adj. causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Syn. -- excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace. -- A*maz"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. an oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines. Same as aniline.
Syn. -- aniline oil, phenylamine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. appétissant. ] Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to excite appetite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ armosin, armoisin. ] A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Benzoin. ] (Chem.) 1. A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Benzene. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The hydrocarbons of benzine proper are essentially of the marsh gas (paraffin) series, while benzene proper is the typical hydrocarbon of the aromatic series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blazing star. (a) A comet. [ Obs. ] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
Syn. -- blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous. ] A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [ Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine. ] Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.
Syn. -- drink, drinking, drunkenness, crapulence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. State of being breezy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. -- a. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A material for bronzing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing. [ Narrower terms: centripetal, unifying(prenominal) ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or quality of being cozy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Craze, v. Hence: n. Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way. In common pottery it is often the result of exposure to undue heat, and the beginning of disintegration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. [ See 1st Craze. ] A mill for grinding tin ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn. -- demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing. [ Narrower terms: numbing ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a process causing an absence of synchronization; the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times; as, the stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves.
Syn. -- asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronisation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + zinc + -fy. ] To deprive of, or free from, zinc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. dessaisine. ] (Law) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [ Written also disseisin. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. dysigness folly. See Dizzy. ] Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Economics) the reduction of expeditures and personnel in order to become financial stable; -- of businesses.
Syn. -- retrenchment, curtailment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Syn. -- accenting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. imparting or capable of imparting vitality and energy. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. supplying motive force. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- energizing, energising, kinetic. [ PJC ]

adj. serving to familiarize. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. pl. [ See Feaze, v. t. ] (Naut.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Hissing and bubbling, like a carbonated beverage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The Whigs' ] foziness can no longer be concealed. Blackwood's. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. --
Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. --
Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. glycyrrhizine. See Glycyrrhiza. ] (Chem.) A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, grazes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pasture; growing grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Plumbing) A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being hazy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crested ill-smelling South American bird (Opisthocomus hoazin) whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
Syn. -- hoatzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]