English Dictionary: askance | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint. | |
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Cascade system \Cascade system\ (Elec.) A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called {tandem, [or] concatenated}, {system}; the connection a {cascade, tandem, [or] concatenated}, {connection}, or {a concatenation}; and the control of the motors so obtained a {tandem, [or] concatenation}, {control}. Note: In the cascade system of traction the cascade connection is used for starting and for low speeds up to half speed. For full speed the short-circuited motor is cut loose from the other motor and is either left idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line. | |
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{White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes. {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}. {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show the white feather}, under {Feather}, n. {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A. concolor}. {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under {Ruffed}. [Canada] {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}. {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White garnet} (Min.), leucite. {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica}) with greenish-white pale[91]. {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The white ptarmigan. (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.] {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under {Squirrel}. {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier. {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum} ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2. {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak. {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps. {The White House}. See under {House}. {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba}) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}. {White iron}. (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite. {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting. {White lead}. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}. {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under {Rattlesnake}. {White lie}. See under {Lie}. {White light}. (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc. {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. {White meat}. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc. Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. --Spenser. {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White metal}. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}. {White money}, silver money. {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common mouse. {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema}) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}. {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}. {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana}) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum. (c) Any California surf fish. {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}. {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}. {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl. {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}. {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit. {White rent}, (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}. (b) The umhofo. {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. {White rot}. (Bot.) (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}. {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter fat}. {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon. {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii}) injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under {Orange}. {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See under {Shark}. {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under {Softening}. {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1. {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. --Macaulay. {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork. {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose} (d) . {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}). {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. {White tombac}. See {Tombac}. {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United States. {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White vitriol}, under {Vitriol}. {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail. {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga. {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew. {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer. {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather. {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and {Thibetan wolf}. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts. | |
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Going \Go"ing\, p. pr. of {Go}. Specif.: (a) That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. (b) Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases {a going business}, {concern}, etc. (c) Of or pert. to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company. | |
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Ginseng \Gin"seng\, n. [Chinese.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Aralia}, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant ({Aralia Schinseng}) has become so rare that the American ({A. quinquefolia}) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness. | |
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Custard \Cus"tard\ (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See {Crust}, and cf. {Crustated}.] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. {Custard apple} (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona ({A. squamosa}, {reticulata}, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. {Custard coffin}, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Accension \Ac*cen"sion\, n. The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. --Locke. | |
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Accensor \Ac*cen"sor\, n. [LL., from p. p. accensus. See {Accend}.] (R. C. Ch.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. | |
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Ache \Ache\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aching}.] [OE. aken, AS. acan, both strong verbs, AS. acan, imp. [d3]c, p. p. acen, to ache; perh. orig. to drive, and akin to agent.] To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. [bd]My old bones ache.[b8] --Shak. The sins that in your conscience ache. --Keble. | |
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Aching \Ach"ing\, a. That aches; continuously painful. See {Ache}. -- {Ach"ing*ly}, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. --Longfellow. | |
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Aching \Ach"ing\, a. That aches; continuously painful. See {Ache}. -- {Ach"ing*ly}, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. --Longfellow. | |
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Achymous \A*chy"mous\, a. [Gr. [?] without juice.] (Physiol.) Without chyme. | |
