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Cast \Cast\, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.] 1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw. 2. The thing thrown. A cast of dreadful dust. --Dryden. 3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. [bd]About a stone's cast.[b8] --Luke xxii. 41. 4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. --Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak. 5. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm. 6. The act of casting in a mold. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak. 7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. 8. That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting. 9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. [bd]A neat cast of verse.[b8] --Pope. An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. --Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. 10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. --Woodward. 11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. --Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W. Scott. 12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. 13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. --Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. --Spenser. 14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.] This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. --Swift. 15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. --Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. --Hawthorne. 16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. 17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. 18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {A cast of the eye}, a slight squint or strabismus. {Renal cast} (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. {The last cast}, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance. | |
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Goose \Goose\ (g[oomac]s), n.; pl. {Geese} (g[emac]s). [OE. gos, AS. g[omac]s, pl. g[emac]s; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. g[be]s, Dan. gaas, Sw. g[aring]s, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. chh`n, Skr. ha[msdot]sa. [root]233. Cf. {Gander}, {Gannet}, {Ganza}, {Gosling}.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily {Anserin[91]}, and belonging to {Anser}, {Branta}, {Chen}, and several allied genera. See {Anseres}. Note: The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose ({Anser anser}). The bean goose ({A. segetum}), the American wild or Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), and the bernicle goose ({Branta leucopsis}) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus {Chen}. See {Bernicle}, {Emperor goose}, under {Emperor}, {Snow goose}, {Wild goose}, {Brant}. 2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose. Note: The Egyptian or fox goose ({Alopochen [92]gyptiaca}) and the African spur-winged geese ({Plectropterus}) belong to the family {Plectropterid[91]}. The Australian semipalmated goose ({Anseranas semipalmata}) and Cape Barren goose ({Cereopsis Nov[91]-Hollandi[91]}) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia. 3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose. 4. A silly creature; a simpleton. 5. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. --Goldsmith. {A wild goose chase}, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. {Fen goose}. See under {Fen}. {Goose barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), any pedunculated barnacle of the genus {Anatifa} or {Lepas}; -- called also {duck barnacle}. See {Barnacle}, and {Cirripedia}. {Goose cap}, a silly person. [Obs.] --Beau. & . {Goose corn} (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush ({Juncus squarrosus}). {Goose feast}, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] {Goose flesh}, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also {goose skin}. | |
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Gonakie \Go"na*kie\, n. (Bot.) An African timber tree ({Acacia Adansonii}). | |
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Spearwood \Spear"wood`\, n. (Bot.) An Australian tree ({Acacia Doratoxylon}), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears. | |
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Accoast \Ac*coast"\, v. t. & i. [See {Accost}, {Coast}.] To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accoasting low. --Spenser. | |
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Accost \Ac*cost"\, v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] [bd]The shores which to the sea accost.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Accost \Ac*cost"\, n. Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley. | |
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Accost \Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accosting}.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See {Coast}, and cf. {Accoast}.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] [bd]So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.[b8] --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. [bd]Him, Satan thus accosts.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Accostable \Ac*cost"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. accostable.] Approachable; affable. [R.] --Hawthorne. | |
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Accosted \Ac*cost"ed\, a. (Her.) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. | |
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Accost \Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accosting}.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See {Coast}, and cf. {Accoast}.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] [bd]So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.[b8] --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. [bd]Him, Satan thus accosts.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Accost \Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accosting}.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See {Coast}, and cf. {Accoast}.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] [bd]So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.[b8] --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. [bd]Him, Satan thus accosts.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Accusation \Ac`cu*sa"tion\, n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.] 1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. --Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. --Matt. xxvii. 37. Syn: Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge. | |
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Accusatival \Ac*cu`sa*ti"val\, a. Pertaining to the accusative case. | |
