English Dictionary: typification | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tabefaction \Tab`e*fac"tion\, n. [See {Tabefy}.] A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tabific \Ta*bif"ic\, Tabifical \Ta*bif"ic*al\, a. [Tabes + L. facere to make.] (Med.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tabific \Ta*bif"ic\, Tabifical \Ta*bif"ic*al\, a. [Tabes + L. facere to make.] (Med.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tepefaction \Tep`e*fac"tion\, n. Act of tepefying. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Beside \Be*side"\, prep. [OE. biside, bisiden, bisides, prep. and adv., beside, besides; pref. be- by + side. Cf. Besides, and see {Side}, n.] 1. At the side of; on one side of. [bd]Beside him hung his bow.[b8] --Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. [You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. --Shak. 3. Over and above; distinct from; in addition to. Note: [In this use besides is now commoner.] Wise and learned men beside those whose names are in the Christian records. --Addison. {To be beside one's self}, to be out of one's wits or senses. Paul, thou art beside thyself. --Acts xxvi. 24. Syn: {Beside}, {Besides}. Usage: These words, whether used as prepositions or adverbs, have been considered strictly synonymous, from an early period of our literature, and have been freely interchanged by our best writers. There is, however, a tendency, in present usage, to make the following distinction between them: 1. That beside be used only and always as a preposition, with the original meaning [bd]by the side of; [b8] as, to sit beside a fountain; or with the closely allied meaning [bd]aside from[b8], [bd]apart from[b8], or [bd]out of[b8]; as, this is beside our present purpose; to be beside one's self with joy. The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word. 2. That besides, as a preposition, take the remaining sense [bd]in addition to[b8], as, besides all this; besides the considerations here offered. [bd]There was a famine in the land besides the first famine.[b8] --Gen. xxvi. 1. And that it also take the adverbial sense of [bd]moreover[b8], [bd]beyond[b8], etc., which had been divided between the words; as, besides, there are other considerations which belong to this case. The following passages may serve to illustrate this use of the words: Lovely Thais sits beside thee. --Dryden. Only be patient till we have appeased The multitude, beside themselves with fear. --Shak. It is beside my present business to enlarge on this speculation. --Locke. Besides this, there are persons in certain situations who are expected to be charitable. --Bp. Porteus. And, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril. --Shak. That man that does not know those things which are of necessity for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. --Tillotson. Note: See {Moreover}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. --Sir W. Jones. 2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. --Macaulay. Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. {To be of acquaintance}, to be intimate. {To take acquaintance of} or {with}, to make the acquaintance of. [Obs.] Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. Usage: {Acquaintance}, {Familiarity}, {Intimacy}. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison. We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. --Atterbury. It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Off \Off\, prep. Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. --Addison. {Off hand}. See {Offhand}. {Off side} (Football), out of play; -- said when a player has got in front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball has been last touched by one of his own side behind him. {To be off color}, to be of a wrong color. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Upside \Up"side`\, n. The upper side; the part that is uppermost. {To be upsides with}, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. --T. Hughes. {Upside down}. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. --Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. --Acts xvii. 6. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poke \Poke\, n. [AS. poca, poha, pohha; akin to Icel. poki, OD. poke, and perh. to E. pock; cf. also Gael. poca, and OF. poque. Cf. {Pock}, {Pocket}, {Pouch}.] 1. A bag; a sack; a pocket. [bd]He drew a dial from his poke.[b8] --Shak. They wallowed as pigs in a poke. --Chaucer. 2. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also {poke sleeve}. {To boy a pig a poke} (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. --Camden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tube \Tube\, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.] 1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. 2. A telescope. [bd]Glazed optic tube.[b8] --Milton. 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under {Priming}, and {Friction}. 6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. 7. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of {Tubeworm}. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. {Capillary tube}, a tube of very fine bore. See {Capillary}. {Fire tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. {Tube coral}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tubipore}. {Tube foot} (Zo[94]l.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. {Tube plate}, [or] {Tube sheet} (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under {Flue}. {Tube pouch} (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. {Tube spinner} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to {Tegenaria}, {Agelena}, and allied genera. {Water tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Typification \Typ`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. The act of typifying, or representing by a figure. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
typeface parameters are size, boldness (thickness of lines), and obliqueness (a sheer transformation applied to the characters, not to be confused with a specifically designed italic font). (1996-08-02) |