English Dictionary: defrayal | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d890perlan \[d8][90]`per`lan"\, n. [F. [82]perlan, fr. G. spierling. See {Sparling}.] (Zo[94]l.) The European smelt ({Osmerus eperlanus}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Barillet \[d8]Bar"il*let\, n. [F., dim. of baril barrel.] A little cask, or something resembling one. --Smart. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Braille \[d8]Braille\, n. A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Brelan \[d8]Bre*lan"\, n. [F.] (Card Playing) (a) A French gambling game somewhat like poker. (b) In French games, a pair royal, or triplet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Brelan carre \[d8]Bre*lan" car`re"\ [F. carr[82] square.] (Card Playing) In French games, a double pair royal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Brelan favori \[d8]Bre*lan" fa`vo`ri"\ [F. favori favorite.] (Card Playing) In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Brillante \[d8]Bril*lan"te\, adv. [It. See {Brilliant}, a.] (Mus.) In a gay, showy, and sparkling style. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Burletta \[d8]Bur*let"ta\ (b[ucir]r*l[ecr]t"t[adot]), n. [It., dim. of burla mockery. See {Burlesque}, a.] (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce. --Byron. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ferula \[d8]Fer"u*la\, n. [L. ferula giant fennel (its stalks were used in punishing schoolboys), rod, whip, fr. ferire to strike; akin to OHG. berjan, Icel. berja. Cf. {Ferule}.] 1. A ferule. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Fr84ulein \[d8]Fr[84]u"lein\, n.sing. & pl. [G., dim. of frau woman. See {Frau}.] In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Paraleipsis \[d8]Par`a*leip"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to leave on one side, to omit; [?] beside + [?] to leave.] (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, [bd]I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice.[b8] [Written also {paralepsis}, {paralepsy}, {paralipsis}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Paralepsis \[d8]Par`a*lep"sis\, n. [NL.] See {Paraleipsis}. | |
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d8Paralgesia \[d8]Par`al*ge"si*a\, n. [NL.; para- + Gr. 'a`lghsis sense of pain.] (Med.) Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- {Par`al*ge"sic}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Paralipomenon \[d8]Par`a*li*pom"e*non\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. paraleipome`nwn of things omitted, pass. p. pr. (neuter genitive plural) fr. [?] to omit.] A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles. Note: In the Septuagint these books are called Paraleipome`nwn prw^ton and dey`teron, which is understood, after Jerome's explanation, as meaning that they are supplementary to the Books of Kings --W. Smith. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Parella \[d8]Pa*rel"la\, d8Parelle \[d8]Pa`relle\, n. [Cf. F. parelle.] (Bot.) (a) A name for two kinds of dock ({Rumex Patientia} and {R. Hydrolapathum}). (b) A kind of lichen ({Lecanora parella}) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Parella \[d8]Pa*rel"la\, d8Parelle \[d8]Pa`relle\, n. [Cf. F. parelle.] (Bot.) (a) A name for two kinds of dock ({Rumex Patientia} and {R. Hydrolapathum}). (b) A kind of lichen ({Lecanora parella}) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Parhelium \[d8]Par*he"li*um\, n. See {Parhelion}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Parlando \[d8]Par*lan"do\, d8Parlante \[d8]Par*lan"te\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Parlando \[d8]Par*lan"do\, d8Parlante \[d8]Par*lan"te\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Perilla \[d8]Pe*ril"la\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species ({Perilla ocimoides}, or {P. Nankinensis}) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Perula \[d8]Per"u*la\, n.; pl. {Perul[91]}. [L., dim. of pera wallet, Gr. [?]: cf. F. p[82]rule.] 1. (Bot.) One of the scales of a leaf bud. 2. (Bot.) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pralltriller \[d8]Prall"tril`ler\, n.; G. pl. {-triller}. [G.] (Music) A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the {inverted mordente}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Prehallux \[d8]Pre*hal"lux\, n. [NL. See {Pre-}, and {Hallux}.] (Anat.) An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Prol82taire \[d8]Pro`l[82]`taire"\, n. [F. See {Proletary}.] One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Prolatum \[d8]Pro*la"tum\, n.; pl. {Prolata}. [ NL. See {Prolate}.] (Geom.) A prolate spheroid. See {Ellipsoid of revolution}, under {Ellipsoid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Prolegomenon \[d8]Prol`e*gom"e*non\, n.; pl. {Prolegomena}. [ NL., fr. Gr. [?], properly neut. pass. p. pr. of [?] to say beforehand; [?] before + [?] to say.] A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. --D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Prolepsis \[d8]Pro*lep"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], from [?] to take beforehand; [?] before + [?] to take.] 1. (Rhet.) (a) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. --Abp. Bramhall. (b) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle. 2. (Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time. 3. (Gram.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pyrula \[d8]Pyr"u*la\, n. [NL., fr. L. pyrus a pear.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dapperling \Dap"per*ling\, n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. [r.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Daubreelite \Dau"bree*lite\, n. [From Daubr[82]e, a French mineralogist.] (Min.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Defrayal \De*fray"al\, n. The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dubberly, LA (village, FIPS 21835) Location: 32.53948 N, 93.23759 W Population (1990): 253 (122 housing units) Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71024 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
deferral Waiting for quiet on the {Ethernet}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
d-Prolog reasoning}. {(ftp://aisun1.ai.uga.edu/ai.prolog/)} for {MS-DOS} and {Unix}. (1994-12-07) |