English Dictionary: censor | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sensitive \Sen"si*tive\, a. [F. sensitif. See {Sense}.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected. She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny. --Macaulay. 3. (a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. (b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays. 4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.] A sensitive love of some sensitive objects. --Hammond. 5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. --E. Darwin. {Sensitive fern} (Bot.), an American fern ({Onoclea sensibilis}), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together. {Sensitive flame} (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. {Sensitive joint vetch} (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb ({[92]schynomene hispida}), with sensitive foliage. {Sensitive paper}, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light. {Sensitive plant}. (Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant ({Mimosa pudica}, or {M. sensitiva}, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier ({Schrankia}) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia ({C. nictitans}, and {C. Cham[91]crista}), a kind of sorrel ({Oxalis sensitiva}), etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deer \Deer\ (d[emac]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal, wild animal, AS. de[a2]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. d[df]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin. [fb]71.] 1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak. The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne MS. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A ruminant of the genus {Cervus}, of many species, and of related genera of the family {Cervid[91]}. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. Note: The deer hunted in England is {Cervus elaphus}, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is {C. dama}; the common American deer is {C. Virginianus}; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is {C. Columbianus}; and the mule deer of the same region is {C. macrotis}. See {Axis}, {Fallow deer}, {Mule deer}, {Reindeer}. Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc. {Deer mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the white-footed mouse ({Hesperomys leucopus}) of America. {Small deer}, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) [bd]Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.[b8] --G. P. Marsh. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stork \Stork\, n. [AS. storc; akin to G. storch, OHG. storah, Icel. storkr, Dan. & Sw. stork, and perhaps to Gr. [?] a vulture.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family {Ciconid[91]}, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to {Ciconia} and several allied genera. The European white stork ({Ciconia alba}) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork ({C. nigra}) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. {Black-necked stork}, the East Indian jabiru. {Hair-crested stork}, the smaller adjutant of India ({Leptoptilos Javanica}). {Giant stork}, the adjutant. {Marabou stork}. See {Marabou}. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See {Jabiru}. {Stork's bill} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Pelargonium}; -- so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See {Pelargonium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[ucr]k"[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. --Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. 6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family {Catostomid[91]}; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker ({Catostomus Commersoni}), the white sucker ({C. teres}), the hog sucker ({C. nigricans}), and the chub, or sweet sucker ({Erimyzon sucetta}). Some of the large Western species are called {buffalo fish}, {red horse}, {black horse}, and {suckerel}. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish ({Menticirrus undulatus}) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also {bagre}. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. --Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] {Carp sucker}, {Cherry sucker}, etc. See under {Carp}, {Cherry}, etc. {Sucker fish}. See {Sucking fish}, under {Sucking}. {Sucker rod}, a pump rod. See under {Pump}. {Sucker tube} (Zo[94]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also {sucker foot}. See {Spatangoid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cahinca root \Ca*hin"ca root`\ [Written also {cainca root}.] [See {Cahincic}.] (Bot.) The root of an American shrub ({Chiococca racemosa}), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American {Chiococca anguifuga}, a celebrated antidote for snake poison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cahinca root \Ca*hin"ca root`\ [Written also {cainca root}.] [See {Cahincic}.] (Bot.) The root of an American shrub ({Chiococca racemosa}), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American {Chiococca anguifuga}, a celebrated antidote for snake poison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sign \Sign\, n. [F. signe, L. signum; cf. AS. segen, segn, a sign, standard, banner, also fr. L. signum. Cf. {Ensign}, {Resign}, {Seal} a stamp, {Signal}, {Signet}.] That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically: (a) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen. (b) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. --Rom. xv. 19. It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. --Ex. iv. 8. (c) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument. What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. --Num. xxvi. 10. (d) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture. The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. --Brerewood. Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. --Spenser. (e) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas. (f) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known. They made signs to his father, how he would have him called. --Luke i. 62. (g) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. Note: Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural signs, which serve for communicating ideas, and methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on the fingers. (h) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. --Milton. (i) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice. The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. --Macaulay. (j) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. Note: The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named, respectively, {Aries} ([Aries]), {Taurus} ([Taurus]), {Gemini} (II), {Cancer} ([Cancer]), {Leo} ([Leo]), {Virgo} ([Virgo]), {Libra} ([Libra]), {Scorpio} ([Scorpio]), {Sagittarius} ([Sagittarius]), {Capricornus ([Capricorn]), {Aquarius} ([Aquarius]), {Pisces} ([Pisces]). These names were originally the names of the constellations occupying severally the divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become separated about 30 degrees from these constellations, and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in advance, or to the east of the one which bears its name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus, etc. (k) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division [f6], and the like. (l) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient. Note: The terms symptom and and sign are often used synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived only by the patient himself. The term sign is often further restricted to the purely local evidences of disease afforded by direct examination of the organs involved, as distinguished from those evidence of general disturbance afforded by observation of the temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often called physical sign. (m) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. (n) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents. An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. --Bk. of Common Prayer. Note: See the Table of {Arbitrary Signs}, p. 1924. {Sign manual}. (a) (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be, to complete their validity. (b) The signature of one's name in one's own handwriting. --Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. Syn: Token; mark; note; symptom; indication; signal; symbol; type; omen; prognostic; presage; manifestation. See {Emblem}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancer \Can"cer\, n. [L. cancer, cancri, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. karki`nos, Skr. karka[tsdot]a crab, and prob. Skr. karkara hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. {Canner}, {Chancre}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See {Crab}. 2. (Astron.) (a) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See {Tropic}. (b) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. 3. (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) {Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma}, in which there is no trabecular framework. See {Epithelioma}. (2) {Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer}, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) {Encephaloid, Medullary, [or] Soft cancer}, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) {Colloid cancer}, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called {carcinoma}. {Cancer cells}, cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. {Cancer root} (Bot.), the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc. {Tropic of Cancer}. See {Tropic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jonah \Jo"nah\, n. The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious. {Jonah crab} (Zo[94]l.), a large crab ({Cancer borealis}) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancer \Can"cer\, n. [L. cancer, cancri, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. karki`nos, Skr. karka[tsdot]a crab, and prob. Skr. karkara hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. {Canner}, {Chancre}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See {Crab}. 2. (Astron.) (a) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See {Tropic}. (b) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. 3. (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) {Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma}, in which there is no trabecular framework. See {Epithelioma}. (2) {Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer}, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) {Encephaloid, Medullary, [or] Soft cancer}, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) {Colloid cancer}, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called {carcinoma}. {Cancer cells}, cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. {Cancer root} (Bot.), the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc. {Tropic of Cancer}. See {Tropic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crab \Crab\ (kr[acr]b), n. [AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G. krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. {Crawfish}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body. Note: The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is {Cancer padurus}. {Soft-shelled crabs} are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See {Cancer}; also, {Box crab}, {Fiddler crab}, {Hermit crab}, {Spider crab}, etc., under {Box}, {Fiddler}. etc. 2. The zodiacal constellation Cancer. 3. [See {Crab}, a.] (Bot.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. --Shak. 4. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] --Garrick. 5. (Mech.) (a) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. (b) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. (c) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. (d) A claw for anchoring a portable machine. {Calling crab}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Fiddler}., n., 2. {Crab apple}, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple ({Pyrus Malus} var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple ({Pyrus baccata}); and the American ({Pyrus coronaria}). {Crab grass}. (Bot.) (a) A grass ({Digitaria, [or] Panicum, sanguinalis}); -- called also {finger grass}. (b) A grass of the genus {Eleusine} ({E. Indica}); -- called also {dog's-tail grass}, {wire grass}, etc. {Crab louse} (Zo[94]l.), a species of louse ({Phthirius pubis}), sometimes infesting the human body. {Crab plover} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic plover ({Dromas ardeola}). {Crab's eyes}, [or] {Crab's stones}, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. {Crab spider} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of spiders ({Laterigrad[91]}); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. {Crab tree}, the tree that bears crab applies. {Crab wood}, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. --McElrath. {To catch a crab} (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Squawroot \Squaw"root`\, n. (Bot.) A scaly parasitic plant ({Conopholis Americana}) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also {cancer root}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancer \Can"cer\, n. [L. cancer, cancri, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. karki`nos, Skr. karka[tsdot]a crab, and prob. Skr. karkara hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. {Canner}, {Chancre}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See {Crab}. 2. (Astron.) (a) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See {Tropic}. (b) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. 3. (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) {Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma}, in which there is no trabecular framework. See {Epithelioma}. (2) {Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer}, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) {Encephaloid, Medullary, [or] Soft cancer}, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) {Colloid cancer}, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called {carcinoma}. {Cancer cells}, cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. {Cancer root} (Bot.), the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc. {Tropic of Cancer}. See {Tropic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Squawroot \Squaw"root`\, n. (Bot.) A scaly parasitic plant ({Conopholis Americana}) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also {cancer root}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancer \Can"cer\, n. [L. cancer, cancri, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. karki`nos, Skr. karka[tsdot]a crab, and prob. Skr. karkara hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. {Canner}, {Chancre}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See {Crab}. 2. (Astron.) (a) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See {Tropic}. (b) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. 3. (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) {Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma}, in which there is no trabecular framework. See {Epithelioma}. (2) {Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer}, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) {Encephaloid, Medullary, [or] Soft cancer}, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) {Colloid cancer}, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called {carcinoma}. {Cancer cells}, cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. {Cancer root} (Bot.), the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc. {Tropic of Cancer}. See {Tropic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancerate \Can"cer*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cancerated}.] [LL. canceratus eaten by a cancer. See {Cancer}.] To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. --Boyle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancerate \Can"cer*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cancerated}.] [LL. canceratus eaten by a cancer. See {Cancer}.] To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. --Boyle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canceration \Can`cer*a"tion\, n. The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancerite \Can"cer*ite\, n. [Cf. F. canc[82]reux.] Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. [bd]Cancerous vices.