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Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. [bd]This hath been a very accusative age.[b8] --Sir E. Dering. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. | |
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Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.) The accusative case. | |
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Accusatively \Ac*cu"sa*tive*ly\, adv. 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. | |
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Accusatorial \Ac*cu`sa*to"ri*al\, a. Accusatory. | |
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Accusatorially \Ac*cu`sa*to"ri*al*ly\, adv. By way accusation. | |
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Accusatory \Ac*cu"sa*to*ry\, a. [L. accusatorius, fr. accusare.] Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. --Grote. | |
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Accuse \Ac*cuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accusing}.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. {Cause}.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. --Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. --Macaulay. 2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. --Rom. ii. 15. 3. To betray; to show. [L.] --Sir P. Sidney. Syn: To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign. Usage: To {Accuse}, {Charge}, {Impeach}, {Arraign}. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness. | |
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Accused \Ac*cused"\, a. Charged with offense; as, an accused person. Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case. | |
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Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accustomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accustoming}.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [85] (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See {Custom}.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. --Adventurer. Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train. | |
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Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. i. 1. To be wont. [Obs.] --Carew. 2. To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. --Milton. | |
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Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, n. Custom. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Accustomable \Ac*cus"tom*a*ble\, a. Habitual; customary; wonted. [bd]Accustomable goodness.[b8] --Latimer. | |
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Accustomably \Ac*cus"tom*a*bly\, adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. --Latimer. | |
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Accustomance \Ac*cus"tom*ance\, n. [OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance.] Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] --Boyle. | |
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Accustomarily \Ac*cus"tom*a*ri*ly\, adv. Customarily. [Obs.] | |
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Accustomary \Ac*cus"tom*a*ry\, a. Usual; customary. [Archaic] --Featley. | |
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Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accustomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accustoming}.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [85] (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See {Custom}.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. --Adventurer. Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train. | |
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Accustomed \Ac*cus"tomed\, a. 1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. [bd]An accustomed action.[b8] --Shak. 2. Frequented by customers. [Obs.] [bd]A well accustomed shop.[b8] --Smollett. | |
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Accustomedness \Ac*cus"tomed*ness\, n. Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. --Bp. Pearce. | |
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Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accustomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accustoming}.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [85] (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See {Custom}.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. --Adventurer. Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train. | |
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Acoustic \A*cous"tic\ (#; 277), a. [F. acoustique, Gr. [?] relating to hearing, fr. [?] to hear.] Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. {Acoustic duct}, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. {Acoustic telegraph}, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. {Acoustic vessels}, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance. | |
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Acoustic \A*cous"tic\, n. A medicine or agent to assist hearing. | |
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Acoustic \A*cous"tic\ (#; 277), a. [F. acoustique, Gr. [?] relating to hearing, fr. [?] to hear.] Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. {Acoustic duct}, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. {Acoustic telegraph}, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. {Acoustic vessels}, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance. | |
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Sonorous \So*no"rous\, a. [L. sonorus, fr. sonor, -oris, a sound, akin to sonus a sound. See {Sound}.] 1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. 2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice. 3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous. 4. Impressive in sound; high-sounding. The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. --Addison. There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. --E. Everett. 5. (Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. {Sonorous figures} (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also {acoustic figures}. {Sonorous tumor} (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion. -- {So*no"rous*ly}, adv. -- {So*no"rous*ness}, n. | |
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Acoustic \A*cous"tic\ (#; 277), a. [F. acoustique, Gr. [?] relating to hearing, fr. [?] to hear.] Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. {Acoustic duct}, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. {Acoustic telegraph}, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. {Acoustic vessels}, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance. | |
