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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shad \Shad\ (sh[acr]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species ({Clupea sapidissima}), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose ({C. alosa}), and the twaite shad. ({C. finta}), are less important species. [Written also {chad}.] Note: The name is loosely applied, also, to several other fishes, as the gizzard shad (see under {Gizzard}), called also {mud shad}, {white-eyed shad}, and {winter shad}. {Hardboaded}, [or] {Yellow-tailed}, {shad}, the menhaden. {Hickory}, [or] {Tailor}, {shad}, the mattowacca. {Long-boned shad}, one of several species of important food fishes of the Bermudas and the West Indies, of the genus {Gerres}. {Shad bush} (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs or small trees of the rosaceous genus {Amelanchier} ({A. Canadensis}, and {A. alnifolia}) Their white racemose blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or July, whence they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called {service tree}, and {Juneberry}. {Shad frog}, an American spotted frog ({Rana halecina}); -- so called because it usually appears at the time when the shad begin to run in the rivers. {Trout shad}, the squeteague. {White shad}, the common shad. | |
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Columbine \Col"um*bine\, n. [LL. columbina, L. columbinus dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called from the beaklike spurs of its flowers.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus {Aquilegia}; as, {A. vulgaris}, or the common garden columbine; {A. Canadensis}, the wild red columbine of North America. 2. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. --Brewer. | |
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Egret \E"gret\, n. [See {Aigret}, {Heron}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret ({Ardea, [or] Herodias, egretta}); the great egret ({A. alba}); the little egret ({A. garzetta}), of Europe; and the American snowy egret ({A. candidissima}). A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage. --G. W. Cable. 2. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette. 3. (Bot.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A kind of ape. | |
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Heron \Her"on\, n. [OE. heiroun, heroun, heron, hern, OF. hairon, F. h[82]ron, OHG. heigir; cf. Icel. hegri, Dan. heire, Sw. h[84]ger, and also G. h[84]her jay, jackdaw, OHG. hehara, higere, woodpecker, magpie, D. reiger heron, G. reiher, AS. hr[amac]gra. Cf. {Aigret}, {Egret}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any wading bird of the genus {Ardea} and allied genera, of the family {Ardeid[91]}. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron ({Ardea cinerea}) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons. Note: There are several common American species; as, the great blue heron ({Ardea herodias}); the little blue ({A. c[d2]rulea}); the green ({A. virescens}); the snowy ({A. candidissima}); the night heron or qua-bird ({Nycticorax nycticorax}). The plumed herons are called {egrets}. {Heron's bill} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erodium}; -- so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron. | |
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Countersink \Coun"ter*sink`\, n. 1. An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt. Note: In the United States a flaring cavity formed by chamfering the edges of a round hole is called a countersink, while a cylindrical flat-bottomed enlargement of the mouth of the hole is usually called {a conterbore}. 2. A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes. | |
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Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.] 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. [bd]Come of so low a kind.[b8] --Chaucer. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. 3. Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers ? --Bacon. {A kind of}, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly. {In kind}, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot. Syn: Sort; species; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. | |
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Acanth \A*canth"\, n. Same as {Acanthus}. | |
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Acanthaceous \Ac"an*tha"ceous\, a. 1. Armed with prickles, as a plant. 2. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. | |
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Mud \Mud\, n. [Akin to LG. mudde, D. modder, G. moder mold, OSw. modd mud, Sw. modder mother, Dan. mudder mud. Cf. {Mother} a scum on liquors.] Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. {Mud bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water fish ({Acantharchum pomotis}) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. {Mud bath}, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. {Mud boat}, a large flatboat used in deredging. {Mud cat}. See {Catfish}. {Mud crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus {Panopeus}. {Mud dab} (Zo[94]l.), the winter flounder. See {Flounder}, and {Dab}. {Mud dauber} (Zo[94]l.), a mud wasp. {Mud devil} (Zo[94]l.), the fellbender. {Mud drum} (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal. {Mud eel} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian ({Siren lacertina}), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See {Siren}. {Mud frog} (Zo[94]l.), a European frog ({Pelobates fuscus}). {Mud hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American coot ({Fulica Americana}). (b) The clapper rail. {Mud lark}, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] {Mud minnow} (Zo[94]l.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus {Umbra}, as {U. limi}. The genus is allied to the pickerels. {Mud plug}, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. {Mud puppy} (Zo[94]l.), the menobranchus. {Mud scow}, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] {Mud turtle}, {Mud tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States. {Mud wasp} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to {Pep[91]us}, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also {mud dauber}. | |
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Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. {Acanthuses}, L. {Acanthi}. [L., from Gr. [?]. Cf. {Acantha}.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech. 2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus ({Acanthus spinosus}); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. | |
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Acanthine \A*can"thine\, a. [L. acanthinus, Gr. [?], thorny, fr. [?]. See {Acanthus}.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. | |
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Linnet \Lin"net\ (l[icr]n"n[ecr]t), n. [F. linot, linotte, from L. linum flax; or perh. shortened from AS. l[c6]netwige, fr. AS. l[c6]n flax; -- so called because it feeds on the seeds of flax and hemp. See {Linen}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera {Linota}, {Acanthis}, and allied genera, esp. the common European species ({L. cannabina}), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also {gray linnet}, {red linnet}, {rose linnet}, {brown linnet}, {lintie}, {lintwhite}, {gorse thatcher}, {linnet finch}, and {greater redpoll}. The American redpoll linnet ({Acanthis linaria}) often has the crown and throat rosy. See {Redpoll}, and {Twite}. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the European green finch. | |
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Acanthocarpous \A*can`tho*car"pous\, a. [Gr. [?] thorn + [?] fruit.] (Bot.) Having the fruit covered with spines. | |
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Acanthocephalous \A*can`tho*ceph"a*lous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala. | |
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Wahoo \Wa*hoo"\, n. A dark blue scombroid food fish ({Acanthocibium solandri [or] petus}) of Florida and the West Indies. | |
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Porcupine \Por"cu*pine\, n. [OE. porkepyn, porpentine, OF. porc-espi, F. porc-[82]pic (cf. It. porco spino, porco spinoso, Sp. puerco espino, puerco espin, fr. L. porcus swine + spina thorn, spine). The last part of the French word is perhaps a corruption from the It. or Sp.; cf. F. [82]pi ear, a spike of grain, L. spica. See {Pork}, {Spike} a large nail, {Spine}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus {Hystrix}, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia ({Hystrix cristata}) is the best known. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of {Erethizon} and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine ({Erethizon dorsatus}) is a well known species. {Porcupine ant-eater} (Zo[94]l.), the echidna. {Porcupine crab} (Zo[94]l.), a large spiny Japanese crab ({Acantholithodes hystrix}). {Porcupine disease} (Med.). See {Ichthyosis}. {Porcupine fish} (Zo[94]l.), any plectognath fish having the body covered with spines which become erect when the body is inflated. See {Diodon}, and {Globefish}. {Porcupine grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Stipa spartea}) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. {Porcupine wood} (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine. | |
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Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS. d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i., and cf. {Dead}.] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. --Huxley. 2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. --J. Peile. 3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. A death that I abhor. --Shak. Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii. 10. 4. Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. --Addison. 5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. --Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8. 6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23. 7. Murder; murderous character. Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon. 8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is death. --Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. --Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. --Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary. {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone. {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}. {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle. {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge. {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life. {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.[b8] --Tennyson. {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. --Darwin. {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death. {Death throe}, the spasm of death. {Death token}, the signal of approaching death. {Death warrant}. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. {Death wound}. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. {The gates of death}, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job xxxviii. 17. {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from God. --Rev. ii. 11. {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his parents.[b8] --Milton. Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}. Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. | |
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Acanthophorous \Ac`an*thoph"o*rous\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] spine + [?] to bear.] Spine-bearing. --Gray. | |