[b8] --G. Eliot. -- {Can"cer*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can"cer*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancerite \Can"cer*ite\, n. [Cf. F. canc[82]reux.] Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. [bd]Cancerous vices.[b8] --G. Eliot. -- {Can"cer*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can"cer*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancerite \Can"cer*ite\, n. [Cf. F. canc[82]reux.] Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. [bd]Cancerous vices.[b8] --G. Eliot. -- {Can"cer*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can"cer*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancriform \Can"cri*form\, a. [Cancer + -form; cf. F. cancriforme.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped. 2. Like a cancer; cancerous. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancrine \Can"crine\, a. [From {Cancer}.] Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancrinite \Can"cri*nite\, n. [Named after Count Cancrin, a minister of finance in Russia.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cancroid \Can"croid\, a. [Cancer + oid.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the {Cancroidea}, one of the families of crabs, including the genus {Cancer}. 2. Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boatbill \Boat"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 1. A wading bird ({Cancroma cochlearia}) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. 2. A perching bird of India, of the genus {Eurylaimus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jackal \Jack"al`\, n. [Pers. shagh[be]l: cf. OF. jackal, F. chacal; cf. Skr. [87][f0]g[be]la.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling. Note: The common species of Southern Asia ({Canis aureus}) is yellowish gray, varied with brown on the shoulders, haunches, and legs. The common African species ({C. anthus}) is darker in color. 2. One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. [Colloq.] --Ld. Lytton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\, v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. --Bacom. 2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. --Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[acr][nsm]"k[etil]r), n. [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. [?] excrescence on tree, [?] gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See {cancer}, and cf. {Chancre}.] 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also {water canker}, {canker of the mouth}, and {noma}. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. --Temple. 3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. --Shak. {Black canker}. See under {Black}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[acr][nsm]"k[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker bloom \Can"ker bloom`\ The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker blossom \Can"ker blos`som\ That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker fly \Can"ker fly`\ A fly that preys on fruit. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[acr][nsm]"k[etil]r), n. [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. [?] excrescence on tree, [?] gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See {cancer}, and cf. {Chancre}.] 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also {water canker}, {canker of the mouth}, and {noma}. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. --Temple. 3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. --Shak. {Black canker}. See under {Black}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rash \Rash\, n. [OF. rashe an eruption, scurf, F. rache; fr. (assumed) LL. rasicare to scratch, fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, scratch, shave. See {Rase}, and cf. {Rascal}.] (Med.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. {Canker rash}. See in the Vocabulary. {Nettle rash}. See {Urticaria}. {Rose rash}. See {Roseola}. {Tooth rash}. See {Red-gum}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker rash \Can"ker rash`\ (Med.) A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker-bit \Can"ker-bit`\, a. Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[acr][nsm]"k[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cankered \Can"kered\, a. 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. [bd]A cankered grandam's will.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cankeredly \Can"kered*ly\, adv. Fretfully; spitefully. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[acr][nsm]"k[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a. Affecting like a canker. [bd]Canrerous shackles.[b8] --Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. --Wordsworth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cankerworm \Can"ker*worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larv[91] are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species ({Anisopteryx pometaria}) becomes adult late in autumn (after frosts) and in winter. The spring species ({A. vernata}) remains in the ground through the winter, and matures in early spring. Both have winged males and wingless females. The larv[91] are similar in appearance and habits, and belong to the family of measuring worms or spanworms. These larv[91] hatch from the eggs when the leaves begin to expand in spring. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cankery \Can"ker*y\, a. 1. Like a canker; full of canker. 2. Surly; sore; malignant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hedgehog \Hedge"hog`\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) A small European insectivore ({Erinaceus Europ[91]us}), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The Canadian porcupine.[U.S] 3. (Bot.) A species of {Medicago} ({M. intertexta}), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. --Loudon. 4. A form of dredging machine. --Knight. {Hedgehog caterpillar} (Zo[94]l.), the hairy larv[91] of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See {Woolly bear}, and {Isabella moth}. {Hedgehog fish} (Zo[94]l.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus {Diodon}; the porcupine fish. {Hedgehog grass} (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass ({Cenchrus tribuloides}). {Hedgehog rat} (Zo[94]l.), one of several West Indian rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to {Capromys}, {Plagiodon}, and allied genera. {Hedgehog shell} (Zo[94]l.), any spinose, marine, univalve shell of the genus {Murex}. {Hedgehog thistle} (Bot.), a plant of the Cactus family, globular in form, and covered with spines ({Echinocactus}). {Sea hedgehog}. See {Diodon}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censer \Cen"ser\, n. [For incenser, fr. OF. encensier, F. encensoir, fr. LL. incensarium, incensorium, fr. L. incensum incense. See {Incense}, and cf. {Incensory}.] A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned. Note: The ecclesiastical censer is usually cup-shaped, has a cover pierced with holes, and is hung by chains. The censer bearer swings it to quicken the combustion. Her thoughts are like the fume of frankincense Which from a golden censer forth doth rise. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censor \Cen"sor\, n. [L. censor, fr. censere to value, tax.] 1. (Antiq.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct. 2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries. 3. One given to fault-finding; a censurer. Nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. --Rambler. 4. A critic; a reviewer. Received with caution by the censors of the press. --W. Irving. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorial \Cen*so"ri*al\, a. 1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. --Junius. 2. Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. --T. Warton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorian \Cen*so"ri*an\, a. Censorial. [R.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorious \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See {Censor}.] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. --Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks. Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorious \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See {Censor}.] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. --Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks. Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorious \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See {Censor}.] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. --Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks. Syn: Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Cen*so"ri*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censorship \Cen"sor*ship\, n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. --Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censurable \Cen"sur*a*ble\, a. Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- {Cen"sur*a*bleness}, n. -- {Cen"sur*a*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censurable \Cen"sur*a*ble\, a. Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- {Cen"sur*a*bleness}, n. -- {Cen"sur*a*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censurable \Cen"sur*a*ble\, a. Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- {Cen"sur*a*bleness}, n. -- {Cen"sur*a*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censure \Cen"sure\, n. [L. censura fr. censere: cf. F. censure. Cf. {Censor}.] 1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. [Obs.] Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. --Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. --Macaulay. 3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. --Bp. Burnet. Syn: Blame; reproof; condemnation; reprobation; disapproval; disapprobation; reprehension; animadversion; reprimand; reflection; dispraise; abuse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censure \Cen"sure\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Censured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Censuring}.] [Cf. F. ensurer.] 1. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] [bd]Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. --Shak. 3. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence. --Shak. Syn: To blame; reprove; rebuke; condemn; reprehend; reprimand. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censure \Cen"sure\, v. i. To judge. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censure \Cen"sure\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Censured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Censuring}.] [Cf. F. ensurer.] 1. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] [bd]Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. --Shak. 3. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence. --Shak. Syn: To blame; reprove; rebuke; condemn; reprehend; reprimand. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censurer \Cen"sur*er\, n. One who censures. --Sha. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Censure \Cen"sure\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Censured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Censuring}.] [Cf. F. ensurer.] 1. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] [bd]Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. --Shak. 3. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence. --Shak. Syn: To blame; reprove; rebuke; condemn; reprehend; reprimand. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chain \Chain\, n. [F. cha[8c]ne, fr. L. catena. Cf. {Catenate}.] 1. A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. [They] put a chain of gold about his neck. --Dan. v. 29. 2. That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm. --Milton. 3. A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas. 4. (Surv.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. Note: One commonly in use is Gunter's chain, which consists of one hundred links, each link being seven inches and ninety-two one hundredths in length; making up the total length of rods, or sixty-six, feet; hence, a measure of that length; hence, also, a unit for land measure equal to four rods square, or one tenth of an acre. 5. pl. (Naut.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels. 6. (Weaving) The warp threads of a web. --Knight. {Chain belt} (Mach.), a belt made of a chain; -- used for transmitting power. {Chain boat}, a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc. {Chain bolt} (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chain attached for drawing it out of position. {Chain bond}. See {Chain timber}. {Chain bridge}, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. {Chain cable}, a cable made of iron links. {Chain coral} (Zo[94]l.), a fossil coral of the genus {Halysites}, common in the middle and upper Silurian rocks. The tubular corallites are united side by side in groups, looking in an end view like links of a chain. When perfect, the calicles show twelve septa. {Chain coupling}. (a) A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. {Chain gang}, a gang of convicts chained together. {Chain hook} (Naut.), a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck. {Chain mail}, flexible, defensive armor of hammered metal links wrought into the form of a garment. {Chain molding} (Arch.), a form of molding in imitation of a chain, used in the Normal style. {Chain pier}, a pier suspended by chain. {Chain pipe} (Naut.), an opening in the deck, lined with iron, through which the cable is passed into the lockers or tiers. {Chain plate} (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates or bands, on a vessel's side, to which the standing rigging is fastened. {Chain pulley}, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. {Chain pumps}. See in the Vocabulary. {Chain rule} (Arith.), a theorem for solving numerical problems by composition of ratios, or compound proportion, by which, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each being the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. {Chain shot} (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on account of their destructive effect on a ship's rigging. {Chain stitch}. See in the Vocabulary. {Chain timber}. (Arch.) See {Bond timber}, under {Bond}. {Chain wales}. (Naut.) Same as {Channels}. {Chain wheel}. See in the Vocabulary. {Closed chain}, {Open chain} (Chem.), terms applied to the chemical structure of compounds whose rational formul[91] are written respectively in the form of a closed ring (see {Benzene nucleus}, under {Benzene}), or in an open extended form. {Endless chain}, a chain whose ends have been united by a link. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coral \Cor"al\, n. [Of. coral, F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr. kora`llion.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of {Madreporaria}, and to the hydroid genus, {Millepora}. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony axis of the stem of a gorgonian ({Corallium rubrum}) found chiefly in the Mediterranean. The {fan corals}, {plume corals}, and {sea feathers} are species of {Gorgoniacea}, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe coral is formed by the genus {Tubipora}, an Alcyonarian, and {black coral} is in part the axis of species of the genus {Antipathes}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madrepora}. 2. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. 3. A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. {Brain coral}, or {Brain stone coral}. See under {Brain}. {Chain coral}. See under {Chain}. {Coral animal} (Zo[94]l.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called {coral insects}. {Coral fish}. See in the Vocabulary. {Coral reefs} (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as {fringing reefs}, when they border the land; {barrier reefs}, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; {atolls}, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See {Atoll}. {Coral root} (Bot.), a genus ({Corallorhiza}) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under {Coralloid}. {Coral snake}. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake {(Elaps corallinus)}, coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake ({Tortrix scytale}). {Coral tree} (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is {Erythrina Corallodendron}. {Coral wood}, a hard, red cabinet wood. --McElrath. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chancery \Chan"cer*y\, n. [F. chancellerie, LL. cancellaria, from L. cancellarius. See {Chancellor}, and cf. {Chancellery}.] 