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Telegraph \Tel"e*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] far, far off (cf. Lith. toli) + -graph: cf. F. t[82]l[82]graphe. See {Graphic}.] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action. Note: The instruments used are classed as indicator, type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix. {Acoustic telegraph}. See under {Acoustic}. {Dial telegraph}, a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station. {Electric telegraph}, [or] {Electro-magnetic telegraph}, a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. {Facsimile telegraph}. See under {Facsimile}. {Indicator telegraph}. See under {Indicator}. {Pan-telegraph}, an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station. {Printing telegraph}, an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. {Signal telegraph}, a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. {Submarine telegraph cable}, a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. {Telegraph cable}, a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. {Telegraph plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium gyrans}) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore. | |
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Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vase}.] 1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}. {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously. [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker vessel.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Acoustic \A*cous"tic\ (#; 277), a. [F. acoustique, Gr. [?] relating to hearing, fr. [?] to hear.] Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. {Acoustic duct}, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. {Acoustic telegraph}, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. {Acoustic vessels}, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance. | |
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Acoustical \A*cous"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to acoustics. | |
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Acoustically \A*cous"tic*al*ly\, adv. In relation to sound or to hearing. --Tyndall. | |
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Acoustician \Ac`ous*ti"cian\, n. One versed in acoustics. --Tyndall. | |
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Acoustics \A*cous"tics\ (#; 277), n. [Names of sciences in -ics, as, acoustics, mathematics, etc., are usually treated as singular. See {-ics}.] (Physics.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. --Sir J. Herschel. Note: The science is, by some writers, divided, into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from the ear; and catacoustica, which treats of reflected sounds or echoes. | |
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Acquest \Ac*quest"\, n. [OF. aquest, F. acqu[88]t, fr. LL. acquestum, acquis[c6]tum, for L. acquis[c6]tum, p. p. (used substantively) of acquirere to acquire. See {Acquire}.] 1. Acquisition; the thing gained. [R.] --Bacon. 2. (Law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. --Bouvier. | |
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Acquiesce \Ac`qui*esce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Acquiesced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acquiescing}] [L. acquiescere; ad + quiescere to be quiet, fr. quies rest: cf. F. acquiescer. See {Quiet}.] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. --De Quincey. 2. To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. Syn: To submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede; concur; conform; accept tacitly. | |
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Acquisite \Ac"qui*site\, a. [L. acquisitus, p. p. of acquirere. See {Acquire}.] Acquired. [Obs.] --Burton. | |
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Acquisition \Ac`qui*si"tion\, n. [L. acquisitio, fr. acquirere: cf. F. acquisition. See {Acquire}.] 1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. --Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn: See {Acquirement}. | |
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Acquisitive \Ac*quis"i*tive\, a. 1. Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. --Wotton. 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. | |
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Acquisitively \Ac*quis"i*tive*ly\, adv. In the way of acquisition. | |
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Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n. 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. 2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe. | |
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Acquisitor \Ac*quis"i*tor\, n. One who acquires. | |
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Acquist \Ac*quist"\, n. [Cf. {Acquest}.] Acquisition; gain. --Milton. | |
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Acustumaunce \A*cus"tum*aunce\, n. See {Accustomance}. [Obs.] | |
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Agast \A*gast"\ or Aghast \A*ghast"\, v. t. To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. | |
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Agast \A*gast"\, p. p. & a. See {Aghast}. | |
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Agastric \A*gas"tric\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] stomach.] (Physiol.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm. | |
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Agazed \A*gazed"\, p. p. [Only in p. p.; another spelling for aghast.] Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. --Shak. | |
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Aggest \Ag*gest"\, v. t. [L. aggestus, p. p. of aggerere. See {Agger}.] To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. --Fuller. | |
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Agast \A*gast"\ or Aghast \A*ghast"\, v. t. To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. | |
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Aghast \A*ghast"\, v. t. See {Agast}, v. t. [Obs.] | |
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Aghast \A*ghast"\, a & p. p. [OE. agast, agasted, p. p. of agasten to terrify, fr. AS. pref. [be]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + g[?]stan to terrify, torment: cf. Goth. usgaisjan to terrify, primitively to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See {Gaze}, {Hesitate}.] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. --Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. --Macaulay. | |
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Agist \A*gist"\, v. t. [OF. agister; [85] (L. ad) + gister to assign a lodging, fr. giste lodging, abode, F. g[8c]te, LL. gistum, gista, fr. L. jacitum, p. p. of jac[?]re to lie: cf. LL. agistare, adgistare. See {Gist}.] (Law) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. --Blackstone. | |
