a. [ L. acquisitus, p. p. of acquirere. See Acquire. ] Acquired. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. dark grayish extrusive rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From the Isle of Anglesea. ] (Min.) A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anorthose triclinic feldspar (fr. Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight) + -ite. ] (Petrol.) A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place. ] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A recess in a room for a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pl. Cartes de visite /plu>. [ F. ] 1. A visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; tin. ] (Min.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Min.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a greenish gray or black silicate of iron and aluminum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost. ] 1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositæ; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [ Eng. ] --
Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.. --
Composite photograph or
Composite portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. --
Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. --
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. croco&unr_;se. ] (Min.) Same as Crocoite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyanic. ] (Min.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- (intens.) + composite. ] 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) See Decompound, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything decompounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decomposites of three metals or more. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Disposition. ] Disposed. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissitus. ] Lying apart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bad + &unr_; compound. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of antimony and silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Endo- + parasite. ] (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. exquisitus, p. p. of exquirere to search out; ex out + quarere to seek, search. See Quest. ] 1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plate of rare device, and jewels
Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. [ 1913 Webster ]

His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller.

Syn. -- Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless; consummate; perfect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. [ 1913 Webster ]

To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being exquisite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Favose. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Feldspar. ] (Min.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Gay-Lussac, the French chemist. ] (Min.) A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after George Gibbs. ] (Min.) A hydrate of alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is “no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding.” The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

n. [ Named after Omalius d'Halloy. ] (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "a`lysis a chain.] (Paleon.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain. [1913 Webster]

n. [ After H. Hess. ] (Min.) A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member or follower of the “liberal” party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydro-, 1 + magnesite. ] (Min.) A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, earthy, amorphous masses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; twenty + &unr_;, combining form of &unr_; four + &unr_; seat, base. ] (Crystallog.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. incompositus. See Composite. ] Not composite; uncompounded; simple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'i`s, 'ino`s, strength, muscle. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as inositol. [ PJC ]

n. [ From Barranco Jaroso, in Spain. ] (Min.) An ocher-yellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. magnésite. ] (Min.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Haematozoon) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the corpuscles and liberation of the spores and products of growth of the parasites into the blood plasma. Several species of the parasite are distinguished, as Plasmodium vivax, producing tertian malaria; Plasmodium malariae, quartan malaria; and Plasmodium (subgenus Laverania) falciferum, the malarial fever of summer and autumn common in the tropics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. marcassite; cf. It. marcassita, Sp. marquesita, Pg. marquezita; all fr. Ar. marqashītha. ] (Min.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. [ 1913 Webster ]

Golden marcasite, tin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A parasitic microorganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; mo`nos single + &unr_; nature: cf. F. monophysite. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside. [ 1913 Webster ]