English Dictionary: Ardeidae | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
A89rate \A"[89]r*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {A[89]rated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {A[89]rating}.] [Cf. F. a[82]rer. See {Air}, v. t.] 1. To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from a[89]rated natural fountains. --Carlyle. 2. To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to a[89]rate soil; to a[89]rate water. 3. (Physiol.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. {A[89]rated bread}, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation. | |
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A89rate \A"[89]r*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {A[89]rated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {A[89]rating}.] [Cf. F. a[82]rer. See {Air}, v. t.] 1. To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from a[89]rated natural fountains. --Carlyle. 2. To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to a[89]rate soil; to a[89]rate water. 3. (Physiol.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. {A[89]rated bread}, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation. | |
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Bread \Bread\, n. [AS. bre[a0]d; akin to OFries. br[be]d, OS. br[?]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau[?], Sw. & Dan. br[94]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. [?] See {Brew}.] 1. 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. {A[89]rated bread}. See under {A[89]rated}. {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 | |
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Bittern \Bit"tern\, n. [OE. bitoure, betore, bitter, fr. F. butor; of unknown origin.] (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird of the genus {Botaurus}, allied to the herons, of various species. Note: The common European bittern is {Botaurus stellaris}. It makes, during the brooding season, a noise called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming. The American bittern is {B. lentiginosus}, and is also called {stake-driver} and {meadow hen}. See {Stake-driver}. Note: The name is applied to other related birds, as the {least bittern} ({Ardetta exilis}), and the {sun bittern}. | |
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Aridity \A*rid"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Aridities}. [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.] 1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. --Norris. | |
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Aridity \A*rid"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Aridities}. [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.] 1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. --Norris. | |
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Arietate \Ar"i*e*tate\, v. i. [L. arietatus, p. p. of arietare, fr. aries ram.] To butt, as a ram. [Obs.] | |
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Arietation \Ar`i*e*ta"tion\, n. [L. arietatio.] 1. The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. Act of striking or conflicting. [R.] --Glanvill. | |
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Arrowheaded \Ar"row*head`ed\, a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; 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}. | |
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Arrowheaded \Ar"row*head`ed\, a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; 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}. | |
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Artiad \Ar"ti*ad\, a. [Gr. [?] even, fr. [?] exactly.] (Chem.) Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder. | |
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Artiodactyle \Ar`ti*o*dac"tyle\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Artiodactyla. | |
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Artiodactylous \Ar`ti*o*dac"ty*lous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Even-toed. | |
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Artotype \Ar"to*type\, n. [Art + type.] A kind of autotype. | |
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Artotyrite \Ar`to*ty"rite\, n. [LL. Artotyritae, pl., fr. Gr. [?] bread + [?] cheese.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [--Gen. iv. 3, 4.] | |
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Aurated \Au"ra*ted\, a. [See {Aurate}.] 1. Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded. 2. (Chem.) Combined with auric acid. | |
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Aurated \Au"ra*ted\, a. Having ears. See {Aurited}. | |
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Aurited \Au"ri*ted\, a. [L. auritus, fr. auris ear.] (Zo[94]l.) Having lobes like the ear; auriculate. | |
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Award \A*ward"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Awarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awarding}.] [OF. eswarder to look at, consider, decide, judge; es (L. ex) + warder, garder, to observe, take heed, keep, fr. OHG. wart[emac]n to watch, guard. See {Ward}.] To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. --Dryden. |