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Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS. d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i., and cf. {Dead}.] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. --Huxley. 2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. --J. Peile. 3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. A death that I abhor. --Shak. Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii. 10. 4. Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. --Addison. 5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. --Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8. 6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23. 7. Murder; murderous character. Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon. 8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is death. --Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. --Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. --Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary. {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone. {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}. {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle. {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge. {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life. {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.[b8] --Tennyson. {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. --Darwin. {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death. {Death throe}, the spasm of death. {Death token}, the signal of approaching death. {Death warrant}. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. {Death wound}. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. {The gates of death}, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job xxxviii. 17. {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from God. --Rev. ii. 11. {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his parents.[b8] --Milton. Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}. Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. | |
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Acanthopodious \A*can`tho*po"di*ous\, a. [Gr. [?] thorn + [?], [?], foot.] (Bot.) Having spinous petioles. | |
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Acanthopterous \Ac`an*thop"ter*ous\, a. [Gr. [?] spine + [?] wing.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Spiny-winged. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Acanthopterygious. | |
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Acanthopterygian \Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*an\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n. A spiny-finned fish. | |
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Acanthopterygious \Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*ous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. | |
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Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. {Acanthuses}, L. {Acanthi}. [L., from Gr. [?]. Cf. {Acantha}.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech. 2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus ({Acanthus spinosus}); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. | |
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Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. {Acanthuses}, L. {Acanthi}. [L., from Gr. [?]. Cf. {Acantha}.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech. 2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus ({Acanthus spinosus}); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. | |
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Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. {Acanthuses}, L. {Acanthi}. [L., from Gr. [?]. Cf. {Acantha}.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech. 2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus ({Acanthus spinosus}); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. | |
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Accend \Ac*cend"\, v. t. [L. accendere, accensum, to kindle; ad + cand[cb]re to kindle (only in compounds); rel. to cand[c7]re to be white, to gleam. See {Candle}.] To set on fire; to kindle. [Obs.] --Fotherby. | |
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Accendibility \Ac*cend`i*bil"i*ty\, n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. | |
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Accendible \Ac*cend"i*ble\, a. Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. --Ure. | |
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Accent \Ac*cent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accenting}.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] 1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize. | |
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Accent \Ac"cent`\, n. [F. accent, L. accentus; ad + cantus a singing, canere to sing. See {Cant}.] 1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. Note: Many English words have two accents, the primary and the secondary; the primary being uttered with a greater stress of voice than the secondary; as in as[b7]pira[b6]tion, where the chief stress is on the third syllable, and a slighter stress on the first. Some words, as an[b7]tiap[b7]o-plec[b6]tic, in-com[b7]pre-hen[b7]si-bil[b6]i-ty, have two secondary accents. See Guide to Pron., [c5][c5] 30-46. 2. A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents. Note: In the ancient Greek the acute accent ([b7]) meant a raised tone or pitch, the grave (`), the level tone or simply the negation of accent, the circumflex ( ~ or ^) a tone raised and then depressed. In works on elocution, the first is often used to denote the rising inflection of the voice; the second, the falling inflection; and the third (^), the compound or waving inflection. In dictionaries, spelling books, and the like, the acute accent is used to designate the syllable which receives the chief stress of voice. 3. Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. [bd]Beguiled you in a plain accent.[b8] --Shak. [bd]A perfect accent.[b8] --Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. --Prior. 4. A word; a significant tone; (pl.) expressions in general; speech. Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. --Dryden. 5. (Pros.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. 6. (Mus.) (a) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. (b) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. (c) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. (d) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. --J. S. Dwight. 7. (Math.) (a) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y[b7], y[sec]. (b) (Trigon.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12[b7]27[sec], i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds. (c) (Engin.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6[b7] 10[sec] is six feet ten inches. | |
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Accent \Ac*cent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accenting}.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] 1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize. | |
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Accent \Ac*cent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accenting}.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] 1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize. | |
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Accentless \Ac"cent`less\, a. Without accent. | |
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Accentor \Ac*cen"tor\, n. [L. ad. + cantor singer, canere to sing.] 1. (Mus.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.] 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. | |
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Hedge \Hedge\, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See {Haw} a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. --Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. --Thomson. Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. {Hedge bells}, {Hedge bindweed} (Bot.), a climbing plant related to the morning-glory ({Convolvulus sepium}). {Hedge bill}, a long-handled billhook. {Hedge garlic} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Alliaria}. See {Garlic mustard}, under {Garlic}. {Hedge hyssop} (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus {Gratiola}, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative. {Hedge marriage}, a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.] {Hedge mustard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Sisymbrium}, belonging to the Mustard family. {Hedge nettle} (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus {Stachys}, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless. {Hedge note}. (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] --Dryden. {Hedge priest}, a poor, illiterate priest. --Shak. {Hedge school}, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics. {Hedge sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a European warbler ({Accentor modularis}) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also {chanter}, {hedge warbler}, {dunnock}, and {doney}. {Hedge writer}, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] --Swift. {To breast up a hedge}. See under {Breast}. {To hang in the hedge}, to be at a standstill. [bd]While the business of money hangs in the hedge.[b8] --Pepys. | |
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Robin \Rob"in\, n. [Properly a pet name for Robert, originally meaning, famebright; F., fron OHG. Roudperht; ruod (in comp.; akin to AS. hr[?][?] glory, fame, Goth. hr[?]peigs victorius) + beraht bright. See {Bright}, {Hob} a clown.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small European singing bird ({Erythacus rubecula}), having a reddish breast; -- called also {robin redbreast}, {robinet}, and {ruddock}. (b) An American singing bird ({Merula migratoria}), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also {robin redbreast}, and {migratory thrush}. (c) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera {Petroica}, {Melanadrays}, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin ({Petroica mullticolor}). (d) Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See {Indian robin}, below. {Beach robin} (Zo[94]l.), the robin snipe, or knot. See {Knot}. {Blue-throated robin}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bluethroat}. {Canada robin} (Zo[94]l.), the cedar bird. {Golden robin} (Zo[94]l.), the Baltimore oriole. {Ground robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink. {Indian robin} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera {Thamnobia} and {Pratincola}. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings. {Magrie robin} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic singing bird ({Corsycus saularis}), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white. {Ragged robin}. (Bot.) See under {Ragged}. {Robin accentor} (Zo[94]l.), a small Asiatic singing bird ({Accentor rubeculoides}), somewhat resembling the European robin. {Robin redbreast}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European robin. (b) The American robin. (c) The American bluebird. {Robin snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher. (b) The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot. {Robin's plantain}. (Bot.) See under {Plantain}. {Sea robin}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of American gurnards of the genus {Prionotus}. They are excellent food fishes. Called also {wingfish}. The name is also applied to a European gurnard. (b) The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] {Water robin} (Zo[94]l.), a redstart ({Ruticulla fuliginosa}), native of India. | |
