a. 1. Brought forth prematurely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. stopped prior to normal completion. [ PJC ]

The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ As if fr. abstort, fr. L. ab, abs + tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist. ] Wrested away. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] Before death; -- generally used adjectively; as, an ante-mortem statement; ante-mortem examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ante-mortem statement, or dying declaration made in view of death, by one injured, as to the cause and manner of the injury, is often receivable in evidence against one charged with causing the death. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. apporter to bring in, fr. L. apportare; ad + portare to bear. ] A bringer in; an importer. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Selected; culled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a yellow crystalline antibacterial antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases. Aureomycin is one common trademark for chlortetracycline.
Syn. -- Aureomycin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Colporteur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. colporteur one who carries on his neck, fr. colporter to carry on one's neck; col (L. collum) neck + porter (L. portare) to carry. ] A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who administers comfort or consolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let no comforter delight mine ear
But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script.) The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers. [ 1913 Webster ]

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Job's comforter, a boil. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Twisted, or twisted together. “A contorted chain of icicles.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants. (b) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F., fr. It. corteggio train, fr. corte court. See Court. ] A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.
Syn. -- retinue, suite, entourage. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a procession, especially a funeral procession following the casket carrying a dead person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ Sp. & Pg., fr. corte court. ] The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Pg. ] See Legislature, Portugal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Cortices [ L., bark. Cf. Cork. ] 1. Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who was expelled from home or country by governmental authority; one who has been deported.
Syn. -- exile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, distorts. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., strong water, nitric acid (which is used in etching plates). ] (Art) An etching or a print from an etched plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who exhorts or incites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices extortion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fine Arts) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ IT. forte: cf. F. fort. See Fort. ] 1. The strong point; that in which one excels.

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