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Agistator \Ag`is*ta"tor\, n. [LL.] See {Agister}. | |
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Agister \A*gist"er\, Agistor \A*gist"or\, n. [Anglo-Norman agistour.] (Law) (a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called {gisttaker}, which in England is corrupted into {guest-taker}. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. --Mozley & W. | |
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Agistment \A*gist"ment\, n. [OF. agistement. See {Agist}.] (Law) (a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. --Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. | |
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Agister \A*gist"er\, Agistor \A*gist"or\, n. [Anglo-Norman agistour.] (Law) (a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called {gisttaker}, which in England is corrupted into {guest-taker}. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. --Mozley & W. | |
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Aquosity \A*quos"i*ty\, n. [LL. aquositas.] The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. --Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. --Holland. | |
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Assastion \As*sas"tion\, n. [F., fr. LL. assatio, fr. L. assare to roast.] Roasting. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Assecution \As`se*cu"tion\, n. [F. ass[82]cution, fr. L. assequi to obtain; ad + sequi to follow.] An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. | |
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Assess \As*sess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assessing}.] [OF. assesser to regulate, settle, LL. assessare to value for taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of judges in a court, in LL. to assess, tax. Cf. {Assize}, v., {Cess}.] 1. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation. 2. To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment. 3. To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents. 4. To fix or determine the rate or amount of. This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act. --Blackstone. | |
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Assist \As*sist"\, v. i. 1. To lend aid; to help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. --Milton. 2. To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] --Gibbon. Prescott. | |
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Assist \As*sist"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assisting}.] [L. assistere; ad + sistere to cause to stand, to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. assister. See {Stand}.] To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! --Shak. Syn: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See {Help}. | |
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Assistance \As*sist"ance\, n. [Cf. F. assistance.] 1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. --Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. --Fuller. 3. Persons present. [Obs. or a Gallicism] | |
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Assistant \As*sist"ant\, a. [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.] 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. --Beattie. 2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.] Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. --Farrow. | |
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Assistant \As*sist"ant\, n. 1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. --Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. --Mrs. Chapone. 2. An attendant; one who is present. --Dryden. | |
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Assistantly \As*sist"ant*ly\, adv. In a manner to give aid. [R.] | |
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Assist \As*sist"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assisting}.] [L. assistere; ad + sistere to cause to stand, to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. assister. See {Stand}.] To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! --Shak. Syn: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See {Help}. | |
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Assister \As*sist"er\, n. An assistant; a helper. | |
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Assistful \As*sist"ful\, a. Helpful. | |
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Assist \As*sist"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assisting}.] [L. assistere; ad + sistere to cause to stand, to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. assister. See {Stand}.] To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! --Shak. Syn: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See {Help}. | |
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Assistive \As*sist"ive\, a. Lending aid, helping. | |
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Assistless \As*sist"less\, a. Without aid or help. [R.] --Pope. | |
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Assistor \As*sist"or\, n. (Law) A assister. | |
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Assize \As*size"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assizing}.] [From {Assize}, n.: cf. LL. assisare to decree in assize. Cf. {Asses}, v.] 1. To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] --Gower. 2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs.] | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. i. 1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate. 2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. --E. Darwin. | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Associated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Associating}.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See {Social}.] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise. 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. --Macaulay. 4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. --Shak. | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, a. [L. associatus, p. p.] 1. Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. --Milton. 2. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member. 3. (Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. --E. Darwin. | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, n. 1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow. 2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league. 3. One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy. 4. Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant. The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. --Locke. Syn: Companion; mate; fellow; friend; ally; partner; coadjutor; comrade; accomplice. | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Associated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Associating}.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See {Social}.] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise. 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. --Macaulay. 4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. --Shak. | |
