English Dictionary: ephemeralness | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ephemeron \[d8]E*phem"e*ron\, n.; pl. {Ephemera}. [NL. See {Ephemera}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the ephemeral flies. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox. Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}. | |
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Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, n. Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. | |
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Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox. Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}. | |
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Ephemeran \E*phem"er*an\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the ephemeral flies. | |
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Ephemeric \E*phem"e*ric\, a. Ephemeral. | |
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Ephemeris \E*phem"e*ris\, n.; pl. {Ephemerides}. [L., a diary, Gr. [?], also, a calendar, fr. [?]. See {Ephemera}.] 1. A diary; a journal. --Johnson. 2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the [bd]American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.[b8] (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. 3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. --Brande & C. | |
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Ephemeris \E*phem"e*ris\, n.; pl. {Ephemerides}. [L., a diary, Gr. [?], also, a calendar, fr. [?]. See {Ephemera}.] 1. A diary; a journal. --Johnson. 2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the [bd]American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.[b8] (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. 3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. --Brande & C. | |
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Ephemerist \E*phem"er*ist\, n. 1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. --Howell. 2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist. | |
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Ephemerous \E*phem"er*ous\, a. Ephemeral. [R.] --Burke. | |
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d8Epimeron \[d8]E*pim"e*ron\, n.; pl. {Epimera}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + [?] a part.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under {Crustacea}. (b) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. [Written also {epimerum}.] | |
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Epimeral \E*pim"er*al\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the epimera. | |
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Epimere \Ep"i*mere\, n. [Epi- + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. --Syd. Soc. Lex. | |
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d8Epimeron \[d8]E*pim"e*ron\, n.; pl. {Epimera}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + [?] a part.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under {Crustacea}. (b) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. [Written also {epimerum}.] | |
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Epineural \Ep`i*neu"ral\, a. [Pref. epi- + neural.] (Anat.) Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra. | |
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Evener \E"ven*er\, n. 1. One who, or that which makes even. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. | |
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Eye opener \Eye opener\ That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ephemeral port automatically allocated from a predefined range by the {TCP/IP stack} software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a {client-server} communication. {BSD} used ports 1024 through 4999 as ephemeral ports, though it is often desirable to increase this allocation. {(http://www.ncftpd.com/ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html)}. (2002-10-06) |