1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity. 2. In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity. Note: A court of chancery, so far as it is a court of equity, in the English and American sense, may be generally, if not precisely, described as one having jurisdiction in cases of rights, recognized and protected by the municipal jurisprudence, where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy can not be had in the courts of common law. In some of the American States, jurisdiction at law and in equity centers in the same tribunal. The courts of the United States also have jurisdiction both at law and in equity, and in all such cases they exercise their jurisdiction, as courts of law, or as courts of equity, as the subject of adjudication may require. In others of the American States, the courts that administer equity are distinct tribunals, having their appropriate judicial officers, and it is to the latter that the appellation courts of chancery is usually applied; but, in American law, the terms equity and court of equity are more frequently employed than the corresponding terms chancery and court of chancery. --Burrill. {Inns of chancery}. See under {Inn}. {To get (or to hold) In chancery} (Boxing), to get the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will; hence, to have wholly in One's power. The allusion is to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court, where he was helpless, while the lawyers lived upon his estate. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chancre \Chan"cre\, n. [F. chancere. See {Cancer}.] (Med.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also {hard chancre}, {indurated chancre}, and {Hunterian chancre}. {Soft chancre}. A chancroid. See {Chancroid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chancroid \Chan"croid\, n. [Chancre + -oil.] (Med.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also {soft chancre}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chancrous \Chan"crous\, a. [Cf. F. chancreux.] (Med.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Change \Change\, n. [F. change, fr. changer. See {Change}. v. t.] 1. Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles. Apprehensions of a change of dynasty. --Hallam. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. --Job xiv. 14. 2. A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. --Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. --Tennyson. 3. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon. 4. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation. 5. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. Thirty change (R.V. changes) of garments. --Judg. xiv. 12. 6. Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due. 7. [See {Exchange}.] A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.] 8. A public house; an alehouse. [Scot.] They call an alehouse a change. --Burt. 9. (Mus.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. --Holder. {Change of life}, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. {Change ringing}, the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above. {Change wheel} (Mech.), one of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. {To ring the changes on}, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways. Syn: Variety; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; vicissitude; innovation; novelty; transmutation; revolution; reverse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Changer \Chan"ger\, n. 1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. --John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chemigraphy \Che*mig"ra*phy\, n. [Chemical + -graphy.] Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- {Chem`i*graph"ic}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chemigraphy \Che*mig"ra*phy\, n. [Chemical + -graphy.] Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- {Chem`i*graph"ic}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chimney \Chim"ney\, n.; pl. {Chimneys}. [F. chemin[82]e, LL. caminata, fr. L. caminus furnace, fireplace, Gr. [?] furnace, oven.] 1. A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton. 3. A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion. 4. (Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. --Raymond. {Chimney board}, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. {Chimney cap}, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. {Chimney corner}, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. {Chimney hook}, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, {Chimney money}, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. {Chimney pot} (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. {Chimney swallow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American swift ({Ch[91]ture pelasgica}) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow ({Hirundo rustica}). {Chimney sweep}, {Chimney sweeper}, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ramie \Ram"ie\, n. [From Malay.] (Bot.) The grasscloth plant ({B[oe]hmeria nivea}); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also {China grass}, and {rhea}. See {Grass-cloth plant}, under {Grass}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
China \Chi"na\, n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia. 2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See {Porcelain}. {China aster} (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See {Aster}. {China bean}. See under {Bean}, 1. {China clay} See {Kaolin}. {China grass}, Same as {Ramie}. {China ink}. See {India ink}. {China pink} (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of {Dianthus} ({D. Chiensis}) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. {China root} (Med.), the rootstock of a species of {Smilax} ({S. China}, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from {Alpinia Gallanga} and {Alpinia officinarum}). {China rose}. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the {Rosa Indica}, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant ({Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis}) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. {China shop}, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. {China ware}, porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. {Pride of China}, {China tree}. (Bot.) See {Azedarach}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chincherie \Chinch"er*ie\, n. Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. --Caucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coinsurance \Co`in*sur"ance\, n. [Co- + insurance.] Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Comicry \Com"ic*ry\, n. The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. [R.] --H. Giles. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commeasurable \Com*meas"ur*a*ble\, a. [Cf. {Commensurable}.] Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done. --I. Walton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commeasure \Com*meas"ure\, v. t. To be commensurate with; to equal. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commigrate \Com"mi*grate\, v. i. [L. commigrare, commigratum.] To migrate together. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commigration \Com`mi*gra"tion\, n. [L. commigratio.] Migration together. [R.] --Woodward. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserable \Com*mis"er*a*ble\, a. Pitiable. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserate \Com*mis"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commiserated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commiserating}.] [L. commiseratus, p. p. of commiserari to commiserate; com- + miserari to pity. See {Miserable}.] To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. --Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. --Locke. Syn: To pity; compassionate; lament; condole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserate \Com*mis"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commiserated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commiserating}.] [L. commiseratus, p. p. of commiserari to commiserate; com- + miserari to pity. See {Miserable}.] To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. --Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. --Locke. Syn: To pity; compassionate; lament; condole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserate \Com*mis"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commiserated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commiserating}.] [L. commiseratus, p. p. of commiserari to commiserate; com- + miserari to pity. See {Miserable}.] To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. --Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. --Locke. Syn: To pity; compassionate; lament; condole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiseration \Com*mis`er*a"tion\, n. [F. commis[82]ration, fr. L. commiseratio a part of an oration intended to excite compassion.] The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. --Shak. Syn: See {Sympathy}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserative \Com*mis"er*a*tive\, a. Feeling or expressing commiseration. --Todd. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commiserator \Com*mis"er*a`tor\, n. One who pities. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissarial \Com`mis*sa"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a commissary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissariat \Com`mis*sa"ri*at\ (?; 277), n. [F. commissariat.] (Mil.) (a) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries. (b) The body of officers charged with such service. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Subsistence Department \Sub*sist"ence De*part"ment\ (Mil.) A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the {Commissary Department}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissaryship \Com"mis*sa*ry*ship\, n. The office or employment of a commissary. --Ayliffe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissural \Com*mis"su*ral\ (? [or] ?), a. Of or pertaining to a commissure. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Commissure \Com*mis"sure\ (? [or] ?; 134-6), n. [L. commissura a joining together: cf. F. commissure. See {Commit}.] 1. A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture. 2. (Anat. & Zo[94]l.) (a) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc. (b) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma. 3. (Bot.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conacre \Con*a"cre\, v. t. To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. [Ireland] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conacre \Con*a"cre\, n. A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. [Ireland] Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. --Mozley & W. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See {Certain}.] 1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. i. To be of importance. [Obs.] Which to deny concerns more than avails. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, n. 1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. The private concerns of fanilies. --Addison. 2. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment. Mysterious secrets of a high concern. --Roscommon. 3. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety. O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle. --Addison. 4. (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern. {The whole concern}, all connected with a particular affair or business. Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See {Care}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See {Certain}.] 1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. i. To be of importance. [Obs.] Which to deny concerns more than avails. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, n. 1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. The private concerns of fanilies. --Addison. 2. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment. Mysterious secrets of a high concern. --Roscommon. 3. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety. O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle. --Addison. 4. (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern. {The whole concern}, all connected with a particular affair or business. Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See {Care}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See {Certain}.] 1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerned \Con*cerned"\, a. [See {Concern}, v. t., 2.] Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concernedly \Con*cern"ed*ly\, adv. In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See {Certain}.] 1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, prep. Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. --Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. --Num. x. 29. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, a. Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, n. 1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. [bd]Our everlasting concernments.[b8] --I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. --Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. --Jer. Taylor. 3. Concern; participation; interposition. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. --Clarendon. 4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerting}.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See {Series}, and cf. {Concern}.] 1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. --Bp. Burnet. 2. To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con*cert"\, v. i. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. --Bp. Burnet | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con"cert\ (k[ocr]n"s[etil]rt), n. [F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See {Concert}, v. t.] 1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. --Swift. 2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord. Let us in concert to the season sing. --Cowper. 3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. --Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. --Shak. {Concert pitch}. See under {Pitch}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert of Europe \Concert of Europe\, or European concert \European concert\ An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert of the powers \Concert of the powers\ An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overture \O"ver*ture\, [OF. overture, F. ouverture, fr. OF. ovrir, F. ouvrir. See {Overt}.] 1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.] --Spenser. [bd]The cave's inmost overture.[b8] --Chapman. 2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.] It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us. --Shak. 3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection. [bd]The great overture of the gospel.[b8] --Barrow. 4. (Mus.) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a {concert overture}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pitch \Pitch\, n. 1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. {Pitch and toss}, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling [bd]Heads or tails;[b8] hence: {To play pitch and toss with (anything)}, to be careless or trust to luck about it. [bd]To play pitch and toss with the property of the country.[b8] --G. Eliot. {Pitch farthing}. See {Chuck farthing}, under 5th {Chuck}. 2. (Cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. 3. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep. --Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. --Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. --Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. --Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. --Sharp. 4. Height; stature. [Obs.] --Hudibras. 5. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. 6. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. 7. (Mus.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low. Note: Musical tones with reference to absolute pitch, are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet; with reference to relative pitch, in a series of tones called the scale, they are called one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight is also one of a new scale an octave higher, as one is eight of a scale an octave lower. 8. (Mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. 