night fire. (a) Fire burning in the night. (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern. -- Night flyer (Zoöl.), any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects. -- night glass, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. Totten. -- Night green, iodine green. -- Night hag, a witch supposed to wander in the night. -- Night hawk (Zoöl.), an American bird (Chordeiles Virginianus), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also bull bat. -- Night heron (Zoöl.), any one of several species of herons of the genus Nycticorax, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is Nycticorax griseus, or N. nycticorax, of Europe, and the American variety (var. nævius). The yellow-crowned night heron (Nycticorax violaceus) inhabits the Southern States. Called also qua- bird, and squawk. -- Night house, a public house, or inn, which is open at night. -- Night key, a key for unfastening a night latch. -- Night latch, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key. -- Night monkey (Zoöl.), an owl monkey. -- night moth (Zoöl.), any one of the noctuids. -- Night parrot (Zoöl.), the kakapo. -- Night piece, a painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like. -- Night rail, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [Obs.] -- Night raven (Zoöl.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. -- Night rule. (a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [Obs.] (b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night. What night rule now about this haunted grove Shak. -- Night sight. (Med.) See Nyctolopia. -- Night snap, a night thief. [Cant] Beau. & Fl. -- Night soil, human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure. -- Night spell, a charm against accidents at night. -- Night swallow (Zoöl.), the nightjar. -- Night walk, a walk in the evening or night. -- Night walker. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets. -- Night walking. (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism. (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs. -- Night warbler (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis); -- called also night singer. [prov. Eng.] -- Night watch. (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch. (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night. -- Night watcher, one who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs. -- Night witch. Same as Night hag, above.","enubilous":"Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear. [R.]","discontinuous":"1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey. 2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. \"Discontinuous wound.\" Milton. Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.","caloric":"The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.\n\nOf or pertaining to caloric. Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated air.","forfeitable":"Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.","djereed":"(a) A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries. (b) A game played with it. [Written also jereed, jerrid, etc.]","laceman":"A man who deals in lace.","parapectin":"A gelatinous modification of pectin.","teeuck":"The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]","tumultuous":"1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. Milton. 4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech. Syn. -- Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. -- Tu*mul\"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul\"tu*ous*ness, n.","pericarp":"The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.","questionable":"1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.] Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious. It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. Baker. Syn. -- Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.","fourling":"1. One of four children born at the same time. 2. (Crystallog.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.","luminous":"1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow. 2. Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow. 3. Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. \" Luminous eloquence.\" Macaulay. \" A luminous statement.\" Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time. Syn. -- Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. -- Lu\"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Lu\"mi*nous*ness, n.","berob":"To rob; to plunder. [Obs.]","luce":"A pike when full grown. Halliwell.","elenchtic":"Same as Elenctic.","pleochroic":"Having the property of pleochroism.","baft":"Same as Bafta.","pepsinhydrochloric":"Same as Peptohydrochloric.","profulgent":"Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] \"Profulgent in preciousness.\" Chaucer.","parching":"Scorching; burning; drying. \"Summer's parching heat.\" Shak. -- Parch\"ing*ly, adv.","those":"The plural of that. See That.","pyramidical":"Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. \" A pyramidical rock.\" Goldsmith. \"Gold in pyramidic plenty piled.\" Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid\"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild\"ic*al*ness, n.","bluely":"With a blue color. Swift.","gram":"Angry. [Obs.] Havelok, the Dane.\n\nThe East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.\n\nThe unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade. -- Gram equivalent (Electrolysis), that quantity of the metal which will replace one gram of hydrogen.","standerat":"See Legislature, above.","curledness":"State of being curled; curliness.","loaves":"pl. of Loaf.","sulcus":"A furrow; a groove; a fissure.","bondsman":"1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham. 2. (Law) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.","telegraphoscope":"An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.","minette":"The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.","orthopraxy":"The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.","republish":"To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.","misgye":"To misguide. [Obs.]","torpedo catcher":"A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.","backhander":"A backhanded blow.","dynamo-electric":"Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.","highering":"Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.","digraph":"Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.","shonde":"Harm; disgrace; shame. [Obs.] Chaucer.","ostracodermi":"A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.","composite":"1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor. 2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. 3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositæ; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. -- Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. -- Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.\n\nThat which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [R.]","keld":"Having a kell or covering; webbed. [Obs.] Drayton.","schmelze":"A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.","hearsay":"Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.","reaver":"One who reaves. [Archaic]","lipochrin":"A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.","marimba":"A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Knight.","rubification":"The act of making red. Howell.","meated":"1. Fed; fattened. [Obs.] Tusser. 2. Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick- meated.","sympodial":"Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.","whitish":"1. Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree. 2. (Bot.) Covered with an opaque white powder.","housekeeping":"1. The state of being occupying a dwelling house as a householder. 2. Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs. 3. Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.\n\nDomestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.","sheartail":"(a) The common tern. (b) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.","finlet":"A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.","bistipuled":"Having two stipules.","mandolin":"A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.","numskull":"A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.","seedling":"A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.","yellowtail":"(a) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon. (b) The mademoiselle, or silver perch. (c) The menhaden. (d) The runner, 12. (e) A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus). (f) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). Note: Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail.","ruralism":"1. The quality or state of being rural; ruralness. 2. A rural idiom or expression.","kendal green":"A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.","collop":"1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden. 2. A part or piece of anything; a portion. Cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller.","anticor":"A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.","egyptologer":"One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.","semaeostomata":"A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.","arpent":"Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.","speedless":"Being without speed.","showroom":"A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.","bewonder":"1. To fill with wonder. [Obs.] 2. To wonder at; to admire. [Obs.]","annuitant":"One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.","insectary":"A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta\"ri*um, n. Etym: [L.]","copepod":"Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n. One of the Copepoda.","galatian":"Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.","tomfoolery":"Folly; trifling.","gleesome":"Merry; joyous; gleeful.","redmouth":"Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.","barbermonger":"A fop. [Obs.]","waverer":"One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.","fiddle-shaped":"Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.","lenity":"The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor. His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too severe. Macaulay. Syn. -- Gentleness; kindness; tenderness; softness; humanity; clemency; mercy.","sleepwaker":"On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.","leucosoid":"Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.","harl":"1. A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp. 2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]","liquidize":"To render liquid.","primogenitor":"The first ancestor; a forefather.","strawworm":"A caddice worm.","paeon":"A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly, pæan.]","inconvertibility":"The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.","collusive":"1. Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. \"Collusive and sophistical arguings.\" J. Trapp. \"Collusive divorces.\" Strype. 2. Acting in collusion. \"Collusive parties.\" Burke. -- Col*lu\"sive*ly, adv. -- Col*lu\"sive*ness, n.","coronilla":"A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.","rocking-stone":"A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.","glanders":"A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.","weazen":"Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.","scarificator":"An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.","sea purslane":"See under Purslane.","sathanas":"Satan. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.","astrophotometer":"A photometer for measuring the brightness of stars.","remake":"To make anew.","stillion":"A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.","entoptic":"Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.","commenter":"One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.","withwine":"Same as Withvine.","handyfight":"A fight with the hands; boxing. \"Pollux loves handyfights.\" B. Jonson.","truck":"1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. 2. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay. 3. (Railroad Mach.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels. 4. (Naut.) (a) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. (b) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes. 5. A freight car. [Eng.] 6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.\n\nTo transport on a truck or trucks.\n\nTo exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.\n\nTo exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them. Palfrey. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. Burke. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.\n\n1. Exchange of commodities; barter. Hakluyt. 2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] 3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]","epideictic":"Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.","drawknife":"1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave. 2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.","knotted":"1. Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. Dryden. 2. Interwoven; matted; entangled. Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part. Shak. 3. Having intersecting lines or figures. The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. Shak. 4. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks. Percival. 5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.] They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. Hudibras.","alar":"1. Pertaining to, or having, wings. 2. (Bot.) Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.","abawed":"Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.","institutist":"A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.","clockwork":"The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.","burgundy":"1. An old province of France (in the eastern central part). 2. A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. Burgundy pitch, a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.","underfellow":"An underling [R.] Sir P. Sidney.","bareness":"The state of being bare.","sea pigeon":"The common guillemot.","contrafagetto":"The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.","expenseless":"Without cost or expense.","herologist":"One who treats of heroes. [R.] T. Warton.","afoam":"In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam. A. F. OF L. A. F. of L. (Abbrev.) American Federation of Labor.","prick-eared":"Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak.","niggish":"Niggardly. [Obs.]","affix":"1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing. 2. To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray. 3. To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one. 4. To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground. [Obs.] Spenser. Syn. -- To attach; subjoin; connect; annex; unite.\n\nThat which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.","zimb":"A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.","flowk":"See 1st Fluke.","pend":"Oil cake; penock. [India]\n\n1. To hang; to depend. [R.] Pending upon certain powerful motions. I. Taylor. 2. To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.\n\nTo pen; to confine. [R.] ended within the limits . . . of Greece. Udall.","truncal":"Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.","exoccipital":"Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. -- n. The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.","swatch":"1. A swath. [Obs.] Tusser. 2. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth. Halliwell. Jamieson.","japanner":"1. One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art. 2. A bootblack. [R.]","beliefful":"Having belief or faith.","pentabasic":"Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.","recrudesce":"To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive. The general influence . . . which is liable every now and then to recrudesce in his absence. Edmund Gurney.","polygalic":"Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala; specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid, senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.","skorodite":"See Scorodite.","dovecot":"A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.","inulin":"A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.","strabismometer":"An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.","chievance":"An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.","combust":"1. Burnt; consumed. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Astron.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.","obscurement":"The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.","tenthly":"In a tenth manner.","impressionist":"One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.","stellulate":"Minutely stellate.","promorphological":"Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception.","peacebreaker":"One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace\"break`ing, n.","soyned":"Filled with care; anxious. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.","underchanter":"Same as Subchanter.","annulose":"1. Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.","sciatic":"Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.\n\nSciatica.","poodle":"A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.","quadrate":"1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe. 2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. \" Quadrate and cubical numbers.\" Sir T. Browne. 3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] \" A quadrate, solid, wise man.\" Howell. 4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] \" A generical description quadrate to both.\" Harvey. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.\n\n1. (Geom.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined. Milton. 2. (Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90º, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6. 3. (Anat.) The quadrate bone.\n\nTo square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic] The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories. Burke.\n\nTo adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.","tenderloin":"A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.","vitally":"In a vital manner.","fustigate":"To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.","acutely":"In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.","gryllus":"A genus of insects including the common crickets.","needless":"1. Having no need. [Obs.] Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. \"Needless jealousy.\" Shak. -- Need\"less*ly, adv. -- Need\"less*ness, n.","obituary":"Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.\n\n1. That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch. 2. (R.C.Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.","prunus":"A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. Note: Originally, this genus was limited to the plums, then, by Linnæus, was made to include the cherries and the apricot. Later botanists separated these into several genera, as Prunus, Cerasus, and Armeniaca, but now, by Bentham and Hooker, the plums, cherries, cherry laurels, peach, almond, and nectarine are all placed in Prunus.","nectar":"1. (Myth. & Poetic) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage. 2. (Bot.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.","trench-plow":"To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.","wendic":"Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.\n\nThe language of the Wends.","stretch":"1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in conquest stretched mine arm. Shak. 2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope. 3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings. 4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. Shak. 5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. Doddridge. 6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative. Burke.\n\n1. To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles. As far as stretcheth any ground. Gower. 2. To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches. 3. To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances. The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken. Boyle. 4. To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. [Obs. or Colloq.] 5. (Naut.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar.\n\n1. Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. Dryden. Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. L'Estrange. 2. A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land. A great stretch of cultivated country. W. Black. But all of them left me a week at a stretch. E. Eggleston. 3. The extent to which anything may be stretched. Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind. Atterbury. This is the utmost stretch that nature can. Granville. 4. (Naut.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board. 5. Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal. To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost powers. -- Home stretch. See under Home, a.","waag":"The grivet.","propylic":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.","cumidine":"A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.","phalangian":"Phalangeal.","intastable":"Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.","men-pleaser":"One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.","two-ply":"1. Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double. 2. Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.","ignite":"1. To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood. 2. (Chem.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.\n\nTo take fire; to begin to burn.","mawkish":"1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.","self-accused":"Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. \"Die self- accused.\" Cowper.","pleochroous":"Pleochroic.","ridiculosity":"The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous. [Archaic] Bailey.","sabellianism":"The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.","fraxin":"A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.","gumminess":"The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.","ophthalmometer":"An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained.","dolt":"A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.\n\nTo behave foolishly. [Obs.]","intermarriage":"Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.","archaeologian":"An archæologist.","milanese":"Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan.","five-leaf":"Cinquefoil; five-finger.","glorioso":"A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.","sepiostare":"The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.","hyponitrite":"A salt of hyponitrous acid.","negrohead":"An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.","pucras":"See Koklass.","unaccurateness":"Inaccuracy. Boyle.","geer":"See Gear, Gearing.","donor":"1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. 2. (Law) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. Kent. Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman.","monisher":"One who monishes; an admonisher. [Archaic]","labroid":"Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridæ, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.","arete":"An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.","denominate":"To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.\n\nHaving a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.","rez-de-chaussee":"The ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on the continent of Europe. Tier above tier of neat apartments rise over the little shops which form the rez-de-chaussée. The Century.","crawly":"Creepy. [Colloq.]","fore-topmast":"The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.","outswear":"To exceed in swearing.","like-minded":"Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.","detorsion":"Same as Detortion.","excommunicable":"Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. \"Persons excommunicable .\" Bp. Hall. What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.","commentator":"One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.","flammeous":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","soldanel":"A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.","unbark":"To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree. Bacon.\n\nTo cause to disembark; to land. [Obs.] Hakluyt.","indorser":"The person who indorses. [Written also endorser.]","stoechiometry":"See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.","faluns":"A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.","crustalogist":"One versed in crustalogy.","accrument":"The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.","craft":"1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25. A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow. 3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green. 4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1. 5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.\n\nTo play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] You have crafted fair. Shak.","pectostraca":"A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.","hemadromometer":"An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.","teary":"1. Wet with tears; tearful. 2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.","tunny":"Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse. [Written also thynny.] Note: The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see Albicore), are related species of smaller size.","somnipathist":"A person in a state of somniapathy.","inertly":"Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.","hump-shouldered":"Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.","mithic":"See Mythic.","shower":"1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] Wyclif.\n\n1. A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton. 2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope. 3. A copious supply bestowed. [R.] He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts. Shak. Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.\n\n1. To water with a shower; to Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton. 2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.\n\nTo rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.","oleaginous":"Having the nature or qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.","permanganate":"A salt of permanganic acid. Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.","temptation":"1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction. When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke iv. 13. 2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. Lead us not into temptation. Luke xi. 4. 3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it, and lay the bright temptation down. Dryden.","algebra":"1. (Math.