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n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth. ] 1. Cast down; low-lying. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. “Base and abject flatterers.” Addison. “An abject liar.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. abjection, L. abjectio. ] 1. The act of bringing down or humbling. “The abjection of the king and his realm.” Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being rejected or cast out. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [ 1913 Webster ]

That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible? Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Meanly; servilely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adjectus, p. p. of adjicere to throw to, to add to; ad + jac&ebreve_;re to throw. See Jet a shooting forth. ] To add or annex; to join. Leland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjectio, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjection. See Adject. ] The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [ R. ] Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. adjectitius. ] Added; additional. Parkhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. W. Taylor (1797) [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Adjective, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not standing by itself; dependent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to procedure. “The whole English law, substantive and adjective.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject. ] 1. (Gram.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, “a wise ruler, ” wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dependent; an accessory. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjectived p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving ] To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of English-speaking jews and their culture Anglo-Jewish papers [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bejeweled or Bejewelled p. pr. & vb. n. Bejeweling or Bejewelling. ] To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. “Bejeweled hands.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a tight-fitting trousers made of blue denim or a similar fabric, designed originally to serve as inexpensive durable workclothes, and often having metal rivets for reinforcement. They have become very popular as casual wear for all age groups, and more expensive and more carefully styled and tailored versions called designer jeanshave also become popular among girls and women.
Syn. -- jeans, Levis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bosjesmans. [ D. boschjesman. ] See Bushman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cajuput. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To conjecture; also, to plan. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. conjectus, p. p. of conjicere. See Conjecture, n. ] To throw together, or to throw. [ Obs. ] Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who guesses or conjectures. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being conjectured or guessed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conjecturalis: cf. F. conjectural. ] Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. [ 1913 Webster ]

And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conjecturer. [ R. ] Month. rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which depends upon guess; guesswork. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth. ] An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Herodotus ] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conjectured p. pr. & vb. n. Conjecturing. ] [ Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject. ] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who conjectures. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dejectus, p. p. ] Dejected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dejecting. ] [ L. dejectus, p. p. of dejicere to throw down; de- + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth. ] 1. To cast down. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. from L. dejectus, p. p. ] Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who casts down, or dejects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dejectio a casting down: cf. F. déjection. ] 1. A casting down; depression. [ Obs. or Archaic ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. [ 1913 Webster ]

What besides,
Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,
Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A low condition; weakness; inability. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) (a) The discharge of excrement. (b) Fæces; excrement. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Dejectedly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dejector a dejecter. ] 1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. dejeratus, p. p. of dejerare to swear; de- + jurare to swear. ] To swear solemnly; to take an oath. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dejeratio. ] The act of swearing solemnly. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A déjeuner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. déjeuner breakfast, as a verb, to breakfast. Cf. Dinner. ] A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. disjicere, disjectum, to throw asunder, disperse; dis- + jacere to throw. ] Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]