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Accentuable \Ac*cen"tu*a*ble\, a. Capable of being accented. | |
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Accentual \Ac*cen"tu*al\, a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. | |
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Accentuality \Ac*cen`tu*al"i*ty\, n. The quality of being accentual. | |
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Accentually \Ac*cen"tu*al*ly\, adv. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. | |
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Accentuate \Ac*cen"tu*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accentuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accentuating}.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. --London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent. | |
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Accentuate \Ac*cen"tu*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accentuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accentuating}.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. --London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent. | |
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Accentuate \Ac*cen"tu*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accentuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accentuating}.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. --London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent. | |
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Accentuation \Ac*cen`tu*a"tion\, n. [LL. accentuatio: cf. F. accentuation.] Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.), pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. | |
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Accommodable \Ac*com"mo*da*ble\, a. [Cf. F. accommodable.] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] --I. Watts. | |
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Accommodableness \Ac*com"mo*dable*ness\, n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.] --Todd. | |
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Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] --Boyle. | |
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Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] --Tillotson. | |
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Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accommodated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accommodating}.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. [bd]They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.[b8] --Addison. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. 3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. | |
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Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accommodated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accommodating}.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. [bd]They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.[b8] --Addison. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. 3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. | |
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Accommodately \Ac*com"mo*date*ly\, adv. Suitably; fitly. [R.] | |
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Accommodateness \Ac*com"mo*date*ness\, n. Fitness. [R.] | |
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Accommodating \Ac*com"mo*da`ting\, a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. | |
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Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accommodated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accommodating}.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. [bd]They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.[b8] --Addison. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. 3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. | |
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Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. [bd]The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. [bd]To come to terms of accommodation.[b8] --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. | |
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Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. [bd]The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. [bd]To come to terms of accommodation.[b8] --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. | |
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Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. [bd]The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. [bd]To come to terms of accommodation.[b8] --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. | |
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Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. [bd]The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. [bd]To come to terms of accommodation.[b8] --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. | |
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Accommodator \Ac*com"mo*da`tor\, n. He who, or that which, accommodates. --Warburton. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, n. [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF. acont, fr. aconter. See {Account}, v. t., {Count}, n., 1.] 1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. --Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank. 3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts. 4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. [bd]A laudable account of the city of London.[b8] --Howell. 5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. --Luke xvi. 2. 6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. [bd]To stand high in your account.[b8] --Shak. 7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. [bd]Men of account.[b8] --Pope. [bd]To turn to account.[b8] --Shak. {Account current}, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. {In account with}, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. {On account of}, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. {On one's own account}, for one's own interest or behalf. {To make account}, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. --Milton. {To make account of}, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. {To take account of}, or {to take into account}, to take into consideration; to notice. [bd]Of their doings, God takes no account.[b8] --Milton . {A writ of account} (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an {action of account}. --Cowell. Syn: Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. Usage: {Account}, {Narrative}, {Narration}, {Recital}. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. {Account} turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an {account} of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A {narrative} is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a {narrative} of the events of a siege, a {narrative} of one's life, etc. {Narration} is usually the same as {narrative}, but is sometimes used to describe the {mode} of relating events; as, his powers of {narration} are uncommonly great. {Recital} denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the {recital} of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accounting}.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter, [agrave] (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See {Count}, v. t.] 1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon. 3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb. xi. 19. 4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, v. i. 1. To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. 2. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities. 3. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. {To account of}, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. [bd]I account of her beauty.[b8] --Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. --Canon Robinson. | |
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Account book \Ac*count" book`\ A book in which accounts are kept. --Swift. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, n. [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF. acont, fr. aconter. See {Account}, v. t., {Count}, n., 1.] 1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. --Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank. 3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts. 4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. [bd]A laudable account of the city of London.[b8] --Howell. 5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. --Luke xvi. 2. 6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. [bd]To stand high in your account.[b8] --Shak. 7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. [bd]Men of account.[b8] --Pope. [bd]To turn to account.[b8] --Shak. {Account current}, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. {In account with}, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. {On account of}, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. {On one's own account}, for one's own interest or behalf. {To make account}, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. --Milton. {To make account of}, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. {To take account of}, or {to take into account}, to take into consideration; to notice. [bd]Of their doings, God takes no account.[b8] --Milton . {A writ of account} (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an {action of account}. --Cowell. Syn: Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. Usage: {Account}, {Narrative}, {Narration}, {Recital}. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. {Account} turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an {account} of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A {narrative} is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a {narrative} of the events of a siege, a {narrative} of one's life, etc. {Narration} is usually the same as {narrative}, but is sometimes used to describe the {mode} of relating events; as, his powers of {narration} are uncommonly great. {Recital} denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the {recital} of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc. | |
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Current \Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. {Course}, {Concur}, {Courant}, {Coranto}.] 1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. --Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson. 2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month. 3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. --Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. --Grew. 4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged. 5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak. {Account current}. See under {Account}. {Current money}, lawful money. --Abbott. | |
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Accountability \Ac*count`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. [bd]The awful idea of accountability.[b8] --R. Hall. | |
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Accountable \Ac*count"a*ble\, a. 1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. --B. Whichcote. Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable. | |
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Accountable ness \Ac*count"a*ble ness\, n. The quality or state of being accountable; accountability. | |
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Accountably \Ac*count"a*bly\, adv. In an accountable manner. | |
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Accountancy \Ac*count"an*cy\, n. The art or employment of an accountant. | |
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Accountant \Ac*count"ant\, n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.] 1. One who renders account; one accountable. 2. A reckoner. 3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. {Accountatn general}, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England. | |
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Accountant \Ac*count"ant\, a. Accountable. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Accountantship \Ac*count"ant*ship\, n. [Accountant + -ship.] The office or employment of an accountant. | |
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Accountant \Ac*count"ant\, n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.] 1. One who renders account; one accountable. 2. A reckoner. 3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. {Accountatn general}, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accounting}.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter, [agrave] (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See {Count}, v. t.] 1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon. 3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb. xi. 19. 4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Account \Ac*count"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accounting}.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter, [agrave] (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See {Count}, v. t.] 1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon. 3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb. xi. 19. 4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Acentric \A*cen"tric\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] a point, a center.] Not centered; without a center. | |
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Acinetiform \Ac`i*net"i*form\, a. [Acinet[91] + -form.] (Zo[94]l.) Resembling the Acinet[91]. | |
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Limpet \Lim"pet\ (l[icr]m"p[ecr]t), n. [Prob. through French fr. L. lepas, -adis, Gr. lepa`s, -a`dos.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell. 2. Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides. Note: The common European limpets of the genus {Patella} (esp. {P. vulgata}) are extensively used as food. The common New England species is {Acm[91]a testudinalis}. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size. 3. Any species of {Siphonaria}, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks. 4. A keyhole limpet. See {Fissurella}. | |
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Hemp \Hemp\ (h[ecr]mp), n. [OE. hemp, AS. henep, h[91]nep; akin to D. hennep, OHG. hanaf, G. hanf, Icel. hampr, Dan. hamp, Sw. hampa, L. cannabis, cannabum, Gr. ka`nnabis, ka`nnabos; cf. Russ. konoplia, Skr. [cced]a[nsdot]a; all prob. borrowed from some other language at an early time. Cf. {Cannabine}, {Canvas}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Cannabis} ({C. sativa}), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber. 2. The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp. {African hemp}, {Bowstring hemp}. See under {African}, and {Bowstring}. {Bastard hemp}, the Asiatic herb {Datisca cannabina}. {Canada hemp}, a species of dogbane ({Apocynum cannabinum}), the fiber of which was used by the Indians. {Hemp agrimony}, a coarse, composite herb of Europe ({Eupatorium cannabinum}), much like the American boneset. {Hemp nettle}, a plant of the genus {Galeopsis} ({G. Tetrahit}), belonging to the Mint family. {Indian hemp}. See under {Indian}, a. {Manila hemp}, the fiber of {Musa textilis}. {Sisal hemp}, the fiber of {Agave sisalana}, of Mexico and Yucatan. {Sunn hemp}, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant ({Crotalaria juncea}). {Water hemp}, an annual American weed ({Acnida cannabina}), related to the amaranth. | |
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Acnodal \Ac*no"dal\, a. Pertaining to acnodes. | |
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Acnode \Ac"node\, n. [L. acus needle + E. node.] (Geom.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose co[94]rdinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve. | |
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Double \Dou"ble\, a. [OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble, duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. [?] double. See {Two}, and {Full}, and cf. {Diploma}, {Duple}.] 1. Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. -- 2 Kings ii. 9. Darkness and tempest make a double night. --Dryden. 2. Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. --Wordsworth. 3. Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. -- Ps. xii. 2. 4. (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. Note: Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two. {Double base}, [or] {Double bass} (Mus.), the largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone. {Double convex}. See under {Convex}. {Double counterpoint} (Mus.), that species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower. {Double court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for four players, two on each side. {Double dagger} (Print.), a reference mark ([Dagger]) next to the dagger ([dagger]) in order; a diesis. {Double drum} (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both ends. {Double eagle}, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. {Double entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Double floor} (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. {Double flower}. See {Double}, a., 4. {Double-framed floor} (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. {Double fugue} (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. {Double letter}. (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature. (b) A mail requiring double postage. {Double note} (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See {Breve}. {Double octave} (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. {Double pica}. See under {Pica}. {Double play} (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. {Double plea} (Law), a plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. --Stephen. {Double point} (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see {Conjugate}). They are also called {acnodes}, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called {crunodes}. The extremity of a cusp is also a double point. {Double quarrel}. (Eccl. Law) See {Duplex querela}, under {Duplex}. {Double refraction}. (Opt.) See {Refraction}. {Double salt}. (Chem.) (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, {NaKCO3.6H2O}. (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. {Double shuffle}, a low, noisy dance. {Double standard} (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender. {Double star} (Astron.), two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars. {Double time} (Mil.). Same as {Double-quick}. {Double window}, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them. | |
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Aconddylose \A*cond"dy*lose`\, Acondylous \A*con"dy*lous\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] joint.] (Nat. Hist.) Being without joints; jointless. | |
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Aconddylose \A*cond"dy*lose`\, Acondylous \A*con"dy*lous\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] joint.] (Nat. Hist.) Being without joints; jointless. | |
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Aconital \Ac`o*ni"tal\, a. Of the nature of aconite. | |
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Aconite \Ac"o*nite\, n. [L. aconitum, Gr. [?]: cf. F. aconit.] 1. (Bot.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus {Aconitum} (tribe {Hellebore}), all the species of which are poisonous. 2. An extract or tincture obtained from {Aconitum napellus}, used as a poison and medicinally. {Winter aconite}, a plant ({Eranthis hyemalis}) allied to the aconites. | |
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Aconitic \Ac`o*nit"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pert. to or designating a crystalline tribasic acid, [?], obtained from aconite and other plants. It is a carboxyl derivative of itaconic acid. | |
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Aconitic \Ac`o*nit"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to aconite. | |
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Aconitine \A*con"i*tine\, n. (Chem.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite. | |
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d8Bikh \[d8]Bikh\, n. [Hind., fr. Skr. visha poison.] (Bot.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from {Aconitum ferox} or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself. | |
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Goat \Goat\, n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. g[be]t; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zo[94]l.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus {Capra}, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat ({C. hircus}), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin. Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat ({Capra [91]gagrus}), of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species ofthe domestic goat. The Rocky Montain goat ({Haplocercus montanus}) is more nearly related to the antelopes. See {Mazame}. {Goat antelope} (Zo[94]l), one of several species of antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara. {Goat fig} (Bot.), the wild fig. {Goat house}. (a) A place for keeping goats. (b) A brothel. [Obs.] {Goat moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth of the genus {Cossus}, esp. the large European species ({C. ligniperda}), the larva of which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the he-goat. {Goat weed} (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus {Capraria} ({C. biflora}). {Goat's bane} (Bot.), a poisonous plant ({Aconitum Lucoctonum}), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from Switzerland into England; wolfsbane. {Goat's beard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Tragopogon}; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant. {Goat's foot} (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel ({Oxalis caprina}) growing at the Cape of Good Hope. {Goat's rue} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Galega officinalis} of Europe, or {Tephrosia Virginiana} in the United States). {Goat's thorn} (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant ({Astragalus Tragacanthus}), found in the Levant. {Goat's wheat} (Bot.), the genus {Tragopyrum} (now referred to {Atraphaxis}). | |
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Wolfsbane \Wolfs"bane`\, n. (Bot.) A poisonous plant ({Aconitum Lycoctonum}), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus {Aconitum}. See {Aconite}. | |
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Acolyctine \Ac`o*lyc"tine\, n. [From the name of the plant.] (Chem.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from {Aconitum lycoctonum}. --Eng. Cyc. | |
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Wolfsbane \Wolfs"bane`\, n. (Bot.) A poisonous plant ({Aconitum Lycoctonum}), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus {Aconitum}. See {Aconite}. | |
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Acolyctine \Ac`o*lyc"tine\, n. [From the name of the plant.] (Chem.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from {Aconitum lycoctonum}. --Eng. Cyc. | |