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude. 2. A treatise on this science.","saltatory":"Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution (Biol.), a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See Saltation. -- Saltatory spasm (Med.), an affection in which pressure of the foot on a floor causes the patient to spring into the air, so as to make repeated involuntary motions of hopping and jumping. J. Ross.","convey":"1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas. 3. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser. 4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke. 5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.] I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak. 6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [Obs.] 7. To accompany; to convoy. [Obs.] Chaucer. Syn. -- To carry; transport; bear; transmit; trnsfer.\n\nTo play the thief; to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston.","pignoration":"1. The act of pledging or pawning. 2. (Civil Law) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.","happily":"1. By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller. 3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife. 4. With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope. Syn. -- Fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously; contentedly; dexterously; felicitously.","new thought":"Any form of belief in mental healing other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the \"old thought\" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England.","hairsplitting":"Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.","keeper":"1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. The Lord is thy keeper. Ps. cxxi. 6. 4. One who remains or keeps in a place or position. Discreet; chaste; keepers at home. Titus ii. 5. 5. A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap. 6. A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper. Downing. Keeper of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an officer who had the principal government of all things relating to the forest. -- Keeper of the great seal, a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The office is now united with that of lord chancellor. [Eng.] -- Keeper of the King's conscience, the lord chancellor; -- a name given when the chancellor was an ecclesiastic. [Eng.] -- Keeper of the privy seal (styled also lord privy seal), a high officer of state, through whose hands pass all charters, pardons, etc., before they come to the great seal. He is a privy councillor, and was formerly called clerk of the privy seal. [Eng.] - - Keeper of a magnet, a piece of iron which connects the two poles, for the purpose of keeping the magnetic power undiminished; an armature.","jurdon":"Jordan. [Obs.] Chaucer.","henchboy":"A page; a servant. [Obs.]","malashaganay":"The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).","straight-out":"Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.] Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.","goutily":"In a gouty manner.","beetrave":"The common beet (Beta vulgaris).","coruscation":"1. A sudden flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle. 2. A flash of intellectual brilliancy. He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor of his genius. I. Taylor. Syn. -- Flash; glitter; blaze; gleam; sparkle.","scalenohedral":"Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.","pluripresence":"Presence in more places than one. [R.] Johnson.","sphyraenoid":"Of or pertaining to the Sphyrænidæ, a family of marine fishes including the barracudas.","irrepleviable":"Not capable of being replevied.","boothy":"See Bothy.\n\nA wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]","fleecer":"One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.","impairment":"The state of being impaired; injury. \"The impairment of my health.\" Dryden.","undecreed":"1. Etym: [Pref. un- not + decreed.] Not decreed. 2. Etym: [1st pref. un- + decree.] Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed.","bioscope":"1. A view of life; that which gives such a view. Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] W. Bayley (1824). 2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).","wastebook":"A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.","mariolater":"One who worships the Virgin Mary.","reticle":"1. A small net. 2. A reticule. See Reticule,2. [R.]","transubstantiation":"1. A change into another substance. 2. (R. C. Theol.) The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.","parergon":"See Parergy.","grandity":"Grandness. [Obs.] Camden.","annulata":"A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.","nausea":"Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.","antipapal":"Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.","monogenistic":"Monogenic.","potlatch":"1. Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it. 2. Hence, a feast given to a large number of persons, often accompanied by gifts. [Colloq., Northwestern America]","renovelance":"Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.","sulphostannate":"A salt of sulphostannic acid.","telepathy":"The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. -- Tel`e*path\"ic, a. -- Te*lep\"a*thist, n.","phosphoresce":"To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.","aspergillum":"1. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.] 2. (Zoöl.) See Wateringpot shell.","carpogenic":"Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.","radiomicrometer":"A very sensitive modification or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature.","tubulature":"A tubulure.","mohammedanize":"To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. [Written also Mahometanize.]","disenable":"To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).","enthronization":"The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.","triture":"A rubbing or grinding; trituration. [Obs.] Cheyne.","connubiality":"The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.","yesternoon":"The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.","doomful":"Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] \"That doomful deluge.\" Drayton.","foregleam":"An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.","logarithmetic":"See Logarithmic.","whinner":"To whinny. [Colloq.]","miser":"1. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A despicable person; a wretch. [Obs.] Shak. 3. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith. 4. A kind of large earth auger. Knight.","eroticism":"Erotic quality.","mallemoke":"See Mollemoke.","overjoy":"To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.\n\nExcessive joy; transport.","provant":"To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. [Obs.] Nash.\n\nProvided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior. \"A poor provant rapier.\" B. Jonson.","azymic":"Azymous.","truancy":"The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.","arcubalister":"A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.","pentroof":"See Lean-to.","unfeigned":"Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. \"Good faith unfeigned.\" Chaucer. -- Un*feign\"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign\"ed*ness, n.","allophylian":"Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard.","placodermal":"Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.","megaphone":"A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.","mockado":"A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.] Our rich mockado doublet. Ford.","creditress":"A female creditor.","sphacelated":"Affected with gangrene; mortified.","grindingly":"In a grinding manner. [Colloq.]","ambitiously":"In an ambitious manner.","herl":"Same as Harl, 2.","eliminate":"1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young. 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized] 5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.","tollable":"Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.","nonconduction":"The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.","manioc":"The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.[Written also mandioc, manihoc, manihot.]","philip":"(a) The European hedge sparrow. (b) The house sparrow. Called also phip. [Prov. Eng.]","thinkable":"Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.","kumish":"See Koumiss.","ceremoniously":"In a ceremonious way.","hire purchase":"A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale.","tystie":"The black guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]","scaler":"One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.","flagellation":"A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.","notation":"1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations. 3. Literal or etymological signification. [Obs.] \"Conscience\" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge. South.","accustomedness":"Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.","intelligency":"Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.","idiocy":"The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence. I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.","laboring":"1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12. 2. Suffering pain or grief. Pope. Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.","crossbowman":"One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.","density":"1. The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity. 2. (Physics) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard. Note: For gases the standard substance is hydrogen, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade and a pressure of 760 millimeters. For liquids and solids the standard is water at a temperature of 4º Centigrade. The density of solids and liquids is usually called specific gravity, and the same is true of gases when referred to air as a standard. 3. (Photog.) Depth of shade. Abney.","geisha":"A Japanese singing and dancing girl.","jewise":"Same as Juise. [Obs.] Chaucer.","neocomian":"A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.\n\nOf or pertaining to the lower greensand.","formful":"Creative; imaginative. [R.] \"The formful brain.\" Thomson.","flitting":"1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering. 2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. Jeffrey.\n\nContention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.] These \"flytings\" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. Saintsbury.","microspectroscope":"A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.","myopathy":"Same as Myopathia.","malassimilation":"(a) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food. (b) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.","elecampane":"1. (Bot.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic. 2. A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.","prankish":"Full of pranks; frolicsome.","garefowl":"The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]","protractor":"1. One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction. 2. A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular. 3. (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound. 4. (Anat.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor. 5. An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.","deploy":"To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.\n\nThe act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -Wilhelm. Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.","vidonia":"A dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in Teneriffe; -- called also Teneriffe.","prognathic":"Prognathous.","mycology":"That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.","undertide":"The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.] He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. Spenser.","exemplar":"1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South. 2. A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Udall.\n\nExemplary. [Obs.] The exemplar piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.","goodman":"1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to \"My friend\", \"Good sir\", \"Mister;\" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak. 2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber Mark xiv. 14. Note: In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.","slaie":"A weaver's reed; a sley.","fruiteress":"A woman who sells fruit.","caponiere":"A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.","dishonorable":"1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon\"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon\"or*a*bly, adv.","phosphorite":"(min.) A massive variety of apatite.","summons":"1. The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty. Special summonses by the king. Hallam. This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey. Bp. Fell. He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded. Sir J. Hayward. 2. (Law) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like. 3. (Mil.) A demand to surrender.\n\nTo summon. [R. or Colloq.] Swift.","threader":"1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.","farsightedness":"1. Quality of bbeing farsighted. 2. (Med.) Hypermetropia.","alcoholism":"A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.","aphlogistic":"Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.","revelate":"To reveal. [Obs.] Frith. Barnes.","cumulative":"1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. \"As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original.\" Bacon 2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. Trench. 3. (Law) (a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence. (b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton. Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose. -- Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative. -- Cumulative vote or system of voting (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.","disembay":"To clear from a bay. Sherburne.","bane":"1. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.] 2. Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton. 3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert. 4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. Syn. -- Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.\n\nTo be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller.","phenomenal":"Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom\"e*nal*ly, adv.","decistere":"The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.","juba":"1. (Zoöl.) The mane of an animal. 2. (Bot.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.","monobasic":"Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.","solve":"To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem. True piety would effectually solve such scruples. South. God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. Tickell. Syn. -- To explain; resolve; unfold; clear up.\n\nA solution; an explanation. [Obs.] Shak.","bezant":"1. A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.] 2. (Her.) A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant. Burke. 3. A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.","transvolation":"The act of flying beyond or across. Jer. Taylor.","dandie":"One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.\n\n1. In Scott's \"Guy Mannering\", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers. 2. One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.","inelligibly":"In an ineligible manner.","suppletory":"Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.\n\nThat which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.","maggoty":"1. Infested with maggots. 2. Full of whims; capricious. Norris.","mesolabe":"An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube. Brande & C.","myolin":"The essential material of muscle fibers.","chorda":"A cord. Chorda dorsalis (. Etym: [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.","pedicellaria":"A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.","mendicity":"The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.","polytheism":"The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods. In the Old Testament, the gradual development of polytheism from the primitive monotheism may be learned. Shaff-Herzog.","nubilous":"Cloudy. [R.]","pleural":"Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.","tardigradous":"Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","biblicality":"The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. [R.]","predominate":"To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.\n\nTo rule over; to overpower. [R.]","bathometer":"An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.","vibrate":"1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration. Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion. Holder. Star to star vibrates light. Tennyson.\n\n1. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate. 2. To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver. 3. To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear. Pope. 4. To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.","feather-brained":"Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]","beshroud":"To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.","intail":"See Entail, v. t.","preaxial":"Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.","tousche":"A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.","aspic":"1. The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson. 2. A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot. [Obs.]\n\nA European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.\n\nA savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.","fenceful":"Affording defense; defensive. [Obs.] Congreve.","cristate":"Crested.","distasture":"Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.","lyingly":"In a lying manner; falsely.","yellowlegs":"Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.","allantoidal":"Of or pertaining to the allantois.","fibrinous":"Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.","cantaloupe":"A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color. [Written also cantaleup.]","balaniferous":"Bearing or producing acorns.","cupellation":"The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. Note: The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation.","swanky":"An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","encomium":"Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Eulogy.","flittern":"A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.","dildo":"A burden in popular songs. [Obs.] Delicate burthens of dildos and fadings. Shak.\n\nA columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).","halberdier":"One who is armed with a halberd. Strype.","tasteless":"1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste\"less*ly, adv. -- Taste\"less*ness, n.","water course":"1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4. 2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands. 3. (Law) A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.","phototropism":"The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.","predetermine":"1. To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale. 2. To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.\n\nTo determine beforehand.","antarctic":"Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.","cottonseed meal":"A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.","phytotomy":"The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.","asperity":"1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. \"The asperities of dry bodies.\" Boyle. 2. Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity. 3. Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness. 4. Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. \"Asperity of character.\" Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. 5. Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow. Syn. -- Acrimony; moroseness; crabbedness; harshness; sourness; tartness. See Acrimony.","polyacoustic":"Multiplying or magnifying sound. -- n. A polyacoustic instrument.","supra-angular":"See Surangular.","notelet":"A little or short note; a billet.","lethality":"The quality of being lethal; mortality.","dust-point":"An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).","impress":"1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed. Shak. 2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something). 3. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. I. Watts. 4. Etym: [See Imprest, Impress, n., 5.] To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn.\n\nTo be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. Chaucer.\n\n1. The act of impressing or making. 2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. The impresses of the insides of these shells. Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. Shak. 3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South. 4. A device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton. 5. Etym: [See Imprest, Press to force into service.] The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.","suspire":"To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning.\n\nA long, deep breath; a sigh. [Obs.]","imbraid":"See Embraid.","tauridor":"A bull Sir W. Scott.","oxymuriate":"A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride. Oxymuriate of lime, chloride of lime.","faldstool":"A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt. Note: In the modern practice of the Church of England, the term faldstool is given to the reading desk from which the litany is read. This esage is a relic of the ancient use of a lectern folding like a camp stool.","belonite":"Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.","gougeshell":"A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.","jellyfish":"Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.","latex":"A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.","muriatic":"Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric. Muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid, HCl; -- formerly called also marine acid, and spirit of salt. See hydrochloric, and the Note under Muriate.","hurricane":"A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.","medullated":"Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.","absorptiveness":"The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.","zendik":"An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.","detteles":"Free from debt. [Obs.] Chaucer.","raj":"Reign; rule. [India]","trans-":"A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.","rheotrope":"An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current. [Written also reotrope.]","invalid":"1. Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak. 2. (Law) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.\n\nA person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.\n\nNot well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.\n\n1. To make or render invalid or infirm. \"Invalided, bent, and almost blind.\" Dickens. 2. To classify or enroll as an invalid. Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay. Carlyle.","literality":"The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.","sustain":"1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight. Every pillar the temple to sustain. Chaucer. 2. Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support. No comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world. Tillotson. 3. To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army. 4. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate. Shak. His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain. Dryden. 5. To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment. 6. To suffer; to bear; to undergo. Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain Dryden. You shall sustain more new disgraces. Shak. 7. To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit. 8. To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition. Syn. -- To support; uphold; subsist; assist; relieve; suffer; undergo.\n\nOne who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer. [Obs.] I waked again, for my sustain was the Lord. Milton.","coma":"A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.\n\n1. (Astron.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. 2. (Bot.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of brachts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. Coma Berenices ( Etym: [L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair.","withamite":"A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.","ameliorative":"Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.","fid":"1. (Naut.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees. 2. A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything. 3. A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing. Note: There are hand fids and standing fids (which are larger than the others, and stand upon a flat base). An iron implement for this purpose is called a marline spike. 4. (Mil.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.","air chamber":"1. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. 2. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.","fowl":"1. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak. 2. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus). Barndoor fowl, or Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.\n\nTo catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl. Blackstone. Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.","making":"1. The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power. 2. Composition, or structure. 3. a poem.[Obs.] Sir J. Davies. 4. That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him. 5. External appearance; from. [Obs.] Shak.","moril":"An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.","rapparee":"A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]","exhale":"1. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope. 2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.\n\nTo rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.","sourness":"The quality or state of being sour.","eradicative":"Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.\n\nA medicine that effects a radical cure. Whitlock.","polychroism":"Same as Pleochroism.","ramiparous":"Producing branches; ramigerous.","trackscout":"See Trackschuyt.","tristfully":"In a tristful manner; sadly.","noticeable":"Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.","meatless":"Having no meat; without food. \"Leave these beggars meatless.