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Acinaceous \Ac"i*na"ceous\, a. [L. acinus a grape, grapestone.] (Bot.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. | |
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Acinaciform \Ac`i*nac"i*form\ ([acr]s`[icr]*n[acr]s"[icr]*f[ocir]rm), a. [L. acinaces a short sword + -form: cf. F. acinaciforme.] (Bot.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf. | |
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Acinose \Ac"i*nose`\, Acinous \Ac"i*nous\a. [L. acinosus, fr. acinus grapestone.] Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. --Kirwan. | |
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Acinose \Ac"i*nose`\, Acinous \Ac"i*nous\a. [L. acinosus, fr. acinus grapestone.] Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. --Kirwan. | |
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Again \A*gain"\, Agains \A*gains"\, prep. Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. --Chaucer. | |
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Againsay \A*gain"say`\, v. t. To gainsay. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Against \A*gainst"\ (?; 277), prep. [OE. agens, ageynes, AS. ongegn. The s is adverbial, orig. a genitive ending. See {Again}.] 1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. --Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof. 3. In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. --Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. --Tyndale. 4. By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when. [Archaic or Dial.] Urijah the priest made it, against King Ahaz came from Damascus. --2 Kings xvi. 11. {Against the sun}, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move. | |
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Field \Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f[84]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.] 1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. 2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. --Byron. 3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak. What though the field be lost? --Milton. 4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. --Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope. 5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of {Fess}, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. --Macaulay. 7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. 8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also {outfield}. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. {Coal field} (Geol.) See under {Coal}. {Field artillery}, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. {Field basil} (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family ({Calamintha Acinos}); -- called also {basil thyme}. {Field colors} (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. {Field cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a large European cricket ({Gryllus campestric}), remarkable for its loud notes. {Field day}. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. --Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. {Field driver}, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. {Field duck} (Zo[94]l.), the little bustard ({Otis tetrax}), found in Southern Europe. {Field glass}. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See {Field lens}. {Field lark}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. {Field lens} (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also {field glass}. {Field madder} (Bot.), a plant ({Sherardia arvensis}) used in dyeing. {Field marshal} (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. {Field mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See {Campagnol}, and {Deer mouse}. {Field officer} (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. {Field officer's court} (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. --Farrow. {Field plover} (Zo[94]l.), the black-bellied plover ({Charadrius squatarola}); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda}). {Field spaniel} (Zo[94]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. {Field sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American sparrow ({Spizella pusilla}). (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.] {Field staff}> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. {Field vole} (Zo[94]l.), the European meadow mouse. {Field of ice}, a large body of floating ice; a pack. {Field}, [or] {Field of view}, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. {Field magnet}. see under {Magnet}. {Magnetic field}. See {Magnetic}. {To back the field}, [or] {To bet on the field}. See under {Back}, v. t. -- {To keep the field}. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. {To} {lay, [or] back}, {against the field}, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. {To take the field} (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign. | |
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Grain \Grain\, n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See {Corn}, and cf. {Garner}, n., {Garnet}, {Gram} the chick-pea, {Granule}, {Kernel.}] 1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food. 2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. 3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. --Milton. 4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See {Gram.} 5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to {Tyrian purple}. All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection. 6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden. 7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. --Shak. 8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. 9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. --Knight. 10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called {draff.} 11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See {Grained}, a., 4. 12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward. 13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. --Chaucer. {Against the grain}, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. --Swift.--Saintsbury. {A grain of allowance}, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. {Grain binder}, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. {Grain colors}, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. {Grain leather}. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. {Grain moth} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small moths, of the family {Tineid[91]} (as {Tinea granella} and {Butalis cerealella}), whose larv[91] devour grain in storehouses. {Grain side} (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to {flesh side.} {Grains of paradise}, the seeds of a species of amomum. {grain tin}, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. {Grain weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. {Grain worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain moth}, above. {In grain}, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. [bd]Anguish in grain.[b8] --Herbert. {To dye in grain}, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see {Grain}, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under {Dye.} The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser. {To go against the grain of} (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble. | |