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Aconite \Ac"o*nite\, n. [L. aconitum, Gr. [?]: cf. F. aconit.] 1. (Bot.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus {Aconitum} (tribe {Hellebore}), all the species of which are poisonous. 2. An extract or tincture obtained from {Aconitum napellus}, used as a poison and medicinally. {Winter aconite}, a plant ({Eranthis hyemalis}) allied to the aconites. | |
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Acoumeter \A*cou"me*ter\, n. [Gr. [?] to hear + -meter.] (Physics.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. --Itard. | |
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Acoumetry \A*cou"me*try\, n. [Gr. [?] to hear + -metry.] The measuring of the power or extent of hearing. | |
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Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, a. [OF. acoint. See {Acquaint}, v. t.] Acquainted. [Obs.] | |
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Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acquainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acquainting}.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See {Quaint}, {Know}.] 1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa. liii. 3. 2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak. 3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn. {To be acquainted with}, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. | |
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Acquaintable \Ac*quaint"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. acointable]. Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. --Sir W. Jones. 2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. --Macaulay. Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. {To be of acquaintance}, to be intimate. {To take acquaintance of} or {with}, to make the acquaintance of. [Obs.] Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. Usage: {Acquaintance}, {Familiarity}, {Intimacy}. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison. We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. --Atterbury. It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers. | |
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Acquaintanceship \Ac*quaint"ance*ship\, n. A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. --Southey. | |
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Acquaintant \Ac*quaint"ant\, n. [Cf. F. acointant, p. pr.] An acquaintance. [R.] --Swift. | |
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Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acquainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acquainting}.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See {Quaint}, {Know}.] 1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa. liii. 3. 2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak. 3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn. {To be acquainted with}, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. | |
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Acquainted \Ac*quaint"ed\, a. Personally known; familiar. See {To be acquainted with}, under {Acquaint}, v. t. | |
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Acquaintedness \Ac*quaint"ed*ness\, n. State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] --Boyle. | |
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Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acquainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acquainting}.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See {Quaint}, {Know}.] 1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa. liii. 3. 2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak. 3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn. {To be acquainted with}, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. | |
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Agend \A"gend\, n. See {Agendum}. [Obs.] | |
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d8Agendum \[d8]A*gen"dum\, n.; pl. {Agenda}. [L., neut. of the gerundive of agere to act.] 1. Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book. 2. A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.] | |
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Agent \A"gent\, a. [L. agens, agentis, p. pr. of agere to act; akin to Gr. [?] to lead, Icel. aka to drive, Skr. aj. [root]2.] Acting; -- opposed to {patient}, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] [bd]The body agent.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Agent \A"gent\, n. 1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. --Dryden. 2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor. 3. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent. | |
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Agential \A*gen"tial\, a. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. --Fitzed. Hall. | |
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Agentship \A"gent*ship\, n. Agency. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Agnate \Ag"nate\, a. [L. agnatus, p. p. of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. {Adnate}.] 1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor. 2. Allied; akin. [bd]Agnate words.[b8] --Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. --Landor. | |
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Agnate \Ag"nate\, n. [Cf. F. agnat.] (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males. | |
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Agnatic \Ag*nat"ic\, a. [Cf. F. agnatique.] Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. [bd]The agnatic succession.[b8] --Blackstone. | |
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Agnation \Ag*na"tion\, n. [L. agnatio: cf. F. agnation.] 1. (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. --Bouvier. | |
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Agnition \Ag*ni"tion\ ([acr]g*n[icr]sh"[ucr]n), n. [L. agnitio, fr. agnoscere. See {Notion}.] Acknowledgment. [Obs.] --Grafton. | |
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Agonothete \Ag"o*no*thete`\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?] + [?] to set. appoint.] [Antiq.] An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. | |
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Agonothetic \Ag`o*no*thet"ic\, a. [Gr. [?].] Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. | |
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Needle \Nee"dle\, n. [OE. nedle, AS. n[?]dl; akin to D. neald, OS. n[be]dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[be]dal, n[be]dala, Icel. n[be]l, Sw. n[86]l, Dan. naal, and also to G. n[84]hen to sew, OHG. n[be]jan, L. nere to spin, Gr. [?], and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. --Chaucer. Note: In some needles(as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end. 2. See {Magnetic needle}, under {Magnetic}. 3. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting. 4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See {Pinus}. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. {Dipping needle}. See under {Dipping}. {Needle bar}, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. {Needle beam} (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. {Needle furze} (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin ({Genista Anglica}). {Needle gun}, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. {Needle loom} (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. {Needle ore} (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also {aikinite}. {Needle shell} (Zo[94]l.), a sea urchin. {Needle spar} (Min.), aragonite. {Needle telegraph}, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. {Sea needle} (Zo[94]l.), the garfish. | |
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March \March\, n. [L. Martius mensis Mars'month fr. Martius belonging to Mars, the god of war: cf. F. mars. Cf. {Martial}.] The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. --Bryant. {As mad as a March Hare}, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. --Wright. | |
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Roach \Roach\, n. [OE. rroche; cf. AS. reohha, D. rog, roch, G. roche, LG. ruche, Dan. rokke ray, Sw. rocka, and E. ray a fish.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus rutilus}). It is silver-white, with a greenish back. (b) An American chub ({Semotilus bullaris}); the fallfish. (c) The redfin, or shiner. 2. (Naut.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit. {As sound as a roach} [roach perhaps being a corruption of a F. roche a rock], perfectly sound. | |
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Ascend \As*cend"\, v. t. To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne. | |
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Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}. Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison. 2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor. Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower. | |
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Ascendable \As*cend"a*ble\, a. Capable of being ascended. | |
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Ascendancy \As*cend"an*cy\, Ascendance \As*cend"ance\, n. Same as {Ascendency}. | |
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Ascendancy \As*cend"an*cy\, Ascendance \As*cend"ance\, n. Same as {Ascendency}. | |
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Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, n. [F. ascendant, L. ascendens; p. pr. of ascendere.] 1. Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. --Temple. 2. (Astrol.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune. Note: Hence the phrases {To be in the ascendant}, to have commanding power or influence, and {Lord of the ascendant}, one who has possession of such power or influence; as, to rule, for a while, lord of the ascendant. --Burke. 3. Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another. Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent. --Robertson. 4. An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to {descendant}. --Ayliffe. | |
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Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, Ascendent \As*cend"ent\, a. 1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. --Browne. 2. Rising; ascending. --Ruskin. 3. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. --South. The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth. --J. S. Mill. Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. --Grote. | |
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Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}. Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison. 2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor. Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower. | |
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Ascendency \As*cend"en*cy\, n. Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. --Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. --Watts. Syn: Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination. | |
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Ascendant \As*cend"ant\, Ascendent \As*cend"ent\, a. 1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. --Browne. 2. Rising; ascending. --Ruskin. 3. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. --South. The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth. --J. S. Mill. Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. --Grote. | |
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Ascendible \As*cend"i*ble\, a. [L. ascendibilis.] Capable of being ascended; climbable. | |
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Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}. Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison. 2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor. Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Latitude \Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.] 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. --Jer. Taylor. 3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc. No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller. 4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope. I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude. --Locke. 5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. 6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic. {Ascending latitude}, {Circle of latitude}, {Geographical latitude}, etc. See under {Ascending}. {Circle}, etc. {High latitude}, that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle. {Low latitude}, that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Node \Node\, n. [L. nodus; perh. akin to E. knot. Cf. {Noose}, {Nowed}.] 1. A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling. 2. Specifically: (a) (Astron.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary. (b) (Bot.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted. (c) (Dialing) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc. (d) (Geom.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See {Crunode}, and {Acnode}. (e) (Mech.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also {knot}. --W. R. Johnson. (f) (poet.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece. (g) (Med.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint. --Dunglison. (h) (Mus) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point. (i) (Zo[94]l.) A swelling. {Ascending node} (Astron.), the node at which the body is passing northerly, marked with the symbol [astascending], called the Dragon's head. Called also {northern node}. {Descending node}, the node at which the body is moving southwardly, marked thus [astdescending], called Dragon's tail. {Line of nodes}, a straight line joining the two nodes of an orbit. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- {As*cend"ing*ly}, adv. {Ascending latitude} (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. --Ferguson. {Ascending line} (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. {Ascending node} having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the {northern node}. --Herschel. {Ascending series}. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. {Ascending signs}, signs east of the meridian. | |
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Ascent \As*cent"\ [Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente, fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See {Ascend}, {Descent}.] 1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison. 4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees. | |
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Ashamed \A*shamed"\, a. [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.] Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. [bd]I am ashamed to beg.[b8] --Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. --Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. --Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. --Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. --Darwin. Note: Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated. | |
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Ashamedly \A*sham"ed*ly\, adv. Bashfully. [R.] | |
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Ashantee \Ash`an*tee"\, a. Of or pertaining to Ashantee. | |
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Ashantee \Ash`an*tee"\, n.; pl. {Ashantees}. A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa. | |
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Ashantee \Ash`an*tee"\, n.; pl. {Ashantees}. A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa. | |
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Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adv. [Cf. D. schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf. {Asquint}.] Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. --Gladstone. | |
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Asomatous \A*so"ma*tous\, a. [L. asomatus, Gr. [?]; 'a priv. + [?] body.] Without a material body; incorporeal. --Todd. | |
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Asquint \A*squint"\, adv. [Cf. {Askant}, {Squint}.] With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint. | |
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Tea \Tea\, n. [Chin. tsh[be], Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th[82].] 1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree ({Thea, [or] Camellia, Chinensis}). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. Note: Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See {Bohea}, {Congou}, {Gunpowder tea}, under {Gunpowder}, {Hyson}, {Oolong}, and {Souchong}. --K. Johnson. Tomlinson. Note: [bd]No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe.[b8] --Encyc. Brit. 2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. 3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. 4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. {Arabian tea}, the leaves of {Catha edulis}; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See {Kat}. {Assam tea}, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. {Australian}, [or] {Botany Bay}, {tea} (Bot.), a woody clambing plant ({Smilax glycyphylla}). {Brazilian tea}. (a) The dried leaves of {Lantana pseodothea}, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of {Stachytarpheta mutabilis}, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. {Labrador tea}. (Bot.) See under {Labrador}. {New Jersey tea} (Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See {Redroot}. {New Zealand tea}. (Bot.) See under {New Zealand}. {Oswego tea}. (Bot.) See {Oswego tea}. {Paraguay tea}, mate. See 1st {Mate}. {Tea board}, a board or tray for holding a tea set. {Tea bug} (Zo[94]l.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. {Tea caddy}, a small box for holding tea. {Tea chest}, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. {Tea clam} (Zo[94]l.), a small quahaug. [Local, U. S.] {Tea garden}, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. {Tea plant} (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion; specifically, {Thea Chinensis}, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. {Tea rose} (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose ({Rosa Indica}, var. {odorata}), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. {Tea service}, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. {Tea set}, a tea service. {Tea table}, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. {Tea taster}, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. {Tea tree} (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See {Tea plant}, above. | |
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Assent \As*sent"\, n. [OE. assent, fr. assentir. See {Assent}, v.] The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence. Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit of the proposer. --Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. --Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. --Macaulay. {Royal assent}, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law. Syn: Concurrence; acquiescence; approval; accord. Usage: {Assent}, {Consent}. Assent is an act of the understanding, consent of the will or feelings. We assent to the views of others when our minds come to the same conclusion with theirs as to what is true, right, or admissible. We consent when there is such a concurrence of our will with their desires and wishes that we decide to comply with their requests. The king of England gives his assent, not his consent, to acts of Parliament, because, in theory at least, he is not governed by personal feelings or choice, but by a deliberate, judgment as to the common good. We also use assent in cases where a proposal is made which involves but little interest or feeling. A lady may assent to a gentleman's opening the window; but if he offers himself in marriage, he must wait for her consent. | |
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Assent \As*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assenting}.] [F. assentir, L. assentire, assentiri; ad + sentire to feel, think. See {Sense}.] To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. --Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. --Macaulay. Syn: To yield; agree; acquiesce; concede; concur. | |
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Assentation \As`sen*ta"tion\, n. [L. assentatio. See {Assent}, v.] Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. --Ld. Chesterfield. | |
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Assentator \As`sen*ta"tor\, n. [L., fr. assentari to assent constantly.] An obsequious; a flatterer. [R.] | |
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Assentatory \As*sent"a*to*ry\, a. Flattering; obsequious. [Obs.] -- {As*sent"a*to*ri*ly}, adv. [Obs.] | |
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Assentatory \As*sent"a*to*ry\, a. Flattering; obsequious. [Obs.] -- {As*sent"a*to*ri*ly}, adv. [Obs.] | |
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Assent \As*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assenting}.] [F. assentir, L. assentire, assentiri; ad + sentire to feel, think. See {Sense}.] To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. --Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. --Macaulay. Syn: To yield; agree; acquiesce; concede; concur. | |
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Assenter \As*sent"er\, n. One who assents. | |
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Assentient \As*sen"tient\, a. Assenting. | |
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Assent \As*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assenting}.] [F. assentir, L. assentire, assentiri; ad + sentire to feel, think. See {Sense}.] To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. --Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. --Macaulay. Syn: To yield; agree; acquiesce; concede; concur. | |
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Assenting \As*sent"ing\, a. Giving or implying assent. -- {As*sent"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Assenting \As*sent"ing\, a. Giving or implying assent. -- {As*sent"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Assentive \As*sent"ive\, a. Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- {As*sent"ive*ness}, n. | |
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Assentive \As*sent"ive\, a. Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- {As*sent"ive*ness}, n. | |
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Assentment \As*sent"ment\, n. Assent; agreement. [Obs.] | |
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Assientist \As`si*en"tist\, n. [Cf. F. assientiste, Sp. asentista.] A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. --Bancroft. | |
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Assonate \As"so*nate\, v. i. [L. assonare, assonatum, to respond to.] To correspond in sound. | |
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Assumed \As*sumed"\, a. 1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character. | |