\" Sir T. More.","nagor":"A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).","vaporose":"Full of vapor; vaporous.","uncustomable":"Not customable, or subject to custom duties.","swaddlebill":"The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]","hemi-":"A prefix signifying half.","prophylaxis":"The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.","buceros":"A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.","baron":"1. A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. Note: \"The tenants in chief from the Crown, who held lands of the annual value of four hundred pounds, were styled Barons; and it is to them, and not to the members of the lowest grade of the nobility (to whom the title at the present time belongs), that reference is made when we read of the Barons of the early days of England's history . . . . Barons are addressed as 'My Lord,' and are styled 'Right Honorable.' All their sons and daughters 'Honorable.'\" Cussans. 2. (Old Law) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished.","sluggy":"Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.","bayou":"An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.","undecylenic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid C11H20O2, homologous with acrylic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of castor oil.","abnegation":"a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.","sward-cutter":"(a) A plow for turning up grass land. (b) A lawn mower.","crookneck":"Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [U. S.]","gastromyces":"The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.","paean":"1. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities. 2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. \"Public pæans of congratulation.\" De Quincey. 3. See Pæon.","hydrobilirubin":"A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.","cognateness":"The state of being cognate.","exsufflicate":"Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).","areal":"Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).","leat":"An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.","spicule":"1. A minute, slender granule, or point. 2. (Bot.) Same as Spicula. 3. (Zoöl.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria. Note: Spicules vary exceedingly in size and shape, and some of those found in siliceous sponges are very complex in structure and elegant in form. They are of great use in classification. Description of the Illustration: a Acerate; b Tricurvate, or Bowshaped; c d Hamate; e Broomshaped; f Scepterellate; g Spinispirulate; h Inequi-anchorate; i Sexradiate; j A Trichite Sheaf; k Six-rayed Capitate; l Rosette of Esperia; m Equi- anchorate.","palatability":"Palatableness.","pipkin":"A small earthen boiler.","de rigueur":"According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.","sation":"A sowing or planting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.","almsdeed":"An act of charity. Acts ix. 36.","borracho":"See Borachio. [Obs.]","pantile":"A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (","ament":"A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.","opeidoscope":"An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the tube, as by speaking or singing into it. A. E. Dolbear.","jeffersonia":"An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.","paludinous":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina. 2. Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. [R.]","arsine":"A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having and odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.","manifesto":"A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. Bouvier. it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms. Addison . Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope. Milman.","catchy":"1. Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music. 2. Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question. 3. Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind. It [the fox's scent] is . . . flighty or catchy, if variable. Encyc. of Sport.","hypnotic":"1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.\n\n1. Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic. 2. A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.","homonymously":"1. In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation. 2. Equivocally; ambiguously.","terreous":"Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. [Obs.]","thistly":"1. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground. 2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side. Cowper.","semester":"A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.","intralobular":"Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.","geometric":"Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. Note: Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions or principles of geometry are made use of rather than those of algebra. Note: Geometrical is often used in a limited or strictly technical sense, as opposed to mechanical; thus, a construction or solution is geometrical which can be made by ruler and compasses, i. e., by means of right lines and circles. Every construction or solution which requires any other curve, or such motion of a line or circle as would generate any other curve, is not geometrical, but mechanical. By another distinction, a geometrical solution is one obtained by the rules of geometry, or processes of analysis, and hence is exact; while a mechanical solution is one obtained by trial, by actual measurements, with instruments, etc., and is only approximate and empirical. Geometrical curve. Same as Algebraic curve; -- so called because their different points may be constructed by the operations of elementary geometry. -- Geometric lathe, an instrument for engraving bank notes, etc., with complicated patterns of interlacing lines; -- called also cycloidal engine. -- Geometrical pace, a measure of five feet. -- Geometric pen, an instrument for drawing geometric curves, in which the movements of a pen or pencil attached to a revolving arm of ajustable length may be indefinitely varied by changing the toothed wheels which give motion to the arm. -- Geometrical plane (Persp.), the same as Ground plane . -- Geometrical progression, proportion, ratio. See under Progression, Proportion and Ratio. -- Geometrical radius, in gearing, the radius of the pitch circle of a cogwheel. Knight. -- Geometric spider (Zoöl.), one of many species of spiders, which spin a geometrical web. They mostly belong to Epeira and allied genera, as the garden spider. See Garden spider. -- Geometric square, a portable instrument in the form of a square frame for ascertaining distances and heights by measuring angles. -- Geometrical staircase, one in which the stairs are supported by the wall at one end only. -- Geometrical tracery, in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures.","fellmonger":"A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.","intermittently":"With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.","substantial":"1. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley. 2. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. If happinessbe a substantial good. Denham. The substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Estrange. 3. Corporeal; material; firm. \"Most ponderous and substantial things.\" Shak. The rainbow [appears to be] a large substantial arch. I. Watts. 4. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall. 5. Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. \"Substantial yeomen and burghers.\" Sir W. Scott.","botryogen":"A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.","debted":"Indebted; obliged to. [R.] I stand debted to this gentleman. Shak.","heed":"To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. Dryden. Syn. -- To notice; regard; mind. See Attend, v. t.\n\nTo mind; to consider.\n\n1. Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. Milton. Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam. xx. 10. Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts. Bacon. 2. Careful consideration; obedient regard. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. Heb. ii. 1. 3. A look or expression of heading. [R.] He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance. Shak.","multiseptate":"Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.","pockmark":"A mark or pit made by smallpox.","authorizer":"One who authorizes.","substantive":"1. Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be. 2. Depending on itself; independent. He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner. Bacon. 3. Enduring; solid; firm; substantial. Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner. Hazlitt. 4. Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive. Noun substantive (Gram.), a noun which designates an object, material or immaterial; a substantive. -- Substantive color, one which communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed to adjective color.\n\nA noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.\n\nTo substantivize. [R.] Cudworth.","oecology":"The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.","pennached":"Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.","syllabize":"To syllabify. Howell.","surrey":"A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.","appurtenance":"That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.","beshine":"To shine upon; to ullumine.","chasten":"1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6. 2. To purify from errors or faults; to refine. They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions. Layard. Syn. -- To chastise; punish; correct; discipline; castigate; afflict; subdue; purify. To Chasten, Punish, Chastise. To chasten is to subject to affliction or trouble, in order to produce a general change for the better in life or character. To punish is to inflict penalty for violation of law, disobedience to authority, or intentional wrongdoing. To chastise is to punish a particular offense, as with stripes, especially with the hope that suffering or disgrace may prevent a repetition of faults.","soft-shell":"Having a soft or fragile shell. Soft-shell clam (Zoöl.), the long clam. See Mya. -- Soft-shelled crab. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Crab, 1. -- Soft-shelled turtle. (Zoöl.) Same as Soft tortoise, under Soft.","ferde":"imp. of Fare. Chaucer.","ep-":"See Epi-.","paracentrical":"Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called also a paracentric. -- Paracentric motton or velocity, the motion or velocity of a revolving body, as a planet, by which it approaches to, or recedes from, the center, without reference to its motion in space, or to its motion as reckoned in any other direction.","criticise":"1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct. Blackwood's Mag.\n\n1. To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon. Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association. Addison. 2. To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault. Cavil you may, but never criticise. Pope.","ebracteolate":"Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.","amioid":"Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. -- n. One of the Amioidei.","evenhanded":"Fair or impartial; unbiased. \"Evenhanded justice.\" Shak. -- E\"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv. -- E\"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.","stench":"To stanch. [Obs.] Harvey.\n\n1. A smell; an odor. [Obs.] Clouds of savory stench involve the sky. Dryden. 2. An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink. Cowper. Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.\n\nTo cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink. [Obs.] Young.","redfin":"A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.","panhellenist":"An advocate of Panhellenism.","pycnogonid":"One of the Pycnogonida.","gashful":"Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] \"A gashful, horrid, ugly shape.\" Gayton.","incompetible":"See Incompatible.","antaphrodisiac":"Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n. Anything that quells the venereal appetite.","clammy":"Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.","crinoidal":"Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.","fetter":"1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21. 2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound. Dryden.\n\n1. To put fetters upon; to shakle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind. My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. Milton. 2. To reastrain from motion; to impose restrains on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists. Shak.","inflexion":"Inflection.","sea lavender":"See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.","sideling":"Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew. A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down. Swift.\n\nInclining to one sidel directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.","acceptant":"Accepting; receiving.\n\nAn accepter. Chapman.","dullhead":"A blockhead; a dolt. Ascham.","entoderm":"See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.","dialist":"A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.","dehorter":"A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]","re-reiterate":"To reiterate many times. [R.] \"My re-reiterated wish.\" Tennyson.","buxeous":"Belonging to the box tree.","embarkment":"Embarkation. [R.] Middleton.","eruginous":"Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.","practicer":"1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","camellia":"An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camelia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. Oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.","scalariform":"1. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. 2. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria.","atmospherically":"In relation to the atmosphere.","parvanimity":"The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity. De Quincey.","alpia":"The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.","harehound":"See Harrier. A. Chalmers.","adenotomy":"Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.","scrit":"Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] \"Of every scrit and bond.\" Chaucer.","egal":"Equal; impartial. [Obs.] Shak.","eurafric":"1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. (Zoögeography) Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.","hurter":"1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke. 2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson. 3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak. Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.\n\nOne who hurts or does harm. I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl.\n\nA butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.","juiceless":"Lacking juice; dry. Dr. H. More.","megaceros":"The Irish elk.","noble-minded":"Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous. -- No\"ble-mind`ed*ness, n.","prosingly":"Prosily.","mongolians":"One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.","farthermost":"Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.","unsaddle":"1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. 2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.","gruntle":"To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]","naticoid":"Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticæ.","thallophyte":"Same as Thallogen.","invocatory":"Making or containing invocation; invoking.","planking":"1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.","egerminate":"To germinate. [Obs.]","anniverse":"Anniversary. [Obs.] Dryden.","fantasy":"1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton. 2. Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.\n\nTo have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).","interscapulars":"The interscapular feathers of a bird.","wawe":"Woe. [Obs.]\n\nA wave. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","linament":"Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.","masticable":"Capable of being masticated.","ethnologist":"One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.","soldiery":"1. A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military. A camp of faithful soldiery. Milton. 2. Military service. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.","allusiveness":"The quality of being allusive.","manful":"Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble. \" Manful hardiness.\" Chaucer. -- Man\"ful*ly, adv. -- Man\"ful*ness, n.","panchway":"A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.","chancery":"1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity. 2. In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity. Note: A court of chancery, so far as it is a court of equity, in the English and American sense, may be generally, if not precisely, described as one having jurisdiction in cases of rights, recognized and protected by the municipal jurisprudence, where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy can not be had in the courts of common law. In some of the American States, jurisdiction at law and in equity centers in the same tribunal. The courts of the United States also have jurisdiction both at law and in equity, and in all such cases they exercise their jurisdiction, as courts of law, or as courts of equity, as the subject of adjudication may require. In others of the American States, the courts that administer equity are distinct tribunals, having their appropriate judicial officers, and it is to the latter that the appellation courts of chancery is usually applied; but, in American law, the terms equity and court of equity are more frequently employed than the corresponding terms chancery and court of chancery. Burrill. Inns of chancery. See under Inn. -- To get (or to hold) In chancery (Boxing), to get the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will; hence, to have wholly in One's power. The allusion is to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court, where he was helpless, while the lawyers lived upon his estate.","bedesman":"A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.\n\nSame as Beadsman. [Obs.]","streit":"Drawn. [Obs.] Pyrrhus with his streite sword. Chaucer.\n\nClose; narrow; strict. [Obs.] See Strait.","xanthochroid":"Having a yellowish or fair complexion. -- n. A person having xanthochroid traits.","phonographist":"Phonographer.","aconitic":"Of or pertaining to aconite.","dressing":"1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. B. Jonson. 2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. 4. (Cookery) (a) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat. 5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics. 6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc. 7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.] Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils. -- Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. -- Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. -- Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. -- Dressing table, a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. -- Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.","disarmature":"The act of divesting of armature. [R.]","iconodule":"One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.","vulpine":"Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful. Vulpine phalangist (Zoöl.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial (Phalangista, or Trichosurus, vulpina); -- called also vulpine phalanger, and vulpine opossum.","encase":"To inclose as in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl.","myocardium":"The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.","nup":"Same as Nupson. [Obs.]","relational":"1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.","stylommatophora":"A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.","wrawl":"To cry, as a cat; to waul. [Obs.] Spenser.","chloropeptic":"Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin- hydrochloric acid.","dethronement":"Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.","rivulet":"A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.","astatize":"To render astatic.","distinguish":"1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares. 2. To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low. Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet. 3. To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum. We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak. 4. To constitute a difference; to make to differ. Who distinguisheth thee 1 Cor. iv. 7. (Douay version). 5. To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.\"To distinguish themselves by means never tried before.\" Johnson. Syn. -- To mark; discriminate; differentiate; characterize; discern; perceive; signalize; honor; glorify.\n\n1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible. [R.] The little embryo . . . first distinguishes into a little knot. Jer. Taylor.","physiographical":"Of or pertaining to physiography.","impassionable":"Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.","incomparable":"Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron. Bp. Warburton. -- In*com\"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In*com\"pa*ra*bly, adv. Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. Bp. Wilkins.","zoster":"Shingles.","bast":"1. The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom. 2. A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.","crocoite":"Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.","perron":"An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions.","oversea":"Beyond the sea; foreign.\n\nOver the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.","monocephalous":"Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.","eau de cologne":"Same as Cologne.","precipitability":"The quality or state of being precipitable.","roundridge":"To form into round ridges by plowing. B. Edwards.","isocheimic":"The same as Isocheimal.","flagellata":"An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.","opiniaster":"Opinionated. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.","archontate":"An archon's term of office. Gibbon.","macaco":"Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).","sweltry":"Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.] Evelyn.","hollander":"1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.","roselle":"a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.","petioled":"Petiolate.","restaurant":"An eating house.","sea pyot":"See 1st Sea pie.","ferie":"A holiday. [Obs.] Bullokar.","osculum":"Same as Oscule.","colorless":"1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water. 2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.","comminution":"1. The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. Bentley. 2. (Surg.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces. Dunglison. 3. Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. Natural and necessary comminution of our lives. Johnson.","comparator":"An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.","rheic":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum). [Obsoles.]","substyle":"A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style. [Written also substile.] Hutton.","terebrantia":"A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.","gehenna":"The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. Milton.","marmorean":"Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.","cuminic":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. Cuminic acid (Chem.), white crystalline substance, C3H7.C6H4.CO2H, obtained from oil of caraway.","surah":"A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.","overstore":"To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.","abbatical":"Abbatial. [Obs.]","unsatisfaction":"Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.","candify":"To make or become white, or candied. [R.]","jagannatha":"A particular form of Vishnu, or of Krishna, whose chief idol and worship are at Puri, in Orissa. The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul. The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings. Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car. It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.","hummeler":"One who, or a machine which, hummels.","galvanopuncture":"Same as Electro-puncture.","cowardie":"Cowardice. [Obs.]","jupati palm":"A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes.","interposal":"The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.","dead-pay":"Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.","gabionnade":"See Gabionade.","suji":"Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also soojee.]","sheerwater":"The shearwater.","breastpin":"A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.","romansch":"The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. [Written also Romansch, and Rumonsch.]","moderateness":"The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.","telestich":"A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.","sommeil":"Slumber; sleep.","acephalist":"One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.","billsticker":"One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.","tenaculum":"An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.","threaten":"1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. Acts iv. 17. 2. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak. Syn. -- To menace. -- Threaten, Menace. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the country is menaced with war. By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. Prior. Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o'er his devoted head Hangs menacing. Somerville.\n\nTo use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. Shak.","papiliones":"The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.","overfeed":"To feed to excess; to surfeit.","fulfillment":"1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy. 2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.","organicism":"The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.","sober-minded":"Having a disposition or temper habitually sober. -- So\"ber-mind`ed*ness, n.","vulgate":"An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church. Note: The Vulgate was made by Jerome at the close of the 4th century. The Old Testament he translated mostly from the Hebrew and Chaldaic, and the New Testament he revised from an older Latin version. The Douay version, so called, is an English translation from the Vulgate. See Douay Bible.\n\nOf or pertaining to the Vulgate, or the old Latin version of the Scriptures.","vaporiferous":"Conveying or producing vapor.","potpie":"A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.","seamanship":"The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.","regularia":"A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.","hydro-aeroplane":"An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.","passionately":"1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.","javelin":"A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game. Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm Addison.\n\nTo pierce with a javelin. [R.] Tennyson.","talmudist":"One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.","situate":"1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized.\n\nTo place. [R.] Landor.","hesitantly":"With hesitancy or doubt.","melasma":"A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease. -- Me*las\"mic, a.","ouch":"A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person. A precious stone in a rich ouche. Sir T. Elyot. Your brooches, pearls, and ouches. Shak.","testis":"A testicle.","astatically":"In an astatic manner.","lettern":"See Lecturn.","institutor":"1. One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes. 2. One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] Walker. 3. (Episcopal Church) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.","human":"Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. To err is human; to forgive, divine. Pope.\n\nA human being. [Colloq.] Sprung of humans that inhabit earth. Chapman. We humans often find ourselves in strange position. Prof. Wilson.","isabella moth":"A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.","lacquerer":"One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.","batterer":"One who, or that which, batters.","gossip":"1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden. 2. A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. [Obs.] My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal. Shak. 3. One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden. 4. The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.\n\nTo stand sponsor to. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. To make merry. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To prate; to chat; to talk much. Shak. 3. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.","camerlingo":"The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]","catechetics":"The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.","crus":"(a) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. (b) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.","excarnificate":"To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.","recriminator":"One who recriminates.","powerable":"1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. [R.] J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.","sheller":"One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.","deprisure":"Low estimation; disesteem; contempt. [Obs.]","regenesis":"New birth; renewal. A continued regenesis of dissenting sects. H. Spenser.","amrita":"Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.","blaeberry":"The bilberry. [North of Eng. & Scot.]","pitfalling":"Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] \"Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses.\" Milton.","archiepiscopal":"Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.","erythrophyllin":"The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.","sarcology":"That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.","stoppage":"The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.","inorthography":"Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling. [Obs.] Feltham.","reaper":"1. One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay. 2. A reaping machine.","sanction":"1. Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by authority to it; confirmation; approbation. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. I. Watts. 2. Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions. Syn. -- Ratification; authorization; authoruty; countenance; support.\n\nTo give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve. Would have counseled, or even sanctioned, such perilous experiments. De Quincey. Syn. -- To ratify; confirm; authorize; countenance.","flagginess":"The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness. Johnson.","refrigerant":"Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.\n\nThat which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. Holland. \"A refrigerant to passion.\" Blair.","solemn":"1. Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred. His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned. Milton. The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. [Obs.] \"On this solemn day.\" Chaucer. 3. Stately; ceremonious; grand. [Archaic] His feast so solemn and so rich. Chaucer. To-night we hold a splemn supper. Shak. 4. Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness. Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts. Milton. There reigned a solemn silence over all. Spenser. 5. Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.] Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller. 6. Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face. \"A solemn coxcomb.\" Swift. 7. (Law) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; reverential; devotional; devout. See Grave.","chibbal":"See Cibol.","outcrop":"(a) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground. Lyell. (b) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.\n\nTo come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.","vitiosity":"Viciousness; depravity. The perverseness and vitiosity of man's will. South.","equivocate":"To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate. Bp. Stillingfleet. Syn. -- To prevaricate; evade; shuffle; quibble. See Prevaricate.\n\nTo render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. Sir G. Buck.","gaited":"Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.","inkstone":"A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.","willsome":"1. Willful; obstinate. [Obs.] 2. Fat; indolent. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 3. Doubtful; uncertain. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- Will\"some*ness, n. [Obs.]","woolward":"In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]","miscopy":"To copy amiss.\n\nA mistake in copying. North Am. Rev.","murmurer":"One who murmurs.","squadron":"1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. [R.] Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined. Milton. 2. (Mil.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men. 3. (Naut.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron. Totten. Flying squadron, a squadron of observation or practice, that cruises rapidly about from place to place. Ham. Nav. Encyc.","serviceable":"1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. \"Serviceable to religion and learning\". Atterbury. \"Serviceable tools.\" Macaulay. I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak. 2. Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent. Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable. Chaucer. Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable. Milton. Seeing her so sweet and serviceable. Tennnyson. -- Serv\"ice*a*ble*ness, n. -- Serv\"ice*a*bly, adv.","throw-crook":"An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.","supersubtle":"To subtle. Shak.","neurography":"A description of the nerves. Dunglison.","chondroma":"A cartilaginous tumor or growth.","debtor":"One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.","elmy":"Abounding with elms. The simple spire and elmy grange. T. Warton.","redition":"Act of returning; return. [Obs.] Chapman.","resultful":"HAving results or effects.","sulphide":"A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide (Chem.), a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. (Chem.) See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.","synonymic":"The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.\n\nOf or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.","homoeopathy":"Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.","contract tablet":"A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.","underfaction":"A subordinate party or faction.","tergeminal":"Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.","foreslow":"To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.\n\nTo loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i.","demonry":"Demoniacal influence or possession. J. Baillie.","doodle":"A trifler; a simple fellow.","hyperinosis":"A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.","whinge":"To whine. [Scot.] Burns.","angola":"A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.","bibasic":"Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.","kumiss":"See Koumiss.","pseudonymity":"The using of fictitious names, as by authors.","incyst":"See Encyst.","indeterminable":"Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter\"mi*na*bly, adv.\n\nAn indeterminable thing or quantity. Sir T. Browne.","isogonic":"Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.\n\nCharacterized by isogonism.","footpath":"A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.","manumit":"To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. \"Manumitted slaves.\" Hume.","chloropal":"A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.","bacteria":"See Bacterium.","case knife":"1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. 2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.","greenwood":"A forest as it appears is spring and summer.\n\nPertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.","downcast":"Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. Dryden. - Down\"cast`ly, adv. -- Down\"cast`ness, n.\n\n1. Downcast or melancholy look. That downcast of thine eye. Beau. & Fl. 2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.","marceline":"A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.","pettichaps":"See Pettychaps.","doucine":"Same as Cyma, under Cyma.","autoharp":"A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.","bow-compass":"1. An arcograph. 2. A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint. 3. A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.","remove":"1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith. 2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. \"King Richard thus removed.\" Shak. 3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.\n\nTo change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear. Shak. Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.\n\n1. The act of removing; a removal. This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton. And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Goldsmith. 2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman. 3. The state of being removed. Locke. 4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else. 5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison. 6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.","marseillais":"Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants. Marseillaise hymn, or The Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, popularly so called. It was composed in 1792, by Rouget de l'Isle, an officer then stationed at Strasburg. In Paris it was sung for the first time by the band of men who came from Marseilles to aid in the revolution of August 10, 1792; whence the name.\n\nA native or inhabitant of Marseilles.","shapeless":"Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape\"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.","cerusite":"Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.","resolve":"1. To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak. Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again. Dryden. 2. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. \"Resolve my doubt.\" Shak. To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile. Milton. 3. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. Sir, be resolved. I must and will come. Beau & Fl. Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse Pope. In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region. Sir W. Raleigh. We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries. Milton. 4. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event. 5. To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money). 6. To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole. 7. (Math.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. Hutton. 8. (Med.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor. 9. (Mus.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord. 10. To relax; to lay at ease. [Obs.] B. Jonson. To resolve a nebula.(Astron.) See Resolution of a nebula, under Resolution. Syn. -- To solve; analyze; unravel; disentangle.\n\n1. To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution. 2. To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid. When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline. Arbuthhnot. 3. To be settled in opinion; to be convinced. [R.] Let men resolve of that as they plaease. Locke. 4. To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life. Syn. -- To determine; decide; conclude; purpose.\n\n1. The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution. \"To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted.\" Milton. 2. That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution. Nor is your firm resolve unknown. Shak. Cæsar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves. Addison.","strip":"1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay. 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak. 3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. 4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. 5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl. 7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin. 8. (Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into \"hands\"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).\n\n1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.\n\n1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.","christlike":"Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ\"like`ness, n.","sarcological":"Of or pertaining to sarcology.","bald eagle":"The white-headed eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. Note: The bald eagle is represented in the coat of arms, and on the coins, of the United States.","trihybrid":"A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.","bubbler":"To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.\n\n1. One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope. 2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.","star-chamber":"An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641. Encyc. Brit.","flying boat":"A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.","trippant":"See Tripping, a., 2.","semiplume":"A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.","electrostatics":"That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.","paludine":"Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.","bell metal":"A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.","hot-head":"A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.","galeopithecus":"A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.","outbrave":"1. To excel in bravery o 2. To excel in magnificence or comeliness. The basest weed outbraves his dignity. Shak.","venerean":"Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [Obs.] \"I am all venerean in feeling.\" Chaucer.","decumbence":"The act or posture of lying down. The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne.","garrison":"(a) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. (b) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.\n\n(a) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. (b) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.","copulatively":"In a copulative manner.","senza":"Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.","grangerize":"To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala.","baneful":"Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. \"Baneful hemlock.\" Garth. \"Baneful wrath.\" Chapman. -- Bane\"ful*ly, adv. --Bane\"ful*ness, n.","excrescence":"An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. \"Excrescences of joy.\" Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.","dukeling":"A little or insignificant duke. Ford.","rhetor":"A rhetorician. [Obs.] Hammond.","autocracy":"1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South. 2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. 3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow. 4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.","eightieth":"1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.\n\nThe quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.","self-moved":"Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse.","bouch":"1. A mouth. [Obs.] 2. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]","sea pink":"See Thrift.","hap":"To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.\n\nA cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]\n\nThat which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. Chaucer. Whether art it was or heedless hap. Spenser. Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build Their hopes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shak.\n\nTo happen; to befall; to chance. Chaucer. Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. Shak. HA'PENNY; HAP'PENNY Hap'\"pen*ny, n. A half-penny.","hyperplasia":"An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part. Note: Hyperplasia relates to the formation of new elements, hypertrophy being an increase in bulk of preexisting normal elements. Dunglison.","volcanism":"Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.","fitch":"1. (Bot.) A vetch. [Obs.] 2. pl. (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.\n\nThe European polecat; also, its fur.","stichic":"Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines. [R.]","by-street":"A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.","twaddy":"Idle trifling; twaddle.","corslet":"A corselet. [Obs.] Hakluyt.","pertused":"Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.","thecosomata":"An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. -- The`co*so\"ma*tous, a.","loadstar":"A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. \" Your eyes are lodestars.\" Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.","volta":"A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.","hollow-hearted":"Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.","rejoicingly":"With joi or exultation.","dipsomaniac":"One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.","ephah":"A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.","diker":"1. A ditcher. Piers Plowman. 2. One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. [Scot.]","paleophytology":"Paleobotany.","physic":"1. The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine. \"A doctor of physik.\" Chaucer. 2. A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine. 3. Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic. 4. A physician. [R.] Shak. Physic nut (Bot.), a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.\n\n1. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge. 2. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure. The labor we delight in physics pain. Shak. A mind diseased no remedy can physic. Byron.","little":"1. Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child. He sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. Luke xix. 3. 2. Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep. Best him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too. Shak. 3. Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water. Conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon their own fancies. Barrow. 4. Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes I Sam. xv. 17. 5. Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence. By sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton. 6. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, Because their natures are little. Tennyson. Little chief. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- Little finger, the fourth and smallest finger of the hand. -- Little go (Eng. Universities), a public examination about the middle of the course, which as less strict and important than the final one; -- called also smalls. Cf. Great go, under Great. Thackeray. -- Little hours (R. C. Ch.), the offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included. -- Little ones, young children. The men, and the women, and the little ones. Deut. ii. 34.\n\n1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke. 2. A small degree or scale; miniature. \" His picture in little.\" Shak. A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. \" Stay a little.\" Shak. The painter flattered her a little. Shak. -- By little and little, or Little by little, by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.\n\nIn a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it. \" The poor sleep little.\" Otway.","whammel":"To turn over. [Prov. Eng.]","good-tempered":"Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.","noblewoman":"A female of noble rank; a peeress.","chylifaction":"The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.","dreamful":"Full of dreams. \" Dreamful ease.\" Tennyson. -- Dream\"ful*ly, adv.","tendril":"A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules, as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea.\n\nClasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] Dyer.","azyme":"Unleavened bread.","employ":"1. To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison. (b) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. (c) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self. Syn. -- To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See Use.\n\nThat which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. In one's employ, in one's service.","ooestegite":"One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.","homophony":"1. Sameness of sound. 2. (Mus.) (a) Sameness of sound; unison. (b) Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.","catadromous":"1. (Bot.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. 2. (Zoöl.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and of the eel.","stone-deaf":"As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.","crevet":"A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.","sleepyhead":"1. A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose. 2. (Zoöl.) The ruddy duck.","obolize":"See Obelize.","cheeselep":"A bag in which rennet is kept.","lombard":"Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.\n\n1. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. 2. A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. 3. Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller. 4. (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. Prescott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.","spastically":"Spasmodically.","thirteen":"One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.\n\n1. The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects. 2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.","bullary":"A collection of papal bulls.\n\nA place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.","margarous":"Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid. [Obs.] MARGARYIZE; MARGARY'S FLUID Mar\"ga*ry*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized; p. pr. & vb. n. -izing.] [(J. J. Lloyd) Margary, inventor of the process + -ize.] To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called Mar\"ga*ry's flu\"id [-riz]).","collectanea":"Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.","calligraphic":"Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.","egophony":"The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.","fumingly":"In a fuming manner; angrily. \"They answer fumingly.\" Hooker.","heriot":"Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.","monopodial":"Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.","talookdar":"A proprietor of a talook. [India]","confusedness":"A state of confusion. Norris.","despicable":"Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.","norian":"Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks. T. S. Hunt.","autocratic":"Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat\"ic*al*ly, adv.","ingender":"See Engender.","penetrativeness":"The quality of being penetrative.","brass":"1. An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals. 2. (Mach.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9. 4. Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.] 5. pl. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass. The very scullion who cleans the brasses. Hopkinson. 6. A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc. 7. pl. (Mining) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass. Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a translation for copper or some kind of bronze. Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry. Brass band (Mus.), a band of musicians who play upon wind instruments made of brass, as trumpets, cornets, etc. -- Brass foil, Brass leaf, brass made into very thin sheets; -- called also Dutch gold.","degrade":"1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey. 2. To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay. 3. (Geol.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Syn. -- To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase.\n\nTo degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.","dog-faced":"Having a face resembling that of a dog. Dog-faced baboon (Zoöl.), any baboon of the genus Cynocephalus. See Drill.","creole":"One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico. Note: \"The term creole negro is employed in the English West Indies to distinguish the negroes born there from the Africans imported during the time of the slave trade. The application of this term to the colored people has led to an idea common in some parts of the United States, though wholly unfounded, that it implies an admixture greater or less of African blood.\" R. Hildreth. Note: \"The title [Creole] did not first belong to the descendants of Spanish, but of French, settlers, But such a meaning implied a certain excellence of origin, and so came early to include any native of French or Spanish descent by either parent, whose nonalliance with the slave race entitled him to social rank. Later, the term was adopted by, not conceded to, the natives of mixed blood, and is still so used among themselves. . . . Besides French and Spanish, there are even, for convenience of speech, 'colored' Creoles; but there are no Italian, or Sicilian, nor any English, Scotch, Irish, or 'Yankee' Creoles, unless of parentage married into, and themselves thoroughly proselyted in, Creole society.\" G. W. Cable.\n\nOf or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles. Note: In New Orleans the word Creole is applied to any product, or variety of manufacture, peculiar to Louisiana; as, Creole ponies, chickens, cows, shoes, eggs, wagons, baskets, etc.","futurist":"1. One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant. 2. (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.","squeegee":"Same as Squilgee.","moorland":"Land consisting of a moor or moors.","muscallonge":"See Muskellunge.","covetise":"Avarice. [Obs.] Spenser.","purposeful":"Important; material. \"Purposeful accounts.