9. (Mech.) (a) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch. (b) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. (c) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. {Concert pitch} (Mus.), the standard of pitch used by orchestras, as in concerts, etc. {Diametral pitch} (Gearing), the distance which bears the same relation to the pitch proper, or circular pitch, that the diameter of a circle bears to its circumference; it is sometimes described by the number expressing the quotient obtained by dividing the number of teeth in a wheel by the diameter of its pitch circle in inches; as, 4 pitch, 8 pitch, etc. {Pitch chain}, a chain, as one made of metallic plates, adapted for working with a sprocket wheel. {Pitch line}, [or] {Pitch circle} (Gearing), an ideal line, in a toothed gear or rack, bearing such a relation to a corresponding line in another gear, with which the former works, that the two lines will have a common velocity as in rolling contact; it usually cuts the teeth at about the middle of their height, and, in a circular gear, is a circle concentric with the axis of the gear; the line, or circle, on which the pitch of teeth is measured. {Pitch of a roof} (Arch.), the inclination or slope of the sides expressed by the height in parts of the span; as, one half pitch; whole pitch; or by the height in parts of the half span, especially among engineers; or by degrees, as a pitch of 30[f8], of 45[f8], etc.; or by the rise and run, that is, the ratio of the height to the half span; as, a pitch of six rise to ten run. Equilateral pitch is where the two sloping sides with the span form an equilateral triangle. {Pitch of a plane} (Carp.), the slant of the cutting iron. {Pitch pipe}, a wind instrument used by choristers in regulating the pitch of a tune. {Pitch point} (Gearing), the point of contact of the pitch lines of two gears, or of a rack and pinion, which work together. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con"cert\ (k[ocr]n"s[etil]rt), n. [F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See {Concert}, v. t.] 1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. --Swift. 2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord. Let us in concert to the season sing. --Cowper. 3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. --Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. --Shak. {Concert pitch}. See under {Pitch}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertante \Con`cer*tan"te\ (?; It. ?), n. [It., orig p. pr. of concertare to form or perform a concert. See {Concert}.] (Mus.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertation \Con`cer*ta"tion\, n. [L. concertatio.] Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Bailey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertative \Con*cer"ta*tive\, a. [L. concertativus.] Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] --Bailey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerting}.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See {Series}, and cf. {Concern}.] 1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. --Bp. Burnet. 2. To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerted \Con*cert"ed\, a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. {Concerted piece} (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerted \Con*cert"ed\, a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. {Concerted piece} (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertina \Con`cer*ti"na\, n. [From It. concerto a concert.] A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerting}.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See {Series}, and cf. {Concern}.] 1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. --Bp. Burnet. 2. To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertino \Con`cer*ti"no\, n. [See {Concertina}.] (Mus.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the {concerto}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concertion \Con*cer"tion\, n. Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] --Young. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerto \Con*cer"to\ (?; It. ?), n.; pl. {Concertos}. [It. See {Concert}, n.] (Mus.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concerto \Con*cer"to\ (?; It. ?), n.; pl. {Concertos}. [It. See {Concert}, n.] (Mus.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fox \Fox\, n.; pl. {Foxes}. [AS. fox; akin to D. vos, G. fuchs, OHG. fuhs, foha, Goth. fa[a3]h[?], Icel. f[?]a fox, fox fraud; of unknown origin, cf. Skr. puccha tail. Cf. {Vixen}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A carnivorous animal of the genus {Vulpes}, family {Canid[91]}, of many species. The European fox ({V. vulgaris} or {V. vulpes}), the American red fox ({V. fulvus}), the American gray fox ({V. Virginianus}), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox ({V. lagopus}) are well-known species. Note: The black or silver-gray fox is a variety of the American red fox, producing a fur of great value; the cross-gray and woods-gray foxes are other varieties of the same species, of less value. The common foxes of Europe and America are very similar; both are celebrated for their craftiness. They feed on wild birds, poultry, and various small animals. Subtle as the fox for prey. --Shak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The European dragonet. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also {sea fox}. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Shark}. 4. A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. --Beattie. 5. (Naut.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats. 6. A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. [Obs.] Thou diest on point of fox. --Shak. 7. pl. (Enthnol.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also {Outagamies}. {Fox and geese}. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up the fox. {Fox bat} (Zo[94]l.), a large fruit bat of the genus {Pteropus}, of many species, inhabiting Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, esp. {P. medius} of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See {Fruit bat}. {Fox bolt}, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. {Fox brush} (Zo[94]l.), the tail of a fox. {Fox evil}, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. {Fox grape} (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape ({Vitis Labrusca}) is the origin of the varieties called {Isabella}, {Concord}, {Hartford}, etc., and the southern fox grape ({Vitis vulpina}) has produced the {Scuppernong}, and probably the {Catawba}. {Fox hunter}. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. {Fox shark} (Zo[94]l.), the thrasher shark. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Thrasher}. {Fox sleep}, pretended sleep. {Fox sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a large American sparrow ({Passerella iliaca}); -- so called on account of its reddish color. {Fox squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American squirrel ({Sciurus niger}, or {S. cinereus}). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the {cat squirrel}, is more common. {Fox terrier} (Zo[94]l.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. {Fox trot}, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concord \Con"cord\, n. [F. concorde, L. concordia, fr. concors of the same mind, agreeing; con- + cor, cordis, heart. See {Heart}, and cf. {Accord}.] 1. A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. --Milton. 2. Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. [Obs.] The concord made between Henry and Roderick. --Davies. 3. (Gram.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case. 4. (Old Law) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See {Fine}. --Burril. 5. [Prob. influenced by chord.] (Mus.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concord \Con"cord\, n. A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concord \Con*cord"\, v. i. [F. concorder, L. concordare.] To agree; to act together. [Obs.] --Clarendon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concord buggy \Con"cord bug"gy\ (k[ocr][nsl]"k[etil]rd). [From Concord, New Hampshire, where first made.] A kind of buggy having a body with low sides, and side springs. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordable \Con*cord"a*ble\, a. [L. concordabilis.] Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordance \Con*cord"ance\, n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.] 1. Agreement; accordance. Contrasts, and yet concordances. --Carlyle. 2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [Obs.] --Aschlam. 3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. --Macaulay. 4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordancy \Con*cord"an*cy\, n. Agreement. --W. Montagu. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordant \Con*cord"ant\, a. [L. concordans, p. pr. of concordare: cf. F. concordant. See {Concord}.] Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. --Sir T. Browne | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordantly \Con*cord"ant*ly\, adv. In a concordant manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordat \Con*cor"dat\, n. [F. concordat, L. concordato, prop. p. p. of concordare. See {Concord}.] 1. A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything. 2. An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801. --Hook. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concordist \Con*cord"ist\, n. The compiler of a concordance. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concorporate \Con*cor"po*rate\, v. t. & i. [L. concorporatus, p. p. of concorporare.] To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Archaic.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concorporate \Con*cor"po*rate\, a. United in one body; incorporated. [Archaic] --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concorporation \Con*cor`po*ra"tion\, n. [L. concorporatio.] Union of things in one mass or body. [R.] --Dr. H. More. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concourse \Con"course\, n. [F. concours, L. concursus, fr. concurrere to run together. See {Concur}.] 1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. --Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade. --Prescott. 3. The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies. [Obs.] The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. --Sir I. Newton. 4. An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet. 5. Concurrence; co[94]peration. [Obs.] The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. --Barrow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concreate \Con`cre*ate"\ (? [or] ?), v. t. To create at the same time. If God did concreate grace with Adam. --Jer. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concremation \Con`cre*ma"tion\ (? [or] ?), n. [L. concrematio, fr. concremare. See {Cremate}.] The act of burning different things together. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrement \Con"cre*ment\, n. [L. concrementum, fr. concrescere. See {Concrete}.] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. --Sir M. Hale | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrescence \Con*cres"cence\, n. [L. concrescentia.] Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [R.] --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrescible \Con*cres"ci*ble\, a. [F.] Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. [Obs.] They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil. --Fourcroy (Trans. ). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrescive \Con*cres"cive\, a. Growing together, or into union; uniting. [R.] --Eclec. Rev. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con*crete"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concreted}; p. pr & vb. n. {Concreting}.] To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. Note: Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. [bd]The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.[b8] --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con*crete"\, v. t. 1. To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others. --Sir M. Hale. 2. To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? [or] ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. --Bp. Burnet. 2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to {abstract}. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3. Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. --J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts. {Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. {Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of such objects. --Davies & Peck. {Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. {Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a {discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. --Rush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\, n. 1. A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. --Boyle. 2. A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures. 3. (Logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. The concretes [bd]father[b8] and [bd]son[b8] have, or might have, the abstracts [bd]paternity[b8] and [bd]filiety[b8]. --J. S. Mill. 4. (Sugar Making) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? [or] ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. --Bp. Burnet. 2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to {abstract}. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3. Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. --J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts. {Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. {Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of such objects. --Davies & Peck. {Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. {Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a {discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. --Rush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Etherin \E"ther*in\, n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also {concrete oil of wine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? [or] ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. --Bp. Burnet. 2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to {abstract}. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3. Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. --J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts. {Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. {Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of such objects. --Davies & Peck. {Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. {Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a {discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. --Rush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? [or] ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. --Bp. Burnet. 2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to {abstract}. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3. Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. --J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts. {Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. {Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of such objects. --Davies & Peck. {Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. {Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a {discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. --Rush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? [or] ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. --Bp. Burnet. 2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to {abstract}. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3. Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. --J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts. {Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. {Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of such objects. --Davies & Peck. {Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. {Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a {discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. --Rush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con*crete"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concreted}; p. pr & vb. n. {Concreting}.] To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. Note: Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. [bd]The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.[b8] --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretely \Con*crete"ly\, adv. In a concrete manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concreteness \Con*crete"ness\, n. The quality of being concrete. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrete \Con*crete"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concreted}; p. pr & vb. n. {Concreting}.] To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. Note: Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. [bd]The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.[b8] --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretion \Con*cre"tion\, n. [L. concretio.] 1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretional \Con*cre"tion*al\, a. Concretionary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretionary \Con*cre"tion*a*ry\, a. Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretive \Con*cre"tive\, a. Promoting concretion. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concretively \Con*cre"tive*ly\, adv. In a concrete manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concreture \Con*cre"ture\ (?; 135), n. A mass formed by concretion. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrew \Con*crew"\, v. i. [See {Concrete}, a., and {Accrue}.] To grow together. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concrimination \Con*crim`i*na"tion\, n. A joint accusation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concur \Con*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concurring}.] [L. concurrere to run together, agree; con- + currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. --J. Hughes. 2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. --Jer. Colier. 3. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion. --Fox. Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker. --Makaulay. This concurs directly with the letter. --Shak. 4. To assent; to consent. [Obs.] --Milton. Syn: To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concur \Con*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concurring}.] [L. concurrere to run together, agree; con- + currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. --J. Hughes. 2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. --Jer. Colier. 3. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion. --Fox. Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker. --Makaulay. This concurs directly with the letter. --Shak. 4. To assent; to consent. [Obs.] --Milton. Syn: To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrence \Con*cur"rence\, n. [F., competition, equality of rights, fr. LL. concurrentia competition.] 1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. --Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. --Swift. 3. Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; co[94]peration. We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it. --Rogers. An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence. --Burke. 4. A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrency \Con*cur"ren*cy\, n. Concurrence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrent \Con*cur"rent\, a. [F. concurrent, L. concurrens, p. pr. of concurrere.] 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; co[94]perating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. --Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. --Bp. Warburton. 2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. --Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. --Tyndall. 3. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. 4. (Geom.) Meeting in one point. Syn: Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrent \Con*cur"rent\, n. 1. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties. --Dr. H. More. 2. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him. --Holland. 3. (Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrently \Con*cur"rent*ly\, adv. With concurrence; unitedly. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurrentness \Con*cur"rent*ness\, n. The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concur \Con*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concurring}.] [L. concurrere to run together, agree; con- + currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. --J. Hughes. 2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. --Jer. Colier. 3. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion. --Fox. Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker. --Makaulay. This concurs directly with the letter. --Shak. 4. To assent; to consent. [Obs.] --Milton. Syn: To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurring \Con*cur"ring\, a. Agreeing. {Concurring figure} (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with another in all its parts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Concurring \Con*cur"ring\, a. Agreeing. {Concurring figure} (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with another in all its parts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conger \Con"ger\, n. [L. conger, congrus, akin to Gr. [?]: cf. F. congre.] (Zo[94]l.) The conger eel; -- called also {congeree}. {Conger sea} (Zo[94]l.), the sea eel; a large species of eel ({Conger vulgaris}), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conger \Con"ger\, n. [L. conger, congrus, akin to Gr. [?]: cf. F. congre.] (Zo[94]l.) The conger eel; -- called also {congeree}. {Conger sea} (Zo[94]l.), the sea eel; a large species of eel ({Conger vulgaris}), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conger \Con"ger\, n. [L. conger, congrus, akin to Gr. [?]: cf. F. congre.] (Zo[94]l.) The conger eel; -- called also {congeree}. {Conger sea} (Zo[94]l.), the sea eel; a large species of eel ({Conger vulgaris}), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conger \Con"ger\, n. [L. conger, congrus, akin to Gr. [?]: cf. F. congre.] (Zo[94]l.) The conger eel; -- called also {congeree}. {Conger sea} (Zo[94]l.), the sea eel; a large species of eel ({Conger vulgaris}), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congeries \Con*ge"ri*es\, n. sing & pl. [L., fr. congerere. See {Congest}.] A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congiary \Con"gi*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Congiaries}. [L. congiarium, fr. congius a liquid measure.] A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. --Addison. Note: In later years, when gifts of money were distributed, the name congius was retained. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congiary \Con"gi*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Congiaries}. [L. congiarium, fr. congius a liquid measure.] A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. --Addison. Note: In later years, when gifts of money were distributed, the name congius was retained. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congo red \Congo red\ (Chem.) An artificial red dye from which the Congo group received its name. It is also widely used either in aqueous solution or as test paper ( {Congo paper}) for the detection of free acid, which turns it blue. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulant \Con*grat"u*lant\, a. [L. congratulans, p. pr.] Rejoicing together; congratulatory. With like joy Congratulant approached him. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulate \Con*grat"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congratulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congratulating}.] [L. congratulatus, p. p. of congratulari to wish joy abundantly; con- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing. See {Grateful}.] To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. --Shak. {To congratulate one's self}, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate. Syn: {To Congratulate}, {Felicitate}. Usage: To felicitate is simply to wish a person joy. To congratulate has the additional signification of uniting in the joy of him whom we congratulate. Hence they are by no means synonymous. One who has lost the object of his affections by her marriage to a rival, might perhaps felicitate that rival on his success, but could never be expected to congratulate him on such an event. Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy. --Trench. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulate \Con*grat"u*late\, v. i. To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country. [R.] --Swift. The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulate \Con*grat"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congratulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congratulating}.] [L. congratulatus, p. p. of congratulari to wish joy abundantly; con- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing. See {Grateful}.] To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. --Shak. {To congratulate one's self}, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate. Syn: {To Congratulate}, {Felicitate}. Usage: To felicitate is simply to wish a person joy. To congratulate has the additional signification of uniting in the joy of him whom we congratulate. Hence they are by no means synonymous. One who has lost the object of his affections by her marriage to a rival, might perhaps felicitate that rival on his success, but could never be expected to congratulate him on such an event. Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy. --Trench. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulate \Con*grat"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congratulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congratulating}.] [L. congratulatus, p. p. of congratulari to wish joy abundantly; con- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing. See {Grateful}.] To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. --Shak. {To congratulate one's self}, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate. Syn: {To Congratulate}, {Felicitate}. Usage: To felicitate is simply to wish a person joy. To congratulate has the additional signification of uniting in the joy of him whom we congratulate. Hence they are by no means synonymous. One who has lost the object of his affections by her marriage to a rival, might perhaps felicitate that rival on his success, but could never be expected to congratulate him on such an event. Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy. --Trench. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulation \Con*grat`u*la"tion\, n. [L. congratulatio: cf. F. congratulation.] The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. --Dr. J. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulator \Con*grat"u*la`tor\, n. One who offers congratulation. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congratulatory \Con*grat"u*la*to*ry\, a. Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congree \Con*gree"\, v. i. [Pref. on-+ L. gratus pleasing. Cf. {Agree}.] To agree. [bs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congreet \Con*greet"\, v. t. To salute mutually. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, a. [L. congregatus, p. p. of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, fr. grex flock, herd. See {Gregarious}.] Collected; compact; close. [R.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congregated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congregating}] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congregated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congregating}] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congregated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Congregating}] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregation \Con`gre*ga"tion\, n. [L. congregatio: cf. F. congr[82]gation.] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. --Bacon. 2. A collection or mass of separate things. A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. --Shak. 3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. --Macaulay. 4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also {Congregation of the Lord}. It is a sin offering for the congregation. --Lev. iv. 21. 5. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. (b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order. 6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [Eng.] 7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Holy cross \Ho"ly cross"\ (?; 115). The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. {Congregation of the Holy Cross} (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called {Brethren of St. Joseph}. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. --Addis & Arnold. {Holy-cross day}, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregation \Con`gre*ga"tion\, n. [L. congregatio: cf. F. congr[82]gation.] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. --Bacon. 2. A collection or mass of separate things. A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. --Shak. 3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. --Macaulay. 4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also {Congregation of the Lord}. It is a sin offering for the congregation. --Lev. iv. 21. 5. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. (b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order. 6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [Eng.] 7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregational \Con`gre*ga"tion*al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing. 2. Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregationalism \Con`gre*ga"tion*al*ism\, n. 1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church. 2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively. Note: In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation [bd]Congregationalists[b8] is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congregationalist \Con`gre*ga"tion*al*ist\, n. One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congress \Con"gress\, n.; pl. {Congresses}. [L. congressus, fr. congredi, p. p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: cf. F. congr[?]s. See {Grade}.] 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands. --Dryden. 2. A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. --Cheyne. 3. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. --Pennant. 4. A gathering or assembly; a conference. 5. A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. --Alison. 6. The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation. Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session. 7. The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years. {The Continental Congress}, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. {The Federal Congress}, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. {Congress boot} [or] {gaiter}, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] {Congress water}, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York. Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congress \Con"gress\, n.; pl. {Congresses}. [L. congressus, fr. congredi, p. p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: cf. F. congr[?]s. See {Grade}.] 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands. --Dryden. 2. A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. --Cheyne. 3. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. --Pennant. 4. A gathering or assembly; a conference. 5. A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. --Alison. 6. The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation. Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session. 7. The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years. {The Continental Congress}, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. {The Federal Congress}, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. {Congress boot} [or] {gaiter}, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] {Congress water}, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York. Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congress \Con"gress\, n.; pl. {Congresses}. [L. congressus, fr. congredi, p. p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: cf. F. congr[?]s. See {Grade}.] 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands. --Dryden. 2. A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. --Cheyne. 3. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. --Pennant. 4. A gathering or assembly; a conference. 5. A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. --Alison. 6. The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation. Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session. 7. The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years. {The Continental Congress}, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. {The Federal Congress}, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. {Congress boot} [or] {gaiter}, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] {Congress water}, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York. Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congress \Con"gress\, n.; pl. {Congresses}. [L. congressus, fr. congredi, p. p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: cf. F. congr[?]s. See {Grade}.] 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands. --Dryden. 2. A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. --Cheyne. 3. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. --Pennant. 4. A gathering or assembly; a conference. 5. A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. --Alison. 6. The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation. Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session. 7. The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years. {The Continental Congress}, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. {The Federal Congress}, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. {Congress boot} [or] {gaiter}, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] {Congress water}, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York. Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congression \Con*gres"sion\ (? [or] [?]), n. [L. congressio.] A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. --E. Everett. {Congressional District}, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. --E. Everett. {Congressional District}, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. --E. Everett. {Congressional District}, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressive \Con*gres"sive\, a. Encountering, or coming together. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressman \Con"gress*man\, n.; pl. {Congressmen}. A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congressman \Con"gress*man\, n.; pl. {Congressmen}. A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congreve \Con"greve\, n. [After Sir William Congreve, the inventor.] 1. Short for {Cogreve rocket}, a powerful form of rocket formerly used in war, either in the field or for bombardment. In the former case it was armed with shell, shrapnel, or other missiles; in the latter, with an inextinguishable explosive material, inclosed in a metallic case. It was guided by a long wooden stick. 2. Short for {Congreve match}, an early friction match, containing sulphur, potassium chlorate, and antimony sulphide. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congreve \Con"greve\, n. [After Sir William Congreve, the inventor.] 1. Short for {Cogreve rocket}, a powerful form of rocket formerly used in war, either in the field or for bombardment. In the former case it was armed with shell, shrapnel, or other missiles; in the latter, with an inextinguishable explosive material, inclosed in a metallic case. It was guided by a long wooden stick. 2. Short for {Congreve match}, an early friction match, containing sulphur, potassium chlorate, and antimony sulphide. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Congreve rocket}, a powerful form of rocket for use in war, invented by Sir William Congreve. It may be used either in the field or for bombardment; in the former case, it is armed with shells or case shot; in the latter, with a combustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congreve rocket \Con"greve rock"et\ See under {Rocket}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congrue \Con"grue"\, v. i. [L. congruere. See {Congruous}.] To agree; to be suitable. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruence \Con"gru*ence\, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF. cornguence.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruency \Con"gru*en*cy\ (? [or] ?), n. Congruence. {Congruency of lines}. (Geom.) See {Complex of lines}, under {Complex}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruency \Con"gru*en*cy\ (? [or] ?), n. Congruence. {Congruency of lines}. (Geom.) See {Complex of lines}, under {Complex}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruent \Con"gru*ent\, a. [L. congruens, p. pr. of congruere: cf. F. congruent.] Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding. The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. --B. Jonson. {Congruent figures} (Geom.), concurring figures. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruent \Con"gru*ent\, a. [L. congruens, p. pr. of congruere: cf. F. congruent.] Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding. The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. --B. Jonson. {Congruent figures} (Geom.), concurring figures. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruism \Con"gru*ism\, n. [Cf. F. congruisme.] (Scholastic Theol.) See {Congruity}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruity \Con*gru"i*ty\ (? [or] [?]), n.; pl. {Congruities}. [Cf. F. congruit[?].] 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ? --Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. 3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruity \Con*gru"i*ty\ (? [or] [?]), n.; pl. {Congruities}. [Cf. F. congruit[?].] 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ? --Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. 3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruous \Con"gru*ous\, a. [L. congruus, fr. congruere to come together, to coincide, to agree. Of uncertain origin.] Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. --Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. --Atterbury. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Congruously \Con"gru*ous*ly\, adv. In a congruous manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conisor \Con`i*sor"\, n. [Obs.] See {Cognizor}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjuration \Con`ju*ra"tion\, n. [L. conjuratio, cf. F. conjuration.] 1. The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . . Under this conjuration speak, my lord. --Shak. 2. The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment. Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event. --Hallam. 3. A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. [Obs.] [bd]The conjuration of Catiline.[b8] --Sir T. Elyot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjurator \Con"ju*ra`tor\, n. [LL.] (O. Eng. Law) One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator. --Burrill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[ocr]n*j[umac]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjured} (-j[umac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjuring}.] [F. conjurer, fr. L. conjurare to swear together, to conspire; con- + jurare to swear. See {Jury}.] To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con*jure"\, v. i. To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate. [A Latinism] Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. t. To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers. The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into. --Shak. {To conjure up}, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. i. To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. She conjures; away with her. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[ocr]n*j[umac]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjured} (-j[umac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjuring}.] [F. conjurer, fr. L. conjurare to swear together, to conspire; con- + jurare to swear. See {Jury}.] To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjurement \Con*jure"ment\, n. Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjurer \Con*jur"er\, n. One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjurer \Con"jur*er\, n. 1. One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. --Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. --Prior. 2. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[ocr]n*j[umac]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjured} (-j[umac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjuring}.] [F. conjurer, fr. L. conjurare to swear together, to conspire; con- + jurare to swear. See {Jury}.] To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjuror \Con*ju"ror\, n. (Law) One bound by a common oath with others. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conjury \Con"ju*ry\, n. The practice of magic; enchantment. --Motley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Connoisseur \Con`nois*seur"\ (?; 277), n. [F. connaisseur, formerly connoisseur, fr. conna[8c]tre to know, fr. L. cognoscere to become acquainted with; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know. See {Know}, {amd cf}. {Cognizor}.] One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is [bd]one who knows,[b8] as opposed to the dilettant, who only [bd]thinks he knows.[b8] --Fairholt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Connoisseurship \Con`nois*seur"ship\ (?; 277), n. State of being a connoisseur. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Connusor \Con`nu*sor"\, n. (Law) See {Cognizor}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquer \Con"quer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conquered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conquering}.] [OF. conquerre, F. conqu[82]rir, fr. L. conquirere, -quisitum, to seek or search for, to bring together, LL., to conquer; con- + quaerere to seek. See {Quest}.] 1. To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish. [bd]If thou conquer Rome.[b8] --Shak. If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us. --Shak. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms. --Pope. 2. To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc. By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. --Milton. 3. To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace. Syn: To subdue; vanquish; overcome; overpower; overthrow; defeat; rout; discomfit; subjugate; reduce; humble; crush; surmount; subject; master. Usage: {To Conquer}, {Vanquish}, {Subdue}, {Subjugate}, {Overcome}. These words agree in the general idea expressed by overcome, -- that of bringing under one's power by the exertion of force. Conquer is wider and more general than vanquish, denoting usually a succession of conflicts. Vanquish is more individual, and refers usually to a single conflict. Thus, Alexander conquered Asia in a succession of battles, and vanquished Darius in one decisive engagement. Subdue implies a more gradual and continual pressure, but a surer and more final subjection. We speak of a nation as subdued when its spirit is at last broken, so that no further resistance is offered. Subjugate is to bring completely under the yoke of bondage. The ancient Gauls were never finally subdued by the Romans until they were completely subjugated. These words, when used figuratively, have correspondent meanings. We conquer our prejudices or aversions by a succesion of conflicts; but we sometimes vanquish our reluctance to duty by one decided effort: we endeavor to subdue our evil propensities by watchful and persevering exertions. Subjugate is more commonly taken in its primary meaning, and when used figuratively has generally a bad sense; as, his reason was completely subjugated to the sway of his passions. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquer \Con"quer\, v. i. To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail. He went forth conquering and to conquer. --Rev. vi. 2. The champions resolved to conquer or to die. --Waller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquerable \Con*quer*a*ble\, a. Capable of being conquered or subdued. --South. -- {Con"quer*a*ble*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquerable \Con*quer*a*ble\, a. Capable of being conquered or subdued. --South. -- {Con"quer*a*ble*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquer \Con"quer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conquered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conquering}.] [OF. conquerre, F. conqu[82]rir, fr. L. conquirere, -quisitum, to seek or search for, to bring together, LL., to conquer; con- + quaerere to seek. See {Quest}.] 1. To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish. [bd]If thou conquer Rome.[b8] --Shak. If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us. --Shak. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms. --Pope. 2. To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc. By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. --Milton. 3. To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace. Syn: To subdue; vanquish; overcome; overpower; overthrow; defeat; rout; discomfit; subjugate; reduce; humble; crush; surmount; subject; master. Usage: {To Conquer}, {Vanquish}, {Subdue}, {Subjugate}, {Overcome}. These words agree in the general idea expressed by overcome, -- that of bringing under one's power by the exertion of force. Conquer is wider and more general than vanquish, denoting usually a succession of conflicts. Vanquish is more individual, and refers usually to a single conflict. Thus, Alexander conquered Asia in a succession of battles, and vanquished Darius in one decisive engagement. Subdue implies a more gradual and continual pressure, but a surer and more final subjection. We speak of a nation as subdued when its spirit is at last broken, so that no further resistance is offered. Subjugate is to bring completely under the yoke of bondage. The ancient Gauls were never finally subdued by the Romans until they were completely subjugated. These words, when used figuratively, have correspondent meanings. We conquer our prejudices or aversions by a succesion of conflicts; but we sometimes vanquish our reluctance to duty by one decided effort: we endeavor to subdue our evil propensities by watchful and persevering exertions. Subjugate is more commonly taken in its primary meaning, and when used figuratively has generally a bad sense; as, his reason was completely subjugated to the sway of his passions. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conqueress \Con"quer*ess\, n. A woman who conquers. --Fairfax. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conquer \Con"quer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conquered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conquering}.] [OF. conquerre, F. conqu[82]rir, fr. L. conquirere, -quisitum, to seek or search for, to bring together, LL., to conquer; con- + quaerere to seek. See {Quest}.] 1. To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish. [bd]If thou conquer Rome.[b8] --Shak. If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us. --Shak. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms. --Pope. 2. To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc. By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. --Milton. 3. To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace. Syn: To subdue; vanquish; overcome; overpower; overthrow; defeat; rout; discomfit; subjugate; reduce; humble; crush; surmount; subject; master. Usage: {To Conquer}, {Vanquish}, {Subdue}, {Subjugate}, {Overcome}. These words agree in the general idea expressed by overcome, -- that of bringing under one's power by the exertion of force. Conquer is wider and more general than vanquish, denoting usually a succession of conflicts. Vanquish is more individual, and refers usually to a single conflict. Thus, Alexander conquered Asia in a succession of battles, and vanquished Darius in one decisive engagement. Subdue implies a more gradual and continual pressure, but a surer and more final subjection. We speak of a nation as subdued when its spirit is at last broken, so that no further resistance is offered. Subjugate is to bring completely under the yoke of bondage. The ancient Gauls were never finally subdued by the Romans until they were completely subjugated. These words, when used figuratively, have correspondent meanings. We conquer our prejudices or aversions by a succesion of conflicts; but we sometimes vanquish our reluctance to duty by one decided effort: we endeavor to subdue our evil propensities by watchful and persevering exertions. Subjugate is more commonly taken in its primary meaning, and when used figuratively has generally a bad sense; as, his reason was completely subjugated to the sway of his passions. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conqueror \Con"quer*or\, n. [OF. conquereor, fr. conquerre,] One who conquers. {The Conqueror} (Eng. Hist.). William the Norman (1027-1067) who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consarcination \Con*sar`ci*na"tion\, n. [L. consarcinare, -natum, to patch together.] A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] --Bailey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscribe \Con*scribe"\, v. t. [L. conscribere. See {Conscript}.] To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] --E. Hall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See {Scribe}.] Enrolled; written; registered. {Conscript fathers} (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the [bd]fathers[b8] the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscript \Con"script\, n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscript \Con*script"\, v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See {Scribe}.] Enrolled; written; registered. {Conscript fathers} (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the [bd]fathers[b8] the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Father \Fa"ther\, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[91]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa[?]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?], Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[be] protect. [?][?][?],[?][?][?]. Cf. {Papa}, {Paternal}, {Patriot}, {Potential}, {Pablum}.] 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1. 2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16. 3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. --Gen. xiv. 8. 4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! --2 Kings xiii. 14. 5. A senator of ancient Rome. 6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also {father confessor}), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak. 7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. 8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. --Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak. The father of good news. --Shak. 9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. --Milton. {Adoptive father}, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. {Apostolic father}, {Conscript fathers, etc.} See under {Apostolic}, {Conscript}, etc. {Father in God}, a title given to bishops. {Father of lies}, the Devil. {Father of the bar}, the oldest practitioner at the bar. {Fathers of the city}, the aldermen. {Father of the Faithful}. (a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. {Father of the house}, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. {Most Reverend Father in God}, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. {Natural father}, the father of an illegitimate child. {Putative father}, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. {Spiritual father}. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. {The Holy Father} (R. C. Ch.), the pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscription \Con*scrip"tion\, n. [L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription.] 1. An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. --Bp. Burnet. 2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conscription \Con*scrip"tion\, a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consertion \Con*ser"tion\, n. [L. consertio, fr. conserere, -sertum to connect; con- + serere to join.] Junction; adaptation [R.] Consertion of design, how exquisite. --Young. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservable \Con*serv"a*ble\, a. [L. conservabilitis.] Capable of being preserved from decay or injury. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservancy \Con*serv"an*cy\, n. Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. [An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis. --Mozley & W. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservant \Con*serv"ant\, a. [L. conservans, p. pr.] Having the power or quality of conservation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Accumulation}, {Conservation}, {Correlation}, [and] {Degradation of energy}, etc. (Physics) See under {Accumulation}, {Conservation}, {Correlation}, etc. Syn: Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservation \Con`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. --Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. --Burke. {Conservation of areas} (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. {Conservation of energy}, [or] {Conservation of force} (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. --Clerk Maxwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservation \Con`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. --Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. --Burke. {Conservation of areas} (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. {Conservation of energy}, [or] {Conservation of force} (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. --Clerk Maxwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservation \Con`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. --Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. --Burke. {Conservation of areas} (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. {Conservation of energy}, [or] {Conservation of force} (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. --Clerk Maxwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservation \Con`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. --Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. --Burke. {Conservation of areas} (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. {Conservation of energy}, [or] {Conservation of force} (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. --Clerk Maxwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservational \Con`ser*va"tion*al\, a. Tending to conserve; preservative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservatism \Con*serv"a*tism\, n. [For conservatism.] The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. conservatif.] 1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, n. 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. --Jer. Taylor. 2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. 3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass. --I. Watts. 2. Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. [bd]The great system of the world.[b8] --Boyle. 3. Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business. 4. (Mus.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See {Score}, n. 5. (Biol.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity. 6. (Zo[94]l.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. {Block system}, {Conservative system}, etc. See under {Block}, {Conservative}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. 3. Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from {Liberal} and {Radical}. We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party. --Quart. Rev. (1830). {Conservative system} (Mech.), a material system of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. --Clerk Maxwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservativeness \Con*serv"a*tive*ness\, a. The quality of being conservative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservator \Con"ser*va`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. conservateur.] 1. One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. --Derham. 2. (Law) (a) An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff. (b) One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate. The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms. --Clarendon. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. --Bouvier. {Conservators of the River Thames}, a board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservator \Con"ser*va`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. conservateur.] 1. One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. --Derham. 2. (Law) (a) An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff. (b) One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate. The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms. --Clarendon. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. --Bouvier. {Conservators of the River Thames}, a board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservatory \Con*serv"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. conservatoire, LL. conservatorius.] Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservatory \Con*serv"a*to*ry\, n. [Cf. F. conservatoire, LL. conservatorium.] 1. That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] [bd]A conservatory of life.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. 2. A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants. 3. A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conservatrix \Con`ser*va"trix\, n. [L.] A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conserve \Con*serve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conserved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conserving}.] [F. conserver, L. conservare; con- + servare to keep, guard. See {Serve}.] 1. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. --Strype. 2. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conserve \Con"serve\, n. [F. conserve, fr. conserver.] 1. Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. --Tatler. 2. (Med.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See {Confection}. 3. A conservatory. [Obs.] --Evelyn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conserve \Con*serve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conserved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conserving}.] [F. conserver, L. conservare; con- + servare to keep, guard. See {Serve}.] 1. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. --Strype. 2. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conserver \Con*serv"er\, n. One who conserves. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conserve \Con*serve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conserved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conserving}.] [F. conserver, L. conservare; con- + servare to keep, guard. See {Serve}.] 1. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. --Strype. 2. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consort \Con"sort\ (k[ocr]n"s[ocir]rt), n. [L. consore, -sortis; con- + sors lot, fate, share. See {Sort}.] 1. One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. --Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. --Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. --Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. --Darwin. 2. (Naut.) A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. [bd]By Heaven's consort.[b8] --Fuller. [bd]Working in consort.[b8] --Hare. Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. --Atterbury. 4. [LL. consortium.] An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. [Obs.] In one consort' there sat Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. --Spenser. Lord, place me in thy consort. --Herbert. 5. [Perh. confused with concert.] Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. [Obs.] --Milton. To make a sad consort'; Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consort \Con*sort"\ (k[ocr]n*s[ocir]rt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consorting}.] To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consort \Con*sort"\, v. t. 1. To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. He with his consorted Eve. --Milton. For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony. --Spenser. He begins to consort himself with men. --Locke. 2. To attend; to accompany. [Obs.] Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consortable \Con*sort"a*ble\ (k[ocr]n*s[ocir]rt"[adot]*b'l), a. Suitable for association or companionship. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consort \Con*sort"\ (k[ocr]n*s[ocir]rt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consorting}.] To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consort \Con*sort"\ (k[ocr]n*s[ocir]rt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consorting}.] To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consortion \Con*sor"tion\ (k[ocr]n*s[ocir]r"sh[ucr]n), n. [L. consortio.] Fellowship; association; companionship. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consortship \Con"sort*ship\ (k[ocr]n"s[ocir]rt*sh[icr]p), n. The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. --Hammond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Conusor \Con`u*sor"\, n. (Law) See {Cognizor}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cumu-cirro-stratus \Cu"mu-cir`ro-stra"tus\ (k?`m?-s?r`r?-str?"t?s), n. (Meteor.) Nimbus, or rain cloud. See {Nimbus}, and {Cloud}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cymograph \Cy"mo*graph\, n. [Cyma + -graph.] (a) An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc. (b) Var. of {Kymograph}. -- {Cy`mo*graph"ic}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cymograph \Cy"mo*graph\, v. t. To trace or copy with a cymograph. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cymograph \Cy"mo*graph\, n. [Cyma + -graph.] (a) An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc. (b) Var. of {Kymograph}. -- {Cy`mo*graph"ic}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
North \North\, a. Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north. {North following}. See {Following}, a., 2. {North pole}, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. {North preceding}. See {Following}, a., 2. {North star}, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star [alpha] (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1[deg] 25[b7], and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also {Cynosura}, {polestar}, and by astronomers, {Polaris}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cynosural \Cy`no*su"ral\ (s?`n?-sh?"ral [or] s?n`?-), a. Of or pertaining to a cynosure. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cynosure \Cy"no*sure\ (s?"n?-sh?r [or] s?n"?-sh?r; 277), n. [L. Cynosura theconstellation Cynosure, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?] dog's tail, the constellation Cynosure; [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?][?], dog + [?][?][?][?] tail. See{Cynic}.] 1. The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed. 2. That which serves to direct. --Southey. 3. Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction. Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dog's-tail grass \Dog's"-tail grass`\, n. (Bot.) A hardy species of British grass ({Cynosurus cristatus}) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also {goldseed}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Canajoharie, NY (village, FIPS 12111) Location: 42.90301 N, 74.57152 W Population (1990): 2278 (998 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Canaseraga, NY (village, FIPS 12177) Location: 42.46397 N, 77.77686 W Population (1990): 684 (258 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14822 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
China Grove, NC (town, FIPS 12480) Location: 35.57125 N, 80.58032 W Population (1990): 2732 (1163 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28023 China Grove, TX (town, FIPS 14716) Location: 29.39565 N, 98.34814 W Population (1990): 872 (313 housing units) Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Concord, AR (town, FIPS 15100) Location: 35.66343 N, 91.84873 W Population (1990): 262 (118 housing units) Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72523 Concord, CA (city, FIPS 16000) Location: 37.97325 N, 121.99987 W Population (1990): 111348 (43715 housing units) Area: 76.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 94518, 94519, 94520, 94521 Concord, GA (town, FIPS 19168) Location: 33.09150 N, 84.43814 W Population (1990): 211 (99 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30206 Concord, IL (village, FIPS 16054) Location: 39.81613 N, 90.37165 W Population (1990): 172 (64 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62631 Concord, KY (CDP, FIPS 16899) Location: 37.07214 N, 88.70010 W Population (1990): 1560 (680 housing units) Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Concord, KY (city, FIPS 16894) Location: 38.68805 N, 83.49193 W Population (1990): 65 (34 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Concord, MA Zip code(s): 01742 Concord, MI (village, FIPS 17740) Location: 42.17524 N, 84.64390 W Population (1990): 944 (369 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49237 Concord, MO (CDP, FIPS 16030) Location: 38.51433 N, 90.35355 W Population (1990): 19859 (7647 housing units) Area: 17.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Concord, NC (city, FIPS 14100) Location: 35.40733 N, 80.59431 W Population (1990): 27347 (11616 housing units) Area: 56.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28025, 28027 Concord, NE (village, FIPS 10250) Location: 42.38422 N, 96.98875 W Population (1990): 156 (70 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68728 Concord, NH (city, FIPS 14200) Location: 43.23159 N, 71.56008 W Population (1990): 36006 (15697 housing units) Area: 166.5 sq km (land), 8.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 03301 Concord, PA Zip code(s): 17217 Concord, TN Zip code(s): 37922 Concord, TX Zip code(s): 77850 Concord, VA Zip code(s): 24538 Concord, VT Zip code(s): 05824 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Concord Farragut, TN Zip code(s): 37932 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Concordia, KS (city, FIPS 15200) Location: 39.56508 N, 97.65462 W Population (1990): 6167 (2848 housing units) Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Concordia, MO (city, FIPS 16102) Location: 38.98755 N, 93.56840 W Population (1990): 2160 (931 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64020 Concordia, NJ (CDP, FIPS 14758) Location: 40.31086 N, 74.44863 W Population (1990): 2683 (1670 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Concordia Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 29) Location: 31.44056 N, 91.63958 W Population (1990): 20828 (9043 housing units) Area: 1803.6 sq km (land), 135.6 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Concrete, ND Zip code(s): 58220 Concrete, WA (town, FIPS 14380) Location: 48.53713 N, 121.74888 W Population (1990): 735 (313 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98237 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Conger, MN (city, FIPS 12952) Location: 43.61535 N, 93.52864 W Population (1990): 143 (70 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56020 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Congers, NY (CDP, FIPS 17739) Location: 41.14794 N, 73.94669 W Population (1990): 8003 (2635 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 10920 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Congerville, IL (village, FIPS 16119) Location: 40.61674 N, 89.20848 W Population (1990): 397 (142 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61729 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Congress, AZ Zip code(s): 85332 Congress, OH (village, FIPS 18308) Location: 40.92630 N, 82.05529 W Population (1990): 162 (61 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Chinese Army technique n. Syn. {Mongolian Hordes technique}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Chinese Army technique {Mongolian Hordes technique} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
chunker input file into parts, usually of a pre-set size, e.g. the maximum size that can fit on a {floppy}. The parts can then be assembled with a {dechunker}, which is usually just the chunker in a different mode. (1998-12-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concert/C {asynchronous} {message passing} developed at the {IBM} {TJWRC} in July 1993. {(ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/pub/concert/)}. (2000-08-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ConCoord networks of sequential and parallel computers. ConCoord offers two contributions to {concurrent} programming. First, it supports explicit exploitation of a variety of grains of concurrency. Second, it separates the treatment of sequential and of concurrent aspects of programming into computation and "coordination" respectively. Sequential {algorithm}s can be reused within computation and concurrent ones within coordination. (1995-05-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
concrete class suitable to be instantiated, as opposed to an {abstract class}. (1995-05-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concrete Data Structure (CDS) A model of programming language terms developed in the context of constructing fully abstract semantics for sequential languages. A CDS is a 4-tuple (C,V,E,|-) where C is a cell, V is a value, E is an event and |- is an "enabling relation". An event is a cell and a value. A cell C is "enabled" by a set of events S if S |- C. A state is a set of events which are consistent in that the values they give for any cell are all equal. Every cell in a state is enabled. [G. Berry, P.-L. Curien, "Theory and practice of sequential algorithms: the kernel of applicative language CDS", Algebraic methods in semantics, CUP 1985]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
concrete syntax features visible in the source program such as {parentheses} and {delimiters}. The concrete syntax is used when {parsing} the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of {abstract syntax tree}. Compare: {abstract syntax}. (1997-07-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CONCUR ["CONCUR, A Language for Continuous Concurrent Processes", R.M. Salter et al, Comp Langs 5(3):163-189 (1981)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
concurrency {multitasking} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent C 1. An extension of {C} with {rendezvous}-based {concurrency}. Versions for most {Unix} systems are available commercially from {AT&T}. ["Concurrent C", N.H. Gehani et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(9):821-844 (1986)]. ["The Concurrent C Programming Language", N. Gehani et al, Silicon Press 1989]. (1994-11-11) 2. An extension of {C} with {asynchronous} {message passing}. ["Concurrent C: A Language for Distributed Systems", Y. Tsujino et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(11):1061-1078 (Nov 1984)]. (1994-11-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent C++ ["Concurrent C++: Concurrent Programming with Class(es)", N. Gehani, Bell labs 1986]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent C 1. An extension of {C} with {rendezvous}-based {concurrency}. Versions for most {Unix} systems are available commercially from {AT&T}. ["Concurrent C", N.H. Gehani et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(9):821-844 (1986)]. ["The Concurrent C Programming Language", N. Gehani et al, Silicon Press 1989]. (1994-11-11) 2. An extension of {C} with {asynchronous} {message passing}. ["Concurrent C: A Language for Distributed Systems", Y. Tsujino et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(11):1061-1078 (Nov 1984)]. (1994-11-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent C++ ["Concurrent C++: Concurrent Programming with Class(es)", N. Gehani, Bell labs 1986]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Clean (1995-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent CLU Hamilton, 1984. ["Preserving Abstraction in Concurrent Programming", R. Cooper et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-14(2):258-263 (Feb 1988)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Constraint Programming [Details?] (2001-11-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Euclid A concurrent extension of a subset of {Euclid} ("{Simple Euclid}") developed by J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt of the {University of Toronto} in 1980. It features {separate compilation}, {modules}, processes and {monitor}s, {signal} and {wait} on {condition variable}s, 'converters' to defeat {strong type checking}, absolute addresses. All procedures and functions are {re-entrant}. {TUNIS} (a {Unix}-like {operating system}) is written in Concurrent Euclid. ["Specification of Concurrent Euclid", J.R. Cordy & R.C. Holt, Reports CSRI-115 & CSRI-133, CSRI, U Toronto, Jul 1980, rev. Aug 1981]. ["Concurrent Euclid, The Unix System, and Tunis," R.C. Holt, A-W, 1983]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent LISP ["A Multi-Processor System for Concurrent Lisp", S. Sugimoto et al, Proc 1983 Intl Conf parallel Proc, 1983 pp.135-143]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Massey Hope Hope}, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry provides {multithreading} and {type}d inter-{thread} communication. It uses {C} for {intermediate code} rather than {assembly language}. (1999-08-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent ML by J. Reppy at {Cornell University} in 1990. CML supports dynamic {thread} creation and synchronous {message passing} on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class {continuations}. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both {stream I/O} and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. Latest version: 0.9.8, as of 1994-12-21, requires SML/NJ 0.75 or later. {(ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/)}. E-mail: ["CML: A Higher-Order Concurrent Language", John H. Reppy, SIGPLAN Notices 26(6):293-305, June 1991]. (2000-08-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Oberon A {concurrent} version of {Oberon}. There is an implementation the {Ceres} {workstation}. ["Adding Concurrency to the Oberon System", S. Lalis et al, ETH Zurich, 1993]. (1994-11-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Object-Oriented C execution from {Toshiba}. It has {synchronous} and {asynchronous} {message passing}. It has been implemented for {SunOS}. {(ftp://tsbgw.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp/pub/toshiba/cooc-beta.1.1.tar.Z)}. [SIGPLAN Notices 28(2)]. (2000-08-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Object-Oriented Language (COOL) An extension of {C++} with task-level parallelism for {shared-memory} {multi-processor}s. ["COOL: A Language for Parallel Programming", R. Chandra for Parallel Computing, D. Gelernter et al eds, MIT Press 1990, pp. 126-148]. E-mail: Rohit Chandra (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Pascal An extension of a Pascal subset, {Sequential Pascal}, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support {monitor}s. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and supported also processes and {class}es. ["The Programming Language Concurrent Pascal", Per Brinch Hansen, IEEE Trans Soft Eng 1(2):199-207 (Jun 1975)]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Prolog A {Prolog} variant with {guarded clause}s and {committed-choice nondeterminism} ({don't-care nondeterminism}) by Ehud "Udi" Shapiro, Yale not the full language. See also {Mandala}. ["Concurrent Prolog: Collected Papers", E. Shapiro, V.1-2, MIT Press 1987]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent Scheme A parallel {Lisp}, for the {Mayfly} by M. Swanson ["Concurrent Scheme", R.R. Kessler et al, in Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, T. Ito et al eds, LNCS 441, Springer 1989]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Concurrent SP/k ["Structured Concurrent Programming with Operating System Applications", R.C. Holt et al, A-W 1978]. (1997-12-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ConcurrentSmalltalk A {concurrent} variant of {Smalltalk}. ["Concurrent Programming in ConcurrentSmalltalk", Y. Yokote et al in Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming, A. Yonezawa et al eds, MIT Press 1987, pp. 129-158]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
conservative evaluation Under this parallel evaluation strategy, no evaluation is started unless it is known to be needed. Opposite of speculative evaluation. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Consortium for Lexical Research (CLR) The Consortium for Lexical Research is a repository for natural language processing software, lexical data, tools and resources. It was set up in July 1991 in the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. CLR maintains a public ftp site, and a separate members-only library. Currently (Feb 1994) CLR has about 60 members, mostly academic institutions, including most US natural language processing centres. Materials can be contributed to the archives in exchange for membership. {(ftp://clr.nmsu.edu/)} (128.123.1.12). E-mail: | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Canker a gangrene or mortification which gradually spreads over the whole body (2 Tim. 2:17). In James 5:3 "cankered" means "rusted" (R.V.) or tarnished. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cankerworm (Heb. yelek), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state (Joel 1:4; 2:25). The word is rendered "caterpillar" in Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 17 (but R.V. "canker-worm"). "It spoileth and fleeth away" (Nah. 3:16), or as some read the passage, "The cankerworm putteth off [i.e., the envelope of its wings], and fleeth away." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cenchrea millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its trade with the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Paul returned from his second missionary journey to Syria, he sailed from this port (Acts 18:18). In Rom. 16:1 he speaks as if there were at the time of his writing that epistle an organized church there. The western harbour of Corinth was Lechaeum, about a mile and a half from the city. It was the channel of its trade with Italy and the west. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Censer the vessel in which incense was presented on "the golden altar" before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offering, and having carried it into the sanctuary, there threw upon the burning coals the sweet incense (Lev. 16:12, 13), which sent up a cloud of smoke, filling the apartment with fragrance. The censers in daily use were of brass (Num. 16:39), and were designated by a different Hebrew name, _miktereth_ (2 Chr. 26:19; Ezek. 8:11): while those used on the day of Atonement were of gold, and were denoted by a word (mahtah) meaning "something to take fire with;" LXX. pureion = a fire-pan. Solomon prepared for the temple censers of pure gold (1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chr. 4:22). The angel in the Apocalypse is represented with a golden censer (Rev. 8:3, 5). Paul speaks of the golden censer as belonging to the tabernacle (Heb. 9:4). The Greek word thumiaterion, here rendered "censer," may more appropriately denote, as in the margin of Revised Version, "the altar of incense." Paul does not here say that the thumiaterion was in the holiest, for it was in the holy place, but that the holiest had it, i.e., that it belonged to the holiest (1 Kings 6:22). It was intimately connected with the high priest's service in the holiest. The manner in which the censer is to be used is described in Num. 4:14; Lev. 16:12. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Congregation (Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community (Num. 15:15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the land, if circumcised, were, with certain exceptions (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; Deut. 23:1-3), admitted to the privileges of citizenship, and spoken of as members of the congregation (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; 15:15). The congregation were summonded together by the sound of two silver trumpets, and they met at the door of the tabernacle (Num. 10:3). These assemblies were convened for the purpose of engaging in solemn religious services (Ex. 12:27; Num. 25:6; Joel 2:15), or of receiving new commandments (Ex. 19:7, 8). The elders, who were summonded by the sound of one trumpet (Num. 10:4), represented on various occasions the whole congregation (Ex. 3:16; 12:21; 17:5; 24:1). After the conquest of Canaan, the people were assembled only on occasions of the highest national importance (Judg. 20; 2 Chr. 30:5; 34:29; 1 Sam. 10:17; 2 Sam. 5:1-5; 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 11:19; 21:24; 23:30). In subsequent times the congregation was represented by the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to denote the places of worship established by the Jews. (See {CHURCH}.) In Acts 13:43, where alone it occurs in the New Testament, it is the same word as that rendered "synagogue" (q.v.) in ver. 42, and is so rendered in ver. 43 in R.V. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Congregation, mount of the (Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon must be taken as expressing himself according to his own heathen notions, and not according to those of the Jews. The "mount of the congregation" will therefore in this case mean the northern mountain, supposed by the Babylonians to be the meeting-place of their gods. In the Babylonian inscriptions mention is made of a mountain which is described as "the mighty mountain of Bel, whose head rivals heaven, whose root is the holy deep." This mountain was regarded in their mythology as the place where the gods had their seat. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Cenchrea, millet; small pulse |