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Tiger's-foot \Ti"ger's-foot`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to some species of morning-glory ({Ipom[d2]a}) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion. | |
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Potato \Po*ta"to\, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. (b) The sweet potato (see below). {Potato beetle}, {Potato bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata}) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also {Colorado potato beetle}, and {Doryphora}. See {Colorado beetle}. (b) The {Lema trilineata}, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. {Potato fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata}), the striped ({L. vittata}), and the gray ({L. cinerea, [or] Fabricii}) are the most common. See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. {Potato rot}, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans}), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems. {Potato weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus}) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. {Potato whisky}, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. {Potato worm} (Zo[94]l.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata}); -- called also {tomato worm}. See Illust. under {Tomato}. {Seaside potato} (Bot.), {Ipom[d2]a Pes-Capr[91]}, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] {Sweet potato} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a Balatas}) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the {Solanum tuberosum}, and this is the [bd]potato[b8] of the Southern United States. {Wild potato}. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant ({I. fastigiata}) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato. | |
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Moonflower \Moon"flow`er\, n. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy; -- called also {moon daisy}. (b) A kind of morning glory ({Ipom[d2]a Bona-nox}) with large white flowers opening at night. | |
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Potato \Po*ta"to\, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. (b) The sweet potato (see below). {Potato beetle}, {Potato bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata}) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also {Colorado potato beetle}, and {Doryphora}. See {Colorado beetle}. (b) The {Lema trilineata}, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. {Potato fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata}), the striped ({L. vittata}), and the gray ({L. cinerea, [or] Fabricii}) are the most common. See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. {Potato rot}, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans}), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems. {Potato weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus}) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. {Potato whisky}, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. {Potato worm} (Zo[94]l.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata}); -- called also {tomato worm}. See Illust. under {Tomato}. {Seaside potato} (Bot.), {Ipom[d2]a Pes-Capr[91]}, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] {Sweet potato} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a Balatas}) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the {Solanum tuberosum}, and this is the [bd]potato[b8] of the Southern United States. {Wild potato}. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant ({I. fastigiata}) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato. | |
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2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I Cor. xiii. 11. Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden. 3. The human race; mankind. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i. 26. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. 4. The male portion of the human race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper. 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. --Shak. This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world [bd]This was a man![b8] --Shak. 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. Like master, like man. --Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. --Blackstone. 7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! 8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of Com. Prayer. every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison. 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. A man can not make him laugh. --Shak. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. --Addison. 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). {Man ape} (Zo[94]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. {Man of war}. (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another. | |
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Potato \Po*ta"to\, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. (b) The sweet potato (see below). {Potato beetle}, {Potato bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata}) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also {Colorado potato beetle}, and {Doryphora}. See {Colorado beetle}. (b) The {Lema trilineata}, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. {Potato fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata}), the striped ({L. vittata}), and the gray ({L. cinerea, [or] Fabricii}) are the most common. See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. {Potato rot}, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans}), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems. {Potato weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus}) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. {Potato whisky}, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. {Potato worm} (Zo[94]l.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata}); -- called also {tomato worm}. See Illust. under {Tomato}. {Seaside potato} (Bot.), {Ipom[d2]a Pes-Capr[91]}, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] {Sweet potato} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a Balatas}) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the {Solanum tuberosum}, and this is the [bd]potato[b8] of the Southern United States. {Wild potato}. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant ({I. fastigiata}) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato. | |
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Ipomd2ic \Ip`o*m[d2]"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of {Ipom[d2]a purga}), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid. | |
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Jalap \Jal"ap\, n. [F., fr. Sp. jalapa; -- so called from Jalapa, a town in Mexico, whence it was first obtained.] (Med.) The tubers of the Mexican plant {Ipom[d2]a purga} (or {Exogonium purga}), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipom[d2]a yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the {I. Orizabensis}, and {I. tuberosa}. {False jalap}, the root of {Mirabilis Jalapa}, four-o'clock, or marvel of Peru. | |