\" Tylor. -- Pur\"pose*ful*ly, adv.","electrotonus":"The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.","sunlit":"Lighted by the sun.","murrion":"Infected with or killed by murrain. [Obs.] Shak.\n\nA morion. See Morion.","palestric":"Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.","whitebait":"(a) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England. (b) A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.","intermure":"To wall in; to inclose. [Obs.] Ford.","arthen":"Same as Earthen. [Obs.] \"An arthen pot.\" Holland.","all-possessed":"Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.] ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS' All\" Saints`, All\" Saints', The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. ALL SOULS' DAY All\" Souls' Day`. The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.","reconcilable":"Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable. Arbuthnot. -- Rec\"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Rec\"on*ci`la*bly, adv.","wharfage":"1. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage. 2. A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.","kill-joy":"One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person. W. Black.","perforata":"(a) A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. (b) A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.","surfacer":"A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.","dade":"To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.\n\nTo walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.] No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip. Drayton.","serrulation":"1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.","currish":"Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur\"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur\"rish*ness, n.","trepang":"Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.] Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially H. edulis. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup.","freckle":"1. A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands. 2. Any small spot or discoloration.\n\nTo spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.\n\nTo become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.","yunx":"A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.","serenity":"1. The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. Sir W. Temple. 2. Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure. I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. Locke. Note: Serenity is given as a title to the members of certain princely families in Europe; as, Your Serenity.","shyster":"A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]","plano-subulate":"Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.","slanderous":"1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. \"Slanderous tongue.\" Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan\"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan\"der*ous*ness, n.","merit":"1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that others do; and when we fall, We answer other's merits in our name. Shak. 2. Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence. Reputation is ... oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Shak. To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own. Pope. 3. Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits. Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth. Prior.\n\n1. To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment. \"This kindness merits thanks.\" Shak. 2. To reward. [R. & Obs.] Chapman.\n\nTo acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","spicous":"See Spicose.","crazedness":"A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.","airiness":"1. The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat. 2. Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.","endiademed":"Diademed. [R.]","saliferous":"Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.","gnash":"To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.\n\nTo grind or strike the teeth together. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.","sassenach":"A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander. [Celtic] Sir W. Scott.","tunnel stern":"A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.","ethologist":"One who studies or writes upon ethology.","carom":"A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.\n\nTo make a carom.","doctrinarianism":"The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.","heteroousious":"See Heteroousian.","foliferous":"Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]","immature":"1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. \"An ill-measured and immature counsel.\" Bacon. 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] Jer. Taylor.","aeronaut":"An aërial navigator; a balloonist.","mitral":"Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.","pituite":"Mucus, phlegm.","polysyllabical":"Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables.","hatcher":"1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator. 2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.","time-table":"1. A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc. 2. (Railroad) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains. 3. (Mus.) A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.","despiteful":"Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite\"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite\"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.","accountancy":"The art or employment of an accountant.","inimitability":"The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris.","jury-rigged":"Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.","cadmian":"See Cadmean.","incliner":"One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.","hardbeam":"A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.","conglutinate":"Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.\n\nTo glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.\n\nTo unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.","pseudomorphism":"The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.","diiambus":"A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (","diseasedness":"The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.","calvaria":"The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.","ghebre":"A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.","juggling":"Cheating; tricky. -- Jug\"gling*ly, adv.\n\nJugglery; underhand practice.","amoret":"1. An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton. 2. A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.] 3. A petty love affair or amour. [Obs.]","docile":"1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obs.] 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.","perfectionism":"The doctrine of the Perfectionists.","pluriliteral":"Consisting of more letters than three. -- n. A pluriliteral word.","olivil":"A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. [Written also olivile.] Gregory.","crystallogenical":"Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.","presensation":"Previous sensation, notion, or idea. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.","eroded":"1. Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away. 2. (Bot.) Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.","recessed":"1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] \"Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.\" Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch (Arch.), one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.","yuck":"To itch. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.\n\nTo scratch. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.","white horse":"A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.","crane":"A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] H. Miller.\n\n1. (Zoöl.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. Note: The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The sand-hill crane (G. Mexicana) and the whooping crane (G. Americana) are large American species. The Balearic or crowned crane is Balearica pavonina. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the herons and cormorants. 2. A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick. 3. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. 4. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. 5. (Naut.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. Crane fly (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.\n\n1. To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up. [R.] What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger. 2. To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully. G. Eliot.\n\nto reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells. CRANE'S-BILL Crane's\"-bill` (krnz\"bl`), n. 1. (Bot.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior. 2. (Surg.) A pair of long-beaked forceps.","praecoces":"A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.","inshrine":"See Enshrine.","radiata":"An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. Note: It includes the coelenterates and the echinoderms. Formerly, the group was supposed to be a natural one, and was considered one of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.","bullpout":"See Bullhead, 1 (b).","belonging":"1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. \"Thyself and thy belongings.\" Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household. [Colloq.] Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.","dactyl":"1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmînê, E. mer\"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.","villatic":"Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural. \"Tame villatic fowl.\" Milton.","sinapate":"A salt of sinapic acid.","sagum":"The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.","somerset":"A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] \"The vaulter's sombersalts.\" Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.","thermoanaesthesia":"Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.","repassant":"Counterpassant.","intercedence":"The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. [R.] Bp. Reynolds.","plowhead":"The clevis or draught iron of a plow.","agricultural":"Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul\"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.","dismissive":"Giving dismission.","arna":"The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.","protractive":"Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.","mistreading":"Misstep; misbehavior. \"To punish my mistreadings.\" Shak.","swink":"To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant \"Ho.\" Sir Samuel Freguson.\n\n1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton. 2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. To devour all that others swink. Chaucer.\n\nLabor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.","honeyberry":"(a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).","ichthyodorulite":"One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.","pembroke table":"A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period. The characteristic which gives a table the name of Pembroke consists in the drop leaves, which are held up, when the table is open, by brackets which turn under the top. F. C. Morse.","amnesia":"Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.","instruction":"1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: (a) Precept; information; teachings. (b) Direction; order; command. \"If my instructions may be your guide.\" Shak. Syn. -- Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.","hyperbolist":"One who uses hyperboles.","partite":"Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.","red-gum":"1. (Med.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus. Good. 2. A name of rust on grain. See Rust.","heart":"1. (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being completely separated from the left auricle and ventricle; and the blood flows from the systematic veins to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle, from which it is driven into the systematic arteries. See Illust. under Aorta. In fishes there are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood being pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the system, and thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or complete, and in reptiles the ventricles also are separated more or less completely. The so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians, reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph into the veins. 2. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart. Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. Emerson. 3. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. Exploits done in the heart of France. Shak. Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Wordsworth. 4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. Eve, recovering heart, replied. Milton. The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another. Sir W. Temple. 5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden. 6. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart. 7. One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps. 8. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. And then show you the heart of my message. Shak. 9. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. \"I speak to thee, my heart.\" Shak. Note: Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need no special explanation; as, heart-appalling, heart-breaking, heart- cheering, heart-chilled, heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened, heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching, heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-stirring, heart-touching, heart-wearing, heart- whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc. After one's own heart, conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart. The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. 1 Sam. xiii. 14. -- At heart, in the inmost character or disposition; at bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man. -- By heart, in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. \"Composing songs, for fools to get by heart\" (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn thoroughly). Pope. -- For my heart, for my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.] \"I could not get him for my heart to do it.\" Shak. -- Heart bond (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion. Knight. -- Heart and hand, with enthusiastic coöperation. -- Heart hardness, hardness of heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility. Shak. -- Heart heaviness, depression of spirits. Shak. -- Heart point (Her.), the fess point. See Escutcheon. -- Heart rising, a rising of the heart, as in opposition. -- Heart shell (Zoöl.), any marine, bivalve shell of the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell; esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also heart cockle. -- Heart sickness, extreme depression of spirits. -- Heart and soul, with the utmost earnestness. -- Heart urchin (Zoöl.), any heartshaped, spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid. -- Heart wheel, a form of cam, shaped like a heart. See Cam. -- In good heart, in good courage; in good hope. -- Out of heart, discouraged. -- Poor heart, an exclamation of pity. -- To break the heart of. (a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be utterly cast down by sorrow. (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the heart of the task. -- To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed. \"I could find in my heart to ask your pardon.\" Sir P. Sidney. -- To have at heart, to desire (anything) earnestly. -- To have in the heart, to purpose; to design or intend to do. -- To have the heart in the mouth, to be much frightened. -- To lose heart, to become discouraged. -- To lose one's heart, to fall in love. -- To set the heart at rest, to put one's self at ease. -- To set the heart upon, to fix the desires on; to long for earnestly; to be very fond of. -- To take heart of grace, to take courage. -- To take to heart, to grieve over. -- To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, to expose one's feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive. -- With all one's whole heart, very earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly.\n\nTo give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. [Obs.] My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. Shak.\n\nTo form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.","nosopoetic":"Producing diseases. [R.] Arbuthnot.","ginseng":"A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.","inkstand":"A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into; also, a device for holding ink and writing materials.","auditual":"Auditory. [R.] Coleridge.","mazer":"A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple. [Obs.] Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring. Drayton.","multocular":"Having many eyes, or more than two.","justifiable":"Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus\"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus\"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.","erato":"The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.","deft":"Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] \"The deftest way.\" Shak. \"Deftest feats.\" Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.","tough-pitch":"(a) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. (b) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.","codpiece":"A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.","engrailed":"Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.","indoctrinate":"To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in. A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.","macroglossia":"Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.","rigging":"DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails. Running rigging (Naut.), all those ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like. -- Standing rigging (Naut.), the shrouds and stays.","steatopyga":"A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.","taenioid":"1. Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon. 2. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to Tænia.","tread-softly":"Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.","post-impressionism":"In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cézanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post- impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.","unswaddle":"To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.","imaret":"A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims. Moore.","quaere":"Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.","rosinweed":"(a) The compass plant. See under Compass. (b) A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.","lophobranchii":"An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.","flipper":"1. (Zoöl.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc. 2. (Naut.) The hand. [Slang]","guardian":"1. One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden. 2. (Law) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child. Blockstone. Guardian ad litem ( (Law), a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district.\n\nPerforming, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care. Feast of Guardian Angels (R. C. Ch.) a church festival instituted by Pope Paul V., and celebrated on October 2d. -- Guardian angel. (a) The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth. (b) Hence, a protector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes. -- Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a household, a city, or a region.","lording":"1. The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. [Obs.] Swift. Note: In the plural, a common ancient mode of address equivalent to \"Sirs\" or \"My masters.\" Therefore, lordings all, I you beseech. Chaucer.","sloe":"A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.","shorthead":"A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.","hucksterer":"A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.","nastily":"In a nasty manner.","scyphus":"1. (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk. 2. (Bot.) (a) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers. (b) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.","panegyrical":"Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. \"Panegyric strains.\" Pope. -- Pan`e*gyr\"ic*al*ly, adv. Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden.","empuse":"A phantom or specter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.","hylobate":"Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.","ratlines":"The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder. [Written also ratlings, and rattlings.] Totten.","implore":"To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope. I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Shak. Syn. -- To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit; petition; prey; request; adjure. See Beseech.\n\nTo entreat; to beg; to prey.\n\nImploration. [Obs.] Spencer.","exequial":"Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.","resorcin":"A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthaleïn, fluoresceïn, and eosin.","blithe":"Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.","batata":"An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).","traffic mile":"Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse for the erroneous practice of adding together two things (ton miles and passenger miles) which, being of different kinds, cannot properly be added. Hadley.","fovea":"A slight depression or pit; a fossa.","glent":"See Glint.","divorceless":"Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.","merl":"The European blackbird. See Blackbird. Drayton.","argentry":"Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.","incorrigibleness":"Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.","paleontography":"The description of fossil remains.","lutidine":"Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.","repletion":"1. The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer. 2. (Med.) Fullness of blood; plethora.","intercessionate":"To entreat. [Obs.]","tontine insurance":"Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the survivor at the end of the tontine period received the entire surplus. This plan of tontine insurance has been replaced in the United States by the semitontine plan, in which the surplus is divided among the holders of policies in force at the termination of the tontine period, but the reverse for the paid-up value is paid on lapsed policies, and on the policies of those that have died the face is paid. Other modified forms are called free tontine, deferred dividend, etc., according to the nature of the tontine arrangement.","garancin":"An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.","bumpkin":"An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. \"Bashful country bumpkins.\" W. Irving.","drabber":"One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.","comma":"1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. 2. (Mus.) A small interval (the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. -- Comma butterfly (Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.","dehors":"Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.\n\nAll sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.","forfete":"To incur a penalty; to transgress. [Obs.] And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted. Chaucer.","ceruminous":"Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.","anacharis":"A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.","preciously":"In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.","reaction":"1. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action. 2. (Chem.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame. 3. (Med.) An action included by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock. 4. (Mech.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction. Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions. Sir I. Newton (3d Law of Motion). 5. (Politics) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction. The new king had, at the very moment at which his fame and fortune reached the highest point, predicted the coming reaction. Macaulay. Reaction time (Physiol.), in nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; -- called also physiological time. -- Reaction wheel (Mech.), a water wheel driven by the reaction of water, usually one in which the water, entering it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.","miscellaneous":"Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. \"A miscellaneous rabble.\" Milton. -- Mis`cel*la\"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la\"ne*ous*ness, n.","bold-faced":"1. Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman. I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age. Bramhall. 2. (Print.) Having a conspicuous or heavy face. Note: This line is bold-faced nonpareil.","tracklayer":"Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. [U. S. & Canada] -- Track\"lay`ing, n.","unbind":"To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.","water pig":"1. (Zoöl.) The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.) The gourami.","commensurable":"Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men\"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. -- Numbers, or Quantities, commensurable in power, those whose squares are commensurable.","zonar":"A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans. [Written also zonnar.]","thibet cloth":"(a) A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet. (b) A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.","pigweed":"A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.","fudder":"See Fodder, a weight.","prehistoric":"Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.","disworship":"To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. [Obs.] Sir T. More.\n\nA deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] Milton.","tropeine":"Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.","marquee":"A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank. [Written also markee.]","ceruleum":"A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.","photospheric":"Of or pertaining to the photosphere.","unseemliness":"The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. Udall.","balanoid":"Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.","riband":"See Ribbon. Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.\n\nSee Rib-band. Totten.","spatiate":"To rove; to ramble. [Obs.] Bacon.","tepal":"A division of a perianth. [R.]","ringlestone":"The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [Prov.Eng.]","pacate":"Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.]","diminisher":"One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke (1637).","glandiform":"Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.","immeasured":"Immeasurable. [R.] Spenser.","selvagee":"A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.","nonobedience":"Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.","moonsail":"A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr.","safety bicycle":"A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.","knavish":"1. Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. \"Knavish politicians.\" Macaulay. 2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. Shak.","cunctator":"One who delays or lingers. [R.]","rhabarbarine":"Chrysophanic acid.","mollient":"Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.","dohtren":"Daughters. [Obs.]","thible":"A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.","epicyclic":"Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.","dispauperize":"To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.","pummel":"Same as Pommel.","fantoccini":"Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.","somnipathy":"Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]","trimethyl":"(Chem.) A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.","organicalness":"The quality or state of being organic.","praecocial":"Of or pertaining to the Præcoces.","arrhytmy":"Want of rhythm. [R.]","diplomatism":"Diplomacy. [R.]","margaritaceous":"Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.","forgave":"imp. of Forgive.","jointworm":"The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.","pleadingly":"In a pleading manner.","incoexistence":"The state of not coexisting. [Obs.] Locke.","entrochite":"A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.","butylamine":"A colorless liquid base, C4H9NH2, of which there are four isomeric varieties.","koulan":"A wild horse (Equus, or Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager. [Written also kulan.] Note: It is sometimes confounded with the dziggetai, to which it is closely related. It is gray in winter, but fulvous in summer. It has a well defined, dark, dorsal stripe, and a short, erect mane. In size, it is intermediate between the horse and ass.","serene":"1. Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky. The moon serene in glory mounts the sky. Pope. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray. 2. Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul. Milton. Note: In several countries of Europe, Serene is given as a tittle to princes and the members of their families; as, His Serene Highness. Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis. Milton.\n\n1. Serenity; clearness; calmness. [Poetic.] \"The serene of heaven.\" Southey. To their master is denied To share their sweet serene. Young. 2. Etym: [F. serein evening dew or damp. See Serein.] Evening air; night chill. [Obs.] \"Some serene blast me.\" B. Jonson.\n\nTo make serene. Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie To raise his being, and serene his soul. Thomson.","involucre":"(a) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head. (b) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns. (c) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.","patrocinate":"To support; to patronize. [Obs.] Urquhart.","adipolysis":"The digestion of fats.","jugglery":"1. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand. 2. Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.","colored":"1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser. 2. Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser. 3. Of some other color than black or white. 4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. 5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.","corrective":"1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. 2. Qualifying; limiting. \"The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.\" Holdsworth.\n\n1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke. 2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.","encoubert":"One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.","enambush":"To ambush. [Obs.]","heterophony":"An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.","pleiophyllous":"Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.","asclepiadaceous":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.","awn":"The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.","archetypical":"Relating to an archetype; archetypal.","additional":"Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.\n\nSomething added. [R.] Bacon.","stragglingly":"In a straggling manner.","echinulate":"Set with small spines or prickles.","gleek":"1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.] Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks Shak. 2. Etym: [Cf. Glicke] An enticing look or glance. [Obs.] A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl.\n\nTo make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.\n\n1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] Pepys. Evelyn. 2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [Obs.]","creedless":"Without a creed. Carlyle.","mallow":"A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous. Note: The flowers of the common mallow (M. sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow (M. rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow (M. Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow (M. moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow (M. crispa), are less commonly seen. Indian mallow. See Abutilon. -- Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria. -- Marsh mallow. See under Marsh.","lagena":"The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.","everlastingly":"In an everlasting manner.","pittacal":"A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.","anticlimax":"A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli\"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Anticlinal line, Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.","whopper":"Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. [Colloq.]\n\n1. One who, or that which, whops. 2. Same as Whapper.","wayless":"Having no road or path; pathless.","chopstick":"One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.","deformation":"1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.","enema":"An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.","disfeature":"To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]","water opossum":"See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.","intruder":"One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.","dithyramb":"A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.","knockstone":"A block upon which ore is broken up.","retentor":"A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.","tripudiation":"The act of dancing. [R.] Bacon. Carlyle.","multiflue":"Having many flues; as, a multiflue boiler. See Boiler.","heteropoda":"An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.","laurate":"A salt of lauric acid.","loll":"1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease. Void of care, he lolls supine in state. Dryden. 2. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden . 3. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.\n\nTo let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.","chopfallen":"Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.","mackinaw":"A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.","stowaway":"One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.","trigonodont":"See Trituberculy.","rily":"Roily. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]","compensate":"1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. 2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior. Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.\n\nTo make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.","extant":"1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley. 2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor. 3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","murtherer":"A murderer. [Obs. or Prov.]","split key":"A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.","boyhood":"The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.","williwaw":"A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.","hydrogenide":"A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. [R.] See Hydride.","discussional":"Pertaining to discussion.","presystolic":"Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.","monandry":"The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.","megass":"See Bagasse.","embassy":"1. The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor. 2. The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys. 3. The residence or office of an ambassador. Note: Sometimes, but rarely, spelled ambassy.","thirstiness":"The state of being thirsty; thirst.","agalaxy":"Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.","cordate":"Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.","eremitish":"Eremitic. Bp. Hall.","syllidian":"Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidæ. Note: Many of the species are phosphorescent; others are remarkable for undergoing strobilation or fission and for their polymorphism. The egg, in such species, develops into an asexual individual. When mature, a number of its posterior segments gradually develop into one or more sexual individuals which finally break away and swim free in the sea. The males, females, and neuters usually differ greatly in form and structure.","nutting":"The act of gathering nuts.","obit":"1. Death; decease; the date of one's death. Wood. 2. A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies. 3. A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death. The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value. Milman. Post obit Etym: [L. post obitum]. See Post-obit.","well-meaner":"One whose intention is good. \"Well-meaners think no harm.\" Dryden.","orthostade":"A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.","operate":"1. To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act. 2. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system. 3. To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. The virtues of private persons operate but on a few. Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift. 4. (Surg.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc. 5. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. [Brokers' Cant]\n\n1. To produce, as an effect; to cause. The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock. A. Hamilton. 2. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.","drawbolt":"A coupling pin. See under Coupling.","plumbean":"1. Consisting of, or resembling, lead. J. Ellis. 2. Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.","unveracity":"Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart. Carlyle.","bye":"1. A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i.e., in passing; indirectly; by implication. [Obs. except in the phrase by the bye.] The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England. Fuller. 2. (Cricket) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye. T. Hughes. By the bye, in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the matter in hand. [Written also by the by.]\n\n1. A dwelling. Gibson. 2. In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.","interventor":"One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.","fungi":"See Fungus.","notwithstanding":"Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More. Note: Notwithstanding was, by Johnson and Webster, viewed as a participle absolute, an English equivalent of the Latin non obstante. Its several meanings, either as preposition, adverb, or conjunction, are capable of being explained in this view. Later grammarians, while admitting that the word was originally a participle, and can be treated as such, prefer to class it as a preposition or disjunctive conjunction. Syn. -- In spite of; despite. -- Notwithstanding, In spite of, Despite. These words and phrases are often interchanged, but there is a difference between them, chiefly in strength. Notwithstanding is the weaker term, and simply points to some obstacle that may exist; as, I shall go, notwithstanding the rain. In spite or despite of has reference primarily to active opposition to be encountered from others; as, \"I'll be, in man's despite, a monarch; \" \"I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.\" Shak. Hence, these words, when applied to things, suppose greater opposition than notwithstanding. We should say. \"He was thrust rudely out of doors in spite of his entreaties,\" rather than \"notwithstanding\". On the other hand, it would be more civil to say, \"Notwithstanding all you have said, I must still differ with you.\"\n\nNevertheless; however; although; as, I shall go, notwithstanding it rains. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it. 1 Kings xi. 11, 12. They which honor the law as an image of the wisdom of God himself, are, notwithstanding, to know that the same had an end in Christ. Hooker. You did wisely and honestly too, notwithstanding She is the greatest beauty in the parish. Fielding. Notwithstanding that, notwithstanding; although. These days were ages to him, notwithstanding that he was basking in the smiles of the pretty Mary. W. Irving.","goldsinny":"See Goldfinny.","bandrol":"A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.\n\nSame as Banderole.","manlike":"Like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly. \" Gentle, manlike speech.\" Testament of Love. \" A right manlike man.\" Sir P. Sidney. In glaring Chloe's manlike taste and mien. Shenstone.","retardation":"1. The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: acceleration. The retardations of our fluent motion. De Quinsey. 2. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations. Sir W. Scott. 3. (Mus.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay. Retardation of the tide. (a) The lunitidal interval, or the hour angle of the moon at the time of high tide any port; the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of high tide next following. (b) The age of the tide; the retard of the tide. See under Retard, n.","arrondissement":"A subdivision of a department. [France] Note: The territory of France, since the revolution, has been divided into departments, those into arrondissements, those into cantons, and the latter into communes.","frightment":"Fear; terror. [Obs.]","oones":"Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.","stickful":"As much set type as fills a composing stick.","feather":"1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Note: An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender laminæ or barbs, which usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See Down, Quill, Plumage. 2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, \"Birds of a feather,\" that is, of the same species. [R.] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. Shak. 3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. 4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. 5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. 6. (Mach. & Carp.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight. 8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. Note: Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather- heeled, feather duster. Feather alum (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; -- called also halotrichite. Ure. -- Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers. -- Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating. -- Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers. -- Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. -- Feather grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain. -- Feather maker, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers, real or artificial. -- Feather ore (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite. -- Feather shot, or Feathered shot (Metal.), copper granulated by pouring into cold water. Raymond. -- Feather spray (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel. -- Feather star. (Zoöl.) See Comatula. -- Feather weight. (Racing) (a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. (b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [Colloq.] -- To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. [Collog.] -- To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. [Collog.] -- To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.\n\n1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L'Estrange. 2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott. 3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours. Loveday. 4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden. 5. To tread, as a cock. Dryden. To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect feathers for the lining of their nests. -- To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke. -- To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.\n\n1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out. 2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or \"feathers;\" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.] 3. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag. 4. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.","abstractedly":"In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.","anagogy":"Same as Anagoge.","te-hee":"A tittering laugh; a titter. \"'Te-hee,' quoth she.\" Chaucer.\n\nTo titter; to laugh derisively. She cried, \"Come, come; you must not look grave upon me.\" Upon this, I te-heed. Madame D'Arblay.","eskar":"See Eschar.","boutade":"An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]","defensor":"1. A defender. Fabyan. 2. (Law) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector. 3. (Eccl.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.","fructescence":"The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.","bee larkspur":"(Bot.) See Larkspur.","chloro-":"A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.","cardiogram":"The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph.","bungler":"A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.","frequence":"1. A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] Tennyson. 2. Frequency; abundance. [R.] Bp. Hall.","julus":"A catkin or ament. See Ament.","vernier":"A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements. -- Vernier compass, a surveyor's compass with a vernier for the accurate adjustment of the zero point in accordance with magnetic variation. -- Vernier transit, a surveyor's transit instrument with a vernier compass.","malaga":"A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.","concettism":"The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.","pity":"1. Piety. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. Shak. 3. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. \"The more the pity.\" Shak. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! Addison. Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially in the colloquialism: \"It is a thousand pities.\" Syn. -- Compassion; mercy; commiseration; condolence; sympathy, fellow- suffering; fellow-feeling. -- Pity, Sympathy, Compassion. Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling, and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise. Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune. Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak, and hence as inferior.\n\n1. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Ps. ciii. 13. 2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] It pitieth them to see her in the dust. Bk. of Com. Prayer.\n\nTo be compassionate; to show pity. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. Jer. xiii. 14.","caffre":"See Kaffir.","bitterful":"Full of bitterness. [Obs.]","poonga oil":"A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).","hypogeous":"Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground. [Written also hypogæous.]","predestinator":"1. One who predestinates, or foreordains. 2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. Cowley.","spot cash":"Cash paid or ready for payment at once upon delivery of property purchased.","indicative":"1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. That truth id productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved. Bp. Warburton. 2. (Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived\n\nThe indicative mood.","papistical":"Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly. \"The old papistic worship.\" T. Warton. -- Pa*pis\"tic*al*ly, adv.","resignedly":"With submission.","nymphomania":"Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.","cucurbite":"A vessel of flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.","anthropotomist":"One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.","dodecandrian":"Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.","chanterelle":"A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.","inserve":"To be of use to an end; to serve. [Obs.]","deas":"See Dais. [Scot.]","holstein":"One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.","prosal":"Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.","safety chain":"(a) (Railroads) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. (b) An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. (c) A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made up by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.","brockish":"Beastly; brutal. [Obs.] Bale.","spherics":"The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.","mounting":"1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.","eunomian":"A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father. -- a. Of or pertaining to Eunomius or his doctrine.","latinist":"One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.","jackslave":"A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.","milli-":"A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère.","donat":"A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]","polypetalous":"Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.","polypode":"A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody. [Written also polypod.]\n\nAn animal having many feet; a myriapod.","photo-electric":"Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.\n\nPert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.","suroxide":"A peroxide. [Obs.]","shaggy":"Rough with long hair or wool. About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. Dryden. 2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. Milton. [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. Keble.","salve":"Hail!\n\nTo say \"Salve\" to; to greet; to salute. [Obs.] By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them. Spenser.\n\n1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer. 2. A soothing remedy or antidote. Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores. Milton. Salve bug (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.\n\n1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial traetment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. Shak. 2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over. But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds. Spenser. What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence Milton.\n\nTo save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [Recent]","contagium":"Contagion; contagious matter. \"Contagium of measles.\" Tyndall.","papuars":"The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.","glike":"A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]","breadthways":"Breadthwise. Whewell.","macruroid":"Like or pertaining to the Macrura.","inexpiableness":"Quality of being inexpiable.","luciferously":"In a luciferous manner.","tineid":"Same as Tinean.","pyoxanthose":"A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.","subsalt":"A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.","detrude":"To thrust down or out; to push down with force. Locke.","sitter":"1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. 2. A bird that sits or incubates.","inclement":"1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. Cowper. The guard the wretched from the inclement sky. Pope. Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow! Milton.","rigorous":"1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. De Quincey. 2. Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter. 3. Violent. [Obs.] \"Rigorous uproar.\" Spenser. Syn. -- Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact. -- Rig\"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Rig\"or*ous*ness, n.","homologon":"See Homologue.","realmless":"Destitute of a realm. Keats.","strangles":"A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.","blatterer":"One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.","cloaking":"1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype. 2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.","megalith":"A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building. -- Meg`a*lith\"ic, a.","schizopodous":"Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda.","creatural":"Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]","semi-christianized":"Half Christianized.","hibernian":"Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.","abortion":"1. The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. Note: It is sometimes used for the offense of procuring a premature delivery, but strictly the early delivery is the abortion, \"causing or procuring abortion\" is the full name of the offense. Abbott. 2. The immature product of an untimely birth. 3. (Biol.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.","headstone":"1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.","healthsome":"Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] \"Healthsome air.\" Shak.","noiseful":"Loud; clamorous. [Obs.] Dryden.","mispell":"See Misspell, Misspend, etc.","sack":"A anme formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. \"Sherris sack.\" Shak. Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.\n\n1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. McElrath. 3. Etym: [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garnment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing saek. [Written also sacque.] 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. 