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Associated \As*so"ci*a`ted\, a. Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. {Associated movements} (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. --Dunglison. | |
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Associated \As*so"ci*a`ted\, a. Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. {Associated movements} (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. --Dunglison. | |
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Associateship \As*so"ci*ate*ship\, n. The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office. | |
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Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Associated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Associating}.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See {Social}.] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise. 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. --Macaulay. 4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. --Shak. | |
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Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. [bd]Some . . . bond of association.[b8] --Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. --Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. --Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? --Coleridge. 3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. {Association of ideas} (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. --Porter. | |
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Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. [bd]Some . . . bond of association.[b8] --Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. --Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. --Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? --Coleridge. 3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. {Association of ideas} (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. --Porter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Idea \I*de"a\, n.; pl. {Ideas}. [L. idea, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. id[82]e. See {Wit}.] 1. The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts. --Fairfax. Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. --Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea. --P. Browne. 2. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was. --L. Caroll. 3. Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of. Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea. --Locke. 4. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. --Johnson. What is now [bd]idea[b8] for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, - [bd]how it showed . . . Answering his great idea,[b8] - to its present use, when this person [bd]has an idea that the train has started,[b8] and the other [bd]had no idea that the dinner would be so bad![b8] --Trench. 5. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design. I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work. --W. Irving. 6. A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract. 7. A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea. --Milton. Note: [bd]In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic.[b8] --Sir W. Hamilton. {Abstract idea}, {Association of ideas}, etc. See under {Abstract}, {Association}, etc. Syn: Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image; perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation; judgment; consideration; view; design; intention; purpose; plan; model; pattern. There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment as is the word idea, in the very general and indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is used variously to signify almost any act, state, or content of thought. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Associational \As*so`ci*a"tion*al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. 2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Associationism \As*so`ci*a"tion*ism\, n. (Philos.) The doctrine or theory held by associationists. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Associationist \As*so`ci*a"tion*ist\, n. (Philos.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Associative \As*so"ci*a*tive\, a. Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. --Hugh Miller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Associator \As*so"ci*a`tor\, n. An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers, And Carolina's with associators. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Assuage \As*suage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assuaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assuaging}.] [OE. asuagen, aswagen, OF. asoagier, asuagier, fr. assouagier, fr. L. ad + suavis sweet. See {Sweet}.] To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. --Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man --Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. --Byron. Syn: To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm; tranquilize; relieve. See {Alleviate}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asystole \A*sys"to*le\, n. [Pref. a- not + systole.] (Physiol.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Asystolism \A*sys"to*lism\, n. The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
August \Au*gust"\, a. [L. augustus; cf. augere to increase; in the language of religion, to honor by offerings: cf. F. auguste. See {Augment}.] Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. [bd]Forms august.[b8] --Pope. [bd]August in visage.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]To shed that august blood.[b8] --Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. --Burke. To mingle with a body so august. --Byron. Syn: Grand; magnificent; majestic; solemn; awful; noble; stately; dignified; imposing. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
August \Au"gust\, n. [L. Augustus. See note below, and {August}, a.] The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. Note: The old Roman name was Sextilis, the sixth month from March, the month in which the primitive Romans, as well as Jews, began the year. The name was changed to August in honor of Augustus C[91]sar, the first emperor of Rome, on account of his victories, and his entering on his first consulate in that month. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustan \Au*gus"tan\, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See {August}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to Augustus C[91]sar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. {Augustan age} of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[91]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. {Augustan confession} (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustan \Au*gus"tan\, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See {August}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to Augustus C[91]sar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. {Augustan age} of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[91]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. {Augustan confession} (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustan \Au*gus"tan\, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See {August}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to Augustus C[91]sar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. {Augustan age} of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[91]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. {Augustan confession} (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustine \Au*gus"tine\, Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, n. (Eccl.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustine \Au*gus"tine\, Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, n. (Eccl.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. {Augustinian canons}, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}. {Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. {Augustinian nuns}, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. {Augustinian rule}, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, n. One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. {Augustinian canons}, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}. {Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. {Augustinian nuns}, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. {Augustinian rule}, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf. {Canonical}.] 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak. 2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. --Hock. 3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical books}, under {Canonical}, a. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. 7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}. 8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. 9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also {ear} and {shank}. Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight. 10. (Billiards) See {Carom}. {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}. {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under {Augustinian}. {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). {Canon law}. See under {Law}. {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. {Augustinian canons}, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}. {Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. {Augustinian nuns}, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. {Augustinian rule}, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. {Augustinian canons}, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}. {Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. {Augustinian nuns}, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. {Augustinian rule}, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. {Augustinian canons}, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}. {Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. {Augustinian nuns}, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. {Augustinian rule}, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinianism \Au`gus*tin"i*an*ism\, Augustinism \Au*gus"tin*ism\, n. The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustinianism \Au`gus*tin"i*an*ism\, Augustinism \Au*gus"tin*ism\, n. The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustly \Au*gust"ly\, adv. In an august manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augustness \Au*gust"ness\, n. The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
August, CA (CDP, FIPS 3209) Location: 37.97895 N, 121.26100 W Population (1990): 6376 (2536 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Augusta, AR (city, FIPS 2740) Location: 35.28547 N, 91.36049 W Population (1990): 2759 (1162 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72006 Augusta, GA (city, FIPS 4196) Location: 33.45735 N, 81.99499 W Population (1990): 44639 (21588 housing units) Area: 50.9 sq km (land), 3.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30901, 30904 Augusta, IL (village, FIPS 2986) Location: 40.23088 N, 90.94894 W Population (1990): 614 (324 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62311 Augusta, KS (city, FIPS 3300) Location: 37.69230 N, 96.97526 W Population (1990): 7876 (3251 housing units) Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67010 Augusta, KY (city, FIPS 2674) Location: 38.77249 N, 84.00160 W Population (1990): 1336 (559 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41002 Augusta, ME (city, FIPS 2100) Location: 44.33065 N, 69.72971 W Population (1990): 21325 (9572 housing units) Area: 143.4 sq km (land), 7.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04330 Augusta, MI (village, FIPS 4160) Location: 42.33755 N, 85.35137 W Population (1990): 927 (408 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49012 Augusta, MO (city, FIPS 2512) Location: 38.57286 N, 90.88280 W Population (1990): 263 (120 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63332 Augusta, MT Zip code(s): 59410 Augusta, NJ Zip code(s): 07822 Augusta, WI (city, FIPS 3825) Location: 44.67867 N, 91.12122 W Population (1990): 1510 (657 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54722 Augusta, WV Zip code(s): 26704 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Augusta County, VA (county, FIPS 15) Location: 38.17155 N, 79.13309 W Population (1990): 54677 (21202 housing units) Area: 2516.7 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
access time storage peripheral (usually a {disk drive} or {semiconductor} memory) receiving a request to read or write a certain location and returning the value read or completing the write. (1997-06-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
acoustic coupler to a telephone line via an ordinary handset. The acoustic coupler converts electrical signals from the {modem} to sound via a loudspeaker, against which the mouthpiece of a telephone handset is placed. The earpiece is placed against a {microphone} which converts sound to electrical signals which return to the modem. The handset is inserted into a sound-proof box containing the louspeaker and microphone to avoid interference from ambient noise. Acousitic couplers are now rarely used since most modems have a direct electrical connection to the telephone line. This avoids the signal degradation caused by conversion to and from audio. Direct connection is not always possible, and was actually illegal in the United Kingdom before {British Telecom} was privatised. BT's predecessor, the General Post Office, did not allow subscribers to connect their own equipment to the telephone line. (1994-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association Control Service Element between two {application programs}. ACSE checks the identities and contexts of the application entities, and could apply an {authentication} security check. Documents: {ITU} Rec. X.227 ({ISO} 8650), X.217 (ISO 8649) (1997-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) The international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving {natural language} and computation. Membership includes the ACL quarterly journal, "Computational Linguistics", reduced registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, discounts on ACL-sponsored publications, and participation in ACL Special Interest Groups. The ACL started in 1968; there are more than 2000 members worldwide. E-mail: {Home (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/)}. (1999-08-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association for Computing (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Founded in 1947, only a year after the unveiling of {ENIAC}, ACM was established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to advance the science anNo definitions found for "Association Française des Utilisateurs d'Unix" d application of {Information Technology}. {John Mauchly}, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was one of ACM's founders. Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful interchange of ideas. ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers, practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the Association's major programs and services - publications, special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and special activities. The ACM Press publishes journals (notably {CACM}), book series, conference proceedings, {CD-ROM}, {hypertext}, {video}, and specialized publications such as curricula recommendations and self-assessment procedures. {Home (http://info.acm.org/)}. (1998-02-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association for Computing Machinery {Association for Computing} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) A world-wide organisation of like-minded computer networks providing a global communications network dedicated to the free and balanced flow of information. The APC defends and promotes non-commercial, productive online space for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) and collaborates with like-minded organisations to ensure that the information and communication needs of civil society are considered in telecommunications, donor and investment policy. A few of APC's partner organisations include The {Institute for Global Communications} (USA), GreenNet (UK), Nicarao (Nicaragua) Enda-Tiers Monde (Senegal) and GlasNet (Ukraine). These organisations serve people working toward goals that include the prevention of warfare, elimination of militarism and poverty, protection of the environment, human rights, social and economic justice, participatory democracy, non-violent conflict resolution, and the promotion of sustainable development. {Home (http://www.apc.org/english/)}. E-mail: (2000-10-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association for SIMULA Users See {SIMULA}. Address: Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. [Details?] (1995-03-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association of American Publishers (AAP) A group engaged in standardisation efforts in document preparation. (2000-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU) A community of people with an interest in the {C} family of programming languages: {K&R C}, {ANSI C}, and {C++}. The community includes professional programmers, the suppliers of {compilers}, and those who are just interested in the languages. ACCU members are using C and C++ on a wide range of platforms - {Unix}, {MS-DOS}, {OS/2}, {CP/M} - home computers, {IBM PC}s, {workstations}, and {super-computers}. Although the organisation is based in the UK, the membership is worldwide. There are members in the US, mainland Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Australia. E-mail: Address: The Membership Secretary, 64 Southfield Road, Oxford OX4 1PA, United Kingdom. (1996-12-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Association of Lisp Users (ALU) A user group which aims to promote {Lisp}, help inform and educate Lisp users in general, and help represent Lisp users as a group to the vendors. The ALU holds an annual conference and supports the formation of inter-vendor standards. ALU has international membership and is incorporated in the US. {Home (http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/miller/ALU/home.html)}. {Usenet} {newsgroups}: {news:comp.org.lisp-users} {news:comp.std.lisp}. Mailing list: (1996-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
associative array {integers} but may be arbitrary strings. {awk} and its descendants (e.g. {Perl}) have associative arrays which are implemented using {hash coding}. (1995-02-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
associative memory {content addressable memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Associative Memory Parallel Processing Language (1995-11-14) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Agagite a name applied to Haman and also to his father (Esther 3:1, 10; 8:3, 5). Probably it was equivalent to Amalekite. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Augustus the cognomen of the first Roman emperor, C. Julius Caesar Octavianus, during whose reign Christ was born (Luke 2:1). His decree that "all the world should be taxed" was the divinely ordered occasion of Jesus' being born, according to prophecy (Micah 5:2), in Bethlehem. This name being simply a title meaning "majesty" or "venerable," first given to him by the senate (B.C. 27), was borne by succeeding emperors. Before his death (A.D. 14) he associated Tiberius with him in the empire (Luke 3:1), by whom he was succeeded. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Augustus band (Acts 27:1.: literally, of Sebaste, the Greek form of Augusta, the name given to Caesarea in honour of Augustus Caesar). Probably this "band" or cohort consisted of Samaritan soldiers belonging to Caesarea. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Augustus, increased, augmented |