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Hair \Hair\, n. [OE. her, heer, h[91]r, AS. h[aemac]r; akin to OFries, h[emac]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[amac]r, Dan. haar, Sw. h[86]r; cf. Lith. kasa.] 1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. 2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. --Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. --Spenser. 3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. 5. An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily ({Nuphar}). 6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. 7. A haircloth. [Obc.] --Chaucer. 8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. Note: Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as, hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair. {Against the hair}, in a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain. [Obs.] [bd]You go against the hair of your professions.[b8] --Shak. {Hair bracket} (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead. {Hair cells} (Anat.), cells with hairlike processes in the sensory epithelium of certain parts of the internal ear. {Hair compass}, {Hair divider}, a compass or divider capable of delicate adjustment by means of a screw. {Hair glove}, a glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin. {Hair lace}, a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the head. --Swift. {Hair line}, a line made of hair; a very slender line. {Hair moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth which destroys goods made of hair, esp. {Tinea biselliella}. {Hair pencil}, a brush or fine hair, for painting; -- generally called by the name of the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc. {Hair plate}, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a bloomery fire. {Hair powder}, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of the head, or on wigs. {Hair seal} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of eared seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion. {Hair seating}, haircloth for seats of chairs, etc. {Hair shirt}, a shirt, or a band for the loins, made of horsehair, and worn as a penance. {Hair sieve}, a strainer with a haircloth bottom. {Hair snake}. See {Gordius}. {Hair space} (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in lines of type. {Hair stroke}, a delicate stroke in writing. {Hair trigger}, a trigger so constructed as to discharge a firearm by a very slight pressure, as by the touch of a hair. --Farrow. {Not worth a hair}, of no value. {To a hair}, with the nicest distinction. {To split hairs}, to make distinctions of useless nicety. | |
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Against \A*gainst"\ (?; 277), prep. [OE. agens, ageynes, AS. ongegn. The s is adverbial, orig. a genitive ending. See {Again}.] 1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. --Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof. 3. In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. --Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. --Tyndale. 4. By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when. [Archaic or Dial.] Urijah the priest made it, against King Ahaz came from Damascus. --2 Kings xvi. 11. {Against the sun}, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move. | |
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{Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.] {Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. {Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. {Time enough}, in season; early enough. [bd]Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life.[b8] --Bacon. {Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. {Time immemorial}, [or] {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See under {Immemorial}. {Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. {Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as [bd]good morning,[b8] [bd]good evening,[b8] and the like; greeting. {To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t. {To make time}. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. {To move}, {run}, [or] {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. {True time}. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. | |
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Againstand \A*gain"stand`\, v. t. To withstand. [Obs.] | |
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Agamic \A*gam"ic\, a. [{Agamous}.] (a) (Biol.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs. (b) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous. | |
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Agamically \A*gam"ic*al*ly\, adv. In an agamic manner. | |
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d8Agami \[d8]Ag"a*mi\, n.; pl. {Agamis}. [F. agex>, fr. the native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A South American bird ({Psophia crepitans}), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the {gold-breasted trumpeter}. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See {Trumpeter}. | |
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Agamist \Ag"a*mist\, n. [See {Agamous}.] An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. --Foxe. | |
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Agamogenetic \Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic\, n. (Biol.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- {Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly}, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. --Huxley. | |
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Agamogenetic \Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic\, n. (Biol.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- {Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly}, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. --Huxley. | |
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Agamous \Ag"a*mous\, a. [Gr. 'a`gamos unmarried; 'a priv. + ga`mos marriage.] (Biol.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous. | |
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Aganglionic \A*gan`gli*o"nic\, a. [Pref. a- not + ganglionic.] (Physiol.) Without ganglia. | |
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Agency \A"gen*cy\, n.; pl. {Agencies}. [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F. agence. See {Agent}.] 1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another. 3. The place of business of am agent. Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management. | |
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Agency \A"gen*cy\, n.; pl. {Agencies}. [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F. agence. See {Agent}.] 1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another. 3. The place of business of am agent. Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management. | |
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Agenesic \Ag`e*nes"ic\, a. [See {Agensis}.] (Physiol.) Characterized by sterility; infecund. | |
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Age \Age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Aged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aging}.] To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. --Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. --Landor. | |
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Agnize \Ag*nize"\ ([acr]g*n[imac]z"), v. t. [Formed like recognize, fr. L. agnoscere.] To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. --Shak. | |
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Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] knowing, [?] to know.] Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- {Ag*nos"tic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, n. One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc. | |
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Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] knowing, [?] to know.] Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- {Ag*nos"tic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Agnosticism \Ag*nos"ti*cism\, n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. | |
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d8Agnus \[d8]Ag"nus\, n.; pl. E. {Agnuses}; L. {Agni}. [L., a lamb.] Agnus Dei. | |
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Agoing \A*go"ing\, adv. [Pref. a- + p. pr. of go.] In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing. | |
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d8Agon \[d8]Ag"on\, n.; pl. {Agones}. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games. | |
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Agonic \A*gon"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] without angles; 'a priv. + [?] an angle.] Not forming an angle. {Agonic line} (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere. | |
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Agonic \A*gon"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] without angles; 'a priv. + [?] an angle.] Not forming an angle. {Agonic line} (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere. | |
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Agony \Ag"o*ny\, n.; pl. {Agonies}. [L. agonia, Gr. [?], orig. a contest, fr. [?]: cf. F. agonie. See {Agon}.] 1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. --Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. --Luke xxii. 44. 3. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. With cries and agonies of wild delight. --Pope. 4. The last struggle of life; death struggle. Syn: Anguish; torment; throe; distress; pangs; suffering. Usage: {Agony}, {Anguish}, {Pang}. These words agree in expressing extreme pain of body or mind. Agony denotes acute and permanent pain, usually of the whole system., and often producing contortions. Anguish denotes severe pressure, and, considered as bodily suffering, is more commonly local (as anguish of a wound), thus differing from agony. A pang is a paroxysm of excruciating pain. It is severe and transient. The agonies or pangs of remorse; the anguish of a wounded conscience. [bd]Oh, sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride![b8] --Dryden. | |
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Agonism \Ag"o*nism\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to contend for a prize, fr. [?]. See {Agon}.] Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] --Blount. | |
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Agonist \Ag"o*nist\, n. [Gr. [?].] One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.] | |
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Agonistic \Ag`o*nis"tic\, Agonistical \Ag`o*nis"tic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]. See {Agonism}.] Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. --De Quincey. | |
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Agonistic \Ag`o*nis"tic\, Agonistical \Ag`o*nis"tic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]. See {Agonism}.] Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. --De Quincey. | |
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Agonistically \Ag`o*nis"tic*al*ly\, adv. In an agonistic manner. | |
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Agonistics \Ag`o*nis"tics\, n. The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games. | |
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Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Agonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Agonizing}.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Agony}.] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. | |
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Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. --Thackeray. | |
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Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Agonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Agonizing}.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Agony}.] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. | |
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Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Agonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Agonizing}.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Agony}.] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. | |
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Agonizingly \Ag"o*ni`zing*ly\, adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. | |
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Agynous \Ag"y*nous\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + gynh` woman.] (Bot.) Without female organs; male. | |
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Akinesic \Ak`i*ne"sic\, a. (Med.) Pertaining to akinesia. | |
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Soon \Soon\, adv. [OE. sone, AS. s[?]na; cf. OFries. s[?]n, OS. s[be]na, s[be]no, OHG. s[be]r, Goth. suns.] 1. In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. [bd]Sooner said than done.[b8] --Old Proverb. [bd]As soon as it might be.[b8] --Chaucer. She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned. --Milton. 2. Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early. How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? --Ex. ii. 18. 3. Promptly; quickly; easily. Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide. --Shak. 4. Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will. I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles. --Addison. {As soon as}, or {So soon as}, immediately at or after another event. [bd]As soon as he came nigh unto the camp . . . he saw the calf, and the dancing.[b8] --Ex. xxxii. 19. See {So . . . as}, under {So}. {Soon at}, as soon as; or, as soon as the time referred to arrives. [Obs.] [bd]I shall be sent for soon at night.[b8] --Shak. {Sooner or later}, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later. {With the soonest}, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ascension \As*cen"sion\, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See {Ascend}.] 1. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent. 2. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (--Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day. 3. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. --Sir T. Browne. {Ascension Day}, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also {Holy Thursday}. {Right ascension} (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. {Oblique ascension} (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star. It is little used in modern astronomy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ascension \As*cen"sion\, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See {Ascend}.] 1. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent. 2. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (--Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day. 3. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. --Sir T. Browne. {Ascension Day}, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also {Holy Thursday}. {Right ascension} (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. {Oblique ascension} (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star. It is little used in modern astronomy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ascensional \As*cen"sion*al\, a. Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. {Ascensional difference} (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
3. That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute. The marks and differences of sovereignty. --Davies. 4. Choice; preference. [Obs.] That now he chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence. --Spenser. 5. (Her.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See {Augmentation}, and {Marks of cadency}, under {Cadency}. 6. (Logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. 7. (Math.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other. {Ascensional difference}. See under {Ascensional}. Syn: Distinction; dissimilarity; dissimilitude; variation; diversity; variety; contrariety; disagreement; variance; contest; contention; dispute; controversy; debate; quarrel; wrangle; strife. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ascensional \As*cen"sion*al\, a. Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. {Ascensional difference} (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ascensive \As*cen"sive\, a. [See {Ascend}.] 1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. --Owen. 2. (Gram.) Augmentative; intensive. --Ellicott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ascii \[d8]As"ci*i\, Ascians \As"cians\, n. pl. [L. ascii, pl. of ascius, Gr. [?] without shadow; 'a priv. + [?] shadow.] Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fungi \Fun"gi\, n. pl. (Bot.) A group of thallophytic plants of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain {Phycomycetes}, or so-called algal fungi. Note: The Fungi appear to have originated by degeneration from various alg[91], losing their chlorophyll on assuming a parasitic or saprophytic life. By some they are divided into the subclasses {Phycomycetes}, the lower or algal fungi; the {Mesomycetes}, or intermediate fungi; and the {Mycomycetes}, or the higher fungi; by others into the {Phycomycetes}; the {Ascomycetes}, or sac-spore fungi; and the {Basidiomycetes}, or basidial-spore fungi. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ascomycetes \[d8]As`co*my*ce"tes\, n. pl. [NL.; ascus + Gr. [?], [?], fungus.] (Bot.) A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyph[91], and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. -- {As`co*my*ce"tous}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asinego \As`i*ne"go\, Assinego \As`si*ne"go\, n. [Sp. asnico, dim. of asno an ass.] A stupid fellow. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Dauw \[d8]Dauw\, n. [D.] (Zo[94]l.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa ({Asinus Burchellii}); -- called also {peechi}, or {peetsi}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dziggetai \Dzig"ge*tai\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet ({Asinus hemionus}). Note: The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See {Koulan}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Askance \A*skance"\, v. t. To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asking \Ask"ing\, n. 1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. --Longfellow. 2. The publishing of banns. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ask \Ask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Asked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Asking}.] [OE. asken, ashen, axien, AS. [be]scian, [be]csian; akin to OS. [c7]sc[d3]n, OHG. eisc[d3]n, Sw. [be]ska, Dan. [91]ske, D. eischen, G. heischen, Lith. j[89]sk[a2]ti, OSlav. iskati to seek, Skr. ish to desire. [fb]5.] 1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. --Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. --John xv. 7. 2. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask? Ask me never so much dowry. --Gen. xxxiv. 12. To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. --Luke xii. 48. An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity. --Addison. 3. To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question. He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. --John ix. 21. He asked the way to Chester. --Shak. 4. To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment. 5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. --Fuller. Syn: To beg; request; seek; petition; solicit; entreat; beseech; implore; crave; require; demand; claim; exhibit; inquire; interrogate. See {Beg}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assamese \As`sam*ese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Assam. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assay \As*say"\, n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See {Essay}, n.] 1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. --Milton. 2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak. 3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. --Spenser. 4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.] With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser. 5. (Metallurgy) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin. 6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure. Usage: {Assay} and {essay} are radically the same word; but modern usage has appropriated {assay} chiefly to experiments in metallurgy, and {essay} to intellectual and bodily efforts. See {Essay}. Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace. {Assay master}, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver coin or bullion. {Assay ton}, a weight of 29,166[a6] grams. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assay \As*say"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assaying}.] [OF. asaier, essaier, F. essayer, fr. essai. See {Assay}, n., {Essay}, v.] 1. To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic] To-night let us assay our plot. --Shak. Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed. --Milton. 2. To affect. [Obs.] When the heart is ill assayed. --Spenser. 3. To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.] 4. To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assaying \As*say"ing\, n. The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sarcophagus \Sar*coph"a*gus\, n.; pl. L. {Sarcophagi}, E. {Sarcophaguses}. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf. {Sarcasm}.] 1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called {lapis Assius}, or {Assian stone}, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. --Holland. 2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin. 3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asinego \As`i*ne"go\, Assinego \As`si*ne"go\, n. [Sp. asnico, dim. of asno an ass.] A stupid fellow. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assinego \As`si*ne"go\, n. See {Asinego}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Aswing \A*swing"\, adv. In a state of swinging. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asynchronous \A*syn"chro*nous\, a. [Gr. [?] not + synchronous.] Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to {synchronous}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Induction generator \In*duc"tion gen"er*a`tor\ A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; -- called also {asynchronous generator}. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and changes sign, so that above synchronism the machine (driven for thus purpose by mechanical power) gives out electrical energy as a generator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augean \Au*ge"an\, a. 1. (Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day. 2. Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt. {Augean stable} (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked}; (Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [be]w[91]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[omac]c), and [be]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25. 2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. --Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Away-going \A*way"-go"ing\ ([adot]*w[amac]"go"[icr]ng), a. (Law) Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. --Wharton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Axunge \Ax"unge\, n. [F. axonge, L. axungia; axis wheel + ungere to grease.] Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azonic \A*zon"ic\, a. [Gr. [?]; 'a priv. + [?] zone, region.] Confined to no zone or region; not local. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azymic \A*zym"ic\, a. Azymous. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Azymous \Az"y*mous\, a. [See {Azym}.] Unleavened; unfermented. [bd]Azymous bread.[b8] --Dunglison. | |
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Accomac, VA (town, FIPS 180) Location: 37.71855 N, 75.66767 W Population (1990): 466 (205 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 23301 | |
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Accomack County, VA (county, FIPS 1) Location: 37.76228 N, 75.76400 W Population (1990): 31703 (15840 housing units) Area: 1177.4 sq km (land), 2215.9 sq km (water) | |
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Agana Heights, GU (CDP, FIPS 4000) Location: 13.46272 N, 144.74389 E Population (1990): 3347 (937 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Agana Station, GU (CDP, FIPS 5950) Location: 13.47989 N, 144.79137 E Population (1990): 2263 (505 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Agency, IA (city, FIPS 640) Location: 40.99685 N, 92.30732 W Population (1990): 616 (276 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52530 Agency, MO (town, FIPS 298) Location: 39.65569 N, 94.74854 W Population (1990): 642 (216 housing units) Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64401 | |
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Agency Village, SD Zip code(s): 57262 | |
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Agness, OR Zip code(s): 97406 | |
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Agnos, AR Zip code(s): 72513 | |
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Aguanga, CA Zip code(s): 92536 | |
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Aiken County, SC (county, FIPS 3) Location: 33.54605 N, 81.63852 W Population (1990): 120940 (49266 housing units) Area: 2779.3 sq km (land), 19.3 sq km (water) | |
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Ascension Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 5) Location: 30.20286 N, 90.90911 W Population (1990): 58214 (21165 housing units) Area: 755.1 sq km (land), 29.4 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included under {Some AI Koans} in Appendix A). See also {ha ha only serious}, {mu}, and {{hacker humor}}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
asynchronous {clock} or {semaphore}, proceeding independently. Opposite: {synchronous}. 1. whose execution can proceed independently, "in the {background}". Other processes may be started before the asynchronous process has finished. 2. transmission may start at any time and is indicated by a {start bit}, e.g. {EIA-232}. A data {byte} (or other element defined by the {protocol}) ends with a {stop bit}. A continuous marking condition (identical to stop bits but not quantized in time), is then maintained until data resumes. (1995-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Asynchronous Balanced Mode {protocols}, supporting {peer-oriented} {point-to-point} communications between two {nodes}, where either node can initiate transmission. (1997-05-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter circuit} that provides data formatting and control to {EIA-232} serial interfaces. [Is this the same as a {UART}?] (1997-05-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
asynchronous logic instead of the components sharing a common {clock} and exchanging data on clock edges, data is passed on as soon as it is available. This removes the need to distribute a common clock signal throughout the circuit with acceptable {clock skew}. It also helps to reduce power dissipation in {CMOS} circuits because {gates} only switch when they are doing useful work rather than on every clock edge. There are many kinds of asynchronous logic. Data signals may use either "dual rail encoding" or "data bundling". Each dual rail encoded {Boolean} is implemented as two wires. This allows the value and the timing information to be communicated for each data bit. Bundled data has one wire for each data bit and another for timing. Level sensitive circuits typically represent a logic one by a high voltage and a logic zero by a low voltage whereas transition signalling uses a change in the signal level to convey information. A speed independent design is tolerant to variations in gate speeds but not to propagation delays in wires; a delay insensitive circuit is tolerant to variations in wire delays as well. The purest form of circuit is delay-insensitive and uses dual-rail encoding with transition signalling. A transition on one wire indicates the arrival of a zero, a transition on the other the arrival of a one. The levels on the wires are of no significance. Such an approach enables the design of fully delay-insensitive circuits and automatic layout as the delays introduced by the layout compiler can't affect the functionality (only the performance). Level sensitive designs can use simpler, stateless logic gates but require a "return to zero" phase in each transition. {(http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/amulet/async/)}. (1995-01-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode dynamic allocation of {bandwidth} using a fixed-size {packet} (called a cell). See also {ATM Forum}, {Wideband ATM}. {ATM acronyms (http://www.atmforum.com/atmforum/acronym_index.html)}. {Indiana acronyms (http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/FAQ/ATM-Acronyms.html)}. [More detail? Data rate(s)?] (1996-04-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
asyncronous (1996-12-13) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ascension See {CHRIST}. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Ahisamach, brother of strength | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Asyncritus, incomparable |