English Dictionary: Generalaktforenmodell | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gamboge \Gam*boge"\, n. A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. [Written also {camboge}.] Note: There are several kinds of gamboge, but all are derived from species of {Garcinia}, a genus of trees of the order {Guttifer[91]}. The best Siam gamboge is thought to come from {Garcinia Hanburii}. Ceylon gamboge is from {G. Morella}. {G. pictoria}, of Western India, yields {gamboge}, and also a kind of oil called {gamboge butter}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, n. [F. g[82]n[82]ral. See {General}., a.] 1. The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular. In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals. --Locke. 2. (Mil.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. Note: In the United States the office of General of the Army has been created by temporary laws, and has been held only by Generals U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, and P. H. Sheridan. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Average \Av"er*age\, n. [OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. av[82]rage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first meaning was perh. the service of carting a feudal lord's wheat, then charge for carriage, the contribution towards loss of things carried, in proportion to the amount of each person's property. Cf. {Aver}, n., {Avercorn}, {Averpenny}.] 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. [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, [bd]primage and average accustomed,[b8] 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. [bd]The average of sensations.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.] 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. [bd]A gross fat man.[b8] --Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. 4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. 5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. 6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. 7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to {net.} {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott. {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from {neat, [or] net, weight}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Average \Av"er*age\, n. [OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. av[82]rage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first meaning was perh. the service of carting a feudal lord's wheat, then charge for carriage, the contribution towards loss of things carried, in proportion to the amount of each person's property. Cf. {Aver}, n., {Avercorn}, {Averpenny}.] 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. [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, [bd]primage and average accustomed,[b8] 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. [bd]The average of sensations.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.] 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. [bd]A gross fat man.[b8] --Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. 4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. 5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. 6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. 7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to {net.} {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott. {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from {neat, [or] net, weight}. | |
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Confession \Con*fes"sion\, n. [F. confession, L. confessio.] 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}. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Custom \Cus"tom\ (k[ucr]s"t[ucr]m), n. [OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. {Consuetude}, {Costume}.] 1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. --Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. --Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. --Shak. 2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. --Addison. 3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See {Usage}, and {Prescription}. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. --Wharton. 4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. --Shak. {Custom of merchants}, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. {General customs}, those which extend over a state or kingdom. {Particular customs}, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London. Syn: Practice; fashion. See {Habit}, and {Usage}. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Homology \Ho*mol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. [?] agreement. See {Homologous}.] 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. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Metaphysics \Met`a*phys"ics\, n. [Gr. [?] [?] [?] after those things which relate to external nature, after physics, fr. [?] beyond, after + [?] relating to external nature, natural, physical, fr. [?] nature: cf. F. m[82]taphysique. See {Physics}. The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of physics.] 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 [bd]books written or placed after his natural philosophy.[b8] But the schools take them for [bd]books of supernatural philosophy;[b8] 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. | |
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Officer \Of"fi*cer\, n. [F. officier. See {Office}, and cf. {Official}, n.] 1. One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. [bd]I am an officer of state.[b8] --Shak. 2. (U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. {Field officer}, {General officer}, etc. See under {Field}, {General}. etc. {Officer of the day} (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp. {Officer of the deck}, [or] {Officer of the watch} (Naut.), the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order. Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. --Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. --Sir W. Scott. 10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry. 11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing. Note: The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, -- Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of {Capital}. 12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia. Note: The Linn[91]an artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes. 13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. 14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation. {Artificial order} [or] {system}. See {Artificial classification}, under {Artificial}, and Note to def. 12 above. {Close order} (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in {open order}. {The four Orders}, {The Orders four}, the four orders of mendicant friars. See {Friar}. --Chaucer. {General orders} (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. {Holy orders}. (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained. {In order to}, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to. The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness. --Tillotson. {Minor orders} (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. {Money order}. See under {Money}. {Natural order}. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. {Order book}. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered. (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.] {Order in Council}, a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain] {Order of battle} (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. {Order of the day}, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. {Order of a differential equation} (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. {Sailing orders} (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. {Sealed orders}, orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. {Standing order}. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command. {To give order}, to give command or directions. --Shak. {To take order for}, to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning. Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. --Shak. Syn: Arrangement; management. See {Direction}. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From {Practician}.] 1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. --Crabbe. 2. One who does anything customarily or habitually. 3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift. {General practitioner}. See under {General}, 2. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] --Tyndale. {Armed ship}, a private ship taken into the service of the government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] --Brande & C. {General ship}. See under {General}. {Ship biscuit}, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard; -- called also {ship bread}. See {Hardtack}. {Ship boy}, a boy who serves in a ship. [bd]Seal up the ship boy's eyes.[b8] --Shak. {Ship breaker}, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for further use. {Ship broker}, a mercantile agent employed in buying and selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port. {Ship canal}, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing vessels. {Ship carpenter}, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a shipwright. {Ship chandler}, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other, furniture of vessels. {Ship chandlery}, the commodities in which a ship chandler deals; also, the business of a ship chandler. {Ship fever} (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also {putrid, jail, [or] hospital fever}. {Ship joiner}, a joiner who works upon ships. {Ship letter}, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet. {Ship money} (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden, and was one of the causes which led to the death of Charles. It was finally abolished. {Ship of the line}. See under {Line}. {Ship pendulum}, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel. {Ship railway}. (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs. (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or harbors. {Ship's company}, the crew of a ship or other vessel. {Ship's days}, the days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading. {Ship's husband}. See under {Husband}. {Ship's papers} (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc. --Bouvier. --Kent. {To make ship}, to embark in a ship or other vessel. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Warrant \War"rant\, n. [OE. warant, OF. warant a warrant, a defender, protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. wer[emac]n to grant, warrant, G. gew[84]hren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. {Guarantee}.] 1. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority. Specifically: (a) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. (b) (Law) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice. (c) (Mil. & Nav.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See {Warrant officer}, below. 2. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. I give thee warrant of thy place. --Shak. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither. --Shak. 3. That which attests or proves; a voucher. 4. Right; legality; allowance. [Obs.] --Shak. {Bench warrant}. (Law) See in the Vocabulary. {Dock warrant} (Com.), a customhouse license or authority. {General warrant}. (Law) See under {General}. {Land warrant}. See under {Land}. {Search warrant}. (Law) See under {Search}, n. {Warrant of attorney} (Law), written authority given by one person to another empowering him to transact business for him; specifically, written authority given by a client to his attorney to appear for him in court, and to suffer judgment to pass against him by confession in favor of some specified person. --Bouvier. {Warrant officer}, a noncommissioned officer, as a sergeant, corporal, bandmaster, etc., in the army, or a quartermaster, gunner, boatswain, etc., in the navy. {Warrant to sue and defend}. (a) (O. Eng. Law) A special warrant from the crown, authorizing a party to appoint an attorney to sue or defend for him. (b) A special authority given by a party to his attorney to commence a suit, or to appear and defend a suit in his behalf. This warrant is now disused. --Burrill. | |
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General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g[82]n[82]ral, fr. L. generalis. See {Genus}.] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. 2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. 3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. 4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak. 5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. --Milton. 6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak. 7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc. {General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. {General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}. {General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average}, {Court}. {General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. {General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. {General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. --Abbott. {General epistle}, a canonical epistle. {General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. --Farrow. {General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow. {General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. {General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. {General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. {General practitioner}, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. {General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. {General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. {General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, [bd]for the plaintiff[b8] or [bd]for the defendant[b8]. --Burrill. {General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals. Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}. Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole. Universal, that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general, though by no means universal. | |
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Generalissimo \Gen`er*al*is"si*mo\, n. [It., superl. of generale general. See {General}, a.] The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. | |
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Generality \Gen`er*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Generalities}. [L. generalitas: cf. F. g[82]n[82]ralit[82]. Cf. {Generalty}.] 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generality \Gen`er*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Generalities}. [L. generalitas: cf. F. g[82]n[82]ralit[82]. Cf. {Generalty}.] 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. | |
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Generalizable \Gen"er*al*i`za*ble\, a. Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. --Coleridge | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalization \Gen`er*al*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. g[82]n[82]ralisation.] 1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A general inference. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalize \Gen"er*al*ize\, v. i. To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalize \Gen"er*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Generalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Generalizing}.] [Cf. F. g[82]n[82]raliser.] 1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. --W. Nicholson. 2. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule. When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation. --Sir W. Hamilton. 3. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars. A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. --Coleridge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalized \Gen"er*al*ized\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalize \Gen"er*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Generalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Generalizing}.] [Cf. F. g[82]n[82]raliser.] 1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. --W. Nicholson. 2. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule. When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation. --Sir W. Hamilton. 3. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars. A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. --Coleridge. | |
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Generalizer \Gen"er*al*i`zer\, n. One who takes general or comprehensive views. --Tyndall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generalize \Gen"er*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Generalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Generalizing}.] [Cf. F. g[82]n[82]raliser.] 1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. --W. Nicholson. 2. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule. When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation. --Sir W. Hamilton. 3. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars. A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. --Coleridge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Generally \Gen"er*al*ly\, adv. 1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. --Addison. 3. Collectively; as a whole; without omissions. [Obs.] I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee. --2 Sam. xvii. ll. | |
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Generalness \Gen"er*al*ness\, n. The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Generalship \Gen"er*al*ship\, n. 1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. --Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer or commander. 3. Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. --Sterne. | |
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Generalty \Gen"er*al*ty\, n. Generality. [R.] --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Gnarl \Gnarl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gnarled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gnarling}.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.] To growl; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gnarl \Gnarl\, n. [See {Gnar}, n.] a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]No definitions found for "General Activities Simulation Program" | |
No definitions found for "General Electric" No definitions found for "General Electric Comprehensive Operating System" No definitions found for "General Magic" No definitions found for "General Packet Radio Service" No definitions found for "General Protection Failure" No definitions found for "General Protection Fault" No definitions found for "General Public Licence" No definitions found for "General Public License" No definitions found for "General Public Virus" No definitions found for "General Purpose Graphic Language" No definitions found for "General Purpose Interface Bus" No definitions found for "General Purpose Language" No definitions found for "General Purpose Macro-generator" No definitions found for "General Recursion Theorem" : Gnarl \Gnarl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gnarled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gnarling}.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.] To growl; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. --Shak. | |
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Gnarled \Gnarled\, a. Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. The unwedgeable and gnarl[82]d oak. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gnarl \Gnarl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gnarled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gnarling}.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.] To growl; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. --Shak. | |
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Gnarly \Gnarl"y\, a. Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained. | |
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Gonorrheal \Gon`or*rhe"al\, Gonorrhd2al \Gon`or*rh[d2]"al\, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
General Appearance Intelligent. Scruffy. Intense. Abstracted. Surprisingly for a sedentary profession, more hackers run to skinny than fat; both extremes are more common than elsewhere. Tans are rare. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
General Public Virus n. Pejorative name for some versions of the {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL), which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same anti-proprietary terms as GNU stuff. Thus it is alleged that the copyleft `infects' software generated with GNU tools, which may in turn infect other software that reuses any of its code. The Free Software Foundation's official position as of January 1991 is that copyright law limits the scope of the GPL to "programs textually incorporating significant amounts of GNU code", and that the `infection' is not passed on to third parties unless actual GNU source is transmitted. Nevertheless, widespread suspicion that the {copyleft} language is `boobytrapped' has caused many developers to avoid using GNU tools and the GPL. Changes in the language of the version 2.0 GPL did not eliminate this problem. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
gnarly /nar'lee/ adj. Both {obscure} and {hairy} (sense 1). "{Yow!} -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
gnarly tuned {assembler} implementation of {BitBlt} is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-17) |