5. (Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2. Sack bearer (Zoöl.). See Basket worm, under Basket. -- Sack tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom. -- To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]\n\n1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. L. Wallace. 2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [Colloq.]\n\nthe pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott.\n\nTo plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison.","cleverness":"The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity.","burghbote":"A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.","chamberlain":"1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. 2. An upper servant of an inn. [Obs.] 3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court. 4. A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc. The lord chamberlain of England, an officer of the crown, who waits upon the sovereign on the day of coronation, and provides requisites for the palace of Westminster, and for the House of Lords during the session of Parliament. Under him are the gentleman of the black rod and other officers. His office is distinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping.","grotto-work":"Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.","brand iron":"1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.","alamode":"According to the fashion or prevailing mode. \"Alamode beef shops.\" Macaulay.\n\nA thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan.","conferruminate":"Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.","ultima":"Most remote; furthest; final; last. Ultima ratio Etym: [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort. -- Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.\n\nThe last syllable of a word.","quinquina":"Peruvian bark.","acrostically":"After the manner of an acrostic.","doddered":"Shattered; infirm. \"A laurel grew, doddered with age.\" Dryden.","moony":"1. Of or pertaining to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake. 2. Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton. 3. Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.","fretful":"Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret\"ful-ly, adv. -- Fret\"ful-ness, n. Syn. -- Peevish; ill-humored; ill-natured; irritable; waspish; captious; petulant; splenetic; spleeny; passionate; angry. -- Fretful, Peevish, Cross. These words all indicate an unamiable working and expression of temper. Peevish marks more especially the inward spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault. Fretful points rather to the outward act, and marks a complaining impatience: sickly children are apt to be fretful. Crossness is peevishness mingled with vexation or anger.","amenorrhoea":"Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.","aurichalceous":"Brass-colored.","stygial":"Stygian. [R.] Skelton.","princeliness":"The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.","unheal":"Misfortune; calamity; sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.\n\nTo uncover. See Unhele. [Obs.]","driveway":"A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.","dodipate":"A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.","cottonade":"A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.","diagonally":"In a diagonal direction.","limning":"The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced. Adorned with illumination which we now call limning. Wood.","precompose":"To compose beforehand. Johnson.","vitriolated":"Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.","wolfram":"Same as Wolframite.","culmen":"1. Top; summit; acme. R. North. 2. (Zoöl.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.","dreamily":"As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.","polity":"1. The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone. Hooker. 2. Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution. Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God himself be author of it. Hooker. 3. Policy; art; management. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Syn. -- Policy. -- Polity, Policy. These two words were originally the same. Polity is now confined to the structure of a government; as, civil or ecclesiastical polity; while policy is applied to the scheme of management of public affairs with reference to some aim or result; as, foreign or domestic policy. Policy has the further sense of skillful or cunning management.","topsail":"In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.","hygiology":"A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health. [R.]","tyrian":"1. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people. 2. Being of the color called Tyrian purple. The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye. Pope. Tyrian purple, or Tyrian dye, a celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks, especially Ianthina, Murex, and Purpura. See the Note under Purple, n., 1, and Purple of mollusca, under Purple, n.\n\nA native of Tyre.","onward":"1. Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc. 2. Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were of his friend's labor. Sir P. Sidney.\n\nToward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward. Not one looks backward, onward still he goes. Pope.","undistinctive":"Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.","goolde":"An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.","exanthematous":"Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.","oenophilist":"A lover of wine. [R.] Thackeray.","unexpressive":"1. Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive. 2. Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. [Obs.] Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press\"ive*ly, adv.","nonattention":"Inattention.","quaggy":"Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy. \"O'er the watery strath, or quaggy moss.\" Collins.","pelegrine":"See Peregrine. [Obs.]","perpotation":"The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]","surpass":"To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.","bloodless":"1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden. 2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude. 3. Without spirit or activity. Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! Shak. -- Blood\"less*ly, adv. -- Blood\"less*ness, n.","litigiously":"In a litigious manner.","pleasurable":"Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas\"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas\"ur*a*bly, adv.","exchange":"1. The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain. 2. The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views. 3. The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another. Shak. 4. (Com.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange. Note: A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owes D in New York a like sum. A in London draws a bill of exchange on B in New York; C in London purchases the bill, by which A receives his debt due from B in New York. C transmits the bill to D in New York, who receives the amount from B. 5. (Law) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple. Blackstone. 6. The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. -- Bill of exchange. See under Bill. -- Exchange broker. See under Broker. -- Par of exchange, the established value of the coin or standard of value of one country when expressed in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for the sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be purchased there at or above par. -- Telephone exchange, a central office in which the wires of any two telephones or telephone stations may be connected to permit conversation. Syn. -- Barter; dealing; trade; traffic; interchange.\n\n1. To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke. 2. To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing as, to exchange a palace for cell. And death for life exchanged foolishly. Spenser. To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another. Shak. 3. To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak. Syn. -- To barter; change; commute; interchange; bargain; truck; swap; traffic.\n\nTo be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.","taffrail":"The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]","devotement":"The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. [R.] Bp. Hurd.","spirited":"1. Animated or possessed by a spirit. [Obs.] \"So talked the spirited, sly snake.\" Milton. 2. Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer. Note: Spirited is much used in composition; as in high-spirited, low- spirited, mean-spirited, etc. Syn. -- Lively; vivacious; animated; ardent; active; bold; courageous. -- Spir\"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Spir\"it*ed*ness, n.","impeller":"One who, or that which, impels.","defeatured":"Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.","varify":"To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.","pascha":"The passover; the feast of Easter. Pasch egg. See Easter egg, under Easter. -- Pasch flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.","aldermanship":"The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.","thiocyanic":"Same as Sulphocyanic.","impunity":"Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Heaven, though slow to wrath, Is neimpunity defied. Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. Holland.","demerse":"To immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.","yellowthroat":"Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.","package":"1. Act or process of packing. 2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods. 3. A charge made for packing goods. 4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.","compactible":"That may be compacted.","stomachful":"Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. [Obs.] -- Stom\"ach*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stom\"ach*ful*ness, n. [Obs.]","upcheer":"To cheer up. Spenser.","logomachist":"One who contends about words.","cardiacal":"Cardiac.","de jure":"By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to be facto.","imperatorian":"Imperial. [R.] Gauden.","grains":"1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b). 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.","maikong":"A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.","repiner":"One who repines.","deforciation":"Same as Deforcement, n.","reassign":"To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.","boxfish":"The trunkfish.","acanthine":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.","engild":"To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.","ethyl":"A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether. Ethyl aldehyde. (Chem.) See Aldehyde.","decretorily":"In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.","gestour":"A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [Obs.] Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer.","hell":"1. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10. 2. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish. \"Within him hell.\" Milton. It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak. 3. A place where outcast persons or things are gathered; as: (a) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention. (b) A gambling house. \"A convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless.\" W. Black. (c) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. Hudibras. Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.\n\nTo overwhelm. [Obs.] Spenser.","cremation":"A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.","disaffirm":"1. To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted. 2. (Law) To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.","hysterotomy":"The Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.","birken":"To whip with a birch or rod. [Obs.]\n\nBirchen; as, birken groves. Burns.","ophiuroidea":"A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star.","counsel":"1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker. 3. Result of consultation; advice; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson. 4. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever. Ps. xxxiii. 11. The counsels of the wicked are deceit. Prov. xii. 5. 5. A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid. Gower. 6. One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay. Note: The some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management iof the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney. Kent. In counsel, in secret. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To keep counsel, or To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed. The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all. Shak. Syn. -- Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme; opinion.\n\n1. To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. Shak. 2. To advise or recommend, as an act or course. They who counsel war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.","acyl":"An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl.","fibrolite":"A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.","mussulmanish":"Mohammedan.","punchinello":"A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.","sporogenesis":"reproduction by spores.","basihyoid":"The central tongue bone.","dermatologist":"One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.","alkoranic":"Same as Alcoranic.","sphenethmoidal":"Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.","albert ware":"A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.","baptizable":"Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. Baxter.","racer":"1. One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse. And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. Pope. 2. (Zoöl.) The common American black snake. 3. (Mil.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.","inculp":"To inculpate. [Obs.] Shelton.","reimplant":"To implant again.","renitent":"1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impluse by elastic force. \"[Muscles] soft and yet renitent.\" Ray. 2. Persistently opposed.","subnuvolar":"Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.","circumflex":"1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or Accent, n., 2.\n\nTo mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.\n\n1. Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] Swift. 2. (Anat.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.","flambeau":"A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.","ductilimeter":"An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.","inhospitable":"1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper. 2. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. \"Inhospitable wastes.\" Blair. -- In*hos\"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos\"pi*ta*bly, adv.","crevasse":"1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. 2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]","disrank":"1. To degrade from rank. [Obs.] 2. To throw out of rank or into confusion. Decker.","prestigious":"Practicing tricks; juggling. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.","eventful":"Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.","idiocratic":"Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.","subumbonal":"Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.","delighting":"Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light\"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.","nestorian":"An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Ant: Eutychian.\n\n1. Of or relating to the Nestorians. 2. relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.","footglove":"A kind of stocking. [Obs.]","oxanilamide":"A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.","enfire":"To set on fire. [Obs.] Spenser.","subcarboniferous":"Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.","wormil":"1. (Zoöl.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.] 2. (Far.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).","zymosis":"(a) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed. (b) A zymotic disease. [R.]","fonde":"To endeavor; to strive; to try. [Obs.] Chaucer.","scillain":"A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.","superparticular":"Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.","acalephoid":"Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.","davy jones":"The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.","hot-spirited":"Having a fierly spirit; hot-headed.","houlet":"An owl. See Howlet.","exceptionable":"Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep\"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.","extradite":"To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.","resupination":"The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.","dijudicant":"One who dijudicates. [R.] Wood.","unbury":"To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.","unconfound":"To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton.","intercommunity":"Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.","nonattendance":"A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.","ordure":"1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] Holland.","solivagant":"Wandering alone. [R.] T. Grander.","fritillary":"1. (Bot.) A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria. 2. (Zoöl.) One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.","eolic":"See Æolic.","fair":"1. Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure. A fair white linen cloth. Book of Common Prayer. 2. Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak. 3. Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. Sir M. Hale. 4. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; - - said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior. 5. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view. The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. Sir W. Raleigh. 6. (Shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines. 7. Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. \"I would call it fair play.\" Shak. 8. Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc. When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange. 9. Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting. 10. Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a fair hit. -- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, -- Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. -- From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] -- The fair sex, the female sex. Syn. -- Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest; equitable; impartial; reasonable. See Candid.\n\nClearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. Fair and square, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] -- To bid fair. See under Bid. -- To speak fair, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic]\n\n1. Fairness, beauty. [Obs.] Shak. 2. A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone. 3. Good fortune; good luck. Now fair befall thee ! Shak. The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. \"For slander's mark was ever yet the fair.\" Shak.\n\n1. To make fair or beautiful. [Obs.] Fairing the foul. Shak. 2. (Shipbuilding) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.\n\n1. A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade. 2. A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair. 3. A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair. After the fair, Too late. [Colloq.]","highness":"1. The state of being high; elevation; loftiness. 2. A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness. Shak.","septicity":"Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.","spar-hung":"Hung with spar, as a cave.","smugly":"In a smug manner. [R.] Gay.","polyorama":"A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with dissolving views.","wailment":"Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.","exiguity":"Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.","allusive":"1. Figurative; symbolical. 2. Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.","alligator wrench":"A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.","swabber":"To swab. [R.]\n\n1. One who swabs a floor or desk. Shak. 2. (Naut.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean. 3. Same as Swobber, 2.","tamul":"Tamil.","vestiary":"A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry. Fuller.\n\nPertaining to clothes, or vestments.","dentistry":"The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.","bumboat":"A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.","brangle":"A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.\n\nTo wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. [R.]","repossession":"The act or the state of possessing again.","petition":"1. A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of prayer and petition for thy people. 1 Macc. vii. 37. This last petition heard of all her prayer. Dryden. 2. A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document. Petition of right (Law), a petition to obtain possession or restitution of property, either real or personal, from the Crown, which suggests such a title as controverts the title of the Crown, grounded on facts disclosed in the petition itself. Mozley & W. -- The Petition of Right (Eng. Hist.), the parliamentary declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by Charles I.\n\nTo make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor. You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. Shak.\n\nTo make a petition or solicitation.","assuasive":"Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.] Music her soft assuasive voice applies. Pope.","barite":"Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.","tinger":"One who, or that which, tinges.","kaama":"The hartbeest.","kecky":"Resembling a kecksy. Grew.","browbeating":"The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.","thigmotaxis":"The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance. When the movement is away from the touching body, it is negative thigmotaxis; when towards it, positive thigmotaxis.","vulnerate":"To wound; to hurt. [Obs.]","tronage":"A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool. [Obs.] Nares.","sapskull":"A saphead. [Low]","consonous":"Agreeing in sound; symphonious.","scant":"1. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment. His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour. Ridley. 2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. Shak. Syn. -- See under Scanty.\n\n1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries. Where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted. Bacon. I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. Dryden. 2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. \"Scant not my cups.\" Shak.\n\nTo fail, of become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.\n\nIn a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] Bacon. So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. Fuller.\n\nScantness; scarcity. [R.] T. Carew.","water cell":"A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.","verdoy":"Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.","doted":"1. Stupid; foolish. [Obs.] Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser. 2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]","embodier":"One who embodies.","fencible":"A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.","self-suspicious":"Suspicious or distrustful of one's self. Baxter.","corymb":"(a) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. (b) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.","slidderly":"Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.","mathematic":"See Mathematical.","blenny":"A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.","redeemability":"Redeemableness.","organdie":"A kind of transparent light muslin.","francolite":"A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.","nephelometer":"An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.","grecque":"An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander,","sporades":"Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.","periganglionic":"Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.","descension":"The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. Oblique descension (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a right sphere at the same time with the object. [Obs.]","expeditive":"Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.","spread-eagled":"1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.","unrig":"To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. Totten.","unsecure":"Insecure. [R.] Milton.","celtium":"A supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. Symbol, Ct (no period).","subtorrid":"Nearly torrid.","wel-begone":"Surrounded with happiness or prosperity. [Obs.] Fair and rich and young and wel-begone. Chaucer.","grease cock":"A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.","portise":"See Portass. [Obs.]","blind":"1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak. 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton. 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay. 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton. 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. -- Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds. -- Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a. -- Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. -- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.\n\n1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. \"To blind the truth and me.\" Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South. 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher. 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet. 4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.\n\n1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse. 2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. 3. Etym: [Cf. F. blindes, pblende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage. 4. A halting place. [Obs.] Dryden.\n\nSee Blende.","reinvestigate":"To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga\"tion (-g, n.","vaunt-courier":"See Van-courier. [Obs.] Shak.","loser":"One who loses. South.","erelong":"Before the ere long. A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.","tithonometer":"An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]","nescience":"Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.","baccate":"Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.","steep-down":"Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. [R.] Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.","herbarium":"1. A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged. Gray. 2. A book or case for preserving dried plants.","endenizen":"To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.","mispunctuate":"To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.","keen":"1. Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge. A bow he bare and arwes [arrows] bright and kene. Chaucer. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. Shak. 2. Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features. To make our wits more keen. Shak. Before the keen inquiry of her thought. Cowper. 3. Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm. Good father cardinal, cry thou amen To my keen curses. Shak. 4. Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen. Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. Goldsmith. 5. Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite. \"Of full kene will.\" Piers Plowman. So keen and greedy to confound a man. Shak. Note: Keen is often used in the composition of words, most of which are of obvious signification; as, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen- sighted, keen-witted, etc. Syn. -- Prompt; eager; ardent; sharp; acute; cutting; penetrating; biting; severe; sarcastic; satirical; piercing; shrewd.\n\nTo sharpen; to make cold. [R.] Cold winter keens the brightening flood. Thomson.\n\nA prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach. [Ireland] Froude.\n\nTo wail as a keener does. [Ireland]","saucisson":"1. (Mining or Gun.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc. 2. (Fort.) A fascine of more than ordinary length.","chef":"1. A chief of head person. 2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc. 3. (Her.) Same as Chief. CHEF-D'OEUVRE Chef`-d'oeuvre\", n.; pl. Chefs-d'oeuvre. Etym: [F.] A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.","flaxweed":"See Toadflax.","crystallogenic":"Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.","ensafe":"To make safe. [Obs.] Hall.","vari":"The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.","individually":"1. In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. \"Individually or collectively.\" Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker. 2. In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.","ichthyolite":"A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.","guttural":"Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat. Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. W. Guthrie. In such a sweet, guttural accent. Landor.\n\nA sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.","cellulose":"Consisting of, or containing, cells.\n\nThe substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale.","stooping":"from Stoop. -- Stoop\"ing*ly, adv.","cautionry":"Suretyship.","hamose":"Having the end hooked or curved.","injector":"1. One who, or that which, injects. 2. (Mach.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; - - also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.","agonistically":"In an agonistic manner.","quinqueliteral":"Consisting of five letters.","enigmatist":"One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. Addison.","poristic":"Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.","turkoman":"Same as Turcoman. TURK'S-HEAD Turk's\"-head`, n. 1. (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. 2. (a) The melon cactus. [West Indies] (b) Any of several species of Echinocactus. [California] 3. A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc. [Colloq. or Dial.]","reverberate":"1. Reverberant. [Obs.] \"The reverberate hills.\" Shak. 2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] Drayton.\n\n1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again. Shak. 2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace. 3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] \"Reverberated into glass.\" Sir T. Browne.\n\n1. To resound; to echo. 2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.","virgulate":"Shaped like a little twig or rod.","crunode":"A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.","isomorphic":"Isomorphous.","measly":"1. Infected with measles. 2. (Zoöl.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.","annulosan":"One of the Annulosa.","desipient":"Foolish; silly; trifling. [R.]","cartoon":"1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. 2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as , the cartoons of \"Puck.\"","precipitable":"Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.)","queck":"A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.","lophopoda":"Same as Phylactolemata.","arbitral":"Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. [R.]","intershock":"To shock mutually. [R.]","protoplast":"1. The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original. 2. (Biol.) A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species. A species is a class of individuals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts. Latham.","hydrosoma":"All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.","primitively":"1. Originally; at first. 2. Primarily; not derivatively. 3. According to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style. South.","synchronistic":"Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.","spoiler":"1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.","byword":"1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14","tristy":"See Trist, a. [Obs.] Ashmole.","emphractic":"Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.","loadsman":"A pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer.","rhabdolith":"A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.","maronite":"One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.","defensive":"1. Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor. A moat defensive to a house. Shak. 2. Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war. 3. In a state or posture of defense. Milton.\n\nThat which defends; a safeguard. Wars preventive, upon just fears, are true defensive. Bacon. To be on the defensive, To stand on the defensive, to be or stand in a state or posture of defense or resistance, in opposition to aggression or attack.","irrevoluble":"That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving. [R.] The dateless and irrevocable circle of eternity. Milton.","concur":"1. To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes. 2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. Jer. Colier. 3. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion. Fox. Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker. Makaulay. This concurs directly with the letter. Shak. 4. To assent; to consent. [Obs.] Milton. Syn. -- To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent.","florulent":"Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.","melastomaceous":"Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.","dubiety":"Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] Lamb. \"The dubiety of his fate.\" Sir W. Scott.","hindi":"The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.","impuissant":"Weak; impotent; feeble.","molokane":"See Raskolnik.","theopneustic":"Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.","precurse":"A forerunning. [Obs.] Shak.","virginity":"1. The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood. 2. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.","demesnial":"Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.","alate":"Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.\n\nWinged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.","bloomer":"1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.","heaves":"A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.","illeviable":"Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.","litchi":"The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also lichi, and lychee.] -- lite. See -lith.","variegation":"The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.","potecary":"An apothecary. [Obs.]","prettily":"In a pretty manner.","ingerminate":"To cause to germinate.","frumenty":"Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.","potboiler":"A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]","peevish":"1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. \"Her peevish babe.\" Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. 3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak. Syn. -- Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.","outsparkle":"To exceed in sparkling.","sorweful":"Sorrowful. [Obs.] Chaucer.","textuarist":"A textuary. [R.]","labile":"Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.] Cheyne.","gowdie":"See Dragont. [Scot.]","abbreviate":"1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon. 2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.\n\n1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] \"The abbreviate form.\" Earle. 2. (Biol.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.\n\nAn abridgment. [Obs.] Elyot.","bleeder":"(a) One who, or that which, draws blood. (b) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.","il-":". A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-.","smelting":"a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.","skopster":"The saury. [Prov. Eng.]","barbiton":"An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.","detainer":"1. One who detains. 2. (Law) (a) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. (b) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.","preshow":"To foreshow.","hausse":"A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.","correction":"1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype. 2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak. 3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. 4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. 5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.","autocarpous":"Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.","rescussor":"One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer. Burril.","type":"1. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem. The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel. Shak. 2. Form or character impressed; style; semblance. Thy father bears the type of king of Naples. Shak. 3. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype. A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited. South. 4. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative. Specifically: (a) (Biol.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group. Since the time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types. Haeckel. (b) (Fine Arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin. (c) (Chem.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. Note: The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, HCl; water, H2O; ammonia, NH3; and methane, CH4. 5. (Typog.) (a) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. (b) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed. Note: Type are mostly made by casting type metal in a mold, though some of the larger sizes are made from maple, mahogany, or boxwood. In the cut, a is the body; b, the face, or part from which the impression is taken; c, the shoulder, or top of the body; d, the nick (sometimes two or more are made), designed to assist the compositor in distinguishing the bottom of the face from the top; e, the groove made in the process of finishing, -- each type as cast having attached to the bottom of the body a jet, or small piece of metal (formed by the surplus metal poured into the mold), which, when broken off, leaves a roughness that requires to be removed. The fine lines at the top and bottom of a letter are technically called ceriphs, and when part of the face projects over the body, as in the letter f, the projection is called a kern. The type which compose an ordinary book font consist of Roman CAPITALS, small capitals, and lower-case letters, and Italic CAPITALS and lower-case letters, with accompanying figures, points, and reference marks, -- in all about two hundred characters. Including the various modern styles of fancy type, some three or four hundred varieties of face are made. Besides the ordinary Roman and Italic, some of the most important of the varieties are -- Old English. Black Letter. Old Style. French Elzevir. Boldface. Antique. Clarendon. Gothic. Typewriter. Script. The smallest body in common use is diamond; then follow in order of size, pearl, agate, nonpareil, minion, brevier, bourgeois (or two-line diamond), long primer (or two-line pearl), small pica (or two-line agate), pica (or two-line nonpareil), English (or two-line minion), Columbian (or two- line brevier), great primer (two-line bourgeois), paragon (or two- line long primer), double small pica (or two-line small pica), double pica (or two-line pica), double English (or two-line English), double great primer (or two-line great primer), double paragon (or two-line paragon), canon (or two-line double pica). Above this, the sizes are called five-line pica, six-line pica, seven-line pica, and so on, being made mostly of wood. The following alphabets show the different sizes up to great primer. Brilliant . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Diamond . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Pearl . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Agate . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Nonpareil . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Minion . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Brevier . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Bourgeois . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Long primer . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Small pica . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Pica . . . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz English . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Columbian . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Great primer . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use of by American type founders, but is substantially correct for England. Agate, however, is called ruby, in England, where, also, a size intermediate between nonpareil and minion is employed, called emerald. Point system of type bodies (Type Founding), a system adopted by the type founders of the United States by which the various sizes of type have been so modified and changed that each size bears an exact proportional relation to every other size. The system is a modification of a French system, and is based on the pica body. This pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed \"points,\" and every type body consist of a given number of these points. Many of the type founders indicate the new sizes of type by the number of points, and the old names are gradually being done away with. By the point system type founders cast type of a uniform size and height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other type made by different founders would often vary slightly so that they could not be used together. There are no type in actual use corresponding to the smaller theoretical sizes of the point system. In some cases, as in that of ruby, the term used designates a different size from that heretofore so called. 1 American 9 Bourgeois | | 1| 2 Saxon 10 Long Primer | | 2| 3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica | | 3| | 4 Excelsior | 4| | 5 Pearl 16 Columbian | | 5| 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer | | 7 Minion | 8 Brevier 20 Paragon | | Diagram of the \"points\" by which sizes of Type are graduated in the \"Point System\". Type founder, one who casts or manufacture type. -- Type foundry, Type foundery, a place for the manufacture of type. -- Type metal, an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper. -- Type wheel, a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. -- Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. Darwin.\n\n1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White (Johnson). 2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.] Let us type them now in our own lives. Tennyson.","picra":"The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.","choctaws":"; sing. Choctaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.","tharms":"Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.","achate":"An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn.\n\n1. Purchase; bargaining. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. pl. Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.","lemniscate":"A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.","allis":"The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.","kaolinize":"To convert into kaolin.","camphor":"1. A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnæus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative. 2. A gum resembing ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol. Note: The name camphor is also applied to a number of bodies of similar appearance and properties, as cedar camphor, obtained from the red or pencil cedar (Juniperus Virginiana), and peppermint camphor, or menthol, obtained from the oil of peppermint. Camphor oil (Chem.), name variously given to certain oil-like products, obtained especially from the camphor tree. -- Camphor tree, a large evergreen tree (Cinnamomum Camphora) with lax, smooth branches and shining triple-nerved lanceolate leaves, probably native in China, but now cultivated in most warm countries. Camphor is collected by a process of steaming the chips of the wood and subliming the product.\n\nTo impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [R.] Tatler.","ichthin":"A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.","ropiness":"Quality of being ropy; viscosity.","tantalizer":"One who tantalizes.","discomplexion":"To change the complexion or hue of. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.","contextural":"Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).","reechy":"Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. [Obs.]","inframarginal":"Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.","ichthulin":"A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.","soldiering":"1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2. [Colloq. U.S.]","moistless":"Without moisture; dry. [R.]","biweekly":"Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n. A publication issued every two weeks. -- Bi\"week\"ly, adv.","bethumb":"To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.","subdialect":"A subordinate dialect.","gonococcus":"A vegetable microörganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.","immensive":"Huge. [Obs.] Herrick.","bitter":"AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.\n\n1. Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes. 2. Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day. 3. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant. It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Jer. ii. 19. 4. Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19. 5. Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable. The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage. Ex. i. 14. Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. -- Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara. -- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. -- To the bitter end, to the last extremity, however calamitous. Syn. -- Acrid; sharp; harsh; pungent; stinging; cutting; severe; acrimonious.\n\nAny substance that is bitter. See Bitters.\n\nTo make bitter. Wolcott.","ecbolic":"A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.","swordfish":"1. (Zoöl.) (a) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The ger pike. (c) The cutlass fish. 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker (Zoöl.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.","buat":"A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.","conversably":"In a conversable manner.","damnably":"1. In a manner to incur sever 2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]","audiometer":"An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.","brownism":"The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.\n\nThe doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.","ripen":"1. To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun. 2. To approach or come to perfection.\n\n1. To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn. 2. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. Milton.","unifacial":"Having but one front surface; as, some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.","emargination":"The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.","defix":"To fix; to fasten; to establish. [Obs.] \"To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province.\" Hakluyt.","consanguined":"Of kin blood; related. [R.] Johnson.","pelt":"1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller. 2. The human skin. [Jocose] Dryden. 3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.\n\n1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak. 2. To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.\n\n1. To throw missiles. Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.\n\nA blow or stroke from something thrown.","dodder":"A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root. is nourished by the plant that supports it.\n\nTo shake, tremble, or totter. \"The doddering mast.\" Thomson.","aristocratical":"1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. 2. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy; as, an aristocratic measure; aristocratic pride or manners. -- Ar`is*to*crat\"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Ar`is*to*crat\"ic*al*ness, n.","perthiocyanogen":"Same as Persulphocyanogen.","ides":"The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak. Note: Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eightth from the ides.","isogeothermal":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. An isogeotherm.","gunroom":"An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.","poundkeeper":"The keeper of a pound.","untressed":"Not tied up in tresses; unarranged; -- said of the hair. Chaucer.","araucarian":"Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. Dana.","vegetal":"A vegetable. [R.] B. Jonson.","eupnaea":"Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnæa, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized. Foster.","grume":"A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood. Quincy.","seedsman":"1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.","retroflexed":"Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.","crouke":"A crock; a jar. [Obs.] Chauser.","pentachenium":"A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.","excito-motor":"Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.","opposable":"1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.","tuch":"A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone. [Obs.] Sir J. Harrington.","xanthogenic":"Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.","brutism":"The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.","mastax":"(a) The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food. (b) The lore of a bird.","godlily":"Righteously. H. Wharton.","anticipant":"Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.","souse":"A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] Colman, the Elder.\n\n1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.\n\n1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. \"A soused gurnet.\" Shak. 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. Addison. 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. Gascoigne.\n\nTo swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr.\n\nTo pounce upon. [R.] [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. Shak.\n\nThe act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. Spenser.\n\nWith a sudden swoop; violently. Young.","dangerless":"Free from danger. [R.]","vesication":"The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.","sandpaper":"Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.\n\nTo smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.","deaf":"1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man. Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. Shak. 2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Shak. 3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden. 4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.] A deaf murmur through the squadron went. Dryden. 5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.\n\nTo deafen. [Obs.] Dryden.","disembitter":"To free from","protophytology":"Paleobotany.","extreme":"1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. 2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. 3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. \"The extremest remedy.\" Dryden. \"Extreme rapidity.\" Sir W. Scott. Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. Shak. 4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. The Puritans or extreme Protestants. Gladstone. 5. (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. -- Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6. -- Extreme unction. See under Unction. Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. \"Tried in his extremest state.\" Spenser. \"Extremest hardships.\" Sharp. \"Extremest of evils.\" Bacon. \"Extremest verge of the swift brook.\" Shak. \"The sea's extremest borders.\" Addison.\n\n1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft. 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. \"Resolute in most extremes.\" Shak. 4. (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. 5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. In the extreme as much as possible. \"The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme.\" J. P. Peters.","operculate":"1. (Bot.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses. 2. (Zoöl.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.","cousinship":"The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.","nemorous":"Woody. [R.] Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple. Evelyn.","tralucent":"Translucent. [Obs.] The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.","ill-natured":"1. Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person. 2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. \"The ill-natured task refuse.\" Addison. 3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] \"Ill-natured land.\" J. Philips. -- Ill`-na\"tured*ly, adv. -- Ill`-na\"tured*ness, n.","periuterine":"Surrounding the uterus.","boroglyceride":"A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.","implunge":"To plunge. Fuller.","palatize":"To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound. -- Pal`a*ti*za\"tion, n. J. Peile.","ependymis":"See Ependyma.","postexist":"To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]","depainter":"One who depaints. [Obs.]","chide":"1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak. 2. Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof. Syn. -- To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.\n\n1. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore