English Dictionary: Asclepias albicans | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Limpkin \Limp"kin\ (l[icr]mp"k[icr]n), n. (Zo[94]l.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus {Aramus}, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species ({A. giganteus}) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other ({A. scolopaceus}) is found in South America. Called also {courlan}, and {crying bird}. | |
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Acaleph \Ac"a*leph\, Acalephan \Ac`a*le"phan\n.; pl. {Acalephs}, {Acalephans}. [See {Acaleph[91]}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Acaleph[91]. | |
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Acaleph \Ac"a*leph\, Acalephan \Ac`a*le"phan\n.; pl. {Acalephs}, {Acalephans}. [See {Acaleph[91]}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Acaleph[91]. | |
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Acaleph \Ac"a*leph\, Acalephan \Ac`a*le"phan\n.; pl. {Acalephs}, {Acalephans}. [See {Acaleph[91]}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Acaleph[91]. | |
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Acalephoid \Ac`ale"phoid\, a. [Acaleph + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to or resembling the Acaleph[91] or jellyfishes. | |
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Acaleph \Ac"a*leph\, Acalephan \Ac`a*le"phan\n.; pl. {Acalephs}, {Acalephans}. [See {Acaleph[91]}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Acaleph[91]. | |
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Acclive \Ac*clive"\, a. Acclivous. [Obs.] | |
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Acclivity \Ac*cliv"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Acclivities}. [L. acclivitas, fr. acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad + clivus a hill, slope, fr. root kli to lean. See {Lean}.] A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent. | |
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Acclivitous \Ac*cliv"i*tous\, a. Acclivous. --I. Taylor. | |
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Acclivity \Ac*cliv"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Acclivities}. [L. acclivitas, fr. acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad + clivus a hill, slope, fr. root kli to lean. See {Lean}.] A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent. | |
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Acclivous \Ac*cli"vous\ (#; 277), a. [L. acclivis and acclivus.] Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to {declivous}. | |
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Sneezewort \Sneeze"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A European herbaceous plant ({Achillea Ptarmica}) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell. | |
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{Goose grass}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), a favorite food of geese; -- called also {catchweed} and {cleavers}. (b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}). (c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua}). {Goose neck}, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. {Goose quill}, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. {Goose skin}. See {Goose flesh}, above. {Goose tongue} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea ptarmica}), growing wild in the British islands. {Sea goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Phalarope}. {Solan goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gannet}. | |
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Sneezewort \Sneeze"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A European herbaceous plant ({Achillea Ptarmica}) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell. | |
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{Goose grass}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), a favorite food of geese; -- called also {catchweed} and {cleavers}. (b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}). (c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua}). {Goose neck}, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. {Goose quill}, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. {Goose skin}. See {Goose flesh}, above. {Goose tongue} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea ptarmica}), growing wild in the British islands. {Sea goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Phalarope}. {Solan goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gannet}. | |
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Aculeiform \A*cu"le*i*form\, a. Like a prickle. | |
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Asclepiad \As*cle"pi*ad\, n. (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. | |
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Asclepiadaceous \As*cle`pi*a*da"ceous\, a. [See {Asclepias}.] (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family. | |
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Vincetoxin \Vin`ce*tox"in\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort ({Vincetoxicum officinale}, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also {asclepiadin}, and {cynanchin}. | |
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d8Asclepias \[d8]As*cle"pi*as\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], named from Asclepios or Aesculapius.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. {Asclepias butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly ({Danais Archippus}), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias. | |
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Butterfly \But"ter*fly`\, n.; pl. {Butterflies}. [Perh. from the color of a yellow species. AS. buter-fl[c7]ge, buttor-fle[a2]ge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See {Butter}, and {Fly}.] (Zo[94]l.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: [See Illust. under {Aphrodite}.] {Asclepias butterfly}. See under {Asclepias}. {Butterfly fish} (Zo[94]l.), the ocellated blenny ({Blennius ocellaris}) of Europe. See {Blenny}. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. {Butterfly shell} (Zo[94]l.), a shell of the genus {Voluta}. {Butterfly valve} (Mech.), a kind of double clack valve, consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat resembles a butterfly in shape. | |
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Ipecacuanha \Ip`e*cac`u*an"ha\, n. [Pg. ipecacuanha (cf. Sp. ipecacuana); fr. Braz. ipe-kaa-guena, prop., a creeping plant that causes vomiting.] (Med. & Bot.) The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb ({Cepha[89]lis 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}). | |
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Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n. 1. A person having red hair. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (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. | |
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Pleurisy \Pleu"ri*sy\, n. [F. pleur[82]sie, L. pleurisis, pleuritis, Gr pleyri^tis (sc. no`sos), fr. pleyra` rib, side.] (Med.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. {Pleurisy root}. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed ({Asclepias tuberosa}) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself, which has deep orange-colored flowers; -- called also {butterfly weed}. | |
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Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory ({Carya}), and their fruit. {Ash-leaved walnut}, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia}), native in Transcaucasia. {Black walnut}, a North American tree ({J. nigra}) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. {English}, [or] {European}, {walnut}, a tree ({J. regia}), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. {Walnut brown}, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. {Walnut oil}, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. {White walnut}, a North American tree ({J. cinerea}), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See {Butternut}. | |
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Asleep \A*sleep"\, a. & adv. [Pref. a- + sleep.] 1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. --Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. --Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. --1 Thess. iv. 13. 3. Numbed, and, usually, tingling. --Udall. Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep. --Bacon. | |
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Aslope \A*slope"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slope.] Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. [bd]Set them not upright, but aslope.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Assailable \As*sail"a*ble\, a. Capable of being assailed. | |
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Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. {Axes}. [L. axis axis, axle. See {Axle}.] A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. --Gray. 4. (Anat.) (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra dentata}. (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design. {Anticlinal axis} (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. {Synclinal axis}, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. {Axis cylinder} (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also {axis band}, {axial fiber}, and {cylinder axis}. {Axis in peritrochio}, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. {Axis of a curve} (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the {major axis} and the {minor axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the {transverse axis} and the {conjugate axis}. {Axis of a lens}, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. {Axis of a} {telescope [or] microscope}, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in a plane}, two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in space}, the three straight lines in which the co[94]rdinate planes intersect each other. {Axis of a balance}, that line about which it turns. {Axis of oscillation}, of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. {Axis of polarization}, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster. {Axis of revolution} (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution. {Axis of symmetry} (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part. {Axis of the} {equator, ecliptic, horizon} (or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. --Hutton. {Axis of the Ionic capital} (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. {Neutral axis} (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. {Optic axis of a crystal}, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. {Optic axis}, {Visual axis} (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. {Radical axis of two circles} (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. {Spiral axis} (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. {Axis of abscissas} and {Axis of ordinates}. See {Abscissa}. | |
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Axle box \Ax"le box`\ 1. A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes. 2. The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. Note: In railway construction, the axle guard, or pedestal, with the superincumbent weight, rests on the top of the box (usually with a spring intervening), and holds it in place by flanges. The box rests upon the journal bearing and key, which intervene between the inner top of the box and the axle. | |
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