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Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assuming}.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub + emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See {Redeem}.] 1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. --Pope. The god assumed his native form again. --Pope. 2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell. 3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. --Shak. 4. To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate. | |
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Assumedly \As*sum"ed*ly\, adv. By assumption. | |
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Asunder \A*sun"der\, adv. [Pref. a- + sunder.] Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. --Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. --Froude. | |
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Aswooned \A*swooned"\, adv. In a swoon. | |
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Asymmetral \A*sym"me*tral\, a. Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical. [Obs.] --D. H. More. | |
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Asymmetric \As`ym*met"ric\, Asymmetrical \As`ym*met"ri*cal\, a. [See {Asymmetrous}.] 1. Incommensurable. [Obs.] 2. Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. --Huxley. | |
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Asymmetric \As`ym*met"ric\, Asymmetrical \As`ym*met"ri*cal\, a. [See {Asymmetrous}.] 1. Incommensurable. [Obs.] 2. Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. --Huxley. | |
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Asymmetrous \A*sym"me*trous\, a. [Gr. [?].] Asymmetrical. [Obs.] --Barrow. | |
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Asymmetry \A*sym"me*try\, n. [Gr. [?]; 'a priv. + [?] symmetry.] 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry. 2. (Math.) Incommensurability. [Obs.] --Barrow. | |
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Asyndetic \As`yn*det"ic\, a. [See {Asyndeton}.] Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- {As`yn*det"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Asyndetic \As`yn*det"ic\, a. [See {Asyndeton}.] Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- {As`yn*det"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asyndeton \A*syn"de*ton\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] unconnected; 'a priv. + [?] bound together, fr. [?]; [?] with + [?] to bind.] (Rhet.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to {polysyndeton}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Auxometer \Aux*om"e*ter\, n. [Gr. [?] to increase + -meter.] (Optics) An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Awaken \A*wak"en\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Awakened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awakening}.] [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. [be]w[91]cnan, [be]w[91]cnian, v. i.; pref. on- + w[91]cnan to wake. Cf. {Awake}, v. t.] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. --Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. --Tillotson. Syn: To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Axinite \Ax"i*nite\, n. [Named in allusion to the form of the crystals, fr. Gr. [?] an ax.] (Min.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Axiomatic \Ax`i*o*mat"ic\, Axiomatical \Ax`i*o*mat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. [bd]Axiomatical truth.[b8] --Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. --I. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Axiomatic \Ax`i*o*mat"ic\, Axiomatical \Ax`i*o*mat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. [bd]Axiomatical truth.[b8] --Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. --I. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Axiomatically \Ax`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly\, adv. By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuth \Az"i*muth\, n. [OE. azimut, F. azimut, fr. Ar. as-sum[?]t, pl. of as-samt a way, or perh., a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith, as being the Arabic article: cf. It. azzimutto, Pg. azimuth, and Ar. samt-al-r[be]'s the vertex of the heaven. Cf. {Zenith}.] (Astron. & Geodesy) (a) The quadrant of an azimuth circle. (b) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. Note: In trigonometrical surveying, it is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from 0[deg] to 360[deg]. {Azimuth circle}, or {Vertical circle}, one of the great circles of the sphere intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. --Hutton. {Azimuth compass}, a compass resembling the mariner's compass, but having the card divided into degrees instead of rhumbs, and having vertical sights; used for taking the magnetic azimuth of a heavenly body, in order to find, by comparison with the true azimuth, the variation of the needle. {Azimuth dial}, a dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon. --Hutton. {Magnetic azimuth}, an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the vertical circle passing through any object and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuth \Az"i*muth\, n. [OE. azimut, F. azimut, fr. Ar. as-sum[?]t, pl. of as-samt a way, or perh., a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith, as being the Arabic article: cf. It. azzimutto, Pg. azimuth, and Ar. samt-al-r[be]'s the vertex of the heaven. Cf. {Zenith}.] (Astron. & Geodesy) (a) The quadrant of an azimuth circle. (b) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. Note: In trigonometrical surveying, it is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from 0[deg] to 360[deg]. {Azimuth circle}, or {Vertical circle}, one of the great circles of the sphere intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. --Hutton. {Azimuth compass}, a compass resembling the mariner's compass, but having the card divided into degrees instead of rhumbs, and having vertical sights; used for taking the magnetic azimuth of a heavenly body, in order to find, by comparison with the true azimuth, the variation of the needle. {Azimuth dial}, a dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon. --Hutton. {Magnetic azimuth}, an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the vertical circle passing through any object and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Circle \Cir"cle\ (s[etil]r"k'l), n. [OE. cercle, F. cercle, fr. L. circulus (Whence also AS. circul), dim. of circus circle, akin to Gr. kri`kos, ki`rkos, circle, ring. Cf. {Circus}, {Circum-}.] 1. A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center. 2. The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring. 3. (Astron.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a {mural circle}; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a {meridian [or] transit circle}; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a {reflecting circle}; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a {repeating circle}. 4. A round body; a sphere; an orb. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth. --Is. xi. 22. 5. Compass; circuit; inclosure. In the circle of this forest. --Shak. 6. A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. --Macaulay. 7. A circular group of persons; a ring. 8. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. --Dryden. 9. (Logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning. That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. --Glanvill. 10. Indirect form of words; circumlocution. [R.] Has he given the lie, In circle, or oblique, or semicircle. --J. Fletcher. 11. A territorial division or district. Note: {The Circles of the Holy Roman Empire}, ten in number, were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet. {Azimuth circle}. See under {Azimuth}. {Circle of altitude} (Astron.), a circle parallel to the horizon, having its pole in the zenith; an almucantar. {Circle of curvature}. See {Osculating circle of a curve} (Below). {Circle of declination}. See under {Declination}. {Circle of latitude}. (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles. (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis. {Circles of longitude}, lesser circles parallel to the ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it. {Circle of perpetual apparition}, at any given place, the boundary of that space around the elevated pole, within which the stars never set. Its distance from the pole is equal to the latitude of the place. {Circle of perpetual occultation}, at any given place, the boundary of the space around the depressed pole, within which the stars never rise. {Circle of the sphere}, a circle upon the surface of the sphere, called a great circle when its plane passes through the center of the sphere; in all other cases, a small circle. {Diurnal circle}. See under {Diurnal}. {Dress circle}, a gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats. {Druidical circles} (Eng. Antiq.), a popular name for certain ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly arranged, as at Stonehenge, near Salisbury. {Family circle}, a gallery in a theater, usually one containing inexpensive seats. {Horary circles} (Dialing), the lines on dials which show the hours. {Osculating circle of a curve} (Geom.), the circle which touches the curve at some point in the curve, and close to the point more nearly coincides with the curve than any other circle. This circle is used as a measure of the curvature of the curve at the point, and hence is called circle of curvature. {Pitch circle}. See under {Pitch}. {Vertical circle}, an azimuth circle. {Voltaic} {circle [or] circuit}. See under {Circuit}. {To square the circle}. See under {Square}. Syn: Ring; circlet; compass; circuit; inclosure. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuth \Az"i*muth\, n. [OE. azimut, F. azimut, fr. Ar. as-sum[?]t, pl. of as-samt a way, or perh., a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith, as being the Arabic article: cf. It. azzimutto, Pg. azimuth, and Ar. samt-al-r[be]'s the vertex of the heaven. Cf. {Zenith}.] (Astron. & Geodesy) (a) The quadrant of an azimuth circle. (b) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. Note: In trigonometrical surveying, it is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from 0[deg] to 360[deg]. {Azimuth circle}, or {Vertical circle}, one of the great circles of the sphere intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. --Hutton. {Azimuth compass}, a compass resembling the mariner's compass, but having the card divided into degrees instead of rhumbs, and having vertical sights; used for taking the magnetic azimuth of a heavenly body, in order to find, by comparison with the true azimuth, the variation of the needle. {Azimuth dial}, a dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon. --Hutton. {Magnetic azimuth}, an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the vertical circle passing through any object and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
4. Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination. The compass of his argument. --Wordsworth. 5. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within. In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. --Sir J. Davies. 6. (Mus.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. --Shak. 7. An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction. He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. --Locke. 8. A pair of compasses. [R.] See {Compasses.}. To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please. --Swift. 9. A circle; a continent. [Obs.] The tryne compas [the threefold world containing earth, sea, and heaven. --Skeat.] --Chaucer. {Azimuth compass}. See under {Azimuth}. {Beam compass}. See under {Beam}. {Compass card}, the circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs. {Compass dial}, a small pocket compass fitted with a sundial to tell the hour of the day. {Compass plane} (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork. {Compass plant}, {Compass flower} (Bot.), a plant of the American prairies ({Silphium laciniatum}), not unlike a small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present their edges north and south. Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass flower. --Longefellow. {Compass saw}, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a curve; -- called also {fret saw} and {keyhole saw}. {Compass timber} (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber. {Compass window} (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel window. {Mariner's compass}, a kind of compass used in navigation. It has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with reference to a mark on the box representing the ship's head. The card is divided into thirty-two points, called also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order to preserve its horizontal position. {Surveyor's compass}, an instrument used in surveying for measuring horizontal angles. See {Circumferentor}. {Variation compass}, a compass of delicate construction, used in observations on the variations of the needle. {To fetch a compass}, to make a circuit. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuth \Az"i*muth\, n. [OE. azimut, F. azimut, fr. Ar. as-sum[?]t, pl. of as-samt a way, or perh., a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith, as being the Arabic article: cf. It. azzimutto, Pg. azimuth, and Ar. samt-al-r[be]'s the vertex of the heaven. Cf. {Zenith}.] (Astron. & Geodesy) (a) The quadrant of an azimuth circle. (b) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. Note: In trigonometrical surveying, it is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from 0[deg] to 360[deg]. {Azimuth circle}, or {Vertical circle}, one of the great circles of the sphere intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. --Hutton. {Azimuth compass}, a compass resembling the mariner's compass, but having the card divided into degrees instead of rhumbs, and having vertical sights; used for taking the magnetic azimuth of a heavenly body, in order to find, by comparison with the true azimuth, the variation of the needle. {Azimuth dial}, a dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon. --Hutton. {Magnetic azimuth}, an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the vertical circle passing through any object and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuthal \Az"i*muth`al\, a. Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle. {Azimuthal error} of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azimuthal \Az"i*muth`al\, a. Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle. {Azimuthal error} of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azymite \Az"y*mite\, n. [Cf. F. azymite.] (Eccl. Hist.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Acomita Lake, NM (CDP, FIPS 765) Location: 35.07017 N, 107.61303 W Population (1990): 273 (77 housing units) Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Agenda, KS (city, FIPS 475) Location: 39.70724 N, 97.43186 W Population (1990): 81 (53 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66930 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Assonet, MA Zip code(s): 02702 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Accent {CaseWare, Inc.} with strings and tables. It is {strongly typed} and has remote function calls. (1994-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Accounting File used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins. (1996-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
accounting management access to various network resources to ensure proper access capabilities ({bandwidth} and security) or to properly charge the various individuals and departments. Accounting management is one of five categories of {network management} defined by {ISO} for management of {OSI} {networks}. (1997-05-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
agent system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a {client} or {server}. Especially in the phrase "intelligent agent" it implies some kind of automatic process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans. (1995-04-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
AGM Theory for Belief Revision who established the field - Alchourron, Makinson and Gardenfors). A method of {belief revision} giving minimal properties a revision process should have. [Reference?] (1995-03-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ascender (the height of the letter "x"), such as "d", "t", or "h". Also used to denote the part of the letter extending above the x-height. Compare {descender}. (1998-03-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Ashmedai There are versions for the {Univac 1108} and {VAX}/{VMS}. (1995-03-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Subscriber Loop) A form of {Digital Subscriber Line} in which the bandwidth available for {downstream} connection is significantly larger then for {upstream}. Although designed to minimise the effect of {crosstalk} between the upstream and downstream channels this setup is well suited for {web browsing} and {client}-{server} applications as well as for some emerging applications such as {video on demand}. The data-rate of ADSL strongly depends on the length and quality of the line connecting the end-user to the telephone company. Typically the upstream data flow is between 16 and 640 {kilobits} per second while the downstream data flow is between 1.5 and 9 {megabits} per second. ADSL also provides a voice channel. ADSL can carry digital data, analog voice, and broadcast {MPEG2} video in a variety of implementations to meet customer needs. ["Data Cooks, But Will Vendors Get Burned?", "Supercomm Spotlight On ADSL" & "Lucent Sells Paradine", Wilson & Carol, Inter@ctive Week Vol. 3 #13, p1 & 6, June 24 1996]. See also {Carrierless Amplitude/Phase Modulation}, {Discrete MultiTone}. {ADSL Forum (http://www.adsl.com/)}. (1998-05-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop {Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
asymmetrical modulation line by giving a larger share of the {bandwidth} to the {modem} at the end which is transmitting the most information. Only one end of the connection has full bandwidth, the other has only a fraction of the bandwidth. Normally, which end gets the full bandwidth is chosen dynamically. Asymmetrical modulation was made famous by the {HST} mode of the early high-speed modems from {US Robotics}. (1998-03-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Axiomatic Architecture Description Language concise modular specification of {multiprocessor} architectures from the compiler/operating-system interface level down to chip level. AADL is rich enough to specify target architectures while providing a concise model for clocked {microarchitectures}. ["AADL: A Net-Based Specification Method for Computer Architecture Design", W. Damm et al in Languages for Parallel Architectures, J.W. deBakker ed, Wiley, 1989]. (2003-06-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
axiomatic semantics how they are effected by program execution. The axiomatic semantics of a program could include pre- and post-conditions for operations. In particular if you view the program as a state transformer (or collection of state transformers), the axiomatic semantics is a set of invariants on the state which the state transformer satisfies. E.g. for a function with the type: sort_list :: [T] -> [T] we might give the precondition that the argument of the function is a list, and a postcondition that the return value is a list that is sorted. One interesting use of axiomatic semantics is to have a language that has a {finitely computable} sublanguage that is used for specifying pre and post conditions, and then have the compiler prove that the program will satisfy those conditions. See also {operational semantics}, {denotational semantics}. (1995-11-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
axiomatic set theory of a {formal language} for talking about sets and a collection of {axioms} describing how they behave. There are many different {axiomatisations} for set theory. Each takes a slightly different approach to the problem of finding a theory that captures as much as possible of the intuitive idea of what a set is, while avoiding the {paradoxes} that result from accepting all of it, the most famous being {Russell's paradox}. The main source of trouble in naive set theory is the idea that you can specify a set by saying whether each object in the universe is in the "set" or not. Accordingly, the most important differences between different axiomatisations of set theory concern the restrictions they place on this idea (known as "comprehension"). {Zermelo Fränkel set theory}, the most commonly used axiomatisation, gets round it by (in effect) saying that you can only use this principle to define subsets of existing sets. NBG (von Neumann-Bernays-Goedel) set theory sort of allows comprehension for all {formulae} without restriction, but distinguishes between two kinds of set, so that the sets produced by applying comprehension are only second-class sets. NBG is exactly as powerful as ZF, in the sense that any statement that can be formalised in both theories is a theorem of ZF if and only if it is a theorem of ZFC. MK (Morse-Kelley) set theory is a strengthened version of NBG, with a simpler axiom system. It is strictly stronger than NBG, and it is possible that NBG might be consistent but MK inconsistent. {NF (http://math.boisestate.edu/~holmes/holmes/nf.html)} ("New Foundations"), a theory developed by Willard Van Orman Quine, places a very different restriction on comprehension: it only works when the formula describing the membership condition for your putative set is "stratified", which means that it could be made to make sense if you worked in a system where every set had a level attached to it, so that a level-n set could only be a member of sets of level n+1. (This doesn't mean that there are actually levels attached to sets in NF). NF is very different from ZF; for instance, in NF the universe is a set (which it isn't in ZF, because the whole point of ZF is that it forbids sets that are "too large"), and it can be proved that the {Axiom of Choice} is false in NF! ML ("Modern Logic") is to NF as NBG is to ZF. (Its name derives from the title of the book in which Quine introduced an early, defective, form of it). It is stronger than ZF (it can prove things that ZF can't), but if NF is consistent then ML is too. (2003-09-21) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Achmetha (Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classical writers, the capital of northern Media. Here was the palace which was the residence of the old Median monarchs, and of Cyrus and Cambyses. In the time of Ezra, the Persian kings resided usually at Susa of Babylon. But Cyrus held his court at Achmetha; and Ezra, writing a century after, correctly mentions the place where the decree of Cyrus was found. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Asenath an Egyptian name, meaning "gift of the sun-god", daughter of Potipherah, priest of On or Heliopolis, wife of Joseph (Gen. 41:45). She was the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (50-52; 46:20). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Achmetha, brother of death | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Asenath, peril; misfortune | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Aznoth-tabor, the ears of Tabor; the ears of purity or contrition |