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Morning-glory \Morn"ing-glo`ry\, n. (Bot.) A climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a purpurea}) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See {Dextrorsal}. | |
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Indian \In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. [?], OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindoo}.] 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk. 3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.] {Indian} bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree ({Persea Indica}). {Indian bean} (Bot.), a name of the catalpa. {Indian berry}. (Bot.) Same as {Cocculus indicus}. {Indian bread}. (Bot.) Same as {Cassava}. {Indian club}, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for gymnastic exercise. {Indian cordage}, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut husk. {Indian corn} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zea} ({Z. Mays}); the maize, a native of America. See {Corn}, and {Maize}. {Indian cress} (Bot.), nasturtium. See {Nasturtium}, 2. {Indian cucumber} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Medeola} ({M. Virginica}), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers. {Indian currant} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Symphoricarpus} ({S. vulgaris}), bearing small red berries. {Indian dye}, the puccoon. {Indian fig}. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See {Banyan}. (b) The prickly pear. {Indian file}, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path. {Indian fire}, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. {Indian grass} (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. --Gray. {Indian hemp}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Apocynum} ({A. cannabinum}), having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark, whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is both emetic and cathartic in properties. (b) The variety of common hemp ({Cannabis Indica}), from which hasheesh is obtained. {Indian mallow} (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon Avicenn[91]}). See {Abutilon}. {Indian meal}, ground corn or maize. [U.S.] {Indian millet} (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It is called also {Guinea corn}. See {Durra}. {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu. {Indian paint}. See {Bloodroot}. {Indian paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}. {Indian physic} (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus {Gillenia} ({G. trifoliata}, and {G. stipulacea}), common in the United States, the roots of which are used in medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also {American ipecac}, and {bowman's root}. --Gray. {Indian pink}. (Bot.) (a) The Cypress vine ({Ipom[d2]a Quamoclit}); -- so called in the West Indies. (b) See {China pink}, under {China}. {Indian pipe} (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. {Indian plantain} (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus {Cacalia}, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods. --Gray. {Indian poke} (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white hellebore} ({Veratrum viride}). {Indian pudding}, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses. {Indian purple}. (a) A dull purple color. (b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and black. {Indian red}. (a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the Persian Gulf. Called also {Persian red}. (b) See {Almagra}. {Indian rice} (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See {Rice}. {Indian shot} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Canna} ({C. Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot. See {Canna}. {Indian summer}, in the United States, a period of warm and pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under {Summer}. {Indian tobacco} (Bot.), a species of {Lobelia}. See {Lobelia}. {Indian turnip} (Bot.), an American plant of the genus {Aris[91]ma}. {A. triphyllum} has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See {Jack in the Pulpit}, and {Wake-robin}. {Indian wheat}, maize or Indian corn. {Indian yellow}. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. (b) See {Euxanthin}. | |
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Quamoclit \Quam"o*clit\, n. [Gr. [?] a bean + [?] to bend, to slope.] (Bot.) Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine ({Quamoclit vulgaris}, now called {Ipom[d2]a Quamoclit}). The genus is now merged in Ipom[d2]a. | |
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Ipomd2ic \Ip`o*m[d2]"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of {Ipom[d2]a purga}), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid. | |
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Seven \Sev"en\, a. [OE. seven, seoven, seofen, AS. seofon, seofan, seofen; akin to D. zeven, OS., Goth., & OHG. sibun, G. sieben, Icel. sjau, sj[94], Sw. sju, Dan. syv, Lith. septyni, Russ. seme, W. saith, Gael. seachd, Ir. seacht, L. septem, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. saptan. [root]305. Cf. {Hebdomad}, {Heptagon}, {September}.] One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week. {Seven sciences}. See the Note under {Science}, n., 4. {Seven stars} (Astron.), the Pleiades. {Seven wonders of the world}. See under {Wonders}. {Seven-year apple} (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub ({Genipa clusiifolia}) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. {Seven-year vine} (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant ({Ipom[oe]a tuberosa}) related to the morning-glory. | |
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Turpeth \Tur"peth\, n. [NL. turpethum, fr. Per. tirbid a cathartic, turbad a purgative root. Cf. {Turbith}.] [Written also {turbeth}, and {turbith}.] 1. (Bot.) The root of {Ipom[oe]a Turpethum}, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called {vegetable turpeth}. 2. (Chem.) A heavy yellow powder, {Hg3O2SO4}, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also {turpeth mineral}. | |
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IBM discount n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see {clone}); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise. | |
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If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of {C}, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and {baroque}) one. The case X = {Pascal} manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's comp.lang.c newsgroup. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see {X}). | |
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IBM discount A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see {clone}); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-07) | |
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If you want X, you know where to find it. inventor of {C}, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want {PL/I}, you know where to find it." Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and {baroque}) one. The case X = {Pascal} manifests semi-regularly on {Usenet}'s {news:comp.lang.c} {newsgroup}. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see {X Window System}). [{Jargon File